The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information continues to provide students and teachers with a wide range of opportunities to ensure teaching and learning in an effort to minimise the impact of the disruption of normal school activities as a result of COVID–19.             As of Thursday, March 26, the Ministry has been partnering with One on One Educational Services Limited...

The Early Childhood Commission (ECC) has implemented measures to assist parents and caregivers with the continued development of their children 0-5 years during the period of school closure as a result of COVID-19. Daily activity plans for children and parenting tips have been placed on ECC’s website in the newly created COVID Corner, videos have been recorded of team members...

Staff at the St. Catherine-based Grateful Hill Primary School have volunteered and are preparing and distributing cooked meals to their students while regular classes are suspended due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The activity is being carried out three days each week by teachers and the ancillary workers for the more than 80 young learners who are on...

The Human Employment and Resource Training Trust/National Service Training Agency (HEART/NSTA) Trust, is advising that due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), their institutions islandwide are closed to the public until further notice. However, Director of Marketing and Communications, Julia Smiley Green, told JIS News that the teaching and learning process continues via distance/online methods. She pointed out that assessments that...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has moved to expand online teaching and learning opportunities in the continuing effort to minimise the disruption of normal school activities as a result of the COVID – 19 threat. To this end, starting on Thursday, March 26, 2020, the Ministry, in partnership with One-on-One Educational Services Limited and Flow began providing students...

The Government will be channelling an additional $1 billion into the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) to increase cash grants to beneficiaries. Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, made the announcement as he closed the 2020/21 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 24. He informed that persons who...

Chief Executive Officer of e-Learning Jamaica, Keith Smith, says Cabinet has approved the procurement of 40,000 tablet computers for students and 25,000 devices for teachers, under the Tablets in Schools Project. “We are now finalising contracts with the vendors,” he told JIS News in a recent interview. A new phase of the project, which is to be renamed ‘Technology in...