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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (fourth left), partcipates in a ceremony for the handing over of tablets to students of the Drews Avenue Primary and Infant School in St. Andrew on November 4. Displaying devices (from left) are Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams; Chairman, Drews Avenue Primary and Infant School, Naomi Francis; students at the institution, Shanaouyah Laird and Odaine Dixon; Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Hon. Daryl Vaz; student, Anecia Stewart; and Chairman, e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited, Christopher Reckord.

PM Monitoring Situation Of Children Being Out Of School

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says he has been closely tracking the situation of children being out of school due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. He noted that the absence of in-person learning has had a “terrible impact...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (second right), shows students where to stand to receive their tablets during a handover ceremony at the Seaward Primary and Junior High School in St. Andrew on Tuesday (November 4). Looking on is Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams (right). The children (from third right) are Cassandra Green, Kedron Banton, Kayshawn Crawford and Shardonaye Crawford. A total of 43 tablets were handed over through e-Learning Jamaica (e-LJam) to benefit students on the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH).

Gov’t Prioritising Distribution of Tablets – PM

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addresses a ceremony for the handover of tablets to students of the Drews Avenue Primary and Infant School in St. Andrew on November 4.

PM Urges Parents Not to Send Sick Children to Face-to-Face Classes

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams (second left), speaks on Tuesday (November 3), after being presented with a symbolic cheque in the sum of $10 million for the ‘One Laptop or Tablet Per Child’ Initiative by JMMB-Joan Duncan Foundation Chair, Patricia Duncan Sutherland (second right), and Board Member, Gifford Rankine (right). The presentation was made at JMMB’s Corporate Office in New Kingston. Sharing the moment is Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Interim Chief Executive Officer, Greta Bogues.

JMMB-Joan Duncan Foundation Gives $10 Million to ‘One Laptop or Tablet Per Child’ Initiative

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams (back row, centre) with recipients of tablets under the government’s Tablets in Schools Programme from (front row, left): Bethany Grant, Greenwich Primary School; Annastaysha McCalla, Tavares Gardens Primary School; and Jayquan Johnson, Cockburn Gardens Primary and Jr. High school. This was during a ceremony held at the Tavares Gardens Primary School on Friday (October 31). Others from (back row, left): are Principal, St. Peter Claver Primary, Karen Jackson – Reynolds; Member of Parliament, St. Andrew South West, Dr. Angela Brown Burke; Chief Executive Officer, e-Learning Jamaica Limited (e-LJam), Keith Smith and Guidance Counsellor, Whitfield Primary and Infant, Maria Reid-Walker.

PHOTO: Schools Receive Tablets

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Robert Morgan (right), with beneficiaries of the Government

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Blended Approach to Learning Will Become a Feature of the School System

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Robert Morgan says the blended approach to learning, will become a feature of the school system, even after a solution for the COVID-19 crisis is found. The State Minister, who was speaking at a handing over ceremony for tablet computers at the Wood Hall Primary School, in Clarendon,...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams (2nd right); Member Parliament for East Rural St. Andrew, the Most Hon. Juliet Holness (left); Chief Executive Officer, e-Learning Jamaica (e-LJam), Keith Smith (2nd left) hand over tablets to Principal of Harbour View Primary School, Lawrence Wright during a ceremony held on October 30 at the school’s Martello Drive address in St. Andrew. Eighty four devices were also handed over to St. Benedict’s Primary School.

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Education Stakeholders Encouraged to Embrace Technology

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, is urging stakeholders in the education sector to embrace technology as a permanent feature of the academic environment. Pointing to the Ministry’s two-week E-COVID face-to-face pilot programme which will see 17 schools in nine parishes resume face-to-face classes from November 9 to 20, Mrs. Williams said beyond the resumption of face...

Minister of Education, Youth, and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams (left), and Ambassador of Japan to Jamaica, His Excellency Masaya Fujiwara (right), present Dean, Faculty of Education, the Mico University College, Karren Foster, with one of 100 tablets being distributed under a capacity-building project benefiting 10 teacher training institutions. The presentation took place during a virtual ceremony to officially launch internal quality assurance standards for teacher education institutions on Friday (Oct. 30).

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Ten Teacher Training Institutions to Benefit from Capacity Building Project

Ten teacher training institutions across the island, are benefiting from a capacity building project aimed at improving the quality and efficacy of their teacher training programmes. Under the project, which is funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) through the Government of Japan, 30 internal quality assurance standards have been developed which will guide teacher training institutions in their design,...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams (centre), with Managing Director of the Jamaica Stock Exchange, Marlene Street Forrest (left); and chairperson for the National Commercial Bank (NCB) Foundation, Thalia Lyn, at the virtual launch of the ‘One Laptop or Tablet per Child ’ initiative on October 29, which is designed to promote inclusivity in the education sector.

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Education Ministry Launches ‘One Laptop or Tablet Per Child’ Initiative

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, on Thursday (October 29), officially launched its ‘One Laptop or Tablet Per Child’ initiative, which is designed to promote inclusivity in the education sector. It aims to provide needy students with the requisite tools to function in the online teaching and learning environment. This includes ensuring equity in access to information and communications...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, at a recent virtual press conference.

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More Students Embracing Non-Traditional Learning Approaches

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, says that more students are embracing the various approaches to learning put in place by the Government, as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Classes started on October 5 with the delivery of lessons through three modalities – virtual classes, with students engaged through the Ministry’s online learning management system;...

Executive Director of Jamaica Tertiary Education Commission (JTEC), Dr. Dameon Black,
speaks at a JIS Think Tank today (October 27), at the JIS Head Office in Kingston.

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Support for Teacher Training Institutions

Ten Government-funded teacher-training institutions (TTIs) have been receiving well-needed support through the Japan-funded Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Technical Cooperation, since 2018. This project is valued at US$260,000 (approximately J$40,000,000). Projects done under this programme to date are internal quality assurance standards developed and implemented in all 10 TTIs; quality assurance officers trained; procurement of tablets to support online instruction; outfitting...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, speaks at a press conference on Wednesday (October 28), at the Office of the Prime Minister Media Centre, in Kingston.

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Seventeen Schools in Nine Parishes To Resume Face-To-Face Classes November 9

Seventeen schools in nine parishes with approximately 6,000 students are to resume face-to-face classes from November 9 to 20, under a two-week E-COVID face-to-face pilot programme. Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, indicated that 12 of the schools are at the primary level and five at the secondary level, during her address at a virtual press conference...