The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) Company Foundation has paid the full examination fees for 444 public secondary school students, who will be sitting the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Industrial Technology (electrical) examination in 2020. The examination grant, in the sum of $1.618 million, will benefit students from 35 high schools. Minister with responsibility for Education, Youth and Information, Hon....

The Government of Japan has earmarked grant funding totalling J$15 million (US$135,223) to purchase two school buses for Tacius Golding High School in St. Catherine. The allocation has been provided under the Japanese Government’s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project. The grant-signing ceremony was held at the residence of the Ambassador of Japan to Jamaica, His Excellency Hiromasa Yamazaki,...

Approximately 25,000 students will benefit from a landmark agreement signed between the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information and international skills development organisation, City & Guilds. The arrangement will see Jamaican students being afforded globally recognised certification by the City & Guilds Group. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed by representatives of the Ministry and City & Guilds during...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has lauded retired principal and educator, Alphansus Davis, for 31 years of outstanding contribution to education. Mr. Holness noted that Mr. Davis, who was appointed as one of his senior advisors in 2007, while he was Education Minister, was instrumental in the transformation of the education system.   At the time, Mr. Davis was...

Fifteen students from the Portland-based College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) will head to Israel on Monday (November 25) for an 11-month agricultural training programme. The students, who will be in Israel until October 2020, are the first cohort to benefit under a scholarship programme that was initiated following a visit to the Middle Eastern country last year by...

The community of Golden Hill and two primary schools from West Rural St Andrew are the latest to benefit from the installation of water systems by the Rural Water Supply Limited to increase storage capacity in communities and schools across the island. The schools, Essex Hall Primary School and the Lawrence Tavern Primary Schools had their newly installed rainwater harvesting...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, has called for greater support from teachers and other stakeholders in the education system to put an end to corporal punishment in schools. “As a Government, whilst we have moved to ban corporal punishment in school, we certainly need the buy-in. It is, therefore, important that...