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Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Service Fund, Charlton McFarlane, is encouraging students to apply for the organisation
Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Service Fund, Charlton McFarlane, is encouraging students to apply for the organisation's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Scholarship for the 2025/26 academic year.

Students Encouraged to Apply for ICT Scholarship

Students have until July 11 to apply for the Universal Service Fund (USF) Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Scholarship for the 2025/26 academic year. With the application period officially opened today, June 23, five students from underserved communities across the...
Acting Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Terry-Ann Thomas Gayle (left), presents Monique Holding of St. Andrew Technical High School with the award for Best TVET Student of the Year. Occasion was the 2025 National Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Quality Awards ceremony held recently at the Douglas Orane Auditorium, Wolmer’s Boys School in Kingston.
Acting Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Terry-Ann Thomas Gayle (left), presents Monique Holding of St. Andrew Technical High School with the award for Best TVET Student of the Year. Occasion was the 2025 National Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Quality Awards ceremony held recently at the Douglas Orane Auditorium, Wolmer’s Boys School in Kingston.

Students, Schools Awarded for Excellence in TVET
Student at Kingsway Preparatory School in Kingston, Brianna Cole (left), shares a hug with her mother, Rose-Marie Davis-Cole (right), after receiving her Grade Six Primary Exit Profile (PEP) results. She will be attending Wolmer’s Trust High School for Girls in September.
Student at Kingsway Preparatory School in Kingston, Brianna Cole (left), shares a hug with her mother, Rose-Marie Davis-Cole (right), after receiving her Grade Six Primary Exit Profile (PEP) results. She will be attending Wolmer’s Trust High School for Girls in September.

Kingsway Prep Celebrates PEP Success
Spot Valley High School students perform the traditional folk dance, Gerreh, during the ‘Justice Fi All A Wi – Justice Day in School’ event, staged by the Ministry of Justice,  at the institution in St. James on Friday (June 20). 
Spot Valley High School students perform the traditional folk dance, Gerreh, during the ‘Justice Fi All A Wi – Justice Day in School’ event, staged by the Ministry of Justice,  at the institution in St. James on Friday (June 20). 

Students Encouraged to Embrace Discipline
Pilot publication of Primary Exit Profile (PEP) School Results for Ascot Primary, which details the performance of the school.
Pilot publication of Primary Exit Profile (PEP) School Results for Ascot Primary, which details the performance of the school.

PEP Results Publication to Assist All Primary Schools

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Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon, addresses Friday’s (June 20) Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Press Conference, at the Ministry’s Heroes’ Circle offices, in Kingston.
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89.5% of PEP Students Placed in School of Choice

The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information is reporting that 89.5 per cent of students who sat the 2025 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination have been placed in a school of their choice. Some 33,462 students across 964 institutions were registered, 17,057 of whom are males and 16,405 females. Addressing Friday’s (June 20) PEP Press Conference at the Ministry’s...
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Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Hon. Daryl Vaz, aboard one of the new compressed natural gas (CNG) buses, procured for the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC). Mr. Vaz was on site for the arrival at Kingston Wharves on Thursday (June 19).
EducationEnergyTransportYouth

First Set of Rural School Buses to Arrive Next Week

Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has confirmed that the first set of buses procured for the Rural School Bus Programme is scheduled to begin arriving in the island next week. He made the disclosure during Thursday’s (June 19) arrival of 63 new compressed natural gas (CNG) buses – procured for the Jamaica Urban Transit Company...
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Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Andrew Holness, greets students at the Jeffrey Town Primary School in St. Mary on June 18. The Prime Minister announced that the school is to get a new campus.
EducationYouth

Jeffrey Town Primary School to Get New Campus

Students and staff at the Jeffrey Town Primary School in St. Mary are to engage in teaching and learning in a more comfortable and modern environment, following the announcement of the construction of a new campus for the institution. Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, who visited the school on June 18, told the students that a multipurpose...
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Executive Director of the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ), Donna Powell Wilson, addresses a JIS Think Tank, today (June 18).
EducationInformationSkillsYouth

Community Colleges Offer Myriad Teaching and Learning Opportunities

Aspiring tertiary students are being encouraged to see Community Colleges as an opportunity and not just a viable option. Executive Director of the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ), Donna Powell Wilson, said this is due to myriad teaching and learning opportunities that can be accessed through community colleges in Jamaica. “Our institutions are strategically positioned across the island,...
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Senior Education Officer in the Curriculum Unit of the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Dr. Novelette McLean-Francis, addresses Wednesday’s (June 18) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House.
Education

Reading Workshops for Teachers June 23-July 1

Early grade reading teacher-training workshops are set to commence on June 23 and end on July 1. This is in preparation for timetabled reading, which will be reintroduced for grades one to three students at the primary level, in September 2025. Senior Education Officer in the Curriculum Unit of the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Dr. Novelette McLean-Francis, shared that the aim...
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Local and foreign stakeholders who toured the Sav Inclusive Academy in Westmoreland, on Friday, June 13.
EducationYouth

Sav Inclusive Academy to Add Grade Six in Upcoming School Year

The Savanna-la-Mar (Sav) Inclusive Academy in Westmoreland is to expand its academic offering with the introduction of a grade-six class in the upcoming school year. Chairman of the Academy, Peter Rose, who made the disclosure during a special tour of the institution on June 13, told JIS News that this development will allow students who entered the school as three-year-olds...
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