More than 200 teachers of Mathematics in primary schools are to benefit from a series of development workshops, geared at enhancing competence in the subject. The sessions are being organised by the Seprod Group of Companies, in conjunction with the Ministry of Education. The workshop for Region 1 was held on April 10, while sessions for Regions 2, 5 and...

The Ministry of Education is recruiting Math specialists for the upcoming 2014/15 academic year, to be placed in several schools across the island. “We have had to find over $150 million extra this year to get the programme underway, which will eventually cost more than $1.2 billion over three years,” Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, has said. The...

A five-year, $100 million investment in six non-traditional high schools, by the Mutual Building Societies Foundation (MBSF), is now reaping rich rewards in the institutions. The MBSF, which was established by Victoria Mutual Building Society (VMBS) and Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) in 2008 to carry out the Centres of Excellence initiative, targeted McGrath High in St. Catherine; Porus and...

Jamaica is expected to achieve the target of 85 per cent mastery in literacy among Grade Four students by 2015. This was disclosed by Minister of Education Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites at the Western Union Teachers’ Workshop, held at the Knutsford Court Hotel on Friday, April 11. Mr. Thwaites explained that this forecast is based on the trends from the...

With only a few weeks to go before the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations are administered, Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites is urging students receiving Government assistance to ensure that they are present for the exams. He made the appeal during the dissemination session for the School-to-Work Transition Survey at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston on Friday, April 11....

Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier, is urging students to incorporate technical and vocational education and training as critical steps in their personal development and growth. Minister Kellier’s message to the opening ceremony at the Cambridge High School expo and Career Day in South St. James, on Thursday, April 10, was read by school board Chairman, Rev....

The St. Hugh’s High School, in St. Andrew, is the winner of the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ) 2013/ 2014 Arts and Craft in Schools Competition. The competition, which began in 1938, showcased the many areas of art being taught in schools, whilst encouraging and exposing the creativity of children, at the National Exhibition for Arts in School, held at the...

As the Government continues its work to improve the learning environment for the nation’s children, $27 million will be expended this fiscal year towards this objective. The activities will be carried out under the Promoting Quality Education and Advancing the Reality of a Child Friendly Environment project, for which the funds have been provided in the 2014/15 Estimates of Expenditure,...

With a net primary school enrollment rate of over 90 per cent, Jamaica has already achieved the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of universal primary education. United Nations Resident Coordinator, Dr. Arun Kayshup, has congratulated the Ministry of Education on “meeting this important achievement”, which is the second of eight Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. The others are:...