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Students at Windward Road Primary & Junior High School celebrate upon receiving their Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) results last year. (FILE)
Students at Windward Road Primary & Junior High School celebrate upon receiving their Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) results last year. (FILE)

GSAT Results Available June 9

For the first time in five years, boys outperformed girls in Language Arts in this year’s sitting of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT). The boys recorded a higher mean score of 76.7 per cent, compared to the girls’ mark...
Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney (left), admires a model fire station during a walk-through of the reconstructed St. Paul Early Childhood Institution in Kingston on July 7. Head of Operations for the EU Delegation to Jamaica, Achim Schaffert (centre); widow of founder of the school, Viola Gibson, and students of the school, also look on. The institution was rebuilt at a cost of $45.3 million under the EU-funded Poverty Reduction Programme (PRP-IV).
Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney (left), admires a model fire station during a walk-through of the reconstructed St. Paul Early Childhood Institution in Kingston on July 7. Head of Operations for the EU Delegation to Jamaica, Achim Schaffert (centre); widow of founder of the school, Viola Gibson, and students of the school, also look on. The institution was rebuilt at a cost of $45.3 million under the EU-funded Poverty Reduction Programme (PRP-IV).

JSIF Opens $45.3-Million Basic School in Kingston
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness speaking in the House of Representatives.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness speaking in the House of Representatives.

Universal Numeracy at the Primary Level a Priority – PM
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid.
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid.

Education Minister Salutes Parents
Education, Youth and Information Minister (2nd right), along with (from left): Director of Lands and Mines at Jamalco, Timothy O
Education, Youth and Information Minister (2nd right), along with (from left): Director of Lands and Mines at Jamalco, Timothy O'Driscoll; and Principal of Harmons Primary and Infant School in Manchester, Georgia Waugh-Richards, listen as Pastor for the Porus Circuit of Baptist Churches, Rev. Zereal Williams, dedicates the Special Education Unit and Resource Centre at the institution on June 1.

Education Ministry Expanding Assistance to Autistic Children

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The Elaine Bryan Foundation Invites Applications for Scholarships

The Dr. Elaine Bryan Foundation is inviting applications from tertiary and high school students for scholarships to the Global Education Consultants Group (GECG) - Microsoft summer mentorship programme. The Foundation will be awarding 10 scholarships to the programme, which will see students visiting the Microsoft Office in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States. The scholarships will cover the cost of...
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Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley (right), samples a coconut body butter made by students and teachers of the Sydney Pagon Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Academy in St. Elizabeth. Occasion was the school’s STEM Projects and Career Day held on May 31 under the theme: ‘STEM: Fuelling 21st Century Innovations, Economic Growth and Development.’
Education

STEM Working at Sydney Pagon Academy – Dr. Wheatley

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, has hailed the display of innovations in science and technology mounted by teachers and students of the Sydney Pagon Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Academy. He said the various projects, which were on display at the institution’s St. Elizabeth campus, are a perfect example of STEM at work....
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Principal, Alpha Primary School, Millicent Graham, engages with Grade 3 students. The South Camp Road-based institution is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year.
Education

Alpha Primary Celebrating 125 Years of Excellence

For 125 years, the Alpha Primary School located on South Camp Road, Kingston, has been shaping the lives of Jamaicans and garnering a reputation of excellence. Branded as one of the island’s premier primary institutions, Alpha has recorded outstanding results in all national standardised examinations, namely the Grade Four Literacy and Numeracy Tests, and the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT)....
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(Left to right): Teachers Racquel Ambersley from Mount Alvernia High School in St. James, Kerrion Palmer from Avocat Primary and Junior High in Trelawny, Kimoy Benjamin from Kellits Primary in Clarendon, and Margaret Muschette Phillips from Kingston College, display their awards at the Junior Achievement Jamaica’s fifth annual Champions for Youth Awards Banquet and Silent Auction, at The Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston on May 31.
Education

Schools Ready to Offer Entrepreneurship Training

One hundred and sixty-eight high schools are now in a state of readiness to facilitate students in the study of entrepreneurship for the 2017/18 academic year, which begins in September. This is done under the Junior Achievement Company of Entrepreneurs (JACE) Secondary Early Entrepreneurial Development (SEED) programme, which is a three-year agreement between the United States Agency for International Development...
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Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, addressing principals and board chairpersons at Kendal Conference Centre in Manchester on May 30.
Education

Gov’t to Spend $100M Per Annum to Improve Schools’ Safety and Security

The Government plans to spend $100 million per annum, beginning next year, to improve safety at schools deemed to have inadequate security arrangements. Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, says the undertaking will include the installation of perimeter fencing, LED lighting and electronic surveillance equipment. He indicated that this exercise will be carried out until all...
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Executive Director of the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ), Dr. Donna Powell Wilson, addressing a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’.
Education

CCCJ Hosts Annual Conference June 7-9

The Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ) will host its annual conference from June 7-9 under the theme ‘CCCJ@15:Transforming Lives: Embracing Student-Centredness’. The conference, which forms part of the Council’s 15th anniversary celebrations, will be held at Hyatt Ziva Rose Hall in Montego Bay, St. James. Addressing a JIS ‘Think Tank’ recently, Executive Director of the CCCJ, Dr. Donna...
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Executive Director of the Jamaica Intensive Reading Clinic (JIRC), Santana Morris.
Education

JIRC Urges Companies to Donate Books

The Jamaica Intensive Reading Clinic (JIRC) is calling on corporate Jamaica to come on board and donate books and other resources to its week-long islandwide reading camp in July. The camp, which is expected to cater to some 1,500 children between six and 17 years old, will run from July 24 to 28 and will be held at 15 locations...
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