The Government will be spending $641 million in its continued thrust to end the shift system in schools by providing additional classrooms over the next financial year. From the money allocated in the 2017-18 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House, $100 million will also be spent to procure equipment for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) academies. The ongoing...

Students are being encouraged to utilize the National Security Ministry’s ‘Stay Alert’ mobile application, among other measures, if their safety is threatened. This urging comes from Director of Safety and Security in Schools, Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Coleridge Minto, consequent on an upsurge in violence against the nation’s children. He was speaking with...

Principal of the Herbert Morrison Technical High School in St. James, Paul Patrick Adams, is the Jamaica Teaching Council’s (JTC) Outstanding Principal for 2016. Mr. Adams, who has been at the helm of the Bogue-based institution since 2002, was presented with the award by Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, during a ceremony at the school...

Acting Executive Director of the Early Childhood Commission (ECC), Karlene Degrasse-Deslandes, is imploring parents, teachers and caregivers at early childhood institutions to pay greater attention to the safety and security of the children in their care. “The safety of our children is our priority at the ECC and we therefore strongly urge all parents and ECI practitioners to take extra...

To continue the transformation of the education sector, the Government will fully implement the National Standard Curriculum (NSC) for grades one to nine this year. The NSC has already been introduced to grades 1, 4, 7 and 9. The goal of the new curriculum is to improve the general academic performance, attitude and behaviour of students, which will redound to...

The Portland-based College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) is collaborating with the Trees That Feed Foundation to stage a breadfruit symposium. The event will be held on Wednesday (Feb. 8) at the college’s Lecture Theatre, West Campus in Passley Gardens. It will look at breadfruit production, best farming practices, processing, and the local and export markets. Paula Lombardo, Peace...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, says the planned merger of the Jamaican Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL) and the National Youth Service (NYS) with the HEART Trust/NTA forms part of a “rescue mission” for the country’s at-risk youth. He said the merger will ensure that there is a sustained programme for early intervention for...