| Mon - Thur 8:30 am - 5:00pm, Friday 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Government of Jamaica ja-flag
Advertisement
Hurricane Melissa

Latest

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), converses with Patron of the National Baking Company Foundation, Mr. Butch Hendrickson, after a tour of the mobile classroom dubbed ‘Training Wheels’, which forms part of a Little Leaders programme launched by the Foundation, on August 9, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston. The mobile classroom will host workshops across the island.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), converses with Patron of the National Baking Company Foundation, Mr. Butch Hendrickson, after a tour of the mobile classroom dubbed ‘Training Wheels’, which forms part of a Little Leaders programme launched by the Foundation, on August 9, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston. The mobile classroom will host workshops across the island.

No Compromise on ECC Standards – PM

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says there will be no compromise on the educational standards set by the Early Childhood Commission (ECC). He noted that the 17 early-childhood institutions which have already been certified through the quality assurance...
Top performer in the Digital Youth Employment Initiative, Recardo McLarty (centre), receives a trophy from Executive Director of Avasant Foundation, Chitra Rajeshwari (third left). Occasion was the graduation ceremony for the third cohort of trainees under the programme held on August 5 at the University of Technology (UTech), St. Andrew. Others (from left) are Vice President of HCL Technologies, Joe Hogan; Country Manager, Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS), Anand Biradar; Vice President of Community Service and Development at UTech, Prof. Rosalea Hamilton; Country Director, Xerox, Leroy Reid; and Acting Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Rebecca Robinson.
Top performer in the Digital Youth Employment Initiative, Recardo McLarty (centre), receives a trophy from Executive Director of Avasant Foundation, Chitra Rajeshwari (third left). Occasion was the graduation ceremony for the third cohort of trainees under the programme held on August 5 at the University of Technology (UTech), St. Andrew. Others (from left) are Vice President of HCL Technologies, Joe Hogan; Country Manager, Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS), Anand Biradar; Vice President of Community Service and Development at UTech, Prof. Rosalea Hamilton; Country Director, Xerox, Leroy Reid; and Acting Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Rebecca Robinson.

120 Young People Being Trained for BPO Jobs
State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green greets Treasurer of the Jeanette Grant-Woodham Education Foundation, Carlton Francis on August 4 at the Foundation’s second fundraising dinner held at The Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston. The Jeanette Grant-Woodham Education Foundation offers bursaries and grants to needy students of the Tivoli Gardens High School who display excellence in academics, sport, art and culture.
State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green greets Treasurer of the Jeanette Grant-Woodham Education Foundation, Carlton Francis on August 4 at the Foundation’s second fundraising dinner held at The Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston. The Jeanette Grant-Woodham Education Foundation offers bursaries and grants to needy students of the Tivoli Gardens High School who display excellence in academics, sport, art and culture.

Jeanette Grant-Woodham Foundation Lauded
Top-performing Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) students from Greenwich All-Age and the St. Andrew Primary schools pose with officials at Petrojam, after they were presented with scholarships valued at $1.2 million, at a luncheon held recently at Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew.
Top-performing Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) students from Greenwich All-Age and the St. Andrew Primary schools pose with officials at Petrojam, after they were presented with scholarships valued at $1.2 million, at a luncheon held recently at Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew.

Petrojam Awards $1.2 Million in Scholarships
Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Service Fund (USF), Dr. Hugh Cross.
Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Service Fund (USF), Dr. Hugh Cross.

USF Provides $430 Million for ICT Infrastructure Development in Tertiary Institutions

More

Education

Sagicor Presents Scholarships to 132 Students

Sagicor has awarded over $3 million in scholarships to 132 students at the Primary and Secondary levels under its corporate staff education programme. The scholarships were presented during a ceremony held at Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited in New Kingston, yesterday (August 10). The education programme which was established to provide support to children of team members at the primary and...
Read more
Education

VTDI to introduce Animation Associate Degree Programme

The Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI), the tertiary arm of the HEART Trust/NTA, will commence offering a two-year Associate Degree in Animation programme, beginning in January 2017. The institution previously offered only one semester of animation training under its Information and Communication Technology (ICT) degree programme. Animation lecturer at the VTDI, Chevonnese Chevers Whyte, told JIS News that it is...
Read more
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, delivering the keynote address at a research symposium held at The Mico University College, in St. Andrew, on July 27.
Education

Teachers Must Use Regular Contact with Students to Improve System – Minister Reid

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, says teachers need to use their regular contact with students as research material to address issues in the system. Addressing a research symposium for students pursuing the master’s degree, at The Mico University College, in St. Andrew, on July 27,   Senator Reid said the classroom experience requires teachers to...
Read more
Senior General Manager for the National Commercial Bank’s (NCB) Group Human Resources and Facilities Division, Rickert Allen (right), presents a certificate to winner of the inaugural NCB Innovation Internship Programme, Jase-Omelio West. The presentation was made during the recent awards ceremony at NCB’s Innovation Lab on Trafalgar Road, New Kingston.
Education

UTech Student Tops NCB Innovation Internship Programme

Twenty-one year old University of Technology (UTech) student Jase-Omelio West topped the 15 candidates who participated in the National Commercial Bank’s (NCB) inaugural Innovation Internship Programme this year. The intensive five-week programme, which ran from June 20 to July 22, was open to local and international full-time tertiary undergraduates who were invited to make presentations on customer service and other...
Read more
Deputy Chief Inspector at the National Education Inspectorate, Bronty Liverpool-Williams, addresses a recent JIS Think Tank.
Education

National Education Inspectorate Conducting Second Cycle Assessments

The National Education Inspectorate (NEI) is conducting its second cycle of school inspections. A total of 791 primary institutions and 162 at the secondary level are being assessed. Addressing a recent JIS Think Tank, Deputy Chief Inspector at the NEI, Bronty Liverpool-Williams, informed that in the first cycle of inspections carried out from 2010 to 2015, approximately 45 per cent...
Read more
Prime Minister the Most Hon. Andrew Holness.
EducationParliamentPrime Minister

Gov’t Moving to Make Education a Legal Right

The Government is looking at implementing legislation to make it illegal for children to be barred or denied access to education, particularly at the secondary level. This was disclosed by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, during the July 26 sitting of the House of Representatives. He informed that access to education is not defined as a right in the Charter...
Read more
Jamaica National (JN) Foundation iLead School Improvement Coach, Esther Tyson (left), provides details about the programme, during a JIS Think Tank. Looking on are Director of Education Programmes at JN Foundation, Dr. Renee Rattary (centre); and Deputy Chief Inspector at the National Education Inspectorate, Bronty Liverpool-Williams.
EducationJIS Think Tank

Schools See Improvement Under JN iLead Programme

Schools benefiting under the Jamaica National (JN) Foundation’s iLead educational leadership programme, are seeing vast improvement in administration and student performance. Principals, vice-principals and heads of departments at 10 secondary and primary schools in three parishes are benefiting from leadership training and management support under the initiative, which started in 2014. The institutions are Happy Grove High, Buff Bay Primary...
Read more