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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

Petrojam has awarded scholarships valued at $1. 2 million to 24 top-performing Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) students from two Corporate Area schools. The students were selected from Greenwich All-Age and the St. Andrew Primary schools. The scholarships, provided under...

Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Service Fund (USF), Dr. Hugh Cross.

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

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.

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

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.

UTech Student Tops NCB Innovation Internship Programme

Deputy Chief Inspector at the National Education Inspectorate, Bronty Liverpool-Williams, addresses a recent JIS Think Tank.

National Education Inspectorate Conducting Second Cycle Assessments

10 years ago 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...

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Andrew Holness.

10 years ago 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...

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.

10 years ago 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...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ‘enlists’ in the Jamaica National (JN) Foundation’s education revolution at the entity’s Leadership Summit held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on July 25.

10 years ago EducationPrime Minister

Compulsory Education A Priority – PM

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has reiterated the Government’s objective to make education compulsory for children three to 18. “It is a little bit more advanced than saying that everyone must be in school. It is saying that everyone should be known to the State, registered in an officially recognised educational institution and meet a certain standard of...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, addresses the 5th Biennial General Meeting of the National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica (NPTAJ), held at the St. Elizabeth Technical High School in Santa Cruz on Saturday, July 23.

10 years ago Education

Every School Must Have Functional PTA – Senator Reid

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, says the Ministry will be working with the National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica (NPTAJ) to ensure that there is a functional PTA in every school. He informed that the establishment of PTAs is a recommendation of the National Task Force on Education and forms part of the Government’s educational policy....

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (standing 2nd right) observes the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the provision of capacity building and development support to beneficiaries under the HEART Trust/NTA’s Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Programme. The signatories are Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC), Valerie Veira (seated 2nd left); and Executive Director of the Heart Trust NTA, Dr. Wayne Wesley (seated 2nd right). Others looking on (seated from left) are Manager, Business Advisory Services, JBDC, Althea West-Myers and Senior Director, Workforce Development and Employment, Heart Trust/ NTA, Denworth Finnikin. Standing (from left) are Director General, Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Vivian Brown; and Chairman, HEART Trust/ NTA Board, Maxine Wilson. The MoU was signed at the launch of the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Programme on July 21 at The Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston.

10 years ago Education

Heart/NTA Provides $14.23 Million in Grant Funding to MSMEs

The HEART Trust/NTA is providing $14.23 million in grant funding to six Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME). The funds, for the acquisition of equipment, technologies, capacity-building services and technical assistance, are being facilitated through the agency’s ‘General MSME Support’ component of the MSME Programme, which was launched today (July 21) at The Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston. The six...

Wife of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Mrs. Sharon Rowley (centre), listens intently as Norman Manley Law School student, Kathrina Watson (right), shares a matter of interest. Also pictured is the institution’s Principal, Carol Aina. Mrs. Rowley visited the facility at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus in St. Andrew, yesterday (July 20). The tour, which also included the Faculty of Law, formed part of the itinerary of Mrs. Rowley and her husband, Dr. the Hon. Keith Rowley, who are in the island for an official visit.

10 years ago EducationForeign Affairs

Mrs. Rowley Impressed With Norman Manley Law School

Wife of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Mrs. Sharon Rowley, says she is very impressed with the modern facilities at the Norman Manley Law School. Mrs. Rowley, who toured the institution yesterday (July 20), at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, in St. Andrew, told JIS News that the structure was a “major...