Jamaica is to benefit from a five-year programme being undertaken by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to support  early grade reading among children in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The LAC READS Capacity programme will provide technical assistance to the Jamaican Government and other key stakeholders, to enhance efforts to boost early reading outcomes, particularly for...

Hundreds of educators are expected to participate in The Mico University College’s 2016 Research Day, scheduled for Wednesday, March 16. The annual event will be held at the institution’s Marescaux Road campus in Kingston under the theme: ‘Vision 2030 and Beyond: Implications of the National Education Inspectorate (NEi) Report, 2015’. Executive Director of the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI), Dr. Fritz...

Strengthening parenting skills, particularly at the foundational level, will be a major area of focus for newly appointed Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid. This, he said, is in order to ensure that students are socially and mentally prepared for the formal education system. “Our objective is that we get the parenting right and so...

Principal of Herbert Morrison Technical High School in Montego Bay, Paul Adams, says the institution will launch its 2016-2021 development plan later this year, to take the teaching-learning process to another dimension. Speaking to JIS News, Mr. Adams said the launch of the plan forms a major part of the school’s 40th anniversary celebration activities, to be held during the...

Oneal McLeod, a teacher at Godfrey Stewart High School in Westmoreland, is the 2016 Mathematics Teacher of the Year 2016. He was named as the winner of the coveted award during the National Mathematics Forum on March 8, at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston. “Words can’t explain how I am feeling right now,” said an elated Mr. McLeod in an...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, says he is ready to take charge of the portfolio given to him by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness. “I am very delighted to be given the opportunity to steer this important ship at a time when all of us want to see education move forward. I have...

In 1976, Herbert Morrison Comprehensive High School, on Alice Eldemire Drive, in Montego Bay, St. James, opened its doors to 540 students. Forty years later and a slight adjustment to its name in the mid 1980s, the now Herbert Morrison Technical High School, which has 1,540 students on roll,  has been steadily carving out its own space in the educational...