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Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (left), addressing staff at the Ministry’s Region Two office in Port Antonio, Portland, on June 16.

Gov’t to Facilitate Holistic Development of Children

The Government plans to undertake strategies designed to facilitate the holistic development of children up to age three. These engagements, inclusive of an early stimulation programme, aim to provide interventions, where needed, to adequately prepare infants for learning, beginning at...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (2nd left); Japan’s Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Masanori Nakano (3rd left), and Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz (3rd right), formally open two new classrooms at Orange Bay Primary School in Portland on Thursday, June 16. Assisting them are (from left) Principal, Gwendolyn Johnson; Board Chairperson, Dionne Hunter; and Portland’s Custos Rotulorum, Hon. Lincoln Thaxter. The school is located in West Portland where Mr. Vaz is the Member of Parliament.

Buff Bay High and Orange Bay Primary get new Classrooms

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (right), converses with Opposition Spokesman on Education, Reverend Ronald Thwaites, at the Security and Ethics Conference, held on June 14 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, in New Kingston.

Rev. Thwaites to Co-Chair Values and Attitudes Committee

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (2nd left), has the attention of Minister of National Security, Hon. Robert Montague (right); Commissioner of Police, Dr. Carl Williams; and Chairman of the HEART/NTA Maxine Wilson. The occasion was a Security and Ethics Conference held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston on June 14.

Students Urged to Take Advantage of CAP

Students of Holy Childhood Preparatory jump for joy after sitting their final paper in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT).

GSAT: More Students Placed in School of Choice

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Schools Urged to Follow Up on Benefits for Non-Academic Staff

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, is urging school administrators to be vigilant in ensuring that non-teaching staff receive the benefits that they are due. He said that “somebody must take the responsibility to follow up” in order to prevent delays in the distribution of payments such as pension. The Minister was speaking during an...

10 years ago Education

Applications Being Accepted for Glen Bromfield/JCSA Scholarship

Applications are being accepted for the Glen Bromfield/Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) Education Trust Fund Scholarship. The scholarship is open to secondary school students in first to fifth form whose parents or guardians are members of the JCSA. General Secretary of the JCSA, Tiffany Powell, told JIS News that the concept is the brainchild of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Ruel Reid.

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Education Ministry Improving Financial Management

The Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Ruel Reid, said strategies are being implemented to strengthen the financial management of his Ministry. He was speaking at a post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the Prime Minister on June 15. Mr. Reid said that for the first time, a management accountant will be brought on board to improve financial accountability...

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

10 years ago Education

Students Shine in GSAT!

Students who sat the 2016 Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) performed brilliantly in four of the five subject areas examined. Language Arts recorded the highest average score, improving by four per cent over last year. Mathematics followed with a 1.9 per cent increase, while Social Studies and Science marginally improved by 0.4 and 0.5 per cent, respectively. This was noted...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid.

10 years ago Education

Schools to Have Online Access to GSAT Results Next Week

The results of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) will be available online to sending and receiving schools next week. This was announced by Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Ruel Reid today (June 15), at a post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the Prime Minister in Kingston. GSAT results were disseminated to the sending schools in hard...

10 years ago Education

Students on Their Mark to Sit Grade Four Literacy and Numeracy Tests

Fifty-eight thousand students across the island will sit the Grade Four Literacy and Numeracy examinations on June 28 and 29. While 43,000 are registered to sit both components, 15,000 will sit literacy only. Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dr. Grace McLean explained that the examinations are designed to identify areas of strength and weakness among...

10 years ago Education

Ewarton High School to Receive Special Attention

Ewarton High School in St. Catherine is to receive special attention from the Education Ministry, to improve its academic performance. Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, says the school represents one of the cases that will have to be looked at “very carefully”, due to the many students on the Programme of Advancement through Health...