The Ministry of Education has confirmed that adequate furniture is in place at Clan Carty High School in St Andrew to accommodate ALL students. This follows the delivery on the weekend  of 120 desks and chairs ordered by the school's management in addition to supplies provided through the Ministry of Education. As a result, there is no longer any need...

An additional 1,800 administrators and teachers from 25 schools islandwide will be selected to participate in the Positive Behavioural Intervention and Support (PBIS) programme, being implemented by the Ministry of Education during the 2015/16 academic year. They will represent the second cohort, following the initial 1,400 participants chosen from 22 institutions for the programme, which was first implemented during 2014/15,...

The Ministry of Education is advising parents and guardians that the Bridgeport Infant School will be closed tomorrow (Monday) on the advice of the Ministry of Health. Parents are being asked to keep their children at home and not to send them to nurseries and day care centres. The closure of the Bridgeport Infant School is to allow for sanitisation...

The Ministry of Education has, over the past two years, strengthened its relationship with teacher training institutions in an effort to improve the quality of Mathematics teachers entering the education system. National Numeracy Coordinator, Dr. Tamika Benjamin, said as part of the implementation of the Mathematics Policy, under the National Mathematics Programme, a subcommittee was formed to focus on issues...

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, has lauded the contributions made to advance the country’s education sector by Jamaicans benefitting from tertiary training overseas, particularly in Canada. Notable among these persons, he says, are late businessman and philanthropist, G. Raymond Chang; and National Commercial Bank (NCB) Chairman, Michael Lee-Chin. Mr. Chang attended the University of Toronto, where he qualified as...

A pilot project launched last year to pool the resources of the Paul Bogle, Seaforth and Robert Lightbourne high schools in St. Thomas under a school district arrangement model, has been doing “exceptionally well”. This is according to Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Grace McLean, at a press conference earlier this month. A National Education Inspectorate...

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, says Jamaica’s education system  has come a long way with every student now able to access five years of secondary studies. He said that this was not the case roughly 90 years ago as there was little space in secondary schools to accommodate students. After Independence only 15 per cent of the secondary school...