The National Education Inspectorate (NEI) is steadfastly fulfilling its role in helping to transform the education system by promoting excellence, and inculcating a culture of accountability, through quality inspections. Introduced in 2008, the Inspectorate is the national education quality assurance agency, operating independently of the Ministry of Education. It embraces transparency, integrity, honesty and accountability as the hallmarks and guiding...

The Ministry of Education will be establishing three additional diagnostics and therapeutic centres across the island to assist children at the early childhood level, who have learning disabilities and other special needs. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, says these facilities will be located at Church Teachers’ College in Mandeville, Manchester; Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College in Montego Bay, St. James;...

An early childhood educational institution, catering to children with learning disabilities, is to be built on the campus of the Sir Clifford Campbell Primary School, in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, and opened at the start of the 2016/17 academic year, in September. An initiative of the Rockhouse Foundation, the non-profit charitable arm of the Negril-based Rockhouse Hotel in Westmoreland, the school will...

The infrastructure of several early childhood, primary and special needs schools across the island are to be upgraded over the next five years at a cost of $15 million, donated by Guardian General Insurance Jamaica Limited. The project, which is entitled: ‘$15 million over 5 years’, was officially launched at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston on February 11. In...

The infrastructure  of  several early childhood, primary  and special needs schools  across the island are to be upgraded over the next five years at a cost of  $15 million,  donated by Guardian General Insurance Jamaica Limited. The project, which is entitled: ‘$15million over 5 years’,  was officially launched at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston, on  February 11. In his...

Effective April 1, the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) will be charging interest on the reducing loan balances for new and returning students. This will result in students paying 20 per cent less than they were previously charged. This was disclosed by Minister of Education, Rev. Hon. Ronald Thwaites, while highlighting the Government’s commitment and support to tertiary education during  the...

Over 90 secondary school English teachers from across the island have been trained in contemporary teaching strategies, through the iTeach LASCO Ministry of Education (MoE) professional development series. The series, which was developed by former LASCO MoE Principal and Teacher of the Year 2014/15, Heather Murray and Anieta Bailey, seeks to provide a forum to expose teachers at the secondary...