In a move to further make Information and Communication Technology (ICT) an integral component of the teaching/learning process, the Government will be expanding its Tablet in Schools programme to all teachers’ colleges. Making the disclosure, Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, said the project, which was implemented on a pilot basis in 38 educational institutions, has...

Youngsters, Kaiyala McDonald and Vashaun Wynter, of Fletcher’s Land in Kingston, are poised to potentially be among the spelling prodigies to emerge from Jamaica. Both participated in the third staging of the Fletcher’s Land Police Youth Club’s Spelling Bee competition, which was held in 2015, where they dominated their respective categories. Nine year old Kaiyala, a student of the Allman...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has hailed the development of the new Union Gardens Infant School as an example of the Government’s commitment to early childhood education. The state-of- the-art institution, located off Spanish Town Road in the South West St. Andrew constituency, was constructed at a cost of approximately $174 million through public-private partnership. Speaking at...

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, says society should embrace and promote non-traditional careers that are offering huge incomes for young people, while also expanding the economy. Addressing the launch of National Careers Week at JA Biz Town, in Kingston, today (January 12), the Minister said that a radical shift is needed from the perception that only careers in...

Executive Director of the Jamaican Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL), Worrel Hibbert, says his organisation will be making a concerted effort to go into deep rural communities to market education as the main gateway to success. Mr. Hibbert told JIS News that statistics have shown that rural illiteracy is greater than urban illiteracy and that as part of the JFLL’s...

More adults are ignoring the stigma attached to literacy centres and have been taking up the opportunity to further their education. Principal of the Jamaican Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL) Facility in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Oliver Williams, says the centre, located on Barracks Road, now operates on a shift system, so as to accommodate the many adults who can only attend...

The Jamaican Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL) is the beneficiary of a  $4 million upgrade of its Savanna-la-Mar  Adult Education Centre, in Westmoreland. This was made possible through a joint partnership between the Sugar Transformation Unit (STU) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the European Union (EU). The three-classroom facility was officially opened on January 8,  by Minister...