A sum of $305 million has been allocated for the implementation of the Ministry of Education and Youth’s Education Transformation Programme in the upcoming fiscal year. The sum is contained in the 2023/24 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project’s main objective is to provide additional classrooms to alleviate the shift system and overcrowding in secondary...

Educational institutions are being urged to appoint data protection officers to monitor compliance with the Data Protection Act, 2020 and report nonconformity not remedied within reasonable time. The call comes from Information Commissioner, Celia Barclay, and is in light of the anticipated implementation of the legislation later this year. She was speaking at a recent hybrid Cybersecurity and Data Protection...

Caption: Acting Special Projects Manager, Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Charnele Henry (centre) shares in a selfie-frame photo with Grade 4 students of the Belmont Park Primary School in Portmore, St. Catherine on Tuesday (February 21). Occasion was the school’s Career Day under the theme: ‘Conquer your Future through Career Development’. The Grade 4 students focused on ‘Media, Communication and Entertainment’...

Principals and teachers have been invited to participate in the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), CARICOM and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Learning Recovery and Enhancement Programme (Let’s REAP) Caribbean Schools Capacity-Building Programme. The invitation has been extended by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat for the participants to be a part of Cohort II. A bulletin issued by the...

Newly installed University of Technology (UTech) Jamaica Chancellor, Lloyd Carney, has committed to ensuring that the institution facilitates persons desirous of accessing quality higher education for their advancement. Mr. Carney outlined three main focus areas which he said will help in achieving this goal, while speaking during the installation ceremony at the institution’s campus in Papine, St. Andrew, on February...

The draft Higher Education Policy is in the final stage of review, ahead of being submitted to Cabinet for approval. This was disclosed by Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, who said the timeline for approval is subject to Cabinet’s agenda. “But I would expect that before the end of this fiscal year, which ends March 31, it...

Developing human resource capacity through education and training, is one way in which Jamaica is building resilience in tourism, says Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Floyd Green. “Jamaica has had a lot of training systems around tourism because our economy is so strongly built on [the sector],” he noted. The Minister, who was participating...

Educational leaders are being encouraged to provide adaptive and creative solutions to challenges within the sector, which will also serve to transform their schools into visionary institutions. To achieve this, Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, says the stakeholders should pursue leadership development that is competency-based, “relevant, flexible, practical, and peer-oriented, to respond to the existing and emerging...

The Ministry of Education and Youth has endorsed the staging of the NCB Foundation’s National Robotics Championship as providing a platform for students to develop and express their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. “You have the opportunity to apply scientific methods in undertaking the applied research and development aspects of your projects. This competition should serve to inspire you to...