In the new school year about 200,000 students in the early childhood age group will receive breakfast and lunch free or at subsidised price under government’s revamped school feeding programme. Education Minister Ronald Thwaites, who made the disclosure during a national back-to-school broadcast on Sunday, August 31, 2014, noted that adequate nutrition was critical to the learning and development of...

Principals of 16 schools across the island are welcoming plans to eliminate the dual shift system from their institutions during the course of the new school year, as announced by Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites in a back-to-school broadcast on Sunday (August 31st). Twelve primary and junior high schools are scheduled to come off dual shift including Hayes, Cross, Spring...

Eighty (80) mathematics specialists and coaches, who have been recruited by the Ministry of Education under the National Mathematics Programme, will be deployed on Monday (September 1). The disclosure was made by Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites in his Back-to-School broadcast which was aired on Sunday (August 31). “We will be sending out 80 maths coaches and specialists to 150...

Over the past nine years, the Jamaica College (JC) Foundation has invested over $400 million in upgrading the facilities of the prestigious Old Hope Road-based institution. This was disclosed by Chairman of the Foundation, Hon. R. Danny Williams on August 28, at the official opening of a state-of-the-art museum on the grounds of the school. “This has been in the...

Residents of Silent Hill, Clarendon, are welcoming renovation of the district’s basic school and community centre, at a combined cost of $37.9 million. A total of 66 students and three teachers will benefit from the newly refurbished facilities at the Walders Run Early Childhood Institution, while the renovated Silent Hill Multi-Purpose Sports Complex will serve residents from more than five...

Plans are well advanced for the opening of the re-branded Hopewell Centre of Excellence in Technical and Vocational Studies, formerly the Hopewell High School, in Hanover, for the new academic year, which begins on Monday, September 1. Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Grace McLean, told JIS News that the re-branding process is far advanced and although...

Teachers will no longer have to take extended leave to obtain university qualification, as effective September, the University of the West Indies (UWI) Affiliated Programmes will be extended to all teachers’ colleges. “From September, all of our teachers’ college degrees are going to have the quality…and they are going to be articulated…connected and a teachers’ college degree …will become a...