Minister of Education, Rev. Hon. Ronald Thwaites, has informed that 97 per cent of the island’s grade seven cohort have been placed in high schools this year. Minister Thwaites, who was addressing the official opening of Jamaica College’s (JC) state-of-the-art museum on Thursday (August 28), said that there is a place in school for every child from early childhood to...

Courts Jamaica’s scholarship award recipients are expressing gratitude for the assistance, noting that it will ease the financial burden on their parents. Fifty-five students, who will be attending secondary and tertiary institutions in September, have been awarded scholarships by the furniture store chain valued at more than $6 million. They were chosen after a competitive selection process, which involved some...

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...

Minister of Education, Rev. Hon. Ronald Thwaites, has informed that 97 per cent of the island’s grade seven cohort have been placed in high schools this year. Minister Thwaites, who was addressing the official opening of Jamaica College’s (JC) state-of-the-art museum on Thursday (Aug. 28), said that there is a place in school for every child from early childhood to...