Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, has lauded the contribution of the various alumni organisations to the transformation of Jamaica’s education system, stating that their donations are investments “of the highest returns”. Rev. Thwaites was addressing administrators, alumni and students at Campion College in St. Andrew on September 30, at the dedication and opening ceremony for the Radley Reid...

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, is proposing that the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing solicit the HEART Trust/National Training Agency’s (NTA) assistance in developing national standards for driver education, as part of efforts to reduce accidents and fatalities on the nation’s roads. Speaking at Friday’s (September 27) launch of the Transport Ministry’s three-month islandwide road safety campaign tour...

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, led a team of Ministry officials from Kingston to visit bereaved students and staff of the Holmwood Technical High School, in Christiana, Manchester, on Thursday, September 26. Their visit came in the aftermath of Wednesday’s (September 25) fatal traffic accident in Chudleigh, Manchester, which claimed the lives of four of the institution’s students and...

The Ministry of Education has taken over the reigns of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Jamaica Basic Education Project (JBEP), and will now take the initiative to its next phase. The project, which started in 2010, is primarily aimed at improving the reading skills of students from grade one to three, in regions one, four and six. It...

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, says that the fatal motor vehicle accident on September 25, which claimed the lives of four students of Holmwood Technical High School, brings into focus, the need for greater discipline on the nation’s roads among persons operating public passenger vehicles, and especially those carrying children. “It’s important that we use this tragedy to see...

Minister of Education, the Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, has hailed the opening of an engineering laboratory at the Mona Preparatory School, noting that the facility will foster critical and analytical thinking in students. Speaking at the official opening ceremony on Wednesday, September 25, at the institution’s Old Hope Road premises, Rev. Thwaites said the lab “is far more appropriate for...

A month into the new academic year, the Ministry of Education is appealing to schools to ensure that students are being prepared at all levels to access the relevant curriculum. Intervention guidelines have been provided by the Ministry of Education to assist the schools with this process.  For students in Grade One, the Grade One Individual Learning Profile (GOILP) was...