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Eight students of Jamaican heritage, who are attending colleges and universities in the United States of America (USA), have been awarded the 2012 Professor Gordon Shirley Book Scholarship. They are Nirica Clarke, Kimberley Curtis and Shanique Fletcher of Howard University; Tressan Gordon of Virginia State University; Camille Clennon Hilmy of Prince George's Community College; Raquel Lowe of Mary Baldwin College;...

President of the University of Technology (UTech), Professor the Hon. Errol Morrison, says that the country's athletes and coaches are facing a "scientific injustice" as they are unable to fully understand the  exhaustive list of banned substances published by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). He argued that to understand what is referred to as a "banned substance" is "no mean...

The Education Ministry is moving to clarify its decision to replace the teachers involved with the Career Advancement Programme (CAP) with teachers selected under the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP). Speaking with the JIS News during a recent interview, Education Minister, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, said the decision was taken in order to relieve the CAP teachers from the...

A total of 500 early childhood teachers are to be trained over the next five years under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) involving  the Early Childhood Commission (ECC), the HEART Trust/NTA, and Food for the Poor (FFP). The initiative, which is being funded by FFP at a cost of some $32.5 million, will provide academic scholarships to teachers, who are...

Principal of the Higgins Land Primary and Junior High School in St. Ann, Fay Sterling, is this year's recipient of the Ministry of Education/Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) World Teachers' Day Leadership in Education Award. The award, which recognizes dedicated and distinguished service to education, was presented to Mrs. Sterling, during a special ceremony at the school on Friday, October 5,...

Education Minister, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, has urged teachers embarking on professional advancement, to focus on their areas of expertise, in pursuit of this endeavour.    "There are many teachers who are studying and doing well in subjects that have no relationship to what they teach in school.; that cannot work. We have to focus…on the areas of greatest...

Over 150 students of the University of Technology (UTech) were, on Thursday (Oct. 4), presented with awards by the institution in recognition of their outstanding achievements in sports and academics during the 2010/11 and 2011/12 school years. The presentations, which were made during UTech's inaugural Students' Academic and Sport Awards Ceremony, at its Papine Campus in St. Andrew, saw some...

Education Minister, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, has cited the need for increased focus on the delivery of special education to children in need of this intervention, at the earliest stage possible. "The task of special education has, regrettably, by my observation, not been given sufficient attention by the educational managers of this country; and that is a statement of...

The Dunrobin Primary School in St. Andrew is to be placed on the Safe Schools Programme, following the assault of a female teacher on the school compound on Monday (Oct. 1). Minister of Education, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, made the disclosure on October 3, following a meeting with staff at the institution's premises on 37 1/2 Dunrobin Avenue.  "They...

Education Minister, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, has said that within the next few months, his Ministry will be rolling out a pilot plan, to use computer technology to offer teaching instructions in the areas of mathematics and literacy to students in remote areas of Jamaica. He stated that Jamaica is blessed to have a quality technological platform to facilitate...

Twenty-five at-risk youth are benefitting from a five-day workshop, which will equip them with values and attitudes as well as entrepreneurial skills to create and manage successful businesses. Dubbed: 'Creativity for Employment and Business Opportunity' (CEBO), the training is part of a regional programme developed by the CARICOM Secretariat, which is targeted at young people 15 to 29 years old....

Education Minister, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, is imploring parents to start saving now for their children's tertiary education.   He noted that as much as the government would like to, it simply cannot afford to provide tertiary financing to all students. "The state does not have an obligation and cannot assume an obligation to educate all of those who...