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The 1, 200-space Steer Town High School in St. Ann will be ready to accommodate students for the start of the new academic year on September 3. Chief Executive Officer of the National Education Trust (NET), Paul Matalon, gave the assurance as he addressed a recent Think Tank at the Half-Way Tree Road offices of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS)....

The Ministry of Education will be putting in place a working group aimed at improving the performance of students in both Mathematics and English Language. “This will include the best minds from the academic community, who will assist us to deal with what I consider to be a crisis and the main element that may drop us short of our...

The Ministry of Education is expecting to complete the distribution of textbooks to primary and high schools across the island by August 31. "We are, right now, in the process of distributing textbooks to the system. Some distribution has already taken place and we expect that by August 31, all textbooks would have been in place in the schools," said...

Pro Registrar at the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), Glenroy Cumberbatch, said that there are no clear factors for the decline in the performance of students in this year’s Mathematics and English ‘A’ examinations. “One of our research projects for 2012 is to look at the factors that impact academic achievement in the Caribbean as a whole,” Mr. Cumberbatch said. He...

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, has said that every teacher, regardless of their specialist area, must become part of the solution to the deficit in numeracy and literacy in education. "Every teacher has to become a special education teacher… I don't want to hear that the Spanish teacher or the geography teacher, or the woodwork or the agriculture...

The Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH) is to embark on a Back-to-School campaign, dubbed ‘School Wi Seh’, for the 2012/13 academic year, beginning the first week in September. Speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on August 22,Project Director for PATH, Dunstan Bryan, informed that the 12-month campaign involves two elements - ensuring that all children registered under...

Education Minister, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, says the country's education system ranks highly with those of other countries, particularly developed nations, whose standards  Jamaica surpasses in many instances. Speaking at Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) colloquium at its central campus in Mandeville, Manchester, earlier this week, Rev. Thwaites said that level has been achieved with less Gross National Product (GNP)...

Education Minister, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, is urging the nation’s tertiary institutions to engage in greater and more focused research that will redound to the nation’s benefit. Speaking at Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) colloquium at its central campus in Mandeville, Manchester on Monday (August 20), Rev. Thwaites contended that the $10 billion in state funding allocated to tertiary institutions...

Newly installed President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Clayton Hall, has expressed support for the effort by Minister of Education, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, to place more emphasis on the delivery of special education to children with learning disabilities. Delivering his inaugural address at the annual conference of the Association, held on August 20, at the Ritz Carlton...

Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Grace McLean, says the incorporation of the teachings of Garveyism in the new civics programme for schools, will foster self-affirmation and social transformation. "The philosophy of this civics education programme is one of individual and social transformation,” said Mrs. McLean, who was addressing the launch of the programme on August 17 at...

The Ministry of Education is currently holding discussions with at least two private institutions, in an effort to provide additional classroom places at the secondary level, within the town of Mandeville, in Manchester. This is expected to go a far way in providing some of the approximately 6,000 new secondary school places which are needed for Mandeville and its environs....

Some 1,700 young people, who had dropped out of school, have benefited from interventions under the Steps-to-Work summer camps, to enable them to return to classes when school reopens next month. "This year, approximately 1,700 students were enrolled in the camps, and the Ministry and its partners have worked hard to ensure they are able to return to school in...