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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...

The Forestry Department will be planting some 50 trees at the Bridgeport Primary School in Portmore tomorrow (Oct. 5), as the agency observes National Tree Planting Day 2012. The activity, under the theme: Putting down Roots in our Communities,' gets underway at 10:00 a.m. Senior Manager for Public Relations and Corporate Communications at the Forestry Department, Stephanie Donaldson Francis, told...

Sixth form student of Clarendon College in Chapelton, Francina Francis, has topped 26 other fifth and sixth form students across the island to win the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade’s (MFAFT) 50th anniversary essay competition. For her victory, Francina will receive a one week all-expense paid trip to New York City, United States, to participate with the Jamaican...

Government Senator, Floyd Morris, is proposing that a levy of approximately five per cent is placed on all remittances entering the island as an additional source of funding for the education sector. "This is likely to yield US$100 million or JA$9 billion. The proceeds must be used to fund educational activities being implemented by the National Education Trust (NET)," he...