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The National Family Planning Board (NFPB) is inviting Jamaica's youth to submit entries for its 2012 Sexual and Reproductive Health Essay Competition, under the theme: 'Children by Choice and not by Chance'. In an interview with JIS News, Director of Outreach Programmes at the Family Planning Board, Dianne Thomas, explained that the competition is being held as part of the...

Approximately 75 members of staff of the Grand Palladium Hotel in Point, Hanover, have graduated from a training course in food and beverage service and food preparation, which was carried out by the HEART Trust/NTA. The training course lasted  from January to July and  the successful participants have received the National Vocational Qualification of Jamaica (NVQJ) certificate, in keeping with...

The National Education Trust (NET) is looking to increase partnerships for the construction and upgrading of schools. Addressing a recent JIS Think Tank, Chief Executive Officer of the NET, Paul Matalon, said that the Trust intends to enhance collaboration with the church and the Diaspora.  Education, he pointed out, has been the largest beneficiary of Diaspora grants over the last...

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...