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The Ministry of Education has signed a $660 million contract with HDB Construction for the building of the Cedar Grove High School at Gregory Park, in Portmore, St. Catherine. The institution is the first to be built under the National Education Trust (NET) on behalf of the Ministry, and the Education System Transformation Programme (ESTP), and is a joint initiative...

Minister of Education, Rev. Hon. Ronald Thwaites, has welcomed the publication of National Scholarship Digest, noting that it will enable more students facing economic challenges to identify funding for higher education. “We are faced with lots and lots of students, who are capable...and able to matriculate into university but they can’t do so because of economic circumstances. We have a...

Youth leaders from the disabled community are clamoring for greater access to tertiary-level training and employment opportunities, as they struggle to gain equality with their able-bodied peers. The youths voiced their concerns to Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, and United States Ambassador to Jamaica, Her Excellency Pamela Bridgewater, among other stakeholders, during a roundtable discussion hosted at...

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, says that while the government intends to continue to provide free education at the secondary level, parents will be required to make a greater input. “The policy of government subscribing to the basic tuition for secondary education will continue (but), there is no doubt that additional contribution is going to be required from...

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, is appealing to Jamaican fathers to become more involved in the academic life of their children. He said that “too often, in our education system, the fathers turn up to take the little ones…to school, basic or infant, and then the next time you see him is at graduation from high school. That...

Minister of Education, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, says history has taught us as a nation, that the only legitimate way of achieving social and economic progress is through education.  He emphasises that education is worthy of the greatest investment, and that development of the human mind ought to be the number one priority for the country. Rev. Thwaites was...

The Government is in negotiations with stakeholders within the education sector, towards implementing a programme to ensure the employment of all trained teachers on their graduation. Minister of Education,  Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, made the announcement while giving the keynote address at the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College valedictory service for 278 graduates, held at the Calvary Baptist Church, in...

The Government is in negotiations with stakeholders within the education sector, towards implementing a programme to ensure the employment of all trained teachers on their graduation. Minister of Education,  Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, made the announcement while giving the keynote address at the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College valedictory service for 278 graduates, held at the Calvary Baptist Church, in...

Measures to correct a deficit in numeracy skills among primary school students, was among the notable achievements of the Minister of Education, Rev. Hon.  Ronald Thwaites, in his first 100 days in office. The deficiencies were evident from the results of the 2010/2011 Grade Four Numeracy Test, which was administered in June 2011. Of the 45, 769 students from public...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has urged a re-engineering of educational systems of developing countries arguing that some of the specific challenges being faced by these countries stem in part from systems that were crafted within the context of colonialism and designed to maintain the status quo. Mrs Simpson Miller was speaking at a forum of the...

Jamaica must position itself in order to earn an estimated US$2.5 billion annually and benefit from the generation of up to 70,000 jobs in the maritime industry. This was stated by Principal of Jamaica College (JC), Ruel Reid, during a presentation on job creation in the maritime industry on April 12 at the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI) in Kingston. According...

Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Roger Clarke, says the Ministry of Education’s school feeding programme will be targeted as a catalyst to boost agricultural development, particularly in rural communities. He said this would facilitate greater utilisation of crops cultivated, particularly fruits and vegetables, while providing a healthy alternative to bag drinks, which are currently incorporated in the nutrition provisions for...