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Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, has pledged to provide the Balaclava High School in St. Elizabeth with the support needed to bring about improvement in performance. On a visit to the school on February 29, Rev. Thwaites told the students that they should not limit themselves but should strive always to achieve the best. The visit formed part of...

Students at 12 Corporate Area high schools are set to benefit from a series of one-day workshops aimed at exposing them to the exciting discipline of robotics. Dubbed “Lego Yuh Mind Day”, the initiative is the undertaking of Halls of Learning, a Jamaican-based organisation dedicated to empowering the lives of young people through education. The project, which will run from...

Minister of Education, Rev. Hon. Ronald Thwaites, said the Ministry will be seeking to attract private capital to fund student loans at the tertiary level. He informed that currently, the Government spends $10 billion on tertiary education annually, which is almost two per cent of the national budget, and comes “close to supplying” about 80 per cent of the cost...

The Belfield Primary School in St. Mary celebrated Jamaica Day on Friday (February 17) with a cultural package that highlighted the country’s rich ethnic diversity. Under the national theme: ‘Celebrating Goals for Gold’ Principal of the school, Alva Jackson planned a day full of displays and presentations about the cultures that combine to depict Jamaica’s motto: ‘Out of many, one...

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, has commended students of Howard Cooke Primary School in Montego Bay for achieving academic excellence in the recent Grade Four Literacy Test. “I want to congratulate you all for doing very well in the Grade Four examinations last year, as when the national average for mastery in literacy was about 70 per cent,...

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, has said the estimated $18 billion expended each year by the public and private sectors on remedial education could be better spent at the foundation level “getting it right the first time”. Noting that this amount is about “20 per cent of the expenditure on education”, he said more focus must be placed “at...

Minister of Education, Hon. Ronald Thwaites, is encouraging students to choose their career path wisely in order to succeed in the world of work. He was addressing the National Career Development Conference held on February 15 at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston. Stating that "education is (the) doorway for career development,” the Education Minister told the hundreds of students...

A special award aimed at rewarding the input of non-academic support staff at high schools, was officially launched at the Ministry of Education, Heroes Circle offices, on February 10. The award dubbed, ‘Education Support Staff Achievement’ (ESSA), is an initiative of Kingston Bookshop (KB), and seeks to recognise a wide cross section of personnel, including: clerks, bursars, librarians, ancillary staff,...

Members of two vulnerable communities in  Westmoreland - McNeil Lands and New Roads - are now better equipped to deal with disasters, such as hurricanes and earthquakes, as some 100 persons from these areas have successfully completed intense training in a project called, ‘Building Disaster Resilient Communities’. The project was a three-year initiative lasting from November 2008 to September 2011,...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, is urging the nation’s youth to pursue education and training opportunities to enhance their competitiveness in the global job market. “The need for additional training to position yourselves with opportunities that will enable you to not only compete in Jamaica, but in the wider world, is a very noble step,” she stated....

A multipurpose court, constructed through $2.8 million in funding from the Digicel Foundation, was officially open on Thursday Feb. 2 at the all-girls Westwood High School in Stewart Town, Trelawny. The project entailed the refurbishing of the existing netball court, with facility also put in for basketball and volleyball. The court has been fully enclosed with perimeter fencing. The wider...

The University of Technology (UTech) on Monday (February 6), unveiled a sculpture of late Reggae icon, Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley, at its Papine campus in St. Andrew. The piece, which has been erected in the institution’s Caribbean Sculpture Park, was designed by Russian sculptor, Gregory Pototsky, and presented as a gift to the institution and, by extension, the government and...