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KINGSTON — The Ministry of Education's Competency Based Transition Policy (CBTP) is to be tested in September, when students who failed to attain mastery in the Grade 4 Literacy Test, will be placed in the Alternative Secondary Transitional Education Programme (ASTEP). As an intervention programme, ASTEP will assist the students with maximum two-year transitional training, to reach the required secondary...

KINGSTON — The University of Technology (UTech) and the HEART Trust/NTA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will facilitate students at one institution participating in programmes offered by the other. Senior Director for Institutional Relations at UTech, Claire Sutherland, told JIS News, following the signing ceremony at UTech's Technology Innovation Centre,n Kingston on  Friday (July 22), that the...

KINGSTON — Education Minister, Hon. Andrew Holness, is reiterating the importance of parental involvement in ensuring that students reach their full potential. Speaking at yesterday's (July 21), awards ceremony for the 2011 Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) scholarship recipients at the Wyndham Hotel in Kingston, Minister Holness said that while students are able to excel through their own hard work,...

KINGSTON — The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, opened its newly constructed state-of-the art CHASE Carnegie Skills Laboratory, for the training of medical students and residents in a modern setting, on Thursday July 21. The facility, the first of its kind in the Caribbean, was constructed and equipped at a cost of some $35 million by the Department...

MANDEVILLE — Mayor of Black River, Councillor Jeremy Palmer, has called on residents to push for quality educational delivery with the same fervor as they do for roads, water and other infrastructure. He lamented that when he attends community meetings, there is little or no agitation for properly run schools and quality output from these institutions and is encouraging residents...

KINGSTON — Thirty-four students, who received scholarships for their performances in the recent Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), were honoured on Thursday July 21 at the Wyndham Hotel, New Kingston. The scholarship awardees were selected from a pool of 43,000 students, who sat the two-day examination in March this year. Speaking at the awards ceremony, Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew...

MONTEGO BAY — Principals from eight Caribbean countries are in Ocho Rios, St. Ann for five days of discussions focused on initiatives to improve secondary education throughout the region. They are participating in the 23rd biennial conference of the Caribbean Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (CAPSS), which got underway on July 18, 2011 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort...

KINGSTON — Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Dr. Karen Hilliard, says the agency will evaluate the Camp Summer Plus 2011 programme to assess its effectiveness, after it closes. The specialised programme, which runs July 11 to August 22, is a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Education and USAID, and is geared at raising...

KINGSTON — Thirty five children, some with severe mental and physical disabilities, were presented with certificates on Tuesday July 19, 2011, for successfully completing the intervention curriculum of the Early Stimulation Programme (ESP). Some of the students are to be placed in special education classes at the primary level, while others will join the regular school system. Speaking at the...

MONTEGO BAY — Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has said that the Government will have to take a radical approach to intervening in failing schools. "The concept of a failed school has not yet entered the vocabulary of Education in a significant way in the region, but I do not think that we are doing our children a service...

PORT ANTONIO — Primary school students and several adults participated in a workshop, aimed at infusing the national core values in the activities of daily life, at the Rosebank Primary School in St. Mary on July 11, 2011. The workshop, which was organised by the Students for Transformation - the youth arm of the National Transformation Programme - engaged approximately...

MANDEVILLE — Thirty Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Area 3 division corporals participated in a one month development training course, which included studies in management and problem-solving. The training programme was inclusive of public speaking, the tenets of debates, problem-solving and decision making. “We did communication, missing persons and human trafficking and a number of other areas that affect leadership and...