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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...

KINGSTON — More than 140 grade three students are set to benefit from a summer school programme, geared at improving their literacy and numeracy skills. The programme, which was officially launched on July 11, 2011, at the Balcombe Drive Primary and Junior High School, in Kingston, will see students from both Balcombe Drive Primary and Junior High as well as...

KINGSTON — Children, who attend the Back Pasture Basic School in St. Catherine, will soon benefit from improved facilities, as a $7 million renovation project is to be undertaken at the institution. The project, which is slated to commence soon is being funded through a grant from the Government of Japan under its Grassroots and Human Security Grants Project. The...

MONTEGO BAY — One hundred and fifty five students, who achieved passes averaging between 60 per cent and 98 per cent in the recent Grade Six Achievement Tests (GSAT), were awarded scholarships and trophies by Member of Parliament for East Central St. James, Hon. Edmund Bartlett. Highest on the list were Top Girl, Shannon Brown, of John Rollins Primary School,...

As part of its overall programme to facilitate training and development opportunities in alternative energy, the University of the West Indies (UWI) in collaboration with the Wigton Windfarm, the Scientific Research Council and Alternative Power Sources will offer a summer course in alternative energy. The course will be offered in three one-week modules from July 11-29, 2011 with the first...

Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Grace McLean, says the Ministry is putting measures in place to improve the achievement of males, as part of the education transformation thrust. "The scale of underachievement points to the need for systemic changes in the way that education is planned and delivered. The need to raise the achievement of our boys...

WASHINGTON — Sixteen students of the Merl Grove High School in Kingston, Jamaica are the beneficiaries of bursaries valued at US$4,800 from the North Eastern American Chapter of the school's Past Students' Association. The awards are under the Shakara Harris Scholarship Fund, named for the student who was killed in 2004, when she was hit by a car while attempting...