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Jamaica Day 2011 will be celebrated on Friday, February 25 with a potpourri of activities in schools islandwide under the theme - ‘Celebrating Jamaica: Feasting on our Heritage'. Director, Culture in Education Programme, in the Ministry of Education, Mrs. Amina Blackwood Meeks, told JIS News that, "Jamaica Day 2011, is for us, a very exciting project to be working on....

A National Comprehensive Literacy Programme (NCLP) has been developed and introduced to primary schools. The move is part of the thrust by the Ministry of Education (MoE) to achieve 100 per cent literacy at the primary level by 2015 and allow for students to successfully transition to secondary school. National Literacy Coordinator, Laurel Brent Harris, who made the disclosure during...

The Troy Primary School in Trelawny has received an educational boost, with the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), on Wednesday (February 16), donating books and other publications to the institution. The gift package included posters and a DVD on the national heroes and national symbols; posters of the Jamaican currency and coins, and Governors-General; and four books on Jamaica’s heritage and...

With Black History now an important part of the school curriculum, it has created the perfect opportunity for students to dig deep into their past, to learn about aspects of the Jamaican cultural heritage. Visitors to the Charles Town Maroons’ Museum and Safu Yard in the Buff Bay Valley, Portland, can get the thrilling experience of tracing the footsteps of...

Jamaica’s Consul General to Toronto, Seth George Ramocan, has urged Canadian students to go after their dreams. Mr. Ramocan was addressing hundreds of students at the Fletcher’s Meadow Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario, on Tuesday February 8, as part of their annual Black History Month assembly. Speaking on the theme: ‘Keep the Dream Alive’, the Consul General urged the students...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, says that efforts must be made to integrate computer technology into school curricula, to improve educational relevance and student learning outcomes, instead of simply focusing on CXC IT examination passes. In an address to hundreds of participants at the Caribbean Institute of Technology’s ICT Awareness Day Expo at the Montego Bay Civic Centre, Tuesday...

The Ministry of Education is introducing a new career development programme, which is expected to produce school leavers, who are better equipped for the labour market. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Andrew Holness, speaking at the official launch of National Career Development Awareness Week on February 9 at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston, explained that the programme will provide students with...

Governor-General His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen has urged teachers to make their classrooms an ‘Ubi Semper Discimus’ setting where students can understand that learning never ends, and take that principle with them for the rest of their lives. In this way, teachers would have broadened their students’ horizons about the endless possibilities embedded within the world of...

Students at all levels of the education system will benefit from career advice and counselling during the Ministry of Education's inaugural Career Awareness Week from February 6 to 12. Under the theme: ‘Career Development: Preparing a workforce, developing a nation, time for action’, the event is being held in collaboration with the Heart Trust/NTA, and will feature a variety of...

The wind energy workshop organized by Wigton Wind Farm Limited, held on Tuesday (February 1) at the company's training centre, Rose Hill, Manchester, has passed on critical information to the persons who participated in the one day event. "It was quite informative, we got a number of questions answered and it serves as a point for us, as renewables research...

Special Education Co-ordinator at the Ministry of Education, Dr. Michelle Meredith, has described the recent special education conference in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, as successful, with possibilities for regional discussions regarding the issues related to the subject area. Dr. Meredith told JIS News that  the objectives of the conference were met. These included promoting awareness of the nature and needs...

The Ministry of Education is imploring educators to avoid behaving in a manner that may bring the teaching profession into disrepute. Speaking at an emergency press briefing on Wednesday (February 2), at the Ministry, Heroes Circle, Kingston, Minister Andrew Holness reminded school officials that participation in protest action is prohibited. "We will be taking a zero tolerant approach to protests...