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More than 60 students from 14 communities from Top Halse Hall to Raymonds Dam in May Pen, Clarendon, received book vouchers on August 25, from the Refinery Community Council, a Non-Governmental Organisation. Each of the student, aged 10 to 16 years, was given a $2,000 voucher to purchase school books from a store in May Pen, at a handing over...

If all goes according to plan, the schools' shift system could be phased out within three years, as the Ministry of Education (MOE), through the National Education Trust (NET), is determining the number of schools needed to make it possible. "One of the things we are doing now, working with the National Education Trust, is to accurately determine how many...

Education Officer (Modern Languages) in the Core Curriculum Unit of the Ministry of Education, Martha Corbett Baugh, has advised Jamaica's newest recruits under the Cuba/Jamaica teacher exchange programme, to keep up the good work of their predecessors. "You are coming into schools that have had excellent top-of-the-class Cuban teachers - you need to keep up the work," she told the...

Pro Chancellor of the University of Technology (UTech), the Most Hon. Edward Seaga, says education is the greatest help to social advancement, and is the tool that will take many Jamaicans out of poverty. "Education can give you a good career, can help you to develop your self esteem and can make you socially mobile," he told first year students...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Audrey Sewell, has appealed to students to take their education seriously, and play their part in the system as a responsible future generation. "We have to go back to the days when we are taught to be responsible; when we are taught that there is a consequence for every action. Your teachers will...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Audrey Sewell, says a properly run education system is largely dependent on effective leadership at the school level, which delivers positive results from teachers and students. "It provides direction, exercises influence, and it shows up in the school's physical environment, in the behavior of students, the performance of teachers, and the students' performance...

Safety and Security preparations for the 2010/11 academic year are in high gear with metal detectors being distributed to high schools, and School Resource Officers (SROs) being dispatched to further support the schools. Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education (MOE), Grace McLean told a Think Tank session at the Jamaica Information Service Wednesday (August 25) that the Ministry...

All students attending secondary level institutions will benefit from textbooks covering 33 subjects for the new 2010/2011 academic year, which are being sourced at a cost of $637 million, with the exception of literature books. This was disclosed by Assistant Chief Education Officer, Media Services Unit at the Ministry of Education (MOE), Dr. Olive Maragh, during a JIS 'Think Tank'...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Audrey Sewell, has reminded school leaders, especially Principals, that the Government's policy of not turning away students from schools when auxiliary fees are not paid, must be carried out. Mrs. Sewell, who was addressing a conference for principals, held at the deCarteret College, in Mandeville, on August 25, said that punishing children whose...

Four students who are savers at the Churches Co-operative Credit Union (CCCU) were awarded scholarships during an awards ceremony, held at the Knutsford Court Hotel on August 24. Three students were also given gift certificates valued at $16,000 each from Sangster's Book Stores, under Churches Co-operative Credit Union's 'Ready... Set for September back-to-school promotion'. General Manager, Retail Systems and Operations,...

Approximately 200 children from St. Ann's Bay and surrounding communities were feted and presented with back- to school supplies, on Saturday, August 21. The event, hosted by the Restoration for Life Mission in Christ Apostolic Church, saw the children receiving books, bags and stationery, among other items. Pastor of the Restoration for Life Mission in Christ Apostolic Church, Albertha Boswell-James,...

Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education (MOE), Grace McLean, is assuring stakeholders that the MOE is in an advanced stage of readiness for the 2010- 2011 academic year, with all financial obligations to schools set to be completed by the end of this week. "The Ministry is in an advanced stage of readiness. To date we have uploaded...