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At the beginning of the 2010/11 academic year, the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) has processed some 10,000 loan applications for tertiary level students, of which only six are yet to be approved. This conforms to the approval rate of up to 98 per cent in the recent past. This update was provided to JIS News by the SLB, at the...

The Ministry of Education says it will be providing more than 3,000 new spaces at the secondary, primary and infant school levels for the upcoming academic year. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Audrey Sewell also informed that for the 2010/2011 academic year, Steer Town High School will be opened as a Centre of Excellence on the campus of the newly...

Education Minister, Hon. Andrew Holness, has said that the Ministry will be implementing its new National Student Registration Programme during the upcoming academic year. The new system will seek to capture information on all students in the school system and placed on a single national database. "Technology is such that we now have the capacity to capture, manage, analyse and...

Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Grace McLean, is reporting that the 2010-2011 academic year got underway with few hitches, with at least 98 per cent of schools fully re-opened. "The reports have been coming in from the Regions and so far we have had a very smooth start. There are very few incidents that have been reported...

The End Time Basic School in Waterhouse, Kingston, is to receive a facelift as its old infrastructure is to be replaced with a new building, which will provide the institution with three sets of classrooms. Contracts for the works, scheduled to commence shortly, was signed during a ceremony at the institution, Friday (September 3). Funded under the European Union's (EU)...

The HEART Trust/National Training Agency (NTA), has embarked on several initiatives aimed at creating a Jamaican workforce that, beyond being technically competent, is also ready for work. "We will have spaces where people actually learn what is required in the workplace, so when you go to the workplace you are not there to train but to work," Executive Director of...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, is confident that there will be a smooth start to the 2010/2011 academic year. "From the Ministry's perspective, we have provided the education system with the requisite resources for a seamless start up," he noted, while addressing journalists on September 1, during a back-to-school press briefing at the Ministry, in Kingston. Minister of Education,...

Officials at the Ministry of Education have said that a recent audit of the secondary schools' National Textbook Programme has saved the education system approximately $200 million for the academic year 2010/2011. Speaking at a Back to School press conference at the Ministry in Kingston, on Wednesday (September 1), Education Minister, the Hon. Andrew Holness, said the audit had revealed...

Education Minister, Hon. Andrew Holness, says parents who fail to send their children to school on a regular basis could face strict penalties under the Education Act and the Child Care and Protection Act. Mr. Holness was speaking at a press conference, held at the Ministry on September 1, to address back-to-school issues. He said the current 80 per cent...

Moving a child from one institution to another may sometimes prove to be a challenging undertaking for both parents and children. Children may experience anxiety and fear when they are removed from an environment of familiar faces, such as friends and teachers, and placed in a new situation to which they will have to adjust. Social Psychologist, Leachim Semaj Speaking...

A one-day Seminar aimed at addressing specific anti-doping in sports issues will be held on Saturday, September 18, at the Physiology Lecture Theatre, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus. The seminar is being staged by the UWI, in collaboration with Leeds Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. Speaking at the media launch at the Spanish Court Hotel, New...

Some 250 students from inner city communities across Montego Bay and other areas in the parish of St. James, were presented with school bags, books, and other back-to-school items by the Peace Management Initiative (PMI). The presentations which took place at the St. James Branch of the PMI's Church Street office in Montego Bay on Friday, August 27, formed part...