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Minister of Education, Hon Andrew Holness, says the parenting of boys remains a major concern for his Ministry. Speaking at the official launch of Parent Month 2010, at Jamaica House, Friday (October 29), Mr. Holness said one of the manifestations of the weakness in the parenting of boys is in their general underperformance in school. He noted that data has...

Minister of Education, Hon Andrew Holness, is discouraging parents from allowing economic and other pressures to get in the way of spending quality time with their children. "Our children are the future and if we allow the difficulties of today to make it impossible for us to bring up our children in the right way, then our future will be...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has said that while tertiary financing needs urgent reform, the Government has to ensure that borrowers do not default on their debts to the Student's Loan Bureau (SLB). Mr. Holness was addressing the House of Representatives on (October 26) on the issue of the guarantor system for SLB loans, which Member of Parliament of...

Education Minister, Hon. Andrew Holness, is assuring parents that the new registration system, with the accompanying questionnaire, is not a ploy by the government to pry into the lives of citizens, but a genuine strategy to improve data collection and student satisfaction in the education system. "I want to state categorically that the purpose of the Ministry of Education is...

Some US$20 million is to be injected into the Students Loan Bureau (SLB), through a loan from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). The House of Representatives on (October 26) passed a resolution for a Government guarantee for the loan, which will help provide affordable and adequate financing for students from poor households to complete tertiary level programmes in approved local...

Four students of Jamaican heritage, who are attending colleges and universities in the island and in the United States (US), are the recipients of the 2010 Professor Gordon Shirley Book Scholarship awarded by the Washington DC-based Jamaican Nationals Association (JNA). They are natural sciences student at Brown's Town Community College in St. Ann, Prystal Miller, who is the first Jamaica-based...

Physically and mentally challenged individuals may be seen as a burden to society. But this may not be entirely true as, if given adequate attention and proper guidance, they can gain a skill to enable them to become productive members of society. This is the thrust of the Best Care Foundation (formerly Best Care Lodge) which operates a school, catering...

Glenmuir High School Student, Renee Osbourne, has been named Most Outstanding Child Researcher by organisers of a two-day Caribbean Child Research Conference, held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston, from October 20-21. This year's conference was held under the theme: 'Five Years before 2015: The Millennium Development Goals and Child Rights in the Caribbean', and featured researchers presenting their...

Eleven students from St. James, who are enrolled in high schools and tertiary institutions, have been awarded scholarships totaling $350,000 by the Rotary Club of Montego Bay East. The scholarships were presented to them during the Rotary Club's Bikeathon/Jamaica Challenge 2010 Scholarship Presentation Ceremony, at the Sunset Beach Resort, Spa and Water Park in Montego Bay Thursday (October 21). In...

State-run oil refinery, Petrojam, has donated just under $1 million worth of books to the St. Andrew Primary and the Greenwich All-Age schools in Kingston. The books were presented to the Principals of both institutions on Wednesday (October 20). They formed part of Petrojam's community outreach programme, administered by a special committee of employees. Petrojam's General Manager, Winston Watson, said...

Senior Advisor to Jamaica's Ministry of Education, Dr. Rebecca Tortello, says it is "vital" that decision makers involve children in discussions on their rights. Dr. Tortello was representing Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, at the Caribbean Child Research Conference at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston, Wednesday (October 20). She said the conference was one of the most "visible...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has said that discussions are far advanced for the rationalization of classroom space, to make the teaching-learning situation more efficient in delivering quality education. The Minister said his Ministry is seriously looking at rationalizing space, as while there are over-populated schools, others are operating well below capacity. "In those schools that are below capacity,...