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A two-week regional training workshop on basic electronic navigational charting (ENC) and electronic navigational chart production is now underway at the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI), Palisadoes Park. Hosted by the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ), Jamaica's focal point to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the workshop aims to strengthen the region's hydrographic capabilities, by providing an understanding of electronic navigational...

Over 800 students of the four-year-old Foga Road High School, Denbigh, Clarendon began the new school year on a positive note Monday (September. 6), with the official opening of four new classrooms and a computer laboratory. The new classrooms were constructed with assistance from the Clarendon-based Epic Hardware, as well as 17 Bravo Volunteers from bauxite/alumina company, Jamalco, to house...

Education Minister, Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Ministry is putting the necessary resources in place, to embark on a national literacy campaign, in order to emphasise the importance of education among Jamaicans. "We have been struggling to establish a national literacy campaign. It takes some amount of resources.to do the social marketing, to make the country understand the importance of...

International Literacy Day will be celebrated Wednesday (September 8) in schools islandwide, as part of efforts by the Ministry of Education (MoE) to keep the focus on the importance of literacy. National Literacy Coordinator at the MoE, Laurel Brent Harris, made the disclosure during an interview with JIS News, Tuesday (September 7). She explained that since 1965, the United Nations...

Director in the Education Ministry's Region Three, Maxine Headlam, says the re-opening of schools got off to a smooth start, with principals and teachers ready to carry out their duties. "The school year in Region Three has started off exceptionally well. We have not observed any glitches in terms of re-opening and I really commend principals and teachers and the...

Acting Chief Executive Officer of the National Education Trust (NET), Paul Matalon, says between 90 and 100 new schools are needed with at least 120,000 spaces, to alleviate the space deficit in the education system at the secondary level. At the primary level, there is a deficit of 68,100 spaces, with a requirement of 53 schools to meet the demand....

The Ministry of Education has earmarked some $37 million for the provision of furniture to schools during the new academic year. This was noted by Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Audrey Sewell, during a back-to-school press briefing, held at the Ministry in Kingston, last week. So far, some 200 schools have been placed on the priority list for school furniture....

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has implored all partners in the education sector to strive towards achieving excellence in the thinking, parenting, teaching and learning disciplines. He emphasised the importance of the value of education, and the necessity of making sacrifices to achieve it. The Minister was speaking at the official launch of the 2010/2011 school year, at the...

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...