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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...

For single parent Lisanne Edwards, being involved in all aspects of her son's school life is very demanding, but it is a task she willingly undertakes as she believes this level of engagement is vital to his development. "As a professional, I would like to be more involved, however, I make it a point of duty to ensure that I...

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...