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Eleven students, who sat the 2010 Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), were yesterday (Sept. 14) honoured by the Ministry of National Security for their outstanding performance. The students, whose parents are employed to the Ministry, were presented with gift baskets and certificates during the inaugural award function held at the Ministry's Oxford Road headquarters. The awardees are: Shanelle Bryson, who...

The Students for Transformation (SFT), the youth outreach component of the National Transformation Programme (NTP), will be hosting a civic education programme on Wednesday, September 15, at the Riverton Early Childhood Centre, in Riverton Meadows, starting at 9:00 a.m. Students at the institution will take part in the colouring and reading of books containing lessons of good citizenship. Newly crowned...

The Ministry of Education will host a community consultation at Church Teachers' College, in Manchester, on September 14, to update the public on the proposed high school to be built on Villa Road, in Mandeville. Representatives from the Education Ministry's technical department will provide details of the specifications of the new school, and members of the public will get an...

Seven Jamaican students will be heading to Cuba this month to pursue degrees in the fields of health and education, having been awarded full scholarships under the Cuba/Jamaica Bilateral Programme. The recipients are: Tasque Brown, Naraine Anderson and Gabrielle Eubank Green, who will be pursuing medical degrees; while Vanessa Brown, Samora Robertson, Kenneth Dean and Kevon Lettman will be pursuing...

Can you imagine being a teenager, only 16, and having to prepare for the most important examinations of your life, knowing that your family and friends are experiencing a nightmare? That was the reality for Carlisle Brown, who did the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations in May, during the military/police operation in sections of Western Kingston. St. George's College...

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....