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By September 2011, the National College of Educational Leadership (NCEL) will be up and running, as part of efforts to build a cadre of effective leaders and improve the quality of principals. "We think that by September 2011 we should be ready. We are going to use September 2010 to August 2011 for preparations, get the courses off the ground,...

The search has commenced to identify and award excellent educators, islandwide, as part of the Jamaica Teaching Council's (JTC) efforts to reward excellence. The awards will be part of activities to celebrate International Teachers' Day on October 5, this year. However, the church services, at which the excellent teachers will be awarded, will be held on October 3. "And we...

Lutchshane Blackwood, a 16-year-old student of St. Elizabeth Technical High School, has emerged winner of the Broadcasting Commission's inaugural 30-second video competition. Copping the grand prize of $50, 000, Lutchshane told JIS News that he was surprised and overjoyed to have won the competition. Lutchshane Blackwood, 16-year-old Fifth form student of St. Elizabeth Technical High School. "It feels great to...

A total of 36 children, some with severe mental and physical disabilities, were presented with certificates on July 21 for successfully completing the early intervention curriculum of the Early Stimulation Programme (ESP). Of the number, 31 are to be placed in special education classes at the primary level, and another five will join the regular school system. Speaking at the...

A Bill to officially establish the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) is expected to be tabled in the House in August, by Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness. This was disclosed today (July 21), by Director of the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC), Dr. Winsome Gordon, at a JIS 'Think Tank'. Dr. Gordon pointed out that the draft Bill is being prepared....

A Green Paper on the public sector rationalisation plan, which contains the recommendations for the restructuring of ministries, departments and agencies, was tabled in the House of Representatives on July 20. Prime Minister Bruce Golding, who tabled the document as Ministry Number 64, explained that the plan was tabled as a Green Paper to facilitate public discussion and consideration by...

Members of the Clarendon College alumni association, in Toronto, recently held their eighth fundraising event to raise funds for the school and its scholarship programme, the C. L. Stewart Scholarship Foundation. Past student of Clarendon College, Letna Allen-Rowe (right) and her husband, Arnold Rowe, at the recent fund-raising event put on by the Clarendon College Past Students Association, in Toronto,...

Thirty-two students from the Western Hospitality Institute (WHI), in Montego Bay, St. James, are in Canada for approximately one month, to conclude their three-year Bachelor of Science degree programme in Hospitality and Tourism Management. The students recently paid a courtesy call on Jamaica's Consul General to Toronto, George Ramocan and the Regional Manager for the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) in...

Some 65 tertiary level students from Jamalco's operating areas in Manchester and Clarendon are gaining valuable job experience, while earning a stipend for back-to-school expenses under the company's annual summer employment programme. The initiative targets children of Jamalco employees, as well as students from communities in its operating areas. Jamalco's Human Resources Manager, Christopher Buckmaster, said that the programme, which...

The summer holiday will be extra special for some 800 students who will be taking part in the 2010 'Spruce Up Jamaica' Summer Employment Programme, an initiative being undertaken by the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo). For the next six weeks, these students from high schools and tertiary institutions across Jamaica will receive hands on experience in the tourism world...

Students of the Newcombe Valley Primary School in St. Elizabeth have been told to guard their education like a prized possession. Delivering the keynote address at the institution's annual school leaving exercise held recently, Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Information Officer, Mandeville Regional Office, Garfield Angus, encouraged the students to protect the knowledge that their teachers have instilled in them. He...

A contract valued at more than $22 million has been signed for the expansion of the Retreat Primary and Junior High School, in St. Mary. It was signed yesterday (July 14), between the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and Alfrasure Structures and Roofing Limited, at the school. The project will be funded with a grant obtained under the European Union...