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The University of the West Indies (UWI) is preparing to allow 200 Haitian university students whose schooling have been affected by the January 12 earthquake, to complete their degrees at its three campuses. This is a part of CARICOM's efforts to provide aid to the French-speaking nation following the quake. The initiative was announced by Vice Chancellor of The UWI,...

Prime Minister, Hon. Bruce Golding, has applauded teachers of schools in West Kingston for their continued commitment and service to the nation's children, particularly during "this critical game-changing period of the country's history". The Prime Minister, who visited schools in the area yesterday (June 17), said he recognized that the events of the last couple of weeks had impacted the...

Preparations are in high gear for the administration of the Grade Four Literacy and Numeracy Tests on June 29 in primary schools, islandwide. Acting Assistant Chief Education Officer in charge of Student Assessment, Dr. Sephlin Myers-Thomas, explained that there should be no delays with the exam. "We are at this stage readying ourselves for the administration in terms of preparing...

The University of Technology's (UTech) Faculty of Business Management on Tuesday (June 15) launched its School of Entrepreneurship, at a ceremony on the institution's campus in Kingston. Housed within the faculty's Technology Innovation Centre, the school is the first of its kind in the English-speaking Caribbean and will offer a course of study designed to prepare entrepreneurs to start and...

Beginning in the new academic year, three students from the island's bauxite parishes who wish to study in the field of science, technology or sport, at the under graduate level, will benefit from scholarships tenable at any local university, annually. This is being made possible through a scholarship Foundation, which has been launched by global mining company, Glencore International, in...

Professor of History at Mandeville-based Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Dr. Iverlin Kennedy-McKenzie, has said that men who care and give active support to their children, were keeping the society stable and maintaining a culture that needs to be protected. She was giving the keynote address at a function to mark the first anniversary of Young Women of Purpose (Y-WoP) held...

Jamaican-born and United States-based literacy specialist, Dr. Paula Webster, says while teachers are doing what they can to educate the nation's children, it is pivotal that parents play their part in reinforcing what the teachers impart to the children. "The parents have to play their part, teachers can only do so much. My parents made sure that I did my...

A new Basic School was handed over to the Gibraltar community, in St. Ann, by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), on June 10. The Fund also handed over a new sanitation block to the Gibraltar All Age School the same day. The projects were funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), under the Basic Needs Trust Fund, and...

Seventeen-year-old Immaculate Conception High School sixth form student, Charissa Stewart, is scheduled to leave the island on June 18 for Mexico, where she will participate in the six-week Ruta Quetzal adventure tour in that country and Spain. Charissa, who will be Jamaica's lone representative, will join over 300 other teenage participants from some 40 countries for the event, organised by...

The Project for the Advancement of Childhood Education (PACE) Canada has been lauded for adopting 281 basic schools in Jamaica, which represent more than 10 per cent of the country's 2,125 basic schools. "PACE Canada must be congratulated for this," said Dr. Lola Ramocan, an Early Childhood Development (ECD) Specialist. "You have been a mighty organisation of ECD educators, child...

Principal of GC Foster College of Physical Education and Sports, Edward Shakes, says the school will embark on a $23 million project this summer, to modernise and restore some of its facilities, which have fallen into disrepair. According to Mr. Shakes, the project will involve the refurbishing of the institution's dormitory, which currently houses some 300 students. "We have just...

The Portland Chapter of the Quality Education Circle (QEC), involving some 49 educational institutions in the parish, was launched yesterday (June 10), at the Port Antonio High School. This is the final launch of the QECs by the Ministry of Education's Region Two office. Some 66 QECs islandwide have been defined by the Ministry of Education. Circle Chapters were launched...