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Mathematics performance in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) is expected to be at 65 per cent by 2015, with the interventions being implemented by the numeracy specialists, as part of the Education Transformation Programme. National Mathematics Co-ordinator, Mrs. Tamika Benjamin, gave this projection today (March 3), during a JIS 'Think Tank'. March 3 is also being celebrated as World...

A public education campaign, which aims to stop cigarette smoking within the designated area of Emancipation Square, in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, will begin this week. The campaign will be spearheaded by the Smoke Free Action Coalition, in collaboration with the St. Catherine Parish Council. Emancipation Square was recently declared a smoke free zone by Mayor of Spanish Town, Dr....

Some 28 final year officer cadets from the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI) created history on Friday (February 26) when they became the first batch of students to graduate from a one-week course on 'Mastering Yacht Life'. The programme, which is jointly offered by the Heart Trust/NTA, the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ), CMI and the Luxury Yacht Group, seeks to...

Members of Jamalco's management team, led by Managing Director Jerome Maxwell and Refinery Manager, Silvio Porto recently participated in a mentorship training workshop at the company's Halse Hall Clarendon refinery, where they have now become certified mentors. The course was designed to equip them with the necessary skills to guide and counsel teenagers who are participating in the Jamalco Mentorship...

Teachers and students of the Tiny Tots Basic School in Lacovia now have improved surroundings to enhance the teaching and learning process. The St. Elizabeth-based school was recently expanded by the Culture Health Arts Science and Education (CHASE) Fund and the Digicel Foundation at a cost of more than $15 million. The institution, which for many years operated from the...

Jamaica's newly appointed High Commissioner to Canada, Her Excellency Sheila Sealy Monteith and Consul General to Toronto, Mr. George Ramocan, will head a list of luminaries who will attend the University of the West Indies (UWI) fund-raising benefit gala, tomorrow (February 27), in Toronto, Canada. This is the first time that the annual event will be held in Canada and...

Over the last nine years, primary schools across the island have benefited from the intervention of the Primary Education Support Project (PESP), which seeks to improve the performance, efficiency and equity of the primary education system. An extensive project, which came to an end last year, PESP has had an impact on every primary school, through the many initiatives that...

A loan agreement for US$45 million (J$4 billion) was signed between the Government of Jamaica and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) at the bank's headquarters, downtown Washington D.C., on Thursday (February 25). Minister of Finance and Public Service, Hon Audley Shaw, signed on behalf of the Jamaican Government, while IDB president, Luis Alberto Moreno, signed on behalf of the bank....

Some 706 primary and secondary schools across the island will observe Jamaica Day tomorrow (February 26) under the theme: 'Celebrating Jamaica, contributing my personal best'. Theatre Arts Officer in the Ministry of Education, Mr. Marlon Williams, told JIS News that the annual celebration is part of efforts by the Ministry to foster national pride in students. "We know about the...

The Government has been staging public education campaigns to heighten awareness of the dangers of human trafficking, Justice Minister and Attorney General, Senator the Hon. Dorothy Lightbourne Q.C., has disclosed. She was speaking at the opening of a two-day workshop on the theme: "Human Trafficking: A legal, medical/healthcare, economic and social dilemma", hosted by the Ministry of Health at the...

The Ministry of Education is embarking on a national campaign to heighten the awareness and importance of developing students' numeracy skills. As part of this campaign, teachers and parents are being encouraged to play a greater role in developing numeracy habits in their children from an early age. Speaking at the launch of the Butterkist National Primary Schools' Mathematics Competition,...

A total of 48,200 students from 1,004 schools have so far been registered to sit this year's Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) on March 25 and March 26 for placement in high school. Acting Chief Education Officer with responsibility for the Student Assessment Unit in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Sephlin Myers-Thomas, made the disclosure today during an interview with...