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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...

The community of Slipe in St. Elizabeth now boasts three modern basic schools, which were built by the Culture, Health, Arts, Science and Education (CHASE) Fund at a cost of $31 million. The institutions, which were officially opened and dedicated on Friday (February 19), are Cataboo and Slipe Basic Schools and the Slipe (SDA) Early Childhood Institution. The new concrete...

Alpha Boys Home, in Kingston, which has produced some of Jamaica's outstanding musicians, will benefit from funds raised at the first staging of the 'I Love Reggae Foundation' musical event, held at Zanzibar on the water front, in Washington, on February 19. Dubbed 'Reggae Jazz on the Waterfront', the event featured the Image Band from Washington, D.C., Saxophonist, Water Tates...

The Seymour Panton Mentorship Centre, located on the grounds of the Rusea's High School in Lucea, Hanover, was officially opened on Saturday (February 20). The centre, a project of the Rusea's Old Students Association (ROSA), was built at a cost of some $4 million, and named in honour of the President of the Court Of Appeal, who is a past...

The team from the Public Sector Transformation Unit (PSTU), mandated to develop a plan for restructuring the public sector, is reporting that it now has a rough first draft of that plan ready for review. The Unit was established in the Office of the Cabinet on November 16, 2009, to drive the transformation of the public sector over an 18-month...

Primary schools across the island are being invited to submit entries for the 18th staging of the Butterkist National Primary Schools Mathematics Competition. The contest, which is geared at promoting excellence in mathematics at the primary level, will be staged on Wednesday, April 28 at centres across the island. It is sponsored by the Seprod Group of Companies. At the...

Schools in Jamalco's mining communities in Manchester and Clarendon are to receive some 30,000 textbooks under the company's annual book distribution programme. The texts, which are to be distributed, were donated by a number of United States publishers and shipped to the island by Alcoa Foundation. At the launch of the 2010 programme held recently at the Halse Hall Great...

A kitchen and dining facility was officially opened today (February 18), at the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation, Kingston Centre. The structure will also be used as a classroom for the teaching of culinary arts, as well as for the hosting of functions. Most of the funding for the facility was provided by members and supporters of Washington-based organisation -...

The Green Park Primary and Junior High School in Clarendon has staged its second students' behavioural change camp, to encourage male students to focus on academics and personal conduct. The three-day camp, with the theme "Your Future, Your Moment, Make it Happen," was staged recently at the Kendal Camp and Conference Centre, in Manchester, and saw the boys being given...

Opposition Senator, Basil Waite has called on the Government to conduct a salary re-classification for early childhood teachers. He said that teachers in the early childhood system are severely underpaid and are not incentivised to remain in that sub-sector. "Early childhood teachers' salaries range from a low of $14,800 (per month) if they are paid to a high of $25,645.32...

Final year seafaring students and graduates of the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI), with certificates of competency from the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ), will have the opportunity to expand their skills through the introduction of a new course, 'Mastering Yacht Life'. The course, offered through the collaboration of the CMI, the Maritime Authority of Jamaica, HEART Trust/NTA's Enterprise Based Training...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, is suggesting that government consider sharing credit information with financial institutions abroad as it seeks to recover money borrowed by students to complete their tertiary education. He was contributing to the debate on the Credit Reporting Bill in the House of Representatives yesterday (February 9), which, among other things, provides for the sharing of...