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Come January 2010, the Ministry of Education will roll out a multi-million dollar Career Advancement Programme (CAP), which will ensure that students leaving secondary school are literate and numerate, and have some form of technical and vocational qualification for post-secondary placement. Phase one of the initiative, budgeted to cost $82 million will cater to 2,000 students age 16 to 18...

The 30 students of the Whymss Road Basic School near Dumfries in St. James, received an early Christmas treat on Tuesday (Dec.15), when representatives from the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) and the Kiwanis Club of Providence visited the school and presented them with gifts and refreshment. Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Information Service, Donna-Marie Rowe (left) presenting a student...

The Friends of Port Maria Association, New York (NY) chapter, has provided financial assistance to the Port Maria Primary School, in St. Mary, valued at approximately US$45,000 (J$4 million), over the last 13 years. This was disclosed by the President of the Friends of Port Maria, NY chapter, Ms. Lorna Fairweather, as she outlined the organisation's achievements at its 13th...

Fifty eight civil servants have completed training in Results-Based Management (RBM), following two one-week training workshops hosted by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), at its Oxford Road office, New Kingston. The workshops, hosted November 30 - December 11, were intended to strengthen the capacity of the public sector, and its partners, to implement, monitor and evaluate the Vision 2030...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness has said that the Ministry of Education will be doing more to tackle music that incites violence among school children. He told dancehall artistes, Vybz Kartel and Mavado at a peace management initiative meeting at Jamaica House in Kingston this week that: "I think we should move very swiftly to deal with music that incites...

The National Council on Education (NCE) has launched its revised procedures aimed at improving the quality, efficiency and accountability of school boards. Chairman of the NCE and principal of Jamaica College, Ruel Reid, made the announcement on Thursday (December 10) at a press conference at the Ministry of Education, Heroes Circle in Kingston. Mr. Reid noted that the new framework...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, is appealing to school administrators to allow students full access to computers that have been placed in schools. He urged them not to let their desire to preserve the equipment get in the way of students fully utilising them. Speaking at the handing over of the final batch of computers to 10 schools under...

Approximately 450 students of the Portland-based College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE), who have successfully completed their studies, were presented with degrees and diplomas at the College's annual graduation ceremony held recently. The degrees presented included Bachelor of Technology in Agriculture, Production and Food System Management; Bachelor of Technology in Environment Science; Bachelor of Science in Business Studies; Associate...

Cabinet recently approved a policy to utilise locally produced juice concentrate for the School Feeding Programme. Under the policy, Nutrition Products Limited will contract local producers Jamaica Exotic Flavours and Essences, Jamaica Citrus Growers Limited and Trade Winds Citrus Limited (Tru Juice), to supply juice concentrate for schools and other organisations under its programme. The policy is a direct response...

The island's guidance counsellors will meet in Montego Bay for three days this week to discuss school counselling and challenges facing the profession, as the Jamaica Association of Guidance Counsellors in Education (JAGCE) stages its 11th annual conference. The event, which is slated for the Holiday Inn Resort from December 9 to 11, is also expected to attract counsellors from...

Seventy participants in the National Youth Service (NYS) Teacher's Assistant Programme, graduated on December 4, in a ceremony held at the Ridgemount United Church Hall, in Mandeville, Manchester. Acting Executive Director of the NYS, Anthony Woodburn, said that the Teacher's Assistant Programme came about as a result of the need to provide help for teachers islandwide. "The Teacher's Assistant Programme...

Newly appointed Consul-General to Toronto, George Ramocan, has challenged Jamaicans in Canada, who attended high schools in inner-city areas of Jamaica, to form past students associations. Speaking to patrons attending the recent 21st Anniversary celebration of the Alliance of Jamaican Alumni Associations (AJAA), in Toronto, Canada, the Consul- General said graduates from these schools are sometimes shy about identifying that...