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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...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has reiterated that improved literacy at the primary level will result in students being better able to master the secondary curricula, and result in significant long-term benefits for the country. In a speech delivered on his behalf by Acting Director in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Joan Reid, at the Manchester Principals Association Annual...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Jean Dixon, has suggested that the University of the West Indies (UWI) develop a research programme to examine the resistance of certain pests to various pesticides. She made the suggestion at an award function hosted by the Pesticides Control Authority (PCA) at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston, yesterday (December 4). Dr....

About 72 students from five schools in the Kingston 11 section of the Corporate Area, accompanied by their teachers, were treated to a day of fun and excitement in western Jamaica, Friday (December 4), courtesy of the National Child Month Committee. The students, who were drawn from the Marie Atkins Basic, Penwood Basic, Holiness Basic, St Patrick's Primary and the...

The Toronto chapter of the Kingston College Old Boys Association (KCOBA) recently shipped C$20,000 worth of brand new tools to the school for the Industrial Arts programme, thanks to the generosity of the Carpenters Union of Ontario Canada. At the recently held 36th Annual Reunion and Awards Banquet of KCOBA in Toronto, President Lance Seymour publicly expressed gratitude to the...

Business consultant, Aubyn Hill, has challenged the 2009 graduating class of Munro College to continue to work hard and uphold the school's high moral principles and lofty standards of excellence. Mr. Hill, who is a past student of Munro College, told the graduates of the all-boys institution, that these qualities will serve them well in their professional and personal lives....