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The Ministry of Education has moved to strengthen its thrust to achieve 100 per cent literacy by 2015, by increasing the number of Literacy and Numeracy Coaches available to schools. This year, the Ministry has a total of 80 Literacy Coaches, which is up from 50, and 70 Numeracy Coaches, up from 45. In addition, Education Minister, Honourable Andrew Holness,...

Members of the Parent Teachers' Association (PTA) of the Lewisville High School, in St. Elizabeth, have welcomed the $400,000 expansion work done at the institution by the Ministry of Education. President of the group, Pauline Foster, told JIS News that with more space at the school and additional facilities to enhance extra-curricular activities, students should perform at their optimum. "It...

The back-to-school problems for three students from Jericho, Eastern Hanover, have been eased with bursaries from a community organisation. A second year Bio-Chemistry student at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Sean Forbes; a second year nursing student at Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Olivia Blagrove; and a tenth grader at Rusea's High School in Lucea, Charlton Bucknor, have received...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has assured the country that the cut in the education budget will not affect the delivery of programmes and services in critical areas. He said that the budget for areas such as nutrition, school fees, grants, student assessment, the PATH programme, the purchase of books and the development of books and teacher refunds have...

"I felt like Usain Bolt," ward of the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre in St Catherine, Jerome Gordon, said Thursday (August 27), in expressing his feeling of accomplishment for being successful in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination. "He was in Berlin, Germany and I was in St Catherine, Jamaica [but] we felt the same in our individual achievements,"...

Principal of the Zion Hill Basic School in Above Rocks, St. Catherine, Miss Gerda Wright, will be going back to her school next week with a smile on her face. At a two-day fair, held recently at the Social Development Commission (SDC) office in Spanish Town, Miss Wright received school supplies and other much needed items, which would assist in...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has said that public schools have been allocated 50 per cent of their tuition support for the year, which is double the level of support they would normally have received by now. Mr. Holness told a press briefing, on the back-to-school situation, at his Ministry, Heroes Circle, Kingston, Thursday (August 27), that $1.1billion was...

The Government is to spend close to $930 million on approved text books at the primary and secondary levels for this academic year. "We are spending an amount of $370.2 million at the primary (level), and at the secondary level we are spending $559.60 million. This will give us a total of around $930 million roughly," Assistant Chief Education Officer...

Some 2,000 new school spaces will be available for the new academic year, which commences on September 7. Director, Technical Services in the Ministry of Education, Errol Golding, made the announcement at a JIS Think Tank, on August 26. "We have some new schools coming on stream in September. One is Belmont Academy in Westmoreland, which is a new high...

The Ministry of Education is behind schedule with the delivery and distribution of approved textbooks for the new academic year, but expects the exercise to be completed by the end of October. Assistant Chief Education Officer in the Media Services Unit at the Ministry of Education, Olive Maragh, made the disclosure during a JIS Think Tank, at the Agency's head...

The Ministry of Education is working in conjunction with the Jamaica Library Service (JLS), to establish a number of satellite centres on parenting in the parish libraries islandwide. This was announced by Senior Adviser/Consultant to the Minister of Education, Dr. Rebecca Tortello, in an interview with JIS News on August 24. "The Library Service is going to work with us...

Custos of St. Thomas, Hon. Marcia Bennett, has said that the success of Jamaicans in the areas of sports, culture, business, academics and community development must be shared with youths to inspire them to become "world class citizens." Mrs. Bennett was speaking at an appreciation dinner on Sunday (August 23), at the Whispering Bamboo Cove Resorts in Retreat, St. Thomas,...