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About 346 students drawn from 11 inner city communities in Montego Bay were presented with back-to-school gift packages Monday (August 31) by the St. James Peace Management Initiative (PMI). The students who were enrolled at primary, all-age, junior high and high schools within the parish, each received a school bag with books and other school supplies for them to start...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has warmly welcomed the opening of the Hydel University. He congratulated its President, Senator Hyacinth Bennett, for her vision and hard work; and described the development as the result of a policy of liberalization in education. Speaking at the opening of the university at its premises at Ferry on August 30, Mr. Golding said, "Education is...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding believes that the strength of the faculty at the newly-launched Hydel University will ensure its success. Speaking at the opening of the institution at Ferry, St Catherine on August 30, he told the audience: "With the superb quality of the teaching staff that she has put together, I have every confidence that this university will offer...

Guidance counselling programmes in several high schools are to be significantly enhanced with the introduction of a Students' Motivational Manual, this month (September), at the start of the new school term. The manual, which seeks to advance the agenda of positive attitudes and values, has the key objectives to stimulate self-confidence and positive mental attitude; encourage better acceptance of self...

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...