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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,...

Director, National Transformation Programme (NTP), Reverend Al Miller, has charged participants in the Students for Transformation (SFT) programme to be strong, solid youths, as they are the agents of change. Making his appeal at the recent Student Leaders Workshop at Jamaica House, Rev. Miller said that, "the greatest tool for transformation is education." Rev. Miller challenged the participants to consider...

Eleven children of the staff of the Office of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Office were personally congratulated by Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, who encouraged them to make good use of the secondary school places they got by passing the GSAT examinations. "Time will go by faster than you think. I appeal to you to work hard,...

About 85 per cent of early childhood institutions have submitted applications for registration. This has been disclosed by Regional and Community Intervention Co-ordinator at the Early Childhood Commission (ECC), Mr. Richard Williams. "To date we have improved the number of persons who have applied to 2,900. Close to 85 per cent of the institutions would have applied for registration and...

Jamaican sprint queens Shelly-Ann Fraser and Kerron Stewart were special guests at today's launch of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission's public education campaign, at the high-profiled "Champions in Sport for Good" press celebration at the Hotel Ellington in Berlin, Germany. Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange gave a premiere of the music video which spearheads the campaign, entitled...

Donations of school supplies were distributed to basic schools in St. Catherine, by the Social Development Commission (SDC), today (August 20), at the Parish Office in Spanish Town. Representatives from various basic schools throughout the parish converged at the office to collect their supplies, after being verified by the SDC Parish Manager, Edith L. Morrison. Between today and tomorrow (August...

Education Minister, Honourable Andrew Holness, has assured teachers that they will be paid what is owed to them, beginning in April 2010. "There are some constraints that Government is required to balance. We ran into a credibility problem with our teachers and we do not want to damage our credibility with the teachers any further. We made an agreement with...

The back-to-school financial stress has been reduced for one university student and 30 others entering high school, after they were awarded a scholarship and bursaries by the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) and Partners Co-operative Credit Union Limited. The presentations were made Wednesday (August 19) at an awards function at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston. The 2009 recipient of the...