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With World Teachers Day being celebrated today (October 5), Minister of Education, Honourable Andrew Holness, has pointed out that teachers are to benefit from the Jamaica Educational Leadership Academy (JELA), as part of efforts to transform the education system. In his message for the day, Minister Holness explained that JELA would complement the up and running Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC)....

A computer laboratory and resource centre, constructed at a cost of more than $12 million, was opened on Thursday (Oct.1) at the Black River Primary and Infant School in St. Elizabeth. The facility, which boosts computer equipment and software to assist learning, is named for educators and husband and wife Albert and Carmen Reynolds, who served as principal of the...

National netballer Elaine Davis is encouraging students to embrace and appreciate their unique qualities, noting that everyone has something special to offer. "Everyone is unique. There is only one like you. Even identical twins have differences and you should believe that in your uniqueness, you have something special to offer," she stated. She was speaking to students of her Clarendon-based...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding's Town Hall meetings will take a new twist on Tuesday, October 6, when there will be a special session for the Mona community of the University of the West Indies (UWI). The meeting is expected to reach a wide cross section of Jamaicans, including those with academic and business interests as well as bright,...

The Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund, will be contributing $1 million to the Glenmuir High School Library and Resource Centre, in Clarendon. This was stated by the Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Billy Heaven, at the school, on September 30. "We have already committed the funds; it is a question of the drawdown as soon as the library...

Minister of Education (MOE), Hon Andrew Holness, has reassured parents that his Ministry will continue to assist students taking Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects this year, but that the process must become performance-based next year. "The discussions I have heard from various quarters, that students will be deprived, is not true. I want to assure Jamaica, that the students...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has stated that Jamaican law students at the University of the West Indies' (UWI), Cave Hill campus, Barbados, will continue to receive grants this year, but the Ministry will revert to original policy starting with the next set of applicants. The change to original policy will affect applicants with a first degree or who...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to provide for greater standardisation in the assessment and accreditation of engineering programmes, was signed today (Oct.1) between the University Council of Jamaica (UCJ) and the Professional Engineers Registration Board (PERB). Chairman of the Engineering Accreditation Committee at PERB, Garth Kiddoe, speaking at the signing ceremony held at the UCJ's office on Oxford Road in...

Teachers are being provided with additional educational tools at the Materials Expo, which is being hosted by the Core Curriculum Unit of the Ministry of Education, at the Caenwood Centre in Kingston. During the two-day event, which opened Tuesday (September 29), principals of primary and secondary schools received curriculum support material developed by the Unit for use in their schools....

Representatives of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) and the Government signed an agreement Tuesday (September 29) at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Kingston, for the payment of salary arrears amounting to $8 billion. The parties agreed that the payments will be made as follows: Year 1 (2010-2011) - $4 billion, payable in two equal installments in May and...

More than 200 teachers graduated from the Catholic College of Mandeville (CCM), in Manchester, on September 27. The graduates, who gained qualifications ranging from Diplomas to Bachelor's degrees in teacher education, were encouraged by President of the College, Dr. Una O'Connor, to continue to the next level of qualification. Addressing the graduates at the Kendal Conference Centre, in the parish,...

Corporate Jamaica is being asked to offer more scholarships to persons, who want to pursue careers in sport. This call came from the Director of Sports at the University of Technology (UTech), Anthony Davis, while speaking at a press conference and reception on Saturday (Sept. 26) in the VIP lounge at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston. The event...