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As the Ministry of Education targets 100 per cent literacy, a number of interventions will be made at the primary level, including a screening programme for children entering Grade 1, to ensure early detection and treatment for those with special needs. "Full literacy rate, that's our target, 100 per cent, (so) the 10 per cent of persons, who require special...

A resource centre, valued at some $3 million, and equipped with modern teaching and learning aides, has been established at the Duckenfield Primary School in St. Thomas. The centre, financed by Digicel Foundation, was officially handed over to the school located at Hampton Court on January 23. The project involved the conversion and extension of a classroom into a state-of-...

Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, has said that tertiary students, who have benefitted from the Government's investment in their education, have a social responsibility to give back to the country. "I'm saying to you, the brightest of the brightest, that we have to put our minds and our hearts into building a new social contract...so if you didn't have this...

Resource rooms, equipped with technology to enhance the literacy and numeracy skills of students, will be established in some 12 primary schools across the island. Digicel Foundation is undertaking the project in collaboration with the Education Transformation Team of the Ministry of Education, and already, at least one resource room has been established at the Duckenfield Primary School in Hampton...

Education Minister, Andrew Holness, is urging tertiary students to maximise opportunities as the Government's investment in tertiary education is a trade off, which has a ripple effect on the entire education system. "I am trying to bring to you the challenges we are facing and the trade offs we make and how critical those trade offs are, so you have...

The Diaspora organisation Read Across Jamaica Foundation, has extended its literacy programme to the Auchtembedie All-age in Manchester, on Monday (Jan. 19) donating reading material and a computer to the institution. The Foundation, which was founded in 2004 by a group of Jamaicans residing in Maryland in the United States, is aimed at strengthening reading among primary and all-age school...

The Ministry of Education's (MOE) Competence-based Transition Policy, which will ensure that every child progressing to secondary school is literate, will come into effect in June this year. Senior Director of Human Resource and Modernisation in the Ministry, Ruth Morris, explained to JIS News that under the policy, no child, who is illiterate, will be allowed to sit the Grade...

The country's health sector has been boosted with the recent graduation of 44 general nursing and basic midwifery students from the Cornwall School of Nursing. Addressing the graduating ceremony held recently at King's Seventh Day Adventist Church in Mt. Salem, St. James, Rev. Everton Jackson, Pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Montego Bay, urged the graduates to use their...

The Ministry of Education is drafting a policy which seeks to regulate the movement of students from the primary level of the school system to the secondary level. The 'Competence-based Transition Policy' will be implemented to ensure that all children progressing to the Secondary Level are certified literate. Under the new policy, pupils must achieve mastery on the Grade Four...

Fifteen-year old John-Henry Noel Marley, Jamaican born and resident of Tampa, Florida, will join the millions expected to attend the inauguration ceremony of the 44th President of the United States of America (USA), Barack Obama, to be held next Tuesday (Jan. 20) in Washington, D.C. A high-achieving student of the King High School International Baccalaureate Programme (IBP) in Tampa, John-Henry...

Preparing for, and facing disasters is customary for the people of Portland as in recent years, several natural disasters including hurricanes, landslides, and flooding, have affected many communities in the parish. Hence, most Portlanders have become highly sensitised about the damage these events leave in their wake, and the need to be fully prepared for their occurrence in order to...

Education Minister Andrew Holness today (January 14, 2009) met with the leadership of the Heritage International Scholarship Foundation, a Canadian-based non-profit organisation, to discuss funding options for higher education in Jamaica. According to the President of the organisation, Mr Jason Macquire, the organisation has been providing educational funding to Jamaican families since 1992 through its Education Savings Plan (ESP). This...