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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...

This year as Earthquake Awareness Week is observed, and activities spearheaded by the ODPEM, the nation has been reminded that necessary precautions must be taken on a continuous basis as quakes have no season and can strike at any time. It is with this in mind that the Bethabara Primary and Junior High, in Manchester, for many years has made...

A special programme has been developed by the HEART Trust/National Training Agency (NTA), to retrain workers who are laid off, in an effort to guide them towards alternative job opportunities or to start their own businesses. Addressing the nation on December 14, Prime Minister Bruce Golding urged employers who may be "forced to lay off workers as well as the...

Senior Education Officer in the Core Curriculum Unit, of the Ministry of Education, Herma Meade, has announced that the second annual general meeting for teachers of modern languages will be staged on Friday September 26, in an attempt to better improve students' performance in these subjects. She made the announcement during an interview with JIS News yesterday (Sept. 24). "The...

Acting Assistant Chief Education Officer, Sharon Neil, has described the Centres of Excellence, which have been established in two rural high schools as timely and in keeping with the Education Ministry's thrust, to involve the private sector in education delivery. Speaking recently at the Mile Gully High School in Manchester, she commended the Mutual Building Societies Foundation, for conceptualising and...

Education and training are regarded as key components of Vision 2030, a 23-year development plan, which seeks to position the country as a place of choice to live, work, do business, and raise families. To this end, the Human Employment and Resource Training (HEART) Trust/National Training Agency (NTA), has embarked on the development of a (five-year) strategic plan, aimed at...

In an effort to enhance the standard of education in secondary schools, the Ministries of Energy, Mining and Telecommunications, and Education have jointly embarked on an e-Learning Project. The project seeks to utilize current state-of-the-art technology in Jamaican high schools to improve the quality of education delivered to students, enhancing their learning experience in the process, thereby improving the level...

Over the next five years, Jamaica's education system should begin to see the benefits from a recently launched public/private sector partnership, known as 'Centres of Excellence'. "The education problems that the country faces, do not lie solely at the feet of the Ministry of Education. A collaborative approach can only redound to the benefit of the country," Education Minister Andrew...

As at November 30, the Ministry of Education began the compulsory registration of early childhood institutions, in a bid to improve the quality of service delivered to youngsters at that level. Education Minister, Andrew Holness, speaking at a recent media briefing at his National Heroes Circle office, said that the exercise is aimed at ensuring that the standard of the...