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The Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture is this week hosting a five-day workshop with a delegation from Mexico to examine methodologies to advance the development of basic education in marginalized and rural communities in both countries. The workshop is being hosted under the Educational and Cultural Cooperation Programme 2002-2004 between both countries. Speaking at the opening ceremony today at...

There is nothing more heart-warming to Naomi Levy Cunningham than the touch of a tiny hand, or the childlike enthusiasm expressed in the recital of a poem or the quick answer to a question. Mrs. Cunningham says she is very proud of all 80 students under her watch at Apex Kinder-School in Waterhouse. Mrs. Cunningham started the school from scratch...

Parents are urged to plan in advance when selecting early childhood facilities, so they can be satisfied that they are placing the care of their children in safe and qualified hands. "They must recognise that early childhood education facilities are imperative, as they are the catalysts for early social integration. This stage is more about a total development, protection and...

Madge Linton, Assistant Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture's Early Childhood Unit, has called on parents and educators to work to instill good values and attitude in children at an early age. She said with the most important period of a child's development occurring between birth and five years, it was essential that their attitudinal...

Students pursuing higher education at the tertiary level, are now able to transfer credits from one tertiary institution to another, with the launching of the Tertiary Qualifications Framework by the University Council of Jamaica (UCJ). Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry-Wilson, who launched the document at the Jamaica Pegasus on April 29, noted that this approach would enhance...

The Government has selected the Islington Basic School in St. Mary as the National Project for Labor Day 2003 and has allocated $2 million for the renovation of the early childhood facility. The upgrading of the institution, which was founded in 1938, is also meant to pay homage to the country's first basic school, which was founded by Rev. Henry...

Unknown to many, early childhood education commences before a child enters a basic or infant school. In fact, it begins as early as daycare. Speaking to JIS News, Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, with special responsibility for youth, Dr. Donald Rhodd, stressed that daycare centres play a pivotal role in the developmental process of...

Two new facilities designed to improve agricultural production and training have been opened at the Ebony Park HEART Academy at Tollgate in Clarendon. The facilities are a state-of-the-art poultry house, which has established in conjunction with the Jamaica Broilers Group of Companies at a cost of $9 million, and an agro-processing laboratory, set up in collaboration with the Caribbean Regional...

Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at the University of Technology (UTech), Gossett Oliver, has said that the institution was positioning graduates to take advantage of trading arrangements such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Pointing to the opportunities being opened up at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and FTAA levels for the export of...

Little World Schoolhouse, a nonprofit educational organisation in Minnesota, United States (US), recently donated six laptop computers valued at $700,000, to six schools in St. Ann and Clarendon, that are a part of the River of Life Programme. The presentation was made at the Village Hotel in Ocho Rios recently. The schools, which benefited from the donation, were York Castle...

Maxine Henry-Wilson, Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, has urged CARICOM leaders to incorporate a strong focus on regional integration in Caribbean school curricula. Without this emphasis, she asserted, "a region whose history has been forged in mistrust, suspicion and division, will never integrate". Minister Henry-Wilson was making her contribution to the Distinguished Lecture Series, held to commemorate the 30th...

A new basic school constructed at a cost of some $4 million, has opened in the community of Higgins Land, St. Ann to accommodate over 100 students. The school was constructed through funding from the Social Economic and Support Programme (SESP), Lift Up Jamaica, Kaiser Jamaica Bauxite Company (KJBCo.) and the community. Speaking at the official opening ceremony yesterday (April...