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Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry-Wilson, has said that the Ministry will tackle absenteeism this year by re-introducing compulsory education at the primary level. Addressing the nation in a back-to-school broadcast last night (Aug. 30), Mrs. Henry Wilson noted that absenteeism continues to be a challenge for the education system. "All the research shows that there are three (3)...

The Ministry of Education and Youth will be spending $1.7 billion on the Cost Sharing Programme for secondary school students during the upcoming school year. Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry Wilson, in a back to school broadcast to the nation on (August 30), explained that under the programme, parents are required to pay only 50 per cent of...

Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry Wilson, has said that the Government has spent almost $1 billion on the provision of textbooks for primary, secondary and technical high school students for the new school year. Mrs. Henry Wilson, who made this disclosure on (August 30), during a back to school broadcast to the nation, said that the orders for...

Some 500 students from early childhood institutions across St. James have been presented with text books by the newly established Palmyra Foundation, which is based in Rose Hall, St. James. The distribution of the text books was carried out at the St. James Infant School in Montego Bay, on (Aug. 30). Over 15,000 books are to be distributed during the...

The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) has donated a Panasonic DVD player to the Fair Prospect Primary School in Portland, to boost the institution's reading programme. Director of Corporate Affairs at the UDC, Doreen O'Connor, who made the presentation to the school principal Julie Bailey, recently, said that the gift was in keeping with the UDC's commitment to assist the education...

More than 700 students at the Priory Primary School and Infant Department in St. Ann are now better aware of Jamaica's heritage and culture as a result of a 'Jamaica Day' activity, which was recently held at the school. The event saw members of staff and students participating in traditional dances, ring games, story telling, folk songs and jonkonnu parade...

Computer training at the Cascade Primary and Junior High School in Portland has been boosted significantly, with the recent presentation of 11 lap top computers to the institution by a past student. The donation, which was made recently by Herbert Wallen, Regional Director for Product Marketing at the Boeing Aircraft Company in Washington D.C., in the United States, brings to...

Scores of students of the Grants Pen Primary and Infant School in Yallahs, St. Thomas watched on Wednesday (Feb. 22) as grade 6 students Celine Davis and Dwayne Ives got "married" in a ceremony held on the school grounds. It was an elaborate occasion, with the bride looking resplendent in a white gown with tiara and trail, while the groom...

The Child Development Agency (CDA) has embarked on a programme to upgrade the skills of persons working within public and private childcare institutions. The first phase of the programme commenced in December 2005 with the training of nurse aides attached to childcare institutions, and will end in December 2006. Funded by the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) at a cost...

An initiative to further strengthen the use of information and communication technology in the country's education sector has been launched by Prime Minister P.J. Patterson. The project is a private/public partnership between ICT4D Jamaica which is co-sponsored by the HEART Trust/NTA and the International Education Collaborative Foundation, a non-profit organization based in the United States. Known as the Jamaica Collaborative...

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Senator Kern Spencer, has recommended that closed-circuit television (CCTV) and metal detectors be installed in schools to assist in the recovery of weapons and the prevention of attacks on students and teachers on school grounds. Senator Spencer, who was speaking at the University of the West Indies Guild of Students' first annual...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is providing $4.9 million for the construction of a basic school in the Springfield community in southwest Clarendon. "The Jamaica Social Investment Fund signed a contract with the Gimme-me-Bit/ Rocky Point/Springfield Seventh Day Benevolent Society, on January 27 for the construction of the basic school," informed Ayanna Mitchell, Community Driven Development Coordinator at JSIF....