Jamaica will join the rest of the world in celebrating International Literacy Day on Thursday, September 8, under the theme ‘Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces’. Schools across Jamaica are being encouraged to be innovative in engaging students and other stakeholders in the celebrations and to use the day to look at ways to transform the literacy learning spaces. These celebratory activities...

The Ministry of Education and Youth is to spend $2 billion on textbooks this academic year, of which $1 billion is for primary schools and $1 billion for high schools. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, made the disclosure during the sitting of the House of Representatives on September 6. “I am particularly pleased of the greater investment in textbooks at...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, and Minister of Education and Youth, Hon, Fayval Williams, will host a Town Hall meeting focusing on Education. The meeting is scheduled to be held on Friday, September 9, at the Karl Hendrickson Auditorium, Jamaica College, starting at 5:00 p.m., under the theme: ‘Education Time for Action’. This Town Hall meeting is the...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (left), speaks with Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Maureen Dwyer (right), during the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) church service held at the Tarrant Baptist Church in Kingston recently. Looking on is Acting Chief Education Officer (Acting) in the Ministry, Dr. Kasan Troupe.

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, says schools across the country were off to a steady start on the first day of the new 2022/2023 academic year, which began on Monday, September 5. Addressing journalists in Springfield, Westmoreland, on the day that signalled the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic that all schools returned to in-class learning at...

Adelphi Primary School and Goodwill Primary and Infant School in rural St. James were among the institutions in the parish recording smooth starts to the 2022/23 academic year, which commenced on Monday (September 5). Both schools, which boast immaculate compounds, had their full cadre of students in attendance. Principal of Adelphi Primary School, Marlon Campbell, told JIS News that the...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, writes a note to students (from left) Jamarley Tyrell, Omarion Henry and Ojay Wolfe. She visited the Mountain View Primary and Infant Schools, in St. Andrew, to observe the return of students for the 2022/23 academic year, on Monday, September 5.

Students at the Franklin Town Primary School in Kingston began the 2022/23 academic year on September 5 in a newly painted school building. The facelift was done through the Embassy of the Dominican Republic’s ‘Dom Rep School Adoption Programme’. This project allows the Embassy to develop a year-long curriculum and teach the students the Spanish language and culture of the...

It was smooth sailing on opening day (September 5), at two St. Ann schools, where school administrators and students seemed thrilled at the prospect of an exciting year. “I was up from as early as 3:00 a.m… excited and nervous at the same time… thinking about opening day,” said Chalky Hill Primary and Infant School Acting Principal, Patricia Pottinger-Bailey. “I...