Students and staff of the Lethe Primary and Infant School in St. James will have access to improved sanitation facilities under a project being undertaken by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). The entity, under the Integrated Community Development Project – Phase 2 (ICDP II), is providing $12.3 million to rehabilitate the institution’s sanitation block, including upgrading of toilets and...

Students of the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts have an opportunity to receive tuition assistance through a Scholarship programme spearheaded by the Cecil Cooper Foundation. The programme was launched on June 17 concurrently with the inaugural Cecil Cooper Scholarship Exhibition, which is slated to run until July 16. The exhibition features never-before-seen works by the late...

The Bustamante Hospital for Children, with support from the private sector, has awarded several children for participating in a poster design competition for primary schools, to heighten child safety awareness. Staged as part of its Child Month activities in May, the competition was geared at sensitising parents and caregivers about critical interventions that should be implemented to safeguard children three...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, is urging students to take full advantage of the National Summer School Programme, which commences on Monday, July 4. The Minister, who was speaking at the Hope Valley Experimental School graduation ceremony held at the University Chapel in St. Andrew on June 29, noted that the programme is designed to recover from...

The Ministry of Education and Youth’s National Summer School will get under way on July 4. The four-week programme, which ends on July 28, is free of cost to students. National Literacy Coordinator, Dr. Andre Hill, said the summer school is one of several initiatives being used by the Ministry to address gaps in learning caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19)...

The governance of public educational institutions is expected to be vastly improved with the launch of the online School Board Platform. The portal, which can be found on the National Council on Education’s (NCE) website at https://www.nce.org.jm/, was officially launched by Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, during the final sitting of the current NCE, at the Jamaica...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (second right), peruses a magazine during a tour of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Arthur Wint Drive, St. Andrew, on June 28. Looking on (from left) are Dean of the School of Visual Arts, Miriam Hinds Smith; student, Tiffany McFarlane; and Chairman (Acting) of the institution, Donahue...

Clients of the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) will be able to make their loan payments online before the end of this year. Deputy Executive Director, Charmaine Rose Anderson, said online payments will be facilitated via the Strategic Transformation of End-users Experience Portal (STEEP), also known as the customer portal. “Students will be able to make payments directly from the portal...

Fifty-one primary and infant schools are to benefit from a donation of 100 water tanks, valued over $9 million. The 1,000-gallon black tanks, along with fittings, were provided by the United States (US) Southern Humanitarian Command Program (USSHCP), through the National Education Trust (NET). The USSHCP’s donation is in support of the Ministry of Education and Youth’s efforts to ensure...