The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information (MOESYI) is reminding that it does not facilitate routine student transfers between schools, except in exceptional or adverse circumstances. In a bulletin issued by the MOESYI, parents and guardians seeking to transfer children already placed in schools through the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) placement process are reminded of their responsibilities in the...

Students have until July 11 to apply for the Universal Service Fund (USF) Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Scholarship for the 2025/26 academic year. With the application period officially opened today, June 23, five students from underserved communities across the island will receive financial support to pursue academic studies in ICT locally. The initiative targets individuals who are former beneficiaries...

Jamaica is on course to meet the National Minimum Proficiency Target of 85 per cent in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) by 2030. Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon, made the disclosure during Friday’s (June 20) PEP Press Conference at the Ministry’s Heroes’ Circle offices in Kingston. In the 2025 sitting of...

Aspiring tertiary students are being encouraged to see Community Colleges as an opportunity and not just a viable option. Executive Director of the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ), Donna Powell Wilson, said this is due to myriad teaching and learning opportunities that can be accessed through community colleges in Jamaica. “Our institutions are strategically positioned across the island,...

Sandy Bay Primary School in Hanover has emerged victorious as the rural champion in the Trees for Peace 2024-2025 competition. The school accepted its trophy for an outstanding peace garden that integrated lessons in peace with environmental stewardship, during an awards ceremony, held on the school grounds, on Thursday, June 12. The competition was a collaboration between the Ministry of...

The Exam and Assessment Administration Services Branch of the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information (MOESYI) is inviting qualified teachers to serve as Markers for the electronic evaluation of the 2025 Grade Five Primary Exit Profile (PEP) assessment. Applicants must be trained teachers with a minimum of three years’ work experience and currently teaching at the primary-school level (grades...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, is encouraging Jamaicans to resurrect the proverbial village to ensure the safety and security of Jamaica's most vulnerable citizens, its children. The Minister was speaking at the thanksgiving service for the life of nine-year-old Kelsey Ferrigon at the Spanish Town Seventh-day Adventist Church in St. Catherine on Monday (June 9)....