The 160-year-old Bethlehem Moravian College (BMC), in St. Elizabeth, has opened a state-of-the-art centre for the teaching of early-childhood education. The Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund as part of its mandate to support the nation’s education sector provided the $40.3-million for the construction of the Bethlehem Moravian College Early Childhood Centre of Excellence. This facility boasts three...

Young people from communities across Westmoreland have benefited from training to better prepare them to take up roles as future community leaders under the Social Development Commission’s (SDC) inaugural Young Educated Leaders, Lead (YELL) programme. The initiative, which began in October, concluded on November 20 with a debate competition and closing ceremony at The Source in Savanna-la-Mar, under the theme ‘Youth…The...

The administration at Ferris Primary School in Westmoreland, is implementing strategic literacy and numeracy programmes to address learning loss stemming from the closure of schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The institution is one of 376 schools across the island that reopened for face-to-face classes on November 8, following approval by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information. Speaking in...

Several Rio Tinto Alcan Scholarship beneficiaries have expressed gratitude for the opportunity they have been afforded through the provision, to pursue training and career development in agriculture. The scholarship, which was initiated by Rio Tinto Alcan Incorporated in 2010, provides funding support for needy youth in St. Catherine, Manchester, and St. Ann who are members of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs...

Medical doctor, Melissa Lalah, has a lot to be grateful for, including the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund Scholarship she received to complete her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree. “I received the scholarship the week before my final exams in my last semester of medical school. I had sent out many applications to...

Principal of the Somerton Primary and Infant School in St. James, Glendon Brydson, says that the return to face-to-face classes at the school has gone well so far. Mr. Brydson told JIS News that the school, which pushed back its reopening from Monday (November 8) to Tuesday (November 9) due to inclement weather, welcomed more than 80 per cent of...

Students can access higher education through multiple opportunities provided under the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information’s Sixth Form Pathway Programme. The new programme will be facilitated in all public secondary schools, along with 24 private and 10 public tertiary institutions. “Jamaica has an obligation to provide education up to age 18, we have just never done it in a...

The Culture, Health,, Arts Science and Education (CHASE) Fund has provided $36.5 million in scholarships to tertiary-level students pursuing undergraduate degrees in early-childhood education for the 2021/22 academic year. Scholarship recipients are attending teacher-training institutions across the island. The investment is in keeping with CHASE’s ongoing support for the development of the early-childhood education sector. In 2013, CHASE adjusted its...

Karena Gayle, Montego Bay High School for Girls graduate, has always been an academic standout, coming first in all her classes, and this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations were no different. Even in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic and the frustrations of online schooling, the student copped nine subjects in CSEC, all with grade ones. In an...