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...

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,...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...