With a net primary school enrollment rate of over 90 per cent, Jamaica has already achieved the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of universal primary education. United Nations Resident Coordinator, Dr....

Action to improve the reading skills of primary school students has been further bolstered with an allotment of $205 million in the 2014/15 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House...

Additional classrooms are to be constructed at four primary schools across the island this fiscal year, at a cost of $60 million. The money has been allotted in the 2014/15...

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, is encouraging students to read and make good use of libraries across the island, to help in advancing their education. “If you don’t have...

Another 150 school inspections are to be carried out this fiscal year, funded by a budget of $940 million, under the Education System Transformation Programme (ESTP). This follows the 801...

The Government will continue its E-Learning Jamaica Project (e-LJam) in the 2014/15 fiscal year, boosted by an allocation of $1.2 billion, which has been set aside in the budget. The...

Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Tertiary Education Commission (J-TEC), Maxine Henry-Wilson, is insisting that reform of the tertiary education system must include institutions taking into account the...

An allocation of $177 million has been made in this year’s budget to complete the University of Technology’s (UTech) School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (SHTM). Now 85 per cent...