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...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is providing $4.9 million for the construction of a basic school in the Springfield community in southwest Clarendon. "The Jamaica Social Investment Fund signed...

President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Ruel Reid, has stressed that for the country to progress with confidence in the 21st Century, there must be transformation of the education...

Professor Kenneth Hall has vowed to give priority to education when he formerly assumes the office of Governor General in February. Professor Hall, who spoke to JIS News at the...

More than 200 students participated in a presentation on Restorative Justice, yesterday (January 23), at the Holy Trinity High School in Kingston. The event was staged as part of the...

The Jamaica Information Service (JIS) will be launching an electronic civics centre later this year, in an effort to promote greater awareness about the rights, privileges, and obligations that Jamaicans...