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Several tertiary and high-school students from across Western Jamaica no longer have to worry about financing their education this year, after recently receiving scholarships courtesy of the organizers of the MoBay City Run.  Some 3.5 million dollars, which represent the proceeds from this year’s MoBay City Run, were handed over during the organization’s scholarship presentation ceremony held at Sandals Montego...

The Ministry of Education and Youth on November 3 hosted its annual Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Awards Ceremony at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. This year the ministry provided bursaries to the 28 top-performing students in the 2023 PEP exams, worth between $100,000 and $180,000 over the course of the first five years.

On November 2, the Ministry of Education and Youth hosted its Transforming Education for National Development (TREND) townhall, the first in a series of events aimed at raising public awareness of the education transformation process.  Held at the Karl Hendrickson Auditorium at Jamaica College, the town hall gave students, parents, and other education stakeholders the opportunity to discuss and get...

The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) in collaboration with US based company Wizdom CRM on October 20 launched the Primary Schools Stock Market Education Programme and Stock Market Games, in an effort to develop the capacity of young people in financial literacy and money management. Under the initiative student from 17 schools will be given US$10,000.00 in virtual funds, and provided...

Ocho Rios High School offers around 21 technical and vocational areas to students, in an effort to equip them for the demands of a changing workforce. Principal, Marvin Clowson, says it is important that each student is competent in at least one technical or vocational subject.

Principal of Old Harbour Primary school, George Goode says his institution recorded tremendous passes in the 2023 sitting of the Primary Exit Profile Examinations, securing a 64% pass rate. Although this was not the school’s best year, Mr. Goode says this year’s results exceeded the staff’s expectations, and demonstrate that Old Harbour Primary is overcoming the effects of the COVID-19...

Like most other schools across the island, Chapleton Primary School in Clarendon saw their students experience severe learning challenges during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Principal Christine Monroe Walters says after the recent Primary Exit Profile (PEP) results, she is fairly pleased with performances of her students.

15 students sat the 2023 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Examination at the Garden Hill Primary and Infant school. According to the principal, Shakira Hudson over 80 per cent of them were placed at one of their preferred high schools, with 11 of them being placed at traditional high schools. She credits an intensified extra lessons regime for the students’ outstanding...

The 2023/24 school year commenced last Monday, September 4 which was also the first day attending Wolmer’s High Schol for Girls for Kaylei Riley, who was placed there after her outstanding performance in the 2023 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Examination. Kaylei, a former student of Jessie Ripoll Primary School, said she was extremely proud and excited in the moment she...

The St. Ann’s Bay Primary, Principal’s Ambassadorship Program was established a year ago to allow top performing students who exhibit and embody positive behaviours, the opportunity to be school influencers.  Principal Trevor Cole says in addition to good academics, selectors also expect candidates to demonstrate traits such as respectability, honesty, and hard work, among other things.

12-year-old Simoya Cunningham of Lucea Primary School in Hanover defied the odds to sit this year’s Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations. For most of her grade six year, Simoya struggled with poor health that landed her in the hospital for extended periods, which is where she sat the Ability Test. Principal of Lucea Primary School, Yasmin Anderson-Jackson, expresses her delight...

11-year-old Tessannie Miller is from the community of Chester District in St. Ann, and she has surpassed expectations in her 2023 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations by overcoming a myriad of challenges. A former student of St. Ann’s Bay Primary, Tessannie will be attending St. Hilda’s High School in September. She shares that she feels extremely proud of herself because...

146 students sat the 2023 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination and according to principal Cole preliminarily, roughly 80% of those students were placed in schools of their choice, which included Munro College, St. Hilda’s High, Knox College, York Castle High, Westwood High and Ferncourt High schools. Mr. Cole says teachers had to strategize to ensure that maximum potential is achieved...

The St. Catherine South Police Division engaged student leaders at a recent Voice of the Youth Student Leadership Symposium, educating and equipping them to serve as "Violence Interrupters" in their schools under the Safe Schools Program. The symposium was hosted under the theme ‘Children Need Love and Protection…We the Police Are Involved’. Commanding Officer for the St. Catherine South Police...