Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, says 40,000 tablet computers will shortly be distributed to needy students across the island. Speaking recently at Digicel headquarters, downtown Kingston, Mr. Terrelonge said under the partnership involving his Ministry and e-Learning Jamaica Limited, an additional 60,000 tablets are “being sourced” to ensure that children have...

More than 200 teachers of Mathematics in primary schools are to benefit from a series of development workshops, geared at enhancing competence in the subject. The sessions are being organised by the Seprod Group of Companies, in conjunction with the Ministry of Education. The workshop for Region 1 was held on April 10, while sessions for Regions 2, 5 and...

A five-year, $100 million investment in six non-traditional high schools, by the Mutual Building Societies Foundation (MBSF), is now reaping rich rewards in the institutions. The MBSF, which was established by Victoria Mutual Building Society (VMBS) and Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) in 2008 to carry out the Centres of Excellence initiative, targeted McGrath High in St. Catherine; Porus and...

Jamaica is expected to achieve the target of 85 per cent mastery in literacy among Grade Four students by 2015. This was disclosed by Minister of Education Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites at the Western Union Teachers’ Workshop, held at the Knutsford Court Hotel on Friday, April 11. Mr. Thwaites explained that this forecast is based on the trends from 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 non-academic experience of applicants. Mrs. Henry-Wilson, who was the keynote speaker at the International University of the Caribbean (IUC) Research Day Conference 2014, held on Thursday, April 3, said currently,...

The Government is to spend $615 million this fiscal year to undertake various infrastructural works at several educational institutions across the island. The funds have been provided in the 2014/15 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Of the allocation, $388.4 million will be used to provide improved sanitary facilities and additional classroom spaces in select educational institutions....

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, says there is renewed focus by HEART Trust/NTA to provide vocational training for persons in other Caribbean countries and beyond, as it does for Jamaicans. He underscored this point while addressing a reception hosted by the Education Ministry at the Cardiff Hotel and Spa, Runaway Bay, St. Ann, on April 3, for representatives attending...

The Ministry of Education is implementing strategies aimed at improving the performance of boys in numeracy, and enabling them to be more focused on Mathematics. Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Grace McLean, told JIS News on Thursday, April 3, during the John Rollin’s Success Primary Schools Math Olympics 2014 in Rose Hall, St. James, that a...

A new high school will be opened in Mandeville later this year,  two primary schools will be expanded and infrastructural works will be completed at the Mandeville Primary and Junior High School. This was announced by Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, at an appreciation  ceremony  for immediate past Principal of the Mandeville Primary and Junior High School, Byron...