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Four More Schools To Be Removed From Shift

September 12, 2019

JIS: Four schools will be removed from the shift system in the 2019/20 fiscal year at a total cost of $93.9 million.

They are Exchange All-Age School in...

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Women’s Centre Improves Programme Offerings

September 10, 2019

JIS: The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) has made two changes to its Programme for Adolescent Mothers (PAM), which is delivered at the Centre’s 18 locations...

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Water to Be Trucked to Schools

September 10, 2019

JIS: Minister with responsibility for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Karl Samuda, says arrangements are in place to truck water to schools facing a shortage of supply...

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Teachers to Participate in Math Workshop August 21-23

JIS: Three hundred primary school teachers from Jamaica, Turks and Caicos Islands and Belize are expected to gather at the annual three-day mathematics training workshop, Amazing Math Powers (AMP), from August 21-23 at the... Read more
School Administrators Urged to Take Steps to Eliminate Sexual...

JIS: The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is advising administrators in educational and training institutions to take the necessary steps to eliminate incidents of sexual harassment.

The... Read more
JSIF Constructing Infant Department at Barrett Town Primary

JIS: The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is constructing an infant department at the Barrett Town Primary School in St. James at a cost of $34 million.

Funding is being provided by the European... Read more
OEC to Build State-of-the-Art Multipurpose Facility

JIS: The Overseas Examinations Commission (OEC) is to construct a smart, flexible state-of-the-art multipurpose facility at its headquarters in Kingston, during the 2019/20 financial year.

A similar... Read more
Parenting Education Project to be Expanded

JIS: Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, says the Parenting Education Project will be expanded to reach more parents across the island.

The initiative... Read more
Students Receive Assistance from International Proxy Parents

JIS: Sixty-six students from 19 high schools are benefiting from scholarships donated by the International Proxy Parents (IPP), a charitable organisation whose members include representatives of the diplomatic corps.
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New Curriculum for Intellectually Challenged Students

JIS: The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has developed a new curriculum for students with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities.

The document, which replaces the curriculum that was... Read more
Prime Minister Calls on Parents to Desist from Keeping...

JIS: Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is imploring parents engaged in the practice of withholding their children from school on some weekdays, to involve them in economic activities to generate household income... Read more
Stacey Taylor wins! Maths Teacher of the Year comes from...

OBSERVER: Stacey Taylor of Hatfield Primary and Junior High School in Manchester is the 2018 National Mathematics Teacher of the Year.

The announcement was made at Mona Visitors' Lodge in St Andrew, on... Read more
Specialist Spanish Lecturer for Shortwood Teachers College

JIS: Shortwood Teachers’ College has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) for the provision of a specialist lecturer in Spanish to bolster the... Read more