Education

Education Ministry Optimistic of Achieving Primary Literacy Target

Submitted by Althea on Sep 25, 2014 02:31 am

 

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Elaine Foster-Allen, says the Ministry is optimistic that the literacy rate among students at the grade four level will reach the 85 per cent target by 2015.This, she said, is based on significantly improved results in the 2013/14 academic year, which saw 76.3 per cent of the youngsters, who sat the Grade Four Literacy Test, achieving mastery.

ECC Says Corporal Punishment Must End

Submitted by Althea on Sep 25, 2014 02:31 am

 

Commissioner of the Early Childhood Commission (ECC), Dr. Rose Davies, says the organization remains strident in its quest to rid the nation’s schools of the practice of corporal punishment. Noting that the practice is still very prevalent in some schools, Dr. Davies said the ECC has been working with teachers in developing alternative approaches to corporal punishment.

Education System Needs Another Seismic Game-Changer

Submitted by Althea on Jun 23, 2014 02:35 am

 

"The best way to improve the American [Jamaican my insert] workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed alongside their more advantaged peers." -- James Heckman [Nobel Laureate in Economics]

Teachers are from Saturn, parents are from Jupiter

Submitted by Althea on Jun 23, 2014 02:09 am

 

MEMO to the nation's self-help gurus: Why not write a book on fixing relationships between teachers and parents? Call it Teachers are from Saturn, parents are from Jupiter.

While parents worry about what their kids learn, teachers are more concerned with how they learn. While the parents see the product, the teachers live the process.

Educator hails transformation of participants in Learning for Life programme

Submitted by Alesia on May 15, 2014 15:54 pm

By Karyl Walker

TRAINING co-ordinator for the Institute for Workforce Education Development, (IWED) Melva Blake has hailed the transformation of the individuals who enter the Diageo Learning For Life programme as amazing.

The institute partners with Learning for Life to assist the students with training in several areas, including hospitality, customer service and other business courses, data entry, supervisory management, grounds and landscaping and housekeeping.

Forum on Education

Submitted by Alesia on Apr 3, 2014 11:27 am

THEME: The Implementation of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) Education: Opportunities and Challenges

The School of Education will be hosting, Forum on Education, on Thrusday, April 10, 2014 at the Pavillion, Uinviversity of the West Indies, Western Jamaica Campus. The keynote speaker is Prof. Theodore Lewis from the School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine Campus. Special guests include the  the Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, Minister of Education. 

Location

The Pavillion, UWI, Western Campus
10 Queen's Drive, Montego Bay
Jamaica
See map: Google Maps
JM

A Life-line for Balaclava

Submitted by Althea on Mar 25, 2014 05:04 am

 

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — For most of the last century, Balaclava in north east St Elizabeth — close to the three-cornered meeting point of Manchester and Trelawny — was a thriving, bustling town.

All that changed in the 1990s with the collapse of Jamaica's passenger railway service.

All of a sudden, Balaclava which - for as long as anyone could remember — had been a vital cog in the rail link from Kingston to Montego Bay, found itself short of economic and social relevance.

English Lessons for Jamaica

Submitted by Althea on Mar 24, 2014 04:56 am

British Council project to help local educators, students

THE British Council of Jamaica will, in a matter of weeks, roll out an international programme to help local educators better prepare students to speak and use the English Language effectively as it has now been determined that Jamaica is not quite an English-speaking country.

In fact, Jamaica is the only so-called English-speaking nation in the world to benefit from the programme and only one of two countries in the Caribbean, the other being Cuba, whose official language is Spanish.

UTech Software to Boost Learning at School for Deaf

Submitted by Althea on Mar 13, 2014 02:25 am

 

THE University of Technology recently presented a copy of its recently developed e-learning software — U-Touch — to the Lister Mair Gilby School for the Deaf at a ceremony held on the grounds of the school in St Andrew.

UWI Research Days Focus on Economic Growth Projects

Submitted by Althea on Feb 19, 2014 04:56 am

 

The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona will be using the three-day platform of Research Days 2014 to signal what it says is a shift in the focus of the annual event to now target projects which will impact Jamaica’s economic growth.

 The 14-year-old event, which has moved from being a single day to a three-day affair, will run from February 19 to 21 and showcase the university’s research work across disciplines, under the theme ‘Fostering Growth and Development in Small Island Developing States Through Research’.

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