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Education Must Guide Jamaica's Progress - Thwaites
Nadine | October 16, 2014
KINGSTON (JIS): Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites says the extent to which Jamaica progresses must be guided in part by significant advances in academic and vocational training and development,...
NEI Encourages Schools to Listen to Students
Althea | September 29, 2014
• Research conducted by the National Education Inspectorate (NEI) has highlighted the need for local school leaders and teachers to accord more respect to the views of students. • The NEI arrived at...
J-TEC Being Readied to Regulate and Transform Jamaica's Tertiary Sector
Althea | September 29, 2014
Education Ministry Optimistic of Achieving Primary Literacy Target
Althea | September 25, 2014
Story Highlights • 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...
ECC Says Corporal Punishment Must End
Althea | September 25, 2014
Story Highlights • 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...
World has zero chance of hitting education targets, warns UN
Alesia | July 8, 2014
Unesco admits it will be impossible to achieve millennium development goal for universal primary education by 2015
Education System Needs Another Seismic Game-Changer
Althea | June 23, 2014
Teachers are from Saturn, parents are from Jupiter
Althea | June 23, 2014
The Public Understanding of Science
Althea | June 13, 2014
Words Performed In Treasure Beach
Althea | June 13, 2014
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