Jamaica

First Global Celebrates Success With 'Literacy Day'

Submitted by Althea on Dec 4, 2013 23:30 pm

 

In celebration of the continued literacy improvements shown by students enrolled in its 'Perfect Pitch for a Sound Education' programme, First Global Financial Services (FGFS) launched its annual Literacy Day on Friday, November 29, at the Bickersteth Primary and Infant School in St James.

Staff/Graduate Seminar

Submitted by Althea on Dec 4, 2013 04:30 am

 

The Department of Library and Information Studies Presents a Staff/Graduate Seminar on Friday, December 13, 2013 at 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

 

Presenters:

1.  Dr. Rosemarie Heath

    Topic: Towards a Learner-Centred High School Curriculum-Based Research: a Case Sudy

 

2.   Mrs. Kerry-Ann Rodney Wellington

Location

Department of Library and Information Studies
The University of the West indies Mona Campus
Jamaica
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Research Seminar

Submitted by Althea on Dec 4, 2013 04:10 am

 

The Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) Regional Coordinating Unit invites you to join them for their Seminar. Topics include:

•Gender Differentials and Student Engagement in Caribbean Education; 

•Women's Leadership Work: Towards a new Construction of Women's Roles in Jamaican Communities; 

•Land of Wood, Water Women: Brand Jamaica: Identity Crisis? 

 

Location

Dr Aleem Mohammed Meeting Room
UWI, Regional Headquarters
Jamaica
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JM
Loraine D. Cook
December 3, 2013

This study sought to determine the root causes of absenteeism in selected primary schools in Jamaica by investigating the influence of personal, educational, and community factors on student absenteeism from school. Data collection techniques involved the use of focus group interviews with parents, teachers, and community members from 71 schools, and with students (aged 7–12 years) from 10 of these schools, who were identified as having very low attendance rates. The findings suggest that the causal factors for absenteeism do not find their genesis in the family only, but also in the schools, the communities, and the students themselves. These factors combine to accentuate absenteeism in primary school in the rural areas of Jamaica.

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Staff/Graduate Seminar Presentations

Submitted by Althea on Nov 21, 2013 00:55 am

The Department of Modern Languages in the Faculty of Humanities and Education will be hosting a Seminar on Thursday November 28, 2013.

1.  Topic:       Insights into Chinese Culture: Wisdom and Beliefs

    Presenter: Yingping Liang 

 

2.  Topic:        Error Analysis in Written Composition of Spanish as a Foreign Language of

                      First Year Students at The UWI.

    Presenter: Andrea Cortés

Location

The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
Jamaica
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JM

UWI Conducts First Telemedicine Broadcast Across Three Campuses

Submitted by Althea on Nov 20, 2013 00:20 am

The first telemedicine broadcast by the University of the West Indies, UWI, using the region's only dedicated research and education network, CaribNet, was conducted on Wednesday November 6, 2013. The telecast originated from the Hugh Wynter Fertility Management Unit (HWFMU) at the Mona Campus and was broadcast to medical students and faculty at the Open Campus sites in Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados. The HWFMU has been a hub for the promotion and advancement of Sexual and Reproductive Health (S&RH) for the past 30 years.
 

School of Education Hits Right Notes

Submitted by Althea on Nov 19, 2013 23:39 pm

LIKE THE PIED Piper of Hamelin, the School of Education has been helping to guide scores of inner-city children on the path to a better life using music as part of broader research efforts that have been producing positive results.

The School of Education has collaborated with Operation Save Jamaica (OSJ) and Operation Restoration Christian School (ORCS) to undertake research to identify critical needs and recommend solutions to improve the inner-city school system.

John Rollins Success Primary boosting literacy and numeracy

Submitted by Alesia on Nov 19, 2013 22:50 pm

JOHN Rollins Success Primary School in St James has, since its inception in 2004, pioneered innovative ways of learning in order to boost the literacy and numeracy of students.

Under the leadership of Principal Yvonne Miller-Wisdom, the school instituted a Reading Marathon in 2005 and a Math Olympics in 2006.

 The initiatives have grown to incorporate several schools in Western Jamaica, with scores of corporate sponsors showing lasting commitment to the events. According to Miller-Wisdom, the aim is to have schools all across the island participating.

Levy: Schools need to set up relationships with communities

Submitted by Alesia on Nov 19, 2013 22:48 pm

 IF Jamaica wants to see improvement in the performance of students academically and socially, then educators need to go into communities, possibly outside of their normal teaching hours, and work alongside parents and other community members.

So says Horace Levy, senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, who believes that the operation of schools should be expanded to communities in their immediate vicinities.

Graduate Conference for Students of the Faculty of Humanities and Education

Submitted by Althea on Nov 12, 2013 01:06 am

The Faculty of Humanities and Education Subcommittee on Graduate Matters will be hosting Conference for Graduate Students and Staff (especially research supervisors). 
It will be held on Thursday November 14 at 2:30 p.m. in the New Education Lecture Theatre [NELT].

The highlights of the event will be the following :

Location

The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
Jamaica
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