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I REFER to the reports on a revised school curriculum in the works.

ANTI-CORRUPTION education will be mainstreamed into the countrys formal school curriculum so that people shun the vice from a young age, Zimbabwe Anti-Corrupti...

The Ministry of Education/Hodder Education Grade 6 Writing competition will conclude on Wednesday, January 18, with the finals and closing ceremony. The Ministry of Education said 39 schools across seven zones competed in the preliminary round to vie for 10 places in the finals. This year’s finalists are: Jeniah Carr - Bequia Seventh Day Adventist Primary School. Zahandra Roberts - Kingstown Preparatory School. Kajj Murray - Windsor Primary School. Crystal …

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Students from across the island benefited from a day of career talks at the HEART/NSTA Trust Youth Festival held recently at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston. The e...

A career educator who served at all levels of the education system in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), died suddenly this week.

A NEW Chief Education Officer (CEO), has been appointed within the Ministry of Education and National Reconciliation. She is Kay Martin- Jack who began her new tenure on Wednesday, June 8 after serving as senior education officer for Secondary Schools for seven years. A release from the Ministry of Education, states that apart from supervising about 28 secondary-level institutions in her role as senior education officer, she served as the …

The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), is providing a reduction of as much as 50 per cent on the volume of work required for School Based Assessments contributing to students’ final grades for the upcoming May/June 2022 examinations.  This is according to education minister, Curtis King, who said last week, that this reduction was also offered in 2021 for students who sat examinations in the July/September cycle.  Parents and organisations, both …

This country’s education minister, Curtis King says just over 661 non-attendance for CSEC subjects were recorded in the July/September examinations last year. And of this amount, 284 were recorded by private candidates.  “Over the past three years, especially in the January sittings, there has been a constant recurring theme of absenteeism by candidates throughout the Caribbean,” King said during the Questions for Oral Answers segment of the March 24 meeting …

THE importance of family involvement in a child’s education is the focus of a new book from Limerick-based academics  Parents in Partnership: Mapping...

A total of 137 children of academics, professionals and administrators of the Catholic University received the 2021 Application Awards for their excellent academic performance. It is a historic tradition of more than 30 years that is organized by the