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What’s right with Jamaica? Jehvoun Byfield, a teenager in state care, easily answers that question by his award-winning performance in the 2023 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations. With nine CSEC subjects to his credit,...

Administration of the 2024 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) test for grade six will begin on Thursday with the sitting of the Ability Test. Grade-six students will sit the Performance Task on March 20 and 21 and the curriculum-based test on April 24...

There is little, if anything, surprising in the educational performance of Jamaican high school students in the assessment by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Rather, the findings are in concert with the several...

The early results of a reading initiative at Denham Town High School in Kingston provides more than ample evidence, this newspaper believes, for an urgent, even if short-term revamp, of the mission of Jamaica’s primary schools. Their core...

Damion Richards is convinced that his daughter, Abigail, is walking in her purpose, having excelled by copping the JN Primary Exit Profile (PEP) scholarship for St Catherine – scoring high enough to secure a spot at Campion College, her school of...

For the past 40 years, the JN Group has been assisting students and families with financial support for academic achievement, by their philanthropic arm, the JN Foundation, the Group will be presenting 47 scholarships and grants to students who...

IN AN effort to improve literacy in the 248 underperforming schools islandwide, the Ministry of Education and Youth is targeting a five per cent increase in performance over the next three years. Fayval Williams, minister of education and youth,...

Oftentimes we speak about improving literacy, yet targeted interventions to support literacy in many educational institutions are hijacked by the politics of education. In the long term, both the ...

WESTERN BUREAU: EDUCATION MINISTER Fayval Williams is declaring that this year’s cohort of grade-six school-leavers has a technological learning advantage over those students who went before them and did not have that experience. The 2023 cohort...

WESTERN BUREAU: AHEAD OF the upcoming annual Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) conference, Education Minister Fayval Williams is declaring that her ministry will continue to keep abreast of updates on the number of teachers who leave the...