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Motshekga warns against vandalism during four-week school break
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has asked members of the public to protect schools against vandalism during the four-week break.
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No contract for CMU $701m building, says project manager
PROJECT MANAGER at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), Elaine Hayden, told a parliamentary oversight committee on Tuesday that her reputation would “take a beating” after admitting that she had no evidence to substantiate that there was a contract between the institution and Business Supply
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Schools angry
Principals at some of the 17 schools scheduled to be reopened as part of a two-week face-to-face pilot are fuming, as they say they had not been consulted by the Ministry of Education which announced the list on the weekend.Yallahs High School Principal Mark Malabver said he and colleagues are
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Watch: Sinenjongo High School torched amid Cape Town protests
While Sinenjongo High School in the Joe Slovo area was set alight amid protests, so was the library and classroom of a Primary School.
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Just In: Democratic Alliance heads to court in a bid to keep schools open
John Steenhuisen says the DA will approach the courts to challenge the decision on schools as it is not based on scientific evidence.
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Panyaza Lesufi accused of spreading 'fake news' after slamming WCED
Lesufi claimed that the WCED had instructed schools to close for only a week, but the DA say that he got his facts wrong.
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Dr. Ladson-Billings Earns 2020 NNPA Leadership in Education Award | BlackPressUSA
2020 NNPA NATIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS — “We have COVID, we have anti-Black, we have the very tenuous economy and we have the climate catastrophe,” said Dr. Ladson-Billings. “We keep saying it’s global warming, but we saw what has happened in Louisiana with the hurricane, and they are more
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Summer school on!
THE education ministry has warned schools that there must be strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols to prevent the spread of the virus, as some institutions started summer schools yesterday.
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COMMENTARY: The Black Church Faces an Atypical Crisis | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Blacks in the U.S. have been disproportionately affected during the pandemic. Although African Americans only compose 6 percent of the population in the state of California, Blacks comprise 10.6 percent of the COVID-19 deaths. This has been attributed to the fact that a number of
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World Teachers’ Day: ‘We salute you’, says Motshekga
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has praised the country’s teachers for their dedication to pupils and managing to report to the classroom, even under the most difficult circumstances
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Rwanda: Safe Room for Girls to Be Mandatory for Schools
[New Times] Najma Umutoni is a senior five student at GS Remera Protestant in Gasabo District. She says that whenever she is in menstruation period, she at times feels weak and needs a place to rest for a while.
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COSAS shuts down schools in Alexandra to save learners
'We can’t risk learners’ lives by sending them to school. As COSAS we are declaring a total shutdown of all schools.'
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Robust agriculture sector critical in building back economy – Green
From state minister for the former Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries where he served in the previous Jamaica Labour Party administration, Floyd Green has been promoted to take charge of the newly formed Ministry of...
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Private schools pushing for September resumption of classes
THE Jamaica Independent Schools' Association (JISA), which represents some 150 private schools islandwide, will be meeting with Ministry of Education officials today to discuss their plans for reopening September instead of October, as announced by the Government last week.
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Seven arrested following fatal shootings at two KZN schools
While seven suspects have been arrested, a compliance officer and a school principal lost their lives during shootings in KZN on Friday.
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Rwanda: Environment Ministry Warns Schools Over Encroaching on Wetlands
[New Times] The Ministry of Environment has asked their counterparts in the education docket to follow up on classrooms construction activities that are encroaching wetlands and other environmental features in different districts.
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Botswana coronavirus: president enters fourth quarantine | Africanews
Botswana remains one of Africa’s least impacted countries, one of a handful with less than 100 cases of COVID-19. Government has in the past month taken drastic measures including a strict
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Job No. 1 for Fayval: Internet access for students
Reintegrating students into the mood and mode of formal education amid a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic will be a top priority for newly appointed Education Minister Fayval Williams. Face-to-face classes were suspended islandwide days after...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Some principals say yes to July exams
Some local high school principals are adamant that students should be allowed to sit their secondary level exit exams in July, as determined by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), or risk adverse impact on matriculation to tertiary institutions, particularly those
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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com
Online learning heartache
STUDENTS are now on midterm break from digital learning, but parents who have sat in on some of the online classes have taken issue with a number of things, particularly the lack of personal feeling or the impersonal nature of the classes.
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Veteran Educator On The Endless But 'Joyful' Work Of Creating Anti-Racist Education
Pirette McKamey, the principal at Mission High School in San Francisco, says anti-racist education "makes you want to keep growing and changing and doing better by your students."
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PEP delight! - Ten-year-old aces exams to secure place at Calabar High
TEN-YEAR-OLD RICQUAN Wright never sat in a grade-five class at St Michael’s Primary School. He exuded confidence and displayed a brilliant work ethic that propelled his teacher to recommend that he sit the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams, a year...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Punish liars! - Former permanent secretary calls for sanctions on public officials who mislead parliamentary committees
Jamaican laws should be upgraded to provide tough sanctions for public officials who mislead or lie to parliamentary committees, Dean-Roy Bernard, the former permanent secretary in the education ministry, has said. He said that penalties should be...
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COVID spike sets back reopening of schools
THE reopening of schools for the new academic year has been delayed by a month, the Ministry of Education advised last evening.'Given the spike in COVID-19 cases, it has now become necessary to delay the reopening of schools. We have consulted with the Ministry of Health and Wellness and barring
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National Schools Nutrition Programme back on track bar a few hiccups
Despite the Department of Basic Education saying that the school feeding programme is back on track, civil rights bodies are not convinced.
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Bunting wants easier way for schools to get resources
Opposition spokesman on education and training Peter Bunting has said that the allocation of resources for schools would be more effective if the processes are decentralised from the Ministry of Education (MoE).��
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Heathfield High Principal Wesley Neumann to challenge WCED in court
Wesley Neumann’s application to interdict his disciplinary proceedings for an indefinite period will be heard on Tuesday.
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Gov't help coming for private school teachers, says Speid
ROSE HALL, St James - The Government has plans to provide financial help for teachers employed to private schools that have shuttered their doors as part of efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19, according to immediate past president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association Owen Speid. Speid was
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Exam decision expected on Monday - Cabinet to give verdict on CSEC/CAPE sittings
THE GOVERNMENT is to announce the final decision on the sitting of the 2020 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) by next
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