TWO WEEKS after the release of Educate Jamaica’s most recent academic rankings of Jamaican high schools, things have begun to settle back to normalcy. At least until the 2024 numbers come out to set tongues wagging again, that is. It’s a familiar.
Fayval Williams, the education minister, must provide an unvarnished report of the annual summer programme aimed at bringing underperforming grade-four and pre-high-school students up to basics. Hopefully, it achieved success and that the 28,000.
The mandate letter focuses on preventative mental health supports and addiction recovery, but advocates say the absence of harm reduction is troublesome.
KINGSTON, Jamaica Education Minister Fayval Williams is on a five-day study tour of Germany from July 17 to 21, to gain insights into their co-operative public-private system of Technical and Vocati.