EduCaribbean Weekend
Edition 2021-03-04
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EduCaribbean Weekend is a weekly PHC Education Newsletter published on Thursdays which depicts current happenings in the Secondary and Tertiary Education Sectors within the Caribbean Islands, for educational institutions, practitioners, investors, suppliers and students alike.
Teachers Now Named Among Priority Groups to Receive COVID-19 Vaccines - Education Minister - Nationwide 90FM
Education Minister Fayval Williams says teachers will be among the priority groups to receive COVID 19 vaccines when the jabs arrive on the island. She says that will also include other persons essential to the operations of schools. Minister Williams says she has also notified the Jamaica Teacher’s Association, JTA, of the development. The JTA […]
Universities push staff, students up in vax line
University officials are hoping that staff and students pursuing certain courses of study will be among those to receive COVID-19 vaccines in the second phase. Jamaica is expected to begin administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which was...
Only students sitting exams to participate in face-to-face teaching
Only students who are to sit major examinations will be allowed to participate in face-to-face teaching. Therefore, only grade six students at the primary school level and grades 11, 12, and 13 students in high schools are going to be...
Prep-school conundrum - Ministry directive can’t compel them to scrap private face-to-face classes
Private schools will independently decide whether they will continue with face-to-face classes, dismissing the education ministry’s declaration that only exit exam students should attend in-person sessions as merely “an announcement”. A meteoric...
thebahamasweekly.com - Ministry of Education announces plans for re-opening of schools for face-to-face Instruction
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