Editorial: Please, Minister - no levelling down
EDUCATION MINISTER, Mrs. Maxine Henry-Wilson, has revealed that she is mulling over the problem of primary school children who score best on the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) all going to a small number of 'elite' secondary schools while those...
Challenging times for JTA, education
THE JAMAICA Teachers' Association (JTA) has shifted into what it calls a modernisation mode as it seeks to make itself more relevant in representing the cause of teachers and their effectiveness in the classroom.
An obsession with ethnic culture
JOAN TUCKER, Senior Lecturer in Music Education at UWI, has taken me on in a letter to the Editor. At issue was my comment "singing is not taught in our schools, neither is music". (Ritch)
Wanted: Bold, strong women leaders
IF SOCIAL transformation must come in Jamaica, (and it will), conscious women, supported by fair-minded men, willing to renounce male privilege, will have to take a stronger role in charting that course in different areas... (Vassell)
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