Murder-free day
With the furore surrounding the arrest of former State Minister in the Ministry of Technology Energy and Commerce Kern Spencer in relation to the Cuban light bulb project, most did not seem to notice that there were no reported murders in the island last Monday....
'Separate the boys' - Educators urge same-sex learning
In a bid to save the boys from being left behind, several co-educational institutions have employed the gender-separation strategy used by single-sex schools and have reaped remarkable success. Boys learn differently from girls. That is an accepted fact....
Rema learning to change while changing to learn
WILTON GARDENS has often made the news for the wrong reasons since it was constructed as one of several low-income communities in the 1970s.But an educational programme launched there last year is looking to change the community's crime-ridden image. Rema, as Wilton Gardens is commonly...
Southside - promise beneath the struggle - unite for peace and prosperity
I was told that I was assigned to pure 'bad man' and 'rude girl'. However, the images I conjured up with such descriptions didn't fit the people who sat before me. I had just completed 'A' Levels, had a deferred entry into the University of the West Indies (UWI) and sought to fill...
Transforming schools from within
Wearing short dreadlocks that complement a face full of wisdom, Pauletta Chevannes is charismatic and inspiring as we converse on the back porch of her home in St Andrew. Chevannes is coordinator of an outreach project of the Department of Educational Studies of the University...
Men wanted! - Male teachers needed to mentor boys
As the number of male teachers in the classroom decreases and boys continue to slip through the cracks, education experts are making yet another impassioned cry for more men to enter the profession. According to the educators, the future of the nation's boys depends on it....
Girls better listeners, learners, - professor
Although academics are divided on whether boys learn differently from girls, general observation of both sexes in the classroom suggests that females are quicker off the mark. Hyacinth Evans, professor of teacher education at the University of the West Indies' Institute of Education...
Dunkirk - how the peace was won
IN JANUARY 2007, then Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Security Minister Peter Phillips handed out awards to nine communities which had taken their space back from criminals. One of those communities was Dunkirk, a housing scheme located in a gritty section ...
Three killed in police shoot-out
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine: Ivy District was filled with tension yesterday after an ex-soldier and two brothers were killed by police. The dead men are Romaine 'Levar' Miller, 26, a former member of the Jamaica Defence Force; and brothers Ian Williams, 25, and Damion Williams ...
PNP heads to visit Spencer's constituency
NORTH EAST St Elizabeth, home of embattled Member of Parliament (MP), Kern Spencer, may get a visit from the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP) later this week. PNP Chairman Robert Pickersgill told The Gleaner yesterday that the purpose of the visit is to discuss...
Vox Pop -> Do you believe boys should be educated differently from girls?
Stephney Webb, Education Transformation Team: Yes, because, physiologically, boys do learn differently from girls.Dr Angela Ramsay: Yes.
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