'Exams not the mark' - Expert says student behaviour better grade for teacher, school performance
MANAGEMENT EXPERTS are advising educators to stop regarding student achievement in external examinations as the only means of measuring teacher performance. According to international management consultant, Dr Trevor Hamilton, the Ministry of Education has been measuring...
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- Shari-Jo is the new 'Queen Bee'
- Concern over 'Rampin' Shop'
- Bauxite blues as Windalco sees red - Residents fear worst from closure
- Electoral body gives go-ahead for increase in constituencies
- Priest's killer gets12-year prison sentence
- Thursdaytalk - Hottest topics on the cocktail circuit
The 'gote' head soup-selling Rasta
Now, who would have thought that the scary-looking straggler with the manicured eyebrows, whom I met walking into Coronation Market earlier this week, would not have been the most memorable character I would meet on that day?He was a sight to behold...
- Sir Vivian speaks his mind
- Salvation Army' skettles at slow boil
- Big boost for eye care
- Shaw fends off claims of JSIF's inefficiency
- Second Chance - Scholarships for 148 students
- Flow donates $700,000 to Food For the Poor
Obama caps executive pay
United States (US) President Barack Obama on Wednesday imposed US$500,000 caps on senior-executive pay for the most distressed financial institutions receiving federal bailout money, saying Americans are upset with "executives being rewarded for failure...
Pietersen slows WI advance
A fairly decent all-round effort from the West Indies put them in a good position against England at the end of the first day of the first Digicel Test of the 2009 Home Series at Sabina Park yesterday. Sent to field after losing the toss the West Indies...
- It wasn't meant to be - Pietersen
- 'Big Benn' chimes for spinners
- It Is Written drafts perfect script
- El Paso City for Barbados Gold Cup
- Injury sidelines Ricketts for friendly
- Special Olympics team off to Winter Games
EDITORIAL - Education challenges require creative thinking
Very much in the fashion of his predecessors, Roger Bent, the president of the Guild of Students at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, (UWI), wants the Jamaican Government to do more for Jamaican students who attend the UWI....
LETTER OF THE DAY - One step forward, two backward
The Editor, Sir: I wish to support the plea by Esther Tyson, in her contribution to your paper on February 1, for our government to take a firm stand against the morally destructive practices of those entertainers who use the very powerful media...
- Come on MoBay, get with it!
- Pastors in error
- Useless intellectual petulance
- Air Jamaica's many problems
- Less than thorough reporting
- An appeal to ZIP-FM
Cool night, warm tribute for Iris Whittaker
It was, of course, fit and proper that a score of Jamaica's best musicians thought of honouring one of the island's finest music teachers, Iris Whittaker, who turns 90 this year. The thought took form as a musical tribute in the garden of The Jamaica Pegasus hotel on Sunday ...
Cooking Chinese without sesame
DINING WITH EMMA - I'm allergic to sesame but there is barely a recipe in a Chinese restaurant that doesn't include at least a half teaspoon of the seeds or its oil. For five years I've been craving Dim Sum, so I finally decided to make it myself. Without sesame of course!
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