The Scientific Research Council (SRC) has, so far, opened science laboratories in four of eight participating primary and secondary schools in its Improving Innovation Capacities in the Caribbean (INVOCAB) project.

The Government's plan to banish the double-shift system from the Jamaican schools cannot come too soon for some western Jamaica-based school administrators, who think it is quite burdensome, if not totally counterproductive.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Government is committed to ensuring that there is universal access to secondary education.

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, says the Government, through the Ministry, is working to eliminate barriers which continue to prevent qualified students from matriculating in tertiary instituti ...

The Government is insistent that no child, particularly at the secondary level, should be denied access to education, prompting its decision to remove auxiliary fees for these institutions.