Scotiabank Foundation Secondary School Scholarship Awards Value: J$125,000 Age: Not over 19 years Year of study: GSAT Number of awards: 10 (Annual) Eligibility: Needy students of inner city Schools Islandwide based on their…
Sagicor Picks Scholars
Last year’s Sagicor scholars pose after being successfully chosen to be a part of the Sagicor Scholarship Programme with chairman of the Sagicor Group, R. Danny Williams (right, back row), and Richard Byles (left, front row), Sagicor president and CEO, at the Talk of the Town, The Jamaica Pegasus hotel. The Sagicor Foundation announced that…
Petrojam Awards $1.2 Million in Scholarships
By Garfield L. Angus + Photo: Donald Delahaye Top-performing Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) students from Greenwich All-Age and the St. Andrew Primary schools pose with officials at Petrojam, after they were presented with scholarships valued at $1.2 million, at a luncheon held recently at Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew. Story Highlights Petrojam…
Education Ministry clarifies GSAT question about Jamaican flag
The Education Ministry says it will award the marks to some students who gave the incorrect answer to a social studies question on this year’s Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT). The ministry made the announcement in a media release as it sought to address the concerns of some parents. Parents were concerned that their…
Ranking of Jamaica’s Top High Schools 2016
by Wellesley Here we are again my friends! Thanks again to Educate Jamaica, we now have the very latest rankings of the TOP HIGH SCHOOLS IN JAMAICA! This edition follows our previous publication last year that created quite a lot of stir. And so, I know what your next question is, so let me answer…
The 2016 question that baffled GSAT students
Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) students should be breathing a sigh of relief that their exams are now over, however, many continue to rack their brain about one question which baffled many. Some say that the question, which appeared in the social studies test paper, will be the deciding factor “separating the sheep from the…