JIS Information- Greater than 2,500 Jamaican early-childhood college students will profit from technological aids to enhance their studying expertise.
The instruments, which embrace computer systems, printers, and interactive show boards, will probably be offered beneath the Tradition, Well being, Arts, Sports activities, and Schooling (CHASE) Fund’s Expertise Enhancement Program.
Jamaica’s Minister with out Portfolio within the Workplace of the Prime Minister, Hon. Floyd Inexperienced, made the disclosure throughout Wednesday’s (Could 17) post-Cupboard press briefing at Jamaica Home.
“We’re changing the white boards and bringing know-how on the earliest degree of our youngster’s interplay with the training system, and we’re concentrating on 170 early-childhood establishments to get this accomplished,” he mentioned.
The Minister mentioned that CHASE continues to supply scholarships for research in early-childhood training.
“We… award scholarships for our early-childhood practitioners for undergraduate and postgraduate research, and we did 276 scholarships final 12 months for early-childhood training and 83 scholarships for our arts and tradition,” he famous.
As well as, he knowledgeable that the group constructed three new toddler colleges final 12 months – Santa Cruz Major and Toddler and Leeds Major and Toddler in St. Elizabeth, and the Savanna-la-Mar Major and Toddler in Westmoreland.