Stories by Andre Poyser

When the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) met with Minister of Education Ruel Reid last week for their monthly meetings, concerns about the roll-out of the National Standards Curriculum (NSC) were high on the agenda.President of the JTA Howard...

Professor of Educational Leadership and Management at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom Paul Miller has called for more emphasis to be placed on the issue of social justice in Jamaica's education policies."Social justice is a non-...

The Ministry of Education is being heavily criticised for how it has handled the implementation of the new National Standards Curriculum (NSC), which is currently being rolled out on a phased basis by the Ministry of Education.Scores of teachers who...

The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) is currently investigating the University of Technology (UTech) for what may be possible procurement breaches.An officer in the procurement department at the university confirmed that the probe has been...

A group of 30 businessmen who have been meeting for more than 30 years has donated $310,000 to Food For The Poor in aid of the Hurricane Matthew relief efforts.The group of men who call themselves Thursdays are from different parts of the island and...

The University of Technology Academic Staff Union (UTASU) has said its members have suffered tremendously under what it has described as a prolonged period of poor management at the national university.The union has said that the academic staff at...

The inability of the University of Technology (UTech) to compensate its academic staff competitively has resulted in a mass migration of some of its most highly qualified instructors.Since January, one department with a normal complement of 35 has...

Even while making it clear that his role as chancellor at the University of Technology (UTech) is purely ceremonial, Edward Seaga...

While noting that he has not heard any reports of Jamaican organisations being seriously affected by the massive cyber attacks that crippled a major Internet firm and repeatedly disrupted the availability of popular websites across the United States...

Jamaica-born engineer Keith Patterson, who specialises in the design and construction of oil and gas pipelines, still recalls with reverence his contribution to erecting the platform used to extract oil from Arkutun-Dagi, an offshore oilfield...

Local charity Food For The Poor has indicated that there has been an outpouring of support from Jamaicans for its efforts to deliver relief to Haitians who were displaced after Hurricane Matthew ravaged the island earlier in the month.Chairman of...

Known as the global capital of fashion and design, Milan is home to The Politecnico di Milano (Polimi), where Stanley Sutherland, a past student of St George's College, has chosen to pursue a...