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Education in Jamaica is primarily modeled on the British education system. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) [ 1 ] finds that Jamaica is fulfilling only 70.0% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to education based on the country's level of income. [ 2 ]
The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire. Jamaica became a British colony from 1707 and a Crown colony in 1866. The Colony was primarily used for sugarcane production, and experienced many slave rebellions over the course of British rule ...
The island country joined the Commonwealth of Nations, an organisation of ex-British territories. [70] Jamaica continues to be a Commonwealth realm, with the British monarch as King of Jamaica and head of state. An extensive period of postwar growth transformed Jamaica into an increasingly industrial society. This pattern was accelerated with ...
Although amateur history returned to its pages, the new editor was David Buisseret, an English academic at UWI. He was followed by Carl Campbell, a Jamaican UWI academic. By the 1980s, the amateur contribution had declined yet again, but this "was to some extent balanced by history-writing for the society's Bulletin as well as for newspapers ...
Florizel Glasspole was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 25 September 1909. [3] His parents were the Rev. Theophilus A. Glasspole, a Methodist minister, and Florence (née Baxter). [4] Glasspole received his early education at Buff Bay Elementary School in Portland between 1914 and 1918.
The Caribbean island nation of Jamaica was a British colony between 1655 and 1962. More than 300 years of British rule changed the face of the island considerably (having previously been under Spanish rule, which depopulated the indigenous Arawak and Taino communities [6]) – and 92.1% of Jamaicans are descended from sub-Saharan Africans who were brought over during the Atlantic slave trade. [6]
Wolmer's Schools closely resemble British schools of the 1950s more than those today, a trend that can be noted of the entire Jamaican schooling system. [2] Wolmer's Boys' and Girls' have been deemed some of the top schools in the Caribbean and perform well in exit examinations (CSEC/CAPE), especially in the Sciences and Mathematics.
The House of Assembly was the legislature of the British colony of Jamaica. [1] It held its first meeting on 20 January 1664 at Spanish Town. [2] As a result of the Morant Bay rebellion, the Assembly voted to abolish self-governance in 1865. Jamaica then became a direct-ruled crown colony. Originally, there were twelve districts represented. [2]