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The following is a list of education ministers of Jamaica since adult suffrage (1944). [1] [2] Jehoida McPherson (1945–1949) Joseph Malcolm (1950–1951) L. L. Simmonds (1951–1953) Edwin Allen (1953–1955) Ivan Lloyd (1955–1957) Florizel Glasspole (1957–1962) Edwin Allen (1962–1972) Florizel Glasspole (1972–1973) Eli Matalon (1973 ...
The ministries of Jamaica are created at the discretion of the prime minister of Jamaica to carry out the functions of government. As of 2016, the prime minister is Andrew Holness . The agencies of Jamaica are created by both parliamentary law and assigned to ministers to oversee.
An education ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for education. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of Education, Department of Education, and Ministry of Public Education, and the head of such an agency may be a minister of education or secretary of education.
Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) is Jamaica's national high school entrance test. It is usually taken in March. [1] with the results are usually released in June. The GSAT replaced the UK's Common Entrance Examination in 1999. Many critics have long argued for a more analytical approach to standard exams in the country, as the exam is one that ...
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The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is an examination board in the Caribbean. [1] [2] It was established in 1972 [3] under agreement by the participating governments in the Caribbean Community to conduct such examinations as it may think appropriate and award certificates and diplomas on the results of any such examinations so conducted.
February 2019 – Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth & Information September 2020 – Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport References
Henry-Wilson was subsequently appointed Minister of Education in the cabinet of P.J. Patterson, serving until 2007 in the administration of Portia Simpson-Miller, after the latter became prime minister in 2006. [8] She held the constituency in the 2007 general election, receiving 5,187 votes to Joan Gordon-Webley of the JLP (4,618). [9]