More to participate in early childhood programmes

This was according to Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation Ronald Jones who told the media yesterday that he had encouraged the Erdiston Teachers’ Training College to move towards a Bachelor’s programme, which not only catered to teachers, but to those who are in early childhood care, including the personnel of the Child Care Board.

 

“They could also benefit from the kind of programming which is going to be part of that new Bachelor’s programme at the Erdiston Teachers’ College so we are progressing and moving,” he noted.

 

At the time, he was speaking at the end of a tour of the Maria Holder Nursery School in Gall Hill, accompanied by Parliamentary Secretary in the Education Ministry Senator Harcourt Husbands, Chief Education Officer Karen Best and several other officials.

 

The school, which will receive its first students in September, is wheelchair accessible and will run mainly from a photovoltaic system.

 

The officials then headed to Oldbury, where work has already commenced at the site; a project Chief Project Manager of the Maria Holder Trust Jane Armstrong outlined that should be completed by January, 2017. The trust will also be rolling out four other nursery schools over the next few years. These will be built in Government Hill, St. Michael; Sayers Court, Christ Church; and Holders Hill and St. Albans in St. James. (JMB)