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JTA welcomes planned facility for problem students
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
THE Jamaica Teachers' Association has welcomed plans by the State to purchase property for the first 'time-out' facility for disruptive students, while urging the Government to consider more of such facilities.
The JTA was responding to an announcement by Education Minister Andrew Holness, who told the JTA's annual conference in Ocho Rios, St Ann last Wednesday that Cabinet was expected to sign off on an agreement to purchase a property in St Elizabeth to accommodate the new time-out facility for problem students in the system. The property to be used is the old Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) training facility in Malvern, St Elizabeth.
The property was bought by the JFF in 2006 for $22 million, mainly from money donated by the Federation of International Associations of Football (FIFA) from its 'Gold Project' fund, designed to help uplift small, less developed nations with their football infrastructure. It was expected to house a football academy.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...udents_7892473
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
THE Jamaica Teachers' Association has welcomed plans by the State to purchase property for the first 'time-out' facility for disruptive students, while urging the Government to consider more of such facilities.
The JTA was responding to an announcement by Education Minister Andrew Holness, who told the JTA's annual conference in Ocho Rios, St Ann last Wednesday that Cabinet was expected to sign off on an agreement to purchase a property in St Elizabeth to accommodate the new time-out facility for problem students in the system. The property to be used is the old Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) training facility in Malvern, St Elizabeth.
The property was bought by the JFF in 2006 for $22 million, mainly from money donated by the Federation of International Associations of Football (FIFA) from its 'Gold Project' fund, designed to help uplift small, less developed nations with their football infrastructure. It was expected to house a football academy.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...udents_7892473
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