Education

Nearly 100 students will receive financial support to train for jobs in the automotive and energy industries. This is part of a new $262 200 scholarship initiative announced by the…

Literacy and language specialists insisted on Friday that students would perform better in school if Barbadian dialect were used as a foundation for teaching, arguing that cultural pride and academic…

Public primary school principals have reached a long-awaited settlement with the government over persistent workplace grievances, Barbados TODAY can reveal. The breakthrough came late Friday after months of unrest and…

The island’s top technical institute said Friday it’s ramping up its vocational training to combat a deepening labour shortage in the construction industry, as government, educators and industry sound the…

Barbados is set for a fundamental overhaul of its tertiary education system, with government rolling out sweeping reforms to prioritise technical and vocational training, aiming to better prepare young people…

Students and staff of Graydon Sealy Secondary School say they are prepared and optimistic about the school’s upcoming relocation. Principal Shyrelle Howard-Gittens told Barbados TODAY on Friday that after some…

Nineteen children aged 6 to 16 are currently benefiting from the Learning in Harmony Homework Program, an initiative designed to provide after-school instruction in grammar and mathematics to students from…

Major school repair and upgrade works are on course for completion before classes resume, the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) said Friday, marking the first time in years that critical…

Their children may have been the ones whose names were called, but it was parents who beamed with quiet pride as the newest crop of academic high‐flyers became the toast…