The handbook of Jamaica

by Joseph Charles Ford

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 ...96 came up to the Government standard, of whioh one only was placed in the first olass, six were placed in the second class and eighty-nine in the third class. Thus a large proportion of the schools (two-thirds of the whole) failed to attain the standard required. This was a result that was not anticipated, and many of the school managers, who had formed erroneous conceptions of the character of their sohools, were Mi. Savage's Historical Sketch of Education in Jamaica. greatly disappointed, but, in the vast majority of instances, the disappointment was borne in an admirable spirit and with a determination on the part of the managers and teachers to do better for the future. The consequence was that every year thereafter there was a steady increase in the number of schools in operation, as well as marked improvement in their management. But the paucity of competent teachers which caused the failure of the education movement first referred to continued as the great obstacle to educational success. To meet this difficulty the Government in 1870 established a Training College at Stony Hill and subsidising the Mico Training Institution for the purpose of securing the education of a number of normal pupils in addition to those on the foundation. Thus, besides the private training pupils, twenty-three young men were in 1860 under training as schoolmasters at the public charge. This number was annually increased, and in 1881 a scheme was introduced forgiving aid to denominational orvoluntary training colleges, under which, especially after it was extended and placed on a more liberal footing in 1887, the whole number of students under training has gone up rapidly and is now over 150. The Government College for such Teachers was closed in 1890 but the students were...

288 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012