Sunday, February 28, 2016
Peter Levy (right), vice-president of the Insurance Association of Jamaica, presents a sponsorship cheque to Caroll Baker, education officer for science, and Davion Leslie, maths coordinator for Region One, during the recent workshop for maths and science teachers held in Kingston.
The Insurance Association of Jamaica (IAJ) recently spent just under $800,000 sponsoring four workshops for teachers of mathematics and integrated science in Montego Bay, St James; Runaway Bay, St Ann; Toll Gate, Clarendon; and Kingston.
The workshops are designed to equip teachers with tools to properly prepare their students to sit the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate exams in a few months’ time.
Peter Levy, vice-president for general insurance at the IAJ and CEO of British Caribbean Insurance Company, expressed the IAJ’s pleasure with its investment in the mathematics workshop organised by the Ministry of Education and sponsored by the IAJ over the last three years. He noted that in 2012 the CSEC maths pass rate was 37.5 per cent. In 2013, the first year of the IAJ’s involvement, the rates climbed to 42.2 per cent, then jumped to 55.5 per cent in 2014 ,and increased to 62 per cent in 2015.
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