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Prime Minister Andrew Holness has promised that the six science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) schools his Administration plans to build will be done with information technology at the forefront to ensure that students can compete on a global scale.
Holness was addressing a recent ground-breaking ceremony at the St Catherine High School, where the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education Fund (CHASE) has contributed $53.9 million toward the construction of a performing arts building.
"You look at the infrastructure of most of our schools, they are not built and designed for the kind of teaching and learning that is required to ensure that our population can function well and navigate in, what I call the Fourth Industrial Revolution," said Holness.
"Most societies that are integrating technologies, have electronic whiteboards in their classrooms. They integrate the Internet in their classrooms. We need to modernise our schools, and we need to stop building schools that are just four square walls. Because that sends a signal, [and] the learning environment which we have our children in impacts their learning," added Holness.
He argued that many schools in Jamaica have been constructed without consideration for lighting, airflow, and heat.
"The aesthetics are such that they present a hard and harsh environment, which reflects on how we behave. They are not always built to ensure that there is enough green space and playing space for our children," argued Holness.
According to the prime minister, Jamaica's schools are not built with the necessary labs and technology integrated into them, therefore teachers are still very much reliant on using chalkboards.
"Most societies that are integrating technologies have electronic whiteboards in their classrooms. They integrate the Internet in their classrooms. [These schools] will be purpose-built, with the necessary labs and technology integrated.
"The idea behind the schools that we are going to build is that they will be modern, they will be first-world schools, and they will be subliminal, projecting in the minds of our children the kinds of behaviour that we want them to have," said Holness.
The prime minister added that if Jamaica is to grow significantly and "rise out of poverty, violence, and crime", then focus must be placed on these areas.
He noted that the Government has not built a new school in almost a decade, and said this prompted his Administration to build the STEM schools.
"We have expanded schools, we have put in new classrooms, but we haven't really built a brand new school. The last one we did was in Cedar Grove [in Portmore, St Catherine]. I started that school as minister of education, and it was completed sometime in 2013," he said.
The Cedar Grove Academy, which is the first school built with financing from the National Education Trust (NET), on behalf of the Ministry of Education, started classes on September 2, 2013.
While there is no timeline yet for when construction of the six STEM schools will begin, or where they will be located, the Office of the Prime Minister last week told the Observer that they will be built in all three counties.
Speaking during his contribution to the 2021/22 Budget Debate on March 18, Holness annouced that the Government has identified locations, and this year will move forward with detailed designs and implementation plans for two of the six STEM-focused high schools.
"We have taken the time to do the designs and the planning. We have identified two locations and we are proceeding with the finalisation of the plans, and they are at the public investment process to be approved. So they are well on their way to be delivered. We are going to have some first-class schools in science and technology," said Holness.
He added that the Chinese Government is to assist with the development of three of the schools, while the Jamaican Government will be responsible for covering the cost.