Jamaicans need to place more emphasis on financing education, says Minister
KINGSTON, Jamaica–Education Minister Ronnie Thwaites says that education in Jamaica does not receive the level of priory it should from the general population.
The minister speaking at the Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange on funding for tertiary education said some 3,000 students last year could not get assistance from the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) due to a lack of guarantors.
“State agencies cannot be expected to cover the full burden of tertiary education. People have to start saving; we have to get into that culture, said the Education Minister.
Thwaites however said that said that he processing loans without guarantors is in the pipeline.
He added that 15,000 Jamaicans have applied for loans through SLB this year with 9,000 being returning students.
