The Government is calling on more corporate companies to partner with the island’s educational institutions in a bid to boost their outputs.

As part of its continued commitment to education, the JPS and Partners Co-operative Credit Union Limited has awarded 54 high-school bursaries and two tertiary-level scholarships to students, valued at over $4 million.

“It is not the school that you attend that makes you who you are but it is what you do with the available resources; that is what counts,” says 18-year-old Shackoyla Crooks of Godfrey Stewart High School in Westmoreland.

Sixteen students from non-traditional high schools across the island were on Wednesday awarded for outstanding performance in the 2015 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)-administered external examinations.