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dbrau.ac.in // Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University , formerly Agra University , is an Autonomous University located in Agra , Uttar Pradesh , India. The university, formerly named as Agra University, was later named after Bhimrao Ambedkar .
The Scout Association of Jamaica, the national Scouting organisation of Jamaica, was founded in 1910, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1963. The coeducational Scout Association of Jamaica has 2,539 members in 18 districts as of 2011. [1] In 1952, The First Caribbean Jamboree was held in Jamaica.
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In 1926, the Jamaica Schools Commission recommended that the school's name be changed. The name selected was St Hugh's High School. St Hugh's College, Oxford , England , was the alma mater of Miss Evelyn Stopford who became principal in 1926.
Westwood is among the five boarding remaining in Jamaica and has been the only school to retain the tradition of wearing a jippi-jappa (Panama) hat. [ 2 ] Amy Ashwood Garvey , a Pan-Africanist activist and the first wife of Marcus Mosiah Garvey , was a student of the school. [ 3 ]
7) Sir Florizel Glasspole: He attended Wolmer’s in the early 1930s and went on to distinguish himself in Jamaica’s political affairs. He served as Governor-General for Jamaica between 1972 and 1992. He served on the 250th anniversary committee and was instrumental in spearheading the construction of the 6th Form Building.
The school was declared open on April 16, 1925, with forty-nine students. Today the school is located at 2A North Street, Kingston. In 1963 the Melbourne Campus (13 Upper Elleston Road, Kingston C.S.O.) was purchased from the Melbourne Cricket Club. The Melbourne Campus is now home to 7th, 8th, 9th Grade (1st, 2nd and 3rd Form).
Calabar High School is an all-male secondary school in Kingston, Jamaica.It was established by the Jamaica Baptist Union in 1912 for the children of Baptist ministers. It was named after the Kalabari Kingdom later anglicized by the British to Calabar, in present-day Nigeria.