Minister of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine is apparently hopeful that extra lessons can in due course be dispensed with. Earlier this month Stabroek News quoted him as saying “My own feeling is that ...

The country’s education system has forcibly removed me from the bars of silence to expose the fallacy of education the nation’s children are being subjected to. Too long we echo the statement ...

I refer to the article captioned ‘Roopnaraine takes aim at extra lessons’ (SN, June 7) to offer the following comments. It is time for this parallel education system, this underground learning economy ...

NOWHERE in Caricom are extra lessons as developed as here, yet Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago get better results in exams. Our parents spend more and get less. There is a massive market in extras ...

The issue of "extra lessons" for schoolchildren poses a knotty problem for the Ministry of Education. On the one hand, the Ministry can hardly stymie those entrepreneurial educators who choose to make ...

Primary and Secondary Education ministry spokesperson Taungana Ndoro yesterday told NewsDay that government had banned holiday extra lessons to curb the spread of COVID-19. Before the ban, schools ...

After spending a term at school, children are supposed to go for holiday. However, the majority of students never really rest as they find themselves at school throughout the holidays attending extra ...