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 ...

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 ...

Saying the public education system “is not truly free,” Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine hopes to do away with the need for extra lessons that can cost parents hundreds of thousands of dollars ...

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 ...

Recently, there have been numerous letters penned about extra lessons in primary schools, the latest being, "Our children aren't racehorses" by a Ms Scott (Express, May 23). I am disillusioned by the ...

The Department for Education says schools should provide one extra lesson of maths each week to prepare pupils for tough new GCSEs and enable them to catch up with their peers in Singapore Pupils will ...

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 ...

I have read the thought-provoking letter to the editor, written by Tashani Durrant and published in the Jamaica Observer on Thursday, January 8, 2015, titled ‘Extra lessons or extra money’. The ...

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