The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion says there is no change to the list of text­books is­sued in the Aca­d­e­m­ic Year 2022/23 for the new Aca­d­e­m­ic Year 2023/24. In a press re­lease is­sued this af­ter­noon, the Min­istry stat­ed that text­books should not be added nor edi­tions at any class lev­el.

 The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion:

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion wish­es to in­form that in ac­cor­dance with the cir­cu­lar mem­o­ran­dum is­sued to Prin­ci­pals on Mon­day, 12th Sep­tem­ber, 2022, there should be NO changes to the list of text­books as is­sued in Aca­d­e­m­ic Year 2022/23 for the new Aca­d­e­m­ic Year 2023/24. That is, text­books should nei­ther be added, nor should edi­tions change at any class lev­el on schools’ book­lists for Aca­d­e­m­ic Year 2023/24. 

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with iGovTT, is cur­rent­ly en­gaged in the pro­cure­ment process for an e-book plat­form. Fur­ther to this, the Min­istry will com­mence a re­view of text­books, in­clud­ing e-books and e-re­sources, the out­come of which will be used to in­form the pol­i­cy re­gard­ing the for­mu­la­tion of schools’ book­lists. Prin­ci­pals and stake­hold­ers will be up­dat­ed ac­cord­ing­ly as this process con­tin­ues.