{"id":893484,"date":"2026-03-22T03:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/uwi-economist-urges-end-to-free-tertiary-education\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:18:24","slug":"uwi-economist-urges-end-to-free-tertiary-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/uwi-economist-urges-end-to-free-tertiary-education\/","title":{"rendered":"UWI economist urges end to free tertiary education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Daren Conrad, senior lecturer and head, Department of Economics at The University of the West Indies (UWI), says the State should end full financing of tertiary education, arguing that public funding should stop at secondary school, as Trinidad and Tobago can no longer absorb the number of university graduates being produced. Speaking at The<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/business\/local\/uwi-economist-urges-end-to-free-tertiary-education\/article_cf4468ac-2670-48ac-98dd-a0b23f7ef0b2.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n <span \n                data-original-string='YJymZo2TqReQls7\/ebPbTA==7f4TWU611E\/ICMtwkBuc8f1P2L6rnza1BhMk9e4ks+JOrvjM1wnMY5I7LXycNpZHTu3'\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>Vi<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*************<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*************<\/span>ss.com<\/span> (Vishanna Phagoo)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Daren Conrad, senior lecturer and head, Department of Economics at The University of the West Indies (UWI), says the State should end full financing of tertiary education, arguing that public funding should stop at secondary school, as Trinidad and Tobago can no longer absorb the number of university graduates being produced. Speaking at The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":893485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24614,192,29332],"tags":[13020,12912],"class_list":{"0":"post-893484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economist","8":"category-sports","9":"category-urges","10":"tag-economist","11":"tag-urges"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}