Nick’s Phonics Centre owner Anika Abel learning to be a CEO

Children at play at Nicks Phonics Centre.

Modest entrepreneurial initiatives arising out of a growing inclination towards self-employment has given rise to the need for appropriate business training for the investors. Limited investigation done by the Stabroek Business has revealed not only that persons with a belated passion for self-employment are venturing into business without the benefit of any formal business training but also that choices are moving in the direction of sectors that have been, for the most part, the purview of the state.

The resurgence of private education in Guyana is largely a function of, first, an increasing concern over what is widely regarded as the decline in the quality of public sector education as well as the search by teachers for opportunities to supplement their insubstantial incomes. The so-called bottom house extra lessons phenomenon that blossomed as