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mytGPT — AI Personal Tutor Pilot in Mauritius Schools

Mauritius · Port Mathurin · See the Mauritius profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 95% 20/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Mauritius Telecom and the Ministry of Education piloted mytGPT, an AI tutoring assistant, with about 70 Grade 12 students in Rodrigues from Aug-Oct 2025, expanding to 8 primary and secondary schools by January 2026; no learning-outcome data has yet been published.

mytGPT — AI Personal Tutor Pilot in Mauritius Schools

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Mauritius Telecom; Ministry of Education and Human Resources (Mauritius)
Period
Jun 2025 launch; pilot Aug-Oct 2025; expanded pilot Jan 2026; national rollout planned 2027
Keywords
generative AI tutoring, secondary and primary education, personalised content

Context

mytGPT is a generative-AI pedagogical assistant developed by Mauritius Telecom's in-house innovation team, in partnership with Mauritius's Ministry of Education and Human Resources. It provides on-demand, level-tailored content and personal-tutor-style support, plus a real-time dashboard letting teachers monitor class progress; no source discloses the underlying AI model or vendor.

Activities

The platform launched in June 2025 with a pilot at College Marechal on the island of Rodrigues, involving about 70 Grade 12 students across mathematics, accounting and physics from August to October 2025. Following a partnership agreement signed in October 2025, an expanded pilot launched on 26 January 2026 across eight schools (four primary and four secondary), covering grades 4, 7, 8 and 9. Officials describe an ambition for nationwide rollout from grade 3 through secondary school starting in 2027.

Conclusions

No learning-outcome data (test scores, engagement metrics, or comparable measures) has been published for either pilot phase — coverage to date describes rollout process and intentions rather than results. Coverage also notes an explicit equity concern: having begun in Rodrigues (Mauritius's most remote, least-connected inhabited island), further expansion may favour better-connected schools over remote ones, and no funding figures or technical specification of the AI model have been disclosed.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — Single-partner (telecom company) pilot across a handful of schools; no funding figures disclosed.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — Launched June 2025; pilot Aug-Oct 2025; expanded pilot from Jan 2026; national rollout planned from 2027.
Staffing & skills
Mauritius Telecom's in-house innovation team, Ministry of Education and Human Resources (Mauritius), Teachers using a real-time class-progress dashboard

Conditions for success

  • Phased rollout: single-school pilot (2025) then eight-school expanded pilot (2026) ahead of a national ambition (2027)
  • Formal partnership agreement signed between Mauritius Telecom and the Ministry of Education (October 2025)

Common failure modes

  • No learning-outcome data published for either pilot phase
  • All published figures trace to Mauritius Telecom's own press releases, without independent verification of outcomes
  • Explicit equity concern that expansion may favour better-connected schools over remote ones like Rodrigues
  • No funding figures or AI model technical specification disclosed

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