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NextClass — Trinidad and Tobago's National AI Hub for Lesson Planning, Grading Support and Student Tracking

Trinidad and Tobago · Port of Spain · See the Trinidad and Tobago profile · See the Port of Spain profile

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

Trinidad and Tobago budgeted TT$4.64m for NextClass, a Ministry of Education AI hub giving every teacher lesson planning, real-time student tracking and automated grading support, from January 2026.

TT$4.64 million ~US$0.69M
NextClass budget allocation
TT$146 million
Wider digital-education package
18,000
Devices for Form One students
NextClass — Trinidad and Tobago's National AI Hub for Lesson Planning, Grading Support and Student Tracking

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Ministry of Education, Trinidad and Tobago
Period
Budgeted Fiscal 2026 (TT$4.64m); rollout from January 2026
Keywords
government, education administration, teacher tools, student data

Context

Trinidad and Tobago's Fiscal 2026 budget allocated TT$4.64 million to NextClass, a Ministry of Education AI hub for lesson planning, real-time student tracking and automated grading, part of a TT$146 million digital-education package.

Results

As a pre-launch budget line with rollout from January 2026, no usage or outcome data has been published, including on how student-tracking data will be governed.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
Ministry of Education, Trinidad and Tobago

Conditions for success

  • published data-governance framework for real-time student tracking
  • coordination with parallel eLEVATE TT and PEARL programmes

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