The Ministry of Education Transformation must urgently explain why the island’s private schools are outperforming public educational institutions, the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) has demanded.

​BUT President Rudy Lovell questioned the widening performance gap highlighted in Monday’s examination results, labelling any direct comparison between the two sectors “unfair” due to stark differences in resources, parental involvement, and infrastructural disruptions.

The private Anglican school, St Gabriel’s, provided both the top boy and girl in the Common Entrance examination, the ministry announced on Monday. No further details on the distribution of high marks among private and public schools were made available.