About a quarter of each course at DUOC involves remedial classes in maths, language and English.

ECONOMIST: Chile

When academics complain about students who arrive with an incomplete grasp of their subject, universities run remedial classes to make up the deficit.

ECONOMIST: Reform is mooted as exam grades seem to rise inexorably

After years of tutoring and remedial classes, she dropped English, math and French and has found her passion, and self-esteem, in art and design.

WSJ: Dyslexia Workarounds: How Henry Winkler, Gov. Dan Malloy, Delos Cosgrove Got Creative to Get Ahead

But the means of ensuring that they are met will be thrown open: private hospitals will treat patients who have been waiting too long for treatment, and tutors will give remedial classes to failing schoolchildren.

ECONOMIST: Gordon Brown's latest relaunch

I'm stunned it made it past the copy-edits without someone calling Mr. Noer in for remedial It's-Not-1950-Anymore classes.

FORBES: Magazine Article