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AI in Education

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An AI policy is not enough: why schools need a structure to govern AI

AI is already part of everyday school life. Teachers use it to plan lessons and draft reports, pupils come across it in the apps they use for...

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Microsoft’s AI Safety and Privacy Standard: A New Line in the Sand for AI in Schools

Microsoft has signed a legally enforceable agreement that places privacy, safety, transparency and human oversight into the contractual relationship...

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Agentic AI in schools: A problem for another day?

There is a lot of discussion about agentic AI at the moment. The promise is easy to understand. Rather than using AI simply to respond to a prompt,...

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5 AI issues schools need to be aware of this year

This guest post, '5 AI Issues Schools Need to Be Aware Of This Year,' is authored by Dan Fitzpatrick, The AI Educator. There was a point, not that...

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AI and children’s rights: Why schools need governance, not just guidance

The recently published report, Artificial intelligence and children’s rights: A narrative review of the evidence, by Smera Jayadeva and Sonia...

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From Prompt to Production: Why AI-Generated Code Still Needs Developers

AI coding tools can turn an idea into a feature-rich application with extraordinary speed. But speed does not replace architecture, secure...

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The AI, Technology and Safeguarding Jigsaw Is Complete: The Academy Trust Handbook 2026 Requires Digital Risk Leadership

For several years, academy trusts have been responding to a growing collection of requirements covering safeguarding, online safety, data protection,...

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KCSIE 2026 is confirmed: AI is now part of the safeguarding system

The finalised Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 guidance is published and comes into force on 1 September 2026. For schools, the most...

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The coming AI churn in EdTech: Why schools need to look beyond the badge

AI is now being added to almost every part of the EdTech market.

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Student Images, Deepfakes and the New Digital Safety Reality for Schools

In May 2025, we became aware of a deeply concerning emerging threat affecting schools: the use of publicly available student images to create...

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This Month in School Technology: Vendor Risk, Cyber Resilience and the AI Governance Gap

Over the last month, several education technology stories have landed that, on the surface, look separate.

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The Diamond Formation: Why Schools Need a Governance Structure for AI

Embedding AI into schools is not really about the technology. It is not even about the people leading the initiative. More often, success or failure...

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From AI Paralysis to Practical Leadership: Reflections from The Educators AI Playbook LIVE NYC

On Friday 10 April, school leaders, accreditors, technology partners and educators came together at the United Nations International School in New...

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