DfE to fund global guidelines for generative AI in education
The Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced that the Department for Education will be funding the development of global guidelines for generative AI in education.
Working closely with partners at the OECD, the DfE will be shaping the global consensus on how generative AI can be deployed safely and effectively to boost education around the world.
The UK will also host an international summit on generative AI in education in 2026.
The summit will gather education leaders from around the world to implement these guidelines.
The DfE also said that it is investing more than a million pounds to test the Edtech being used in schools and colleges.
Working with the Open Innovation Team, the DfE will be engaging the sector to understand what works, looking at how tools, including AI, can improve things like staff workload, pupil outcomes and inclusivity.
Speaking at the Education World Forum, the Bridget Phillipson said: "EdTech can light up the next century of education – and I believe it will – but there are no guarantees. So getting AI on the right track now is the most important challenge for global education in a generation.
"We have far to go to deliver the scale of progress that I know is possible. Our evidence-base is too narrow, too shallow, too concentrated in certain parts of the world, too focused on certain parts of the system. More and better research is needed."
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