Parliament is asking the hard questions about AI in education. The answers will define a generation’s schooling
The most wide-ranging parliamentary examination of artificial intelligence and EdTech in UK education history is being conducted by The House of Commons Education Committee.
With 76 per cent of teachers now using AI every day, and exams bodies, regulators and unions all in the witness chair, the findings will shape policy for years to come. For years the debate about artificial intelligence in British classrooms moved faster in press releases than it did in Parliament. Schools were already using AI to plan lessons, mark work and generate resources. Universities were wrestling with a wave of AI-assisted submissions that existing academic integrity frameworks were never designed to handle. Students were, in growing numbers, using AI not just for academic work but fo