The announcement comes as part of the prime minister’s AI Opportunities Action Plan – unveiled this week (DSIT, 2025) – which the government hopes will drive growth and improve public services.
The £1m has been earmarked for 16 developers “to create AI tools to help with marking and generating detailed, tailored feedback for individual students in a fraction of the time”. The government hopes the tools will cut the time spent marking homework and assessments.
The Department for Education (DfE) confirmed this week that the tools will be targeted at a specific ages and subjects. Examples cited include tools helping teachers to:
The first prototype tools are to be developed by April and will draw upon a £3m AI data store that has been created by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
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