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This section brings together 6 insights on Future of Education, with research, practical frameworks and lessons from working with leaders.
6 pieces
Ofqual's AI coursework pack mentions heads of department once and gives them no tasks. Five lines, written before the next deadline, settle what is allowed, what to keep and when a teacher must speak up.
Guidance reported in May 2026 lets SENCOs use AI to draft SEND support plans but not to decide a child's needs. The Stranger Test is three questions that sort what a machine can draft from what only the SENCO can write.
Suppliers say 13: OpenAI requires it for ChatGPT, and Google opened Gemini in Classroom to all ages in August 2026. But your school holds two more age limits, set by the task and by what an adult can actually see. How to set a line you can defend.
Every AI restriction this term came with a promise of AI literacy instead, and almost none of them said what it means. It is not a syllabus. It is three leadership decisions, and the third one settles the other two.
Ofqual is settling the exam hall. Nobody is settling your mocks, homework and predicted grades. A three-question test for sorting every assessment you already run into the ones that still prove something.
Schools cannot prepare children for jobs nobody can see. They can prepare them for a decision they will make every day for the rest of their lives: what to hand to a machine, and what to keep. Here is what that means for a leadership team, and the one question to start with.
