Make AI tools to reduce teacher workloads, tech companies urged

Special access granted to DfE resources to train AI models to generate workbooks and lesson plans

Tech companies are being urged to create better AI tools for reducing teachers' workloads, as ministers announced they would give AI models special access to the Department for Education's (DfE) bank of resources.

The education minister Stephen Morgan said the move was a huge step forward for AI in the classroom", with the government spending 3m to create a content bank" of official assessments, curriculum guidance and teaching materials.