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England funds a £3m lesson-plan data store for AI teaching tools, plus £1m in prizes

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Source: GOV.UK

The UK government announced on 28 August 2024 a £3 million content store of curriculum guidance, lesson plans and anonymised pupil work for AI companies to train education tools on, plus £1 million in prizes for tools that help teachers mark and give feedback by March 2025. The Department for Education said its tests raised a model’s accuracy to 92% from 67% with the targeted data.

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AI firms building tools for English schools get government-approved training data, and teachers get marking tools paid for through prizes.

When
28 Aug 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0120
Who
Department for Education, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Open University; Stephen Morgan, Peter Kyle

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from GOV.UK. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2024-0120: “England funds a £3m lesson-plan data store for AI teaching tools, plus £1m in prizes.” wheresthe.ai, 28 Aug 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/gb-dfe-ai-content-store-2024-08/ (source: GOV.UK).

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