Schools

Explainer

AI is already in Britain's classrooms. The rules, the evidence and the money are still catching up

Nearly nine in ten young people use AI tools, most teachers now use them every week, and the government is paying eight companies to build AI tutors for disadvantaged pupils. A guide to what is actually happening in UK schools, what the evidence says, and who wants what.

Analysis

Do councils leave private schools out of road safety schemes? In some boroughs, yes. We checked eight

After the death outside Highgate School, we asked whether fee-paying schools get the same protection as state ones. Haringey's record was fair. Barnet's and Wandsworth's are not: neither has a single private school among its School Streets. It comes down to who gets to choose.

Analysis

A pupil died outside Highgate School this morning. Was she less protected because her school is private?

The suspicion after a death outside a fee-paying school is that councils look after state pupils first. Haringey's record says otherwise. The real gap is that the one protection councils have rolled out at scale cannot be used on the main roads where children are most at risk.