🪷 AI, Funding, and Yoga: How Governments Are Rethinking Teacher Training
Governments and tech giants are stepping in with funding, AI upskilling, and holistic education initiatives to address teacher shortages and modernize the profession. Join us in 🇬🇧 London and 🇺🇸 New York!
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Governments and tech firms are accelerating efforts to strengthen the teaching workforce through funding, new incentive models, and AI upskilling. Saudi Arabia has mandated pre-service teacher training for all new educators, while New Zealand committed $53M to cover registration fees for 115,000 teachers through 2028. In India, a new Integrated Teacher Education Programme is aligning training with NEP 2020 goals, adding holistic components like yoga and the arts. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Google are stepping in to address digital skill gaps, training thousands of teachers in AI and coding across Brazil and Indonesia. As teacher shortages persist, expect continued investment in hybrid training models and public-private partnerships to expand instructional capacity and modernize teaching at scale.
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🏫 Nearly 60% of Teachers Lack GenAI Awareness in Education
In 2023, nearly 60% of UK educators cited unfamiliarity with GenAI’s educational uses, alongside risk, tech gaps, and unawareness. The UK government addresses this through its Generative AI in Education policy, guiding safe implementation, and the Call for Evidence on Generative AI (2023), which helps shape future strategies aimed at enhancing AI literacy, mitigating risks, and aligning the curriculum with technological advancements.🪷
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💪 Power Moves
🖥️ Blackbaud introduced enhancements to its K–12 education software, enabling independent schools to customize their systems through partner integrations.
🤖 The Trump administration circulated a draft executive order proposing the integration of AI into K–12 education.
💡 Drax launched a virtual work experience program with Springpod across the UK for 400K students.
💰 Education Funding
HolonIQ actively monitors and tracks capital flow in the education market, spanning all regions and transaction categories.
🖥️ Pistachio, a Norwegian cybersecurity training solution, has secured $7M to scale its AI-powered cybersecurity training platform globally.
💡 Manabie, a Singaporean end-to-end solution provider for educators, has raised ~ $23M to accelerate development of an AI tutor tool.
🎓 Placeasy, an Indian placement service provider, has raised $12.5M to expand its industry-aligned professional education platform that guarantees job placements for students.
🏫 Pencil Finance, a student loan solution provider, announced it has raised $10M to provide student loan financing.
💬 Poppins, a neurotech startup based in Paris, France, raised $5.7M to expand digital therapy for children with dyslexia.
📢 Avathon Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm, acquired OculusIT, a New Jersey-based IT services provider for U.S. education institutions.
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