“AI can deliver a whole new era. It can be the biggest boost for education in the last 500 years,” said then education secretary Bridget Phillipson, in a speech earlier this year, likening it to the invention of the printing press. “The potential is huge, but so is our responsibility.”
Enter Inspired Edge, an “AI-enabled primary school”, which is bringing its flagship to Olympia, west London, in September next year, with further sites planned in Lisbon, Milan, Madrid and São Paulo. “Education must evolve to reflect the world children are growing up in, not the world as it was,” says its founder, Nadim Nsouli, who has a background in private equity.
