Free briefing · Boards and trustees
What governors need to know about AI
Fourteen briefing points on what AI is in plain terms, what it means for education and work, what your safeguarding duties now say about it, and the questions a board should put to its leaders. It ends with a checklist you can take to a meeting.
Five pages · September 2026 · Free to share with your board
Inside the briefing
Your job is not to master the tools. It is to be sure the school has thought seriously about AI.
What AI is, and what it changes
Why AI is an educational question, not a purchase, and what generative AI actually is.
Learning, assessment and the world of work
Jobs, expertise, JCQ rules on coursework, and the questions parents are asking.
Risk, safeguarding and the rulebook
What KCSiE 2026 now says about AI, and the duties that land on the board.
Policy, tools and data
What a good AI policy settles, approving a short list of tools, and supply-chain data risk.
Staff, and your checklist
Why staff capability is the whole game, plus a ten-point checklist for your next meeting.
From Pedagogue
Govern the direction, not the tools.
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