News · Education Students Offered an AI Tutor Got Lower Grades, a Large Trial Finds Universities are racing to give students AI study tools. A randomised trial at the University of Maryland — one of the largest of its kind, published as a working paper in October 2026 — suggests that simply switching one on

Analysis · Skills The Skills Workers May Need in the Next Decade Most of us will change jobs, tools and ways of working several times over a career — and AI is speeding that up. Employers expect a large share of today’s skills to change by the end of the decade. The good news is

Analysis · Education How Education Must Adapt to an AI-Driven Economy Students adopted AI before most schools had a plan for it. Now education systems face two challenges at once: deciding how AI should be used in classrooms, and preparing young people and adults for a labour market that AI is reshaping. The early evidence