Teachers could soon be utilising AI technology for marking homework and planning lessons under proposals from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).

The £4m project will pool government documents including curriculum guidance, lesson plans and anonymised pupil assessments to train tools to generate creative content for lessons and workbooks.

The content store is targeted at technology companies specialising in education to build tools that will help teachers mark work, create teaching materials for use in the classroom and assist with routine school admin.

According to a government analysis, the project will make classroom AI 92% accurate, compared with the 67% rate for current commercial alternatives. DSIT believes that greater use of AI in the classroom could free up teachers to spend more time directly helping children rather than fulfilling administrative duties.

According to a survey from TeacherTapp, almost half of teachers are already using AI to help with...