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WHAT'S NEXT?: Education will increasingly be online, just-in-time and competence-based. VR will become more mainstream in education technology. The vision of easily accessible learning will be enormously powerful and widespread in a few years. The global artificial intelligence market in the education sector will grow exponentially and post an impressive CAGR of over 39% by 2020.

• [New] AI literacy is an increasingly important aspect of MOE's broader EdTech Masterplan 2030, which lays out plans to tap education technology to complement teaching. ST
• [New] All primary, secondary and JC teachers in Singapore must complete three compulsory AI training modules by 2027 to understand AI fundamentals, ethical use, and its impact on learning. ST
• [New] From 2027, the first V Levels in education, accounting and finance and digital will be introduced. GOV.UK
• [New] Strengthening education and workforce training, adapting social protection systems and ensuring that the benefits of AI-driven growth are more widely shared will become central policy challenges as China moves toward a more intelligent society. China-US Focus
• [New] Strengthening Education and Skilled Mobility: Deeper institutional partnerships can expand opportunities for Indian students, researchers and professionals, while joint research can advance innovation in agriculture, climate and emerging technologies. Insights IAS
• [New] Nearly 40% of the skills workers rely on now could change or become outdated by 2030, making adaptability and lifelong learning more important than ever. UN News
• [New] Alabama's CHOOSE Act education savings accounts are fully funded for the 2026-2027 school year. A to Z for Moms Like Me
• More students can deepen their study of mother tongue languages from 2027 as the Ministry of Education expands the Language Elective Programme at both the secondary and junior college levels. ST
• From 2027, the Language Elective Programme will expand, adding schools for Chinese and Tamil languages to offer more students advanced mother tongue learning and cultural exposure. ST
• The Ministry of Education will expand Tamil and Chinese language elective programmes and the Malay, giving more students opportunities to deepen their learning of mother tongue languages. CNA
• In the second half of 2026, students from institutes of higher learning will have an Adulting 101 programme on key life transitions. ST
• By 2026, online education will not simply be about uploading lectures online - it will be intelligent, immersive, adaptive, and deeply human-centric. TheTuitionE - Online Private Tuition - Dubai
• One of the biggest shifts by 2026 will be artificial intelligence (AI) being deeply embedded in learning platforms. TheTuitionE - Online Private Tuition - Dubai
• By 2030, the number of students from institutes of higher learning going on overseas internships in ASEAN member states, China and India will double to 3,000 annually, up from 1,500 today. ST
• To meet the demand for overseas exposure, there will be 8,000 more places in the Asia-Ready Exposure Programme by 2030, taking the total number of short-term overseas opportunities and overseas internships available for students from institutes of higher learning to 20,000. ST
• By 2030, Pakistan aims to train more than 2 million AI professionals, develop 10,000 trainers and educators, introduce AI education from school to university, establish AI centers of excellence, create a national AI fund, and strengthen university-industry collaboration. United Nations
• The next decade will likely be characterised by integrated multimodal intelligence, continuous learning systems embedded in care pathways, regulatory maturity, stronger clinician leadership, and an explicit focus on equity and trust. European Medical Journal
• Teaching and Learning with AI is designed for higher education professionals, researchers, and policymakers from around the world who are interested in exploring the potential of AI in Higher Ed classrooms. Artificial Intelligence for All
• You will see how graduate hiring can rise while foundational tasks shrink, why AI experience is moving outside formal education, and how South Africa's access gap makes the first career step even harder. Memeburn
• Corporate learning and development is projected to grow at a 30.62% CAGR through 2031, making it the fastest-growing end user group. Mordor Intelligence

Last updated: 12 August 2026