School in 2025 is dramatically different from what we remember.

No more cookie-cutter lessons. No more teachers drowning in mountains of grading.

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing education — making it more personalized, efficient, and accessible than ever.

In this story, I’ll break down 7 powerful ways AI is transforming education in 2025 — and what it means for students, teachers, and lifelong learners.

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1. Personalized Learning Paths

Every student learns at a different pace.

AI platforms like Khanmigo (Khan Academy AI) adapt lessons to the learner’s strengths and weaknesses.

If a student struggles with fractions, AI slows down. If they’re advanced, it accelerates.
Pro Tip for Students: Master poor subjects quicker using AI apps.

2. 24/7 AI Tutors

Applications such as ChatGPT, ScribeSense, and TutorAI work like personal tutors, never missing a class.

ELSA’s co-founders – language-testing experts Sandy Bhangal, Stephen Carey, Karen Ottewell and Mir Rahman – are hailing the formation of the body as filling a “critical gap in the sector by providing impartial, expert-led insights on the quality and integrity of English language tests used worldwide”.

They said that the need for “unbiased oversight” over the ELT sector “has never been greater” as the need for reliable language tests for university admissions, immigration and employment grows.

“Our mission is simple: to help institutions, educators, and policymakers globally make informed, evidence-based decisions about language testing,” said Ottewell.

“Until now, there has been no independent authority focused solely on the standards and fairness of English language assessments. When selecting which English language tests to accept, institutions have a duty of care – to their own admissions standards, but especially to the international applicants they are seeking to attract. ELSA is here to change that.”

When selecting which English language tests to accept, institutions have a duty of care – to their own admissions standards, but especially to the international applicants they are seeking to attract
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ELSA will offer consultation and advisory services to institutions on how to select and implement English language tests, independent test reviews and language assessment literacy (LAL) training programs for educators, administrators and policymakers.

Its three co-founders have a combined 100+ years of experience in applied linguistic and language assessment. The body hopes to become “the go-to authority for objective and transparent insights in an often opaque ad commercially driven landscape”.

ELSA’s formation comes against a backdrop of major change for language testing in the UK, as the Home Office looks to commission a single government-backed test.

Most recently, the government released a fifth request for information from the sector as part of the ongoing tender, this time exploring digital testing as the primary mode of delivery.

Sweden is to implement a nationwide mobile phone ban in all schools in an attempt to improve security and study conditions for students.

From the next school year, starting in autumn 2026, it will be compulsory for all schools and after-school clubs to collect students’ phones and hold them until the end of the day.

The new rule, which will affect children between the ages of seven and 16, is part of a package of proposed measures announced by the government on Tuesday.

As well as the phone ban, proposed changes will cover the curriculum, the grading system and teacher training.

“What we are presenting today is a historic budget investment in schools and the biggest reform agenda in over 30 years,” said Sweden’s new education and schools minister, Simona Mohamsson.

The budget bill, which the government will submit next week, allocates 95m kronor (£7.52m) for 2026 and 100m kronor the following year to implement the phone ban.

Most schools in Sweden already confiscate mobile phones at the start of the school day, but students have found ways to get around the ban such as handing in a fake phone or saying that they have forgotten their phone or that it is broken.

“This should apply to everyone in all of Sweden’s classrooms. It applies to every young person in Sweden and is not optional,” Mohamsson, who is leader of the Liberals party, has previously said of the ban.

Earlier this year, Denmark said it would ban mobile phones in schools and after-school clubs on the recommendation of a government commission that also found children under 13 should not have their own smartphone or tablet.

Norway last year announced a strict minimum age of 15 on social media use as the government accused tech companies of being “pitted against small children’s brains”.

Recent research in the Netherlands, which in January 2014 issued national guidelines recommending a ban on smartphones in classrooms, with which almost all Dutch schools have complied, has found improvements to the learning environment. The vast majority (75%) of secondary schools surveyed said that children found it easier to concentrate and 28% said results had improved.

France, meanwhile, tightened its ban on mobile phones in middle schools in September.