AI in education: tutors, assessment, integrity (Oct 2025)

Oct 2025

Education is a global AI story because it touches policy, ethics, and everyday tooling. In 2025 we’re seeing more pragmatic approaches: AI tutors for practice, and assessment redesigned to measure understanding rather than copy/paste skill.

The key tension is integrity vs accessibility. AI can be a learning accelerator, but only if the system makes expectations explicit.

Emerging patterns

- “AI allowed” policies with disclosure for graded work.

- More oral / in-class assessment to validate comprehension.

- Tutor-style tools for practice, with guardrails.

The takeaway for builders: make provenance and disclosure easy—people will follow policy when the tool supports it.