Paul Givan gave himself a pat on the back last week with news of the PISA scores vindicating Michael Gove’s controversial education reforms.

He might want to pay attention to the detail, though, because the data suggests that learners with heavy or regular use of AI were less likely to do well. In the meantime, Mr Givan is shovelling AI down our throats as his answer to our workload pressures. Curriculum planning? Essay marking? Behaviour plans? No problem, we are told. Just use AI.

I could have used AI to write this. And it would have read well. But it wouldn’t have been my voice. I think, as a teacher, my voice matters. As a parent, the voices of my children’s teachers matter to me. When I read their reports at the end of the year, I want to........

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