- UAE edtech firm EDNAS launches nation’s first fully supported AI literacy program for Key Stage 1-3 students
- Curriculum provides ready-to-use lesson plans, activities, and resources, piloted at Haileybury Astana before UAE-wide rollout
- Program aims to empower teachers, equip students with AI skills, and expand regionally with bilingual and accredited offerings by 2027
The UAE's vision for itself as a global artificial intelligence hub is finally coming into the classroom. EDNAS, a UAE-headquartered education technology firm, is bringing the nation's first fully supported AI literacy school program to market. Spanning Key Stage 1-3 (Years 1-9), the program provides schools with all the materials they require to begin teaching AI immediately, with comprehensive lesson plans, activities, and classroom resources intended to make AI education easy, hands-on, and ready to implement on day one.
Created with teachers and AI specialists and tested to international standards such as PISA 2029, the curriculum comes at a time when the UAE is speeding up its requirement for AI education in all schools. The initial pilots have begun at Haileybury Astana, part of the prestigious British Haileybury school group, providing insight before a UAE-wide deployment and regional roll-out over the coming months.
“The UAE has set a bold vision to lead the world in AI education, and schools need practical ways to bring that vision to life. As an educator, I’ve seen how challenging it can be to move from ambition to action without the right support. EDNAS changes that by giving teachers the tools and confidence to prepare a generation ready not just to use AI, but to understand and shape it. And we’re proud to be a UAE-born solution, created here to meet the needs of teachers and students across the region”, says Liam Stewart, Managing Director, EDNAS
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The launch takes off in 2025 with classroom content for Key Stage 1–3 (Years 1–9), and then in 2026, CPD-approved teacher training to establish long-term skills. In 2027, accreditation services will assist schools in proving themselves ready to provide world-class AI education. From year two, Arabic-language resources will also become available, providing bilingual delivery throughout the region.
At its heart, EDNAS is about stripping away complexity and simplifying the delivery of AI education. It empowers teachers with trusted tools they can use and equips students with the skills, thinking, and moral awareness needed to succeed in an AI-driven world. What starts in the UAE has ambitions to spread throughout the region and around the world, building a generation equipped to comprehend, challenge, and lead in a world revolutionized by technology.
