Clever
Clever, the global identity platform for education, is reimagining secure authentication for schools globally. With over a dozen years of experience focused on cybersecurity and classroom realities, Clever’s 2025 innovations provide advanced security without interrupting learning.
Expanded Single Sign-On: Students and teachers get instant, passwordless access to devices and their digital classroom using Clever Badges and the Clever Portal. Launched in 2025, Substitute Access enables supply teachers to get temporary access to digital resources, which keeps learning on track without sharing passwords.
Secure Password Management: To help schools balance strong account protection and learning, Clever IDM streamlines identity and password management. Innovations in 2025 include account claiming for new identities and even more granular controls for school-friendly complex passwords.
Deviceless Multi-Factor Authentication: As part of Classroom MFA, real-life photo matching joins a spectrum of school-friendly 2nd factors, including login pictures and PINs to protect Google, Chromebooks, and Entra ID. Additionally, schools use TrustPass in Classroom MFA to designate safe networks, making multi-factor authentication more secure and user-friendly for all ages.
Student digital safety starts with securing their digital identities. That’s why to date, over 110,000 schools globally rely on Clever for secure access to digital learning.
Deesha (Part of Ei Square)
Shortlisted for the BETT Award for Innovation, Deesha represents a paradigm shift in educational technology, moving beyond dashboards to create the world’s first AI Education Intelligence Platform.
Our game-changing innovation lies in a proprietary AI engine that seamlessly unifies a school’s fragmented data, from MIS and assessments to safeguarding notes and PDF reports, into a single, dynamic cognitive layer. Deesha doesn’t just report data; it understands it. Using Natural Language Processing and predictive modelling, the platform provides plain-English narratives and early warnings, revealing the hidden ‘why’ behind student attendance, behaviour, and attainment.
The result is a transformational step change for schools: leaders shift from reactive crisis management to proactive, strategic foresight, while teachers gain immediate insights to personalise learning. Deesha delivers radical time savings, empowers targeted interventions, and provides a complete 360-degree view of every student, fundamentally rewiring schools for data-driven success and ensuring every decision leads to a better student outcome.
LEGO Education
LEGO® Education is dedicated to transforming how students engage with science through hands-on learning experiences.
We provide all-in-one kits designed to assist teachers and engage students through playful, hands-on learning. This innovative kit simplifies science teaching by including all necessary materials—LEGO® bricks, hardware, and building instructions—in a ready-out-of-the-box solution.
With lessons designed to fit within limited instructional time, teachers can seamlessly integrate engaging, curriculum-aligned activities into existing programs. The innovation lies not only in the kit, but also in the robust support we provide educators. The online Teacher Portal is a hub of free resources such as classroom presentations, facilitation notes, and age-appropriate lessons aligned to local standards and available in 20 languages. This allows teachers to focus on fostering student discovery rather than spending valuable time on preparation.
Guided by industry experts and extensive research, our approach ensures that lessons are engaging and aligned with educational standards, making science learning exciting and impactful. LEGO Education distinguishes itself through its commitment to playful, hands-on learning, emphasizing creativity, engagement, and real-world connections. This approach not only gets students excited about science, but also boosts their confidence, resulting in better educational outcomes and a lifelong love of learning.
Mathspace
At Mathspace, we believe every student can succeed in mathematics with the right help at the right time. That belief drives every innovation we build.
Inspired by the Two Sigma problem, we set out to bring the benefits of one-to-one tutoring into real maths classrooms. First was our step-smart technology, giving students feedback at every stage of their working.
MiloAI takes that vision further. Acting as a virtual tutor embedded in Mathspace, Milo identifies and understands students’ misconceptions, guiding them with timely, targeted prompts that teach and encourage, rather than just give answers. This keeps students in control of their own learning and supports the kind of curiosity and persistence great teachers model every day.
It also supports accessibility and inclusion, with features like text-to-speech, image recognition and translation support. Teachers gain real-time insights, to keep students in a continuous, personalised learning loop.
Designed with clear safeguards, Milo operates within strict educational boundaries, safely supporting over 7.3 million student interactions across 328,000 learners in 2024-25. The result: real growth, strong teacher trust, and more students experiencing those all-important ‘aha’ moments.
We believe this is innovation with purpose, bringing the right help at the right time to every student.
Olex.AI
In September 2025 – less than fifty days after its publishing – Olex.AI launched the DfE Writing Framework PowerPack – the UK’s first and only AI-powered assessment platform directly mapped to the new national DfE Writing Framework and purpose-built for EYFS and KS1–2 writing.
Developed in collaboration with the Framework’s lead author, Dr Tim Mills MBE, the Olex DfE PowerPack equips schools with a complete, end-to-end suite of teaching, assessment and analytics tools designed to embed the framework consistently, confidently and at scale — all without adding to teacher workload.
Where other platforms offer generic writing support, Olex.AI uniquely mirrors the Framework’s pedagogy, turning national guidance into actionable classroom practice, instant feedback and evidence-rich data for leaders.
Skolon
Since 2015, Skolon has simplified digital learning for teachers and students – now supporting nearly one million users – by bringing together all digital school tools and systems in one place, with one login and one click. Now, in 2025, it’s the guardians’ turn – with an app described as “the missing piece of the puzzle in education”.
For too long, parents have been left outside the digital classroom. Multiple logins, scattered systems, and unclear access have made it difficult to follow schoolwork or support children with homework – especially for families with more than one child, or where the school language is not spoken at home.
Skolon Guardians changes this. It is the app that unifies digital tools, assignments, timetable, and communication channels a school uses for guardians – all in one secure and intuitive place. With a single login, guardians can engage in their child’s learning journey.
The groundbreaking AI Study Helper takes innovation even further: it explains difficult subjects at the right level, provides step-by-step homework support, and bridges language barriers.
Skolon Guardians makes digital learning easier, safer, and more inclusive – a true gamechanger for schools and families worldwide!
Sky
Sky Up Academy Studios Elstree represents the next generation of education innovation. The UK’s first XR-powered immersive learning studio for young people, is delivers a unique blend of technology, creativity, and career inspiration. In less than a year, it has already empowered thousands of students, built teacher confidence, and proven its ability to raise aspirations and close the industry’s skills gap.
By showing young people how their ideas can come to life, Elstree inspires them to think big, dream bigger, and believe that creative careers are within their grasp.
For its originality, impact, and measurable outcomes, Sky Up Academy Studios Elstree is a truly game-changing initiative.
stylus
stylus was founded by former teachers and education technologists with a clear mission: to make reliable, teacher-quality AI marking accessible to every school — no matter its level of technology. Unlike most AI tools, stylus works seamlessly with paper as the primary interface. Teachers simply print resources, students complete their work, and stylus handles the rest — delivering accurate, curriculum-aligned marking and actionable feedback without requiring 1:1 device access.
At the heart of stylus is rigour. Student work is transcribed through a multi-layered AI process that captures handwriting with better-than-human accuracy. Each response is assessed against nearly 100 teacher-authored criteria, rigorously validated to match or exceed human marker consistency. This ensures reliable, objective results at scale — without teacher oversight.
Data privacy is built in. All student work is anonymised before processing, and no student content is ever used to train AI models. Teachers receive class-level reports, confidence scores, and suggested interventions, while students get targeted, teacher-quality feedback and clear next steps.
Endorsed by the UK Department for Education and already transforming marking in schools nationwide, stylus combines innovative AI, deep classroom expertise, and robust quality assurance to save teachers time, protect student data, and raise educational standards everywhere.
Turnitin
For over 25 years, Turnitin has been a trusted partner to educators worldwide, leading innovation in academic integrity solutions. Turnitin works closely with educators and institutional leaders to anticipate and prioritize their needs, developing tools that strengthen academic values and uphold ethical standards.
Earlier this year, Turnitin launched Turnitin Clarity, a collaborative writing environment that combines educator-guided AI support, assignment-to-grading workflows, and integrity insights in one platform. Turnitin Clarity is a global offering designed for every group in the educational community. Students can draft their writing assignments with confidence and, when permitted and guided by the educator, receive AI-generated feedback on their writing to improve their work. Turnitin Clarity is more than another AI tool. It opens dialogue between students and teachers, fostering hands-on learning and real-time development.
In tandem, Turnitin has continued innovating and expanding on its existing product portfolio with the introduction of new AI bypasser detection capabilities, ensuring that it keeps pace with the evolving LLM landscape. With these capabilities, educators can automatically check submissions for content that may have been further modified by leading bypassers, further preserving academic integrity.
