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Dhammajarinee Witthaya School has turned a long-held charitable mission — giving underserved Thai girls a safe home and a complete education — into a laboratory for what education looks like when cutting-edge AI tools are aligned with Buddhist values and community-focused pedagogy. The...

Absa’s decision to scale the ElevateHer AI skilling programme beyond South Africa and into nine additional African markets is a clear signal that corporate-led, vendor-partnered initiatives will be a central channel for closing the continent’s growing AI skills gap — particularly for women — but...

Absa’s decision to scale its ElevateHer AI programme from a South African pilot to nine additional African markets signals a major corporate push into continent-wide AI skilling for women — a move that combines a bank’s regional footprint, Microsoft’s global Elevate skilling stack and Women in...

Microsoft’s latest education push folds generative AI into the everyday toolkit of U.S. college students by making Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot available free for eligible students—an aggressive expansion of earlier trial offers that places Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...

Microsoft’s latest back-to-school push hands U.S. college students a full year of Microsoft 365 Personal — including the integrated Copilot AI — at no cost, a move that promises to reshape student workflows while raising immediate questions about privacy, billing mechanics, and academic...

Google and Microsoft have publicly committed to sweeping new AI-in-education initiatives announced at the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education, pledging broad product access, large-scale training programs, educator grants, and multi‑year investments intended to put...

Microsoft’s package of education pledges — announced at a White House AI education event and consolidated under the new Microsoft Elevate umbrella — promises a major, fast-moving push to put generative AI into students’ hands: free Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot for every eligible U.S...

Microsoft's latest commitments to the Presidential AI Challenge mark one of the most consequential public‑private pushes to integrate generative AI into American classrooms, community colleges, and federal operations — a coordinated package that pairs free product access, training pathways, and...

Microsoft’s $4 billion education bet is not charity dressed up as marketing — it’s an explicit, measurable strategy to shape the next generation of AI users, buyers, and decision-makers so that Microsoft’s cloud and Copilot-led ecosystem become the default environment for businesses and...

Today’s White House meeting of the AI Education Task Force produced one of the most consequential coalition-building moments yet between the federal government and a major tech vendor: Microsoft unveiled a broad package of commitments — from free access to Copilot-infused Microsoft 365 for U.S...

Future Skills Organisation (FSO) and Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership to launch the FSO Skills Accelerator–AI, a sector-wide initiative that aims to embed job‑ready AI capability across Australia’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) system — targeting learners and reportedly...

Artificial intelligence, long the province of science fiction and the domain of experts, is swiftly becoming a deeply personal and practical influence on daily life. For students charting their educational futures, teachers rethinking classroom methods, or entrepreneurs seeking new efficiencies...

In Indonesia, a profound digital transformation is underway, fuelled not merely by the introduction of sophisticated tools, but by a groundswell of passion, purpose, and relentless self-development among its emerging changemakers. In classrooms and communities across the archipelago, individuals...