AI governance for education, built as one connected system.
Since 1 September 2026, generative AI is named explicitly as a safeguarding matter.
AQE gives your Trust a repeatable, evidence-backed way to govern AI at Trust level, qualify each AI deployment before it goes live, and know whether a live deployment is still doing what it was authorised to do. One architecture, three questions, each owned by the right layer.
Govern, authorise, assure: each is a different question, and each is owned by a different part of this system.
A Trust can enter through governance, qualify a single deployment directly, or bring in an already-live tool for assurance. The lifecycle is optional, not mandatory, but the three questions are always the same.
Do we have to start with the Academy Trust Assessment?
No. It's the natural starting point if you want a Trust-level governance baseline first, but a single deployment can go straight into AQE Education, and an already-live tool can go straight into CLEARANCE for assurance. Enter wherever your Trust actually is.
When will AQE Education and CLEARANCE Education be available?
AQE Education is live now. CLEARANCE Education is in active development; register your interest and we'll let you know as soon as it's ready.
Why are AQE and CLEARANCE on two different websites?
AQE and CLEARANCE are separate products with separate core propositions: qualification before deployment, and assurance after. Education is a first-class section on both, connected by this shared architecture and cross-linked in both directions, rather than a third, separate site.
Is this legal or regulatory advice?
No. Every product in this system identifies evidence gaps against named frameworks and thresholds. None of it is a determination that you are in breach of anything, and none of it replaces your own legal or compliance advice.
Start with the governance baseline. Free, three minutes.
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