AI adoption is not simply a technology decision. It is a leadership, teaching, and institutional challenge. Tools alone cannot close gaps in governance, workforce readiness, data infrastructure, or classroom practice.

IREX connects these priorities in a coordinated approach. We help institutions define where AI can add value, establish safeguards, prepare their workforce, and test solutions before expanding them. The goal is better teaching, stronger learning, and more effective operations—not technology for its own sake.

• Strengthen teaching and learning: Support instruction, assessment, and student engagement.
• Establish responsible governance: Build policy frameworks that protect transparency, ethics, and accountability.
• Equip educators and leaders: Develop practical AI literacy, professional confidence, and leadership capacity.
• Scale what works: Align tested approaches with institutional goals and local contexts.

AI should expand what people can accomplish. It should not replace professional judgment, human relationships, or accountability.

Responsible AI adoption requires more than expertise in a single discipline. IREX connects the full range of capabilities education systems need—from teaching, curriculum, and assessment to institutional leadership, governance, workforce readiness, and technical infrastructure. Our partnerships span 100+ countries and 500+ educational institutions, bringing global insight and local knowledge to the same table.

Our network of changemaker partners connects ministries, universities, school systems, and educators. Together, we translate evidence into practice, adapt solutions to local priorities, and build the institutional capacity to sustain them. This is how we turn global expertise into locally grounded action.

• Deep education experience: More than 50 years working across government, higher education, workforce development, and leadership.
• Practical solutions: Globally tested tools and models that can be adapted to diverse education settings.
• System-level perspective: Expertise that connects pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, governance, and institutional readiness.
• Locally grounded delivery: Partnerships that bring context, practitioner insight, and shared ownership to implementation.

The Development Gateway Advantage

Development Gateway: An IREX Venture, adds a critical technical dimension to our education leadership. Its expertise in data governance, digital development, and interoperable systems helps partners strengthen the foundations for responsible AI adoption. Development Gateway makes education data easier to access, analyze, visualize, and share, enabling policymakers, administrators, and researchers to make better-informed decisions.

Together, IREX and Development Gateway unite education and institutional expertise with data and technology capability. We help partners connect policy with practice, people with tools, and evidence with decisions—so AI adoption is supported by the systems and skills it needs to succeed.

Integrated Capabilities

IREX connects education expertise that strengthens teaching and learning, governance that safeguards responsible AI use, leadership that guides institutional change, and technology that turns strategy into practice. Together with our subsidiary, Development Gateway, we bring these capabilities together to help partners build the people, policies, and digital foundations for effective AI adoption.

Bring your education and technology priorities together. Connect with us at solutions@irex.org to explore a partnership.

Where We Work Across Education Systems

• Teaching and learning
  • Student experience and success
    • Student recruitment and retention
    • Administration and operations
    • Data and infrastructure
    • Risk, ethics, and compliance

>> AI Readiness Diagnostic

Understand where you stand. Identify what comes next.

We assess how ready governments, higher education institutions, and school systems are to adopt AI safely, equitably, and effectively at scale. The diagnostic identifies strengths, gaps, and opportunities across data infrastructure, skills and talent, governance, sustainability, financing, and innovation culture.

What you receive: A comprehensive readiness baseline benchmarked against regional and international education systems, with practical recommendations to guide priorities and investment.

Know where to start. Contact solutions@irex.org to explore an AI Readiness Diagnostic for your institution or education system.

>> AI Strategy Development

Turn ambition into a clear, actionable roadmap.

We work with education leaders to define a vision for AI integration and connect it to institutional goals. Strategy development brings together:

• Vision and guiding principles
• Use-case prioritization
• Policy and governance frameworks
• Change management planning
• Workforce upskilling
• Business case development

What you receive: An AI strategy, business case, and sequenced implementation roadmap.

Turn your AI priorities into a plan. Connect with us at solutions@irex.org to discuss your strategy and implementation roadmap.

>> AI Tool Pilots

Test with confidence. Build the evidence for scale.

Our AI sandbox tests priority use cases in controlled environments with strong governance and risk controls. Classroom pilots, feedback loops, tool evaluation, and workforce upskilling sessions help identify approaches suited to local needs.

We use the evidence to inform AI policy where needed, identify tested and contextualized tools, and develop a roadmap for short-, medium-, and long-term transformation.

What you receive: Tested and validated tools, with an implementation playbook to guide responsible expansion.

Test before you scale. Contact solutions@irex.org to explore a governed pilot for your priority AI use cases.

>> AI Academy

Teachers first. Tools second.

The AI Academy is a scalable, sustainable hub—virtual or physical—where educators build practical skills and confidence to integrate AI into everyday teaching. It helps teachers guide students to use AI as a tool for critical thinking and learning, not as a shortcut.

Our approach starts with educators testing tools and practices in real classrooms. They generate evidence, identify and address risks, and validate what works before wider adoption. Classroom experience and local context shape the approach from the beginning.

• Evaluate for learning: Identify AI tools and methods that demonstrably improve learning outcomes.
• Build practical capability: Train educators in proven AI pedagogy rather than scale untested tools.
• Strengthen professional confidence: Build consistency and trust across schools.
• Ground adoption in practice: Support tools and methods that reflect classroom realities.

The outcome: Educators and learners prepared to engage with AI ethically, meaningfully, and productively.

Put educators at the center of AI adoption. Connect with us at solutions@irex.org to explore the AI Academy for your teaching community.

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Evidence, Experience, and Global Insight

Our AI for Education work draws on a wider track record in education, digital skills, and evidence-informed decision-making—including strengthening evidence-based decision-making and digital management skills among universities and ministries in 25+ countries. The three examples below illustrate the research and practical experience we bring to partners; they are not claims of AI-specific learning impact.