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John Roberts

John Roberts is the director of Product and Engineering at Oak National Academy

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More than 1 in 3 inspected schools face Ofsted monitoring
91¶¶Òõ analysis reveals a big increase in Ofsted monitoring inspections, prompting warnings about school leaders’ wellbeing and inspector workload
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10 July 2026
More than 1 in 3 schools inspected by Ofsted in 2025-26 now face a monitoring inspection.
How AI gets lesson planning wrong - and what we can do to fix it
Could knowledge graphs of subject curricula help to improve AI’s ability to generate lessons? Oak National Academy’s John Roberts believes they can
General
11 June 2026
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AI must fit education’s needs, not the other way round
Oak’s interim CEO outlines why AI must be used within the context of three core pillars of learning – but, if used correctly, can have huge benefits
General
8 September 2025
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Oak: We’ve created safe AI that will save teachers time
Oak National Academy says it has developed its new AI lesson planning tool from trusted datasets to avoid teachers having to correct mistakes
General
5 September 2024
Oak: How we’ve tried to create a safe and teacher-friendly AI tool