04 · AI CoE

AI Centre of Excellence — Future Skills Academy

The capability wing of the Foundation. We build AI, data and future-skills fluency across schools, universities, governments and workforces — with certified curricula, applied labs, and an evidence desk that keeps the training honest.

Academy line
Skills, before slogans. Practice, before theory.
The Academy

Certified capability, delivered at institutional scale.

The Future Skills Academy runs cohort-based programmes with partner universities, state departments and employers. Every learner ships a portfolio project; every institution gets a faculty cohort trained to run the programme independently.

25k+
Learners trained
120
Partner institutions
4
Learning tracks
Curriculum

Four tracks, one ladder of capability.

Track 01
AI Foundations

Literacy for students and first-time learners — prompt craft, data sense, responsible use.

Track 02
Applied AI & Data

Hands-on builder track: Python, ML workflows, agents and deployment on real datasets.

Track 03
AI for Governance

For public servants: procurement, audit, safety and service delivery with AI.

Track 04
Educator Enablement

Train-the-trainer certification so institutions can run the curriculum themselves.

Research desk

Frameworks & publications

  • Q1 2026National future-skills framework for AI-ready graduatesCurriculum
  • Q4 2025Measuring learning outcomes in AI micro-credentialsStudy
  • Q3 2025AI capability in district administration: a training playbookPlaybook
  • Q2 2025Responsible AI use in classroomsStandards
  • Q1 2025Multilingual AI skilling for non-English learnersLong read