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Brunei's GenAI Guidance for Education — National Ethical-AI Toolkit for Schools

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 40% 53/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Brunei's Ministry of Education launched a national GenAI Guidance for Education handbook and school toolkit workshop, adapting TeachAI's global seven principles for ethical AI use to Brunei's curriculum, data-protection rules and cultural values.

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Ethical-AI principles adapted from the TeachAI framework
Brunei's GenAI Guidance for Education — National Ethical-AI Toolkit for Schools

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Ministry of Education, Brunei Darussalam (STEP Centre)
Period
2025
Keywords
government, K-12 education, policy

Context

Brunei Darussalam's Ministry of Education, through its Science, Technology and Environment Partnership (STEP) Centre, built a national framework for the ethical use of generative AI in schools, launching the GenAI Guidance for Education -- Handbook Edition in 2025 at the country's 35th National Teachers' Day Celebration.

Activities

A dedicated 'AI Guidance for Schools Toolkit' workshop for educators was held at Sekolah Tinggi Perempuan Raja Isteri, and the guidance adapts the seven ethical-AI-in-education principles recommended by the international TeachAI initiative to Brunei's own curriculum, Islamic values and data-protection expectations -- covering disclosure of AI use, protection of student data, academic-integrity safeguards and educator accountability for AI-generated content.

Results

The initiative sits within Brunei's wider Digital Economy Masterplan 2025 push and was reported by both the Ministry's own channels and the independent Borneo Bulletin newspaper.

Conclusions

This is a governance and capacity-building measure rather than a classroom intervention, so no student learning-outcome data exists; its evidence base is the workshop's occurrence and the handbook's publication, not measured effects on teaching or learning.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — A handbook publication plus a single educator workshop implies a modest, low-cost governance intervention rather than a funded classroom programme.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — Launched in 2025 as a single handbook and workshop event; no multi-year rollout schedule or review cycle is described in available sources.
Staffing & skills
Ministry of Education, Brunei Darussalam -- Science, Technology and Environment Partnership (STEP) Centre, Department of Educators Management (workshop delivery)

Conditions for success

  • adapting an existing international framework (TeachAI's seven principles) rather than building ethical-AI guidance from scratch
  • explicit alignment with national curriculum, Islamic values and data-protection expectations to secure buy-in
  • a dedicated educator workshop to accompany the handbook's publication rather than a paper document alone

Common failure modes

  • no student learning-outcome or teacher-competency pre/post data is reported, so classroom impact is unmeasured
  • evidence of school-level compliance and uptake of the guidance beyond the launch workshop has not been published

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