The United Arab Emirates will make artificial intelligence a compulsory subject in all government schools beginning with the next academic year. This bold program seeks to prepare students from an early age for a future defined by fast expanding technologies. The comprehensive AI curriculum will run from kindergarten to grade 12, making the UAE one of the first countries to integrate AI education across the school system.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, made the announcement, which he published on social media. He emphasised the nation’s responsibility to prepare children for a world substantially different from the one their parents knew, by providing them with future-ready skills.
The curriculum will cover not only technical issues like data, algorithms, and AI applications, but also the ethical use of technology. The Ministry of Education deliberately built it to encourage critical thinking, technical fluency, and responsible innovation in young learners.
This educational reform reflects the UAE’s strategic objective of developing a generation capable of prospering in an AI-powered global economy. By starting early, the country hopes to instil a culture of invention and resilience in its students from the outset of their academic career.
