Third Space Learning selected for Accelerate’s national initiative to evaluate AI tools in classrooms
Working with Littera to generate evidence on how AI tools affect student outcomes and support teachers in US schools.
Third Space Learning in the news
Our latest announcements, impact reports and independent research, plus coverage of Third Space Learning and Skye the AI maths tutor from across the education press.
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4,200+Schools worked with
196,000+Pupils taught
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Latest news from Third Space Learning
Press releases on our investment, research partnerships and grants.
Third Space Learning secures £4.4 million investment to scale AI tutoring in the UK and US
Led by the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund, managed by Maven Capital Partners, and Blackfinch Ventures, with support from Foresight Group and Nesta.
Third Space Learning partners with Stanford and Cornell on evidence-based AI maths tutoring research
A $1.9 million Gates Foundation-funded project studying effective, responsible and equitable use of spoken one-to-one AI tutoring in US classrooms.
Selected as an Accelerate 2025 Call for Effective Technology grantee
A grant from US nonprofit Accelerate to expand access to Skye across US schools and run one of the first impact studies of high-dosage spoken AI tutoring.
Accelerate Call for Effective Technology grant
A $150,000 innovation grant to make high-impact tutoring sustainable and cost-effective.
Third Space Learning launches in the US
Our first US tutoring session took place in Baltimore, Maryland, after 10 years supporting UK schools.
Third Space Learning raises £4.3m Series A extension and announces a commercial partnership with NetDragon
Funding to grow in the UK, enter the secondary market and expand into the US and internationally.
Selected by the National Tutoring Programme to provide maths support to disadvantaged pupils across England
State-maintained primary and secondary schools could access subsidised tutoring through the National Tutoring Programme.
Impact reports and independent research
Every year we publish what our tutoring has achieved in schools, and we work with independent researchers to test it.
30% to 70%
In an independent evaluation by Educate Ventures Research across 9,320 pupil sessions, pupils more than doubled their correct answers after a single lesson with Skye, from 30% to 70%, beating the human tutoring benchmark of 66%.
Educate notes they are not yet estimating standardised attainment impact; that would require a controlled design.
2025/26 impact reports (UK and US)
Our impact reports covering the 2025/26 school year, for UK and US schools.
Publishing soon
2024/25 impact report (UK)
101,025 one-to-one maths tutoring sessions delivered to 9,364 pupils across 481 primary and secondary schools, plus the first year of Skye.
2024/25 impact report (US)
How Third Space Learning supported students in US schools and districts during the 2024/25 school year.
Educate Ventures Research: high-impact AI maths tutoring
An independent evaluation of Skye’s alignment with research principles for effective AI tutoring, drawing on 9,320 sessions, teacher interviews and a pupil survey.
Stanford and Cornell research partnership
A Gates Foundation-funded study into how spoken one-to-one AI maths tutoring can be implemented effectively, responsibly and equitably in US schools.
2022/23 impact report
Celebrating our tenth year of online one-to-one maths support for UK schools.
Research we’ve contributed to
Levelling up tutoring
With Action Tutoring and White Rose Maths, The Centre for Education and Youth explored how tutoring can help close England’s attainment gap by 2030.
A space for maths: the role of Third Space Learning in closing the maths attainment gap
The Centre for Education and Youth examined the need for maths tutoring in the UK and the role Third Space Learning can play.
How global tutoring models can help to support pupils in the UK
The Institute of Development Studies assessed how Third Space Learning delivers scalable, affordable tutoring to narrow the attainment gap.
Third Space Learning in the press
Coverage of Third Space Learning and Skye in the UK and US education press, plus podcasts and interviews with our team.
AI wants to teach the class – and some teachers want to let it
Holly Korbey’s feature uses Third Space Learning’s move to Skye as a key example of AI entering teaching, with comment from Tom Hooper.
Third Space Learning raises £4.4m to scale AI tutoring
Reports the £4.4m round led by the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund and Blackfinch Ventures to develop Skye and grow in the US.
Can an AI Tutor Reduce Maths Anxiety? Inside Third Space Learning’s “Skye”
Kieran Mackle’s primary education podcast gives a full episode to Skye and whether AI tutoring can ease maths anxiety.
Closing the Attainment Gap: How AI Tutors Are Scaling Quality Math Education
Tom Hooper explains how Third Space Learning developed Skye, including the 2024 testing that compared AI and traditional tutoring.
Edufuturists #302 – Third Space Learning with Tom Hooper
A conversation with Tom Hooper on how tutoring is changing with AI and how to widen access to one-to-one support.
The companies launching AI tutors to ‘transform the attainment gap’
Ruth Lucas’s feature leads on Third Space Learning bringing Skye to 200 schools, covering pricing, early session data and a school case study.
National Tutoring Observatory to accelerate the science of teaching
Names Third Space Learning among the tutoring platforms partnering with Cornell’s National Tutoring Observatory to support research into effective teaching.
A ‘vibrant tutor market’? Providers wind down as NTP closes
Lists Third Space Learning among the largest National Tutoring Programme providers and among those continuing to support schools after the scheme ended.
Expanding Access to Tutors: Nonprofit Grants $6 Million to 32 Learning Organizations Across 20 States
Names Third Space Learning among the 32 organisations awarded Accelerate tutoring grants.
Tom Hooper, Third Space Learning: providing affordable and accessible tutoring to disadvantaged children
Tom Hooper talks about the company’s mission to make one-to-one tutoring affordable for disadvantaged pupils.
Children’s maths learning threatened by ‘triple whammy’ of extra barriers
Quotes Tom Hooper on the importance of primary maths in a report on the barriers facing children’s maths learning.
Revealed: The 32 providers selected to deliver the National Tutoring Programme
Lists Third Space Learning as an online maths tutoring provider selected for the National Tutoring Programme.
#199 – Lessons from Home Learning
Tom Hooper joins a lockdown-era episode on online teaching and supporting pupils at risk of falling behind.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Shaping the Future of Education
Describes how Third Space Learning used AI on tutoring session data to help tutors improve their teaching.
How Artificial Intelligence enhances education
Covers Third Space Learning’s early AI project analysing tutoring sessions to give tutors real-time feedback.
Could online tutors and artificial intelligence be the future of teaching?
A feature on Third Space Learning’s weekly one-to-one online maths sessions and its early plans to use AI to improve tutoring.
Five Exciting British Socially Responsible Start-Ups
Profiles Third Space Learning as one of five socially responsible British start-ups.
Maths teaching platform Third Space Learning bags £1.5m Series A round
Reports the £1.5m Series A from Ananda Social Venture Fund and Nesta Impact Investments.
Remote Learning Can Bring Individual Tuition To The Masses
Covers the Education Endowment Foundation-funded trial of Third Space Learning’s remote one-to-one maths tuition for pupils in England.
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About Third Space Learning
Third Space Learning provides low-cost one-to-one maths tutoring from Skye, the spoken AI maths tutor developed by maths teachers. Skye is built on insights from 2,295,000 one-to-one tutoring sessions across 4,200 schools since 2013. Every lesson is written and approved by qualified maths teachers, and schools can give every pupil who needs it personalised maths support for one fixed yearly cost.
Our research and insights
Surveys and data stories you’re welcome to cite, with a link back to the source.
Girls and mathematics
How girls perceive maths and their confidence in it.
Mathematics and your career
How maths skills relate to careers and salaries.
What mathematics do we need?
Which school maths topics adults actually use.
Bringing Skye to your school?
See how Skye, our AI maths tutor, gives every pupil who needs it one-to-one maths support.