Quality education, stated as something you can check.
We believe professional education in AI governance should be affordable, rigorous and open to people who were handed the responsibility without the training. That is a contribution to UN Sustainable Development Goal 4. This page says exactly which parts of it, what we do about each, and how you would verify the claim.
What this page is not. The London School of AI Governance is not affiliated with, endorsed by, accredited by or in partnership with the United Nations or any UN body. Alignment with a Sustainable Development Goal is something an organisation declares about its own purpose. It is not a credential, and nobody awarded it to us. We publish this page so the claim can be examined rather than assumed.
The targets we work against
SDG 4 has ten targets. We claim four, because those are the four our work touches. The others concern school infrastructure, early childhood education and teacher supply, and we would be padding to include them.
Target 4.3 — affordable technical, vocational and tertiary education
"Ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university."
Professional AI governance education is currently priced at either a two-day seminar costing more than a holiday, or a master's degree costing more than a car. Our courses are £29 during the founding period and £45 after it, with the full programme at £149 founding and £225 after. One course is free permanently, with no card required and no trial that expires.
How to check: every price is published on the site before purchase, and the free course is at lsaig.org.uk/learn/responsible-genai with no payment step anywhere in it.
Target 4.4 — relevant skills for employment and decent work
"Substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship."
AI governance moved from a research topic to a line in job descriptions in about three years, and the people now accountable for it were mostly not trained in it. Our assessment is scenario-based rather than recall-based, with at least 40 per cent applied mini-cases, because the skill being certified is judgement in a real situation and a certificate should attest to that.
How to check: the assessment standard, pass marks and scenario share are published at lsaig.org.uk/standards before you pay, and every certificate we issue is verifiable by ID at lsaig.org.uk/verify.
Target 4.5 — equal access, including for the vulnerable
"Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable."
Accessibility is one of the six gates every course must pass before publication, not a remediation done afterwards: transcripts, alt text and readable typography are preconditions of release. Courses are self-paced with lifetime access, which is what makes them workable for people studying around shift work, caring responsibilities or a full-time job.
How to check: the accessibility gate is listed among the six published review gates at lsaig.org.uk/standards. If you find a course that fails it, tell us at [email protected] and we will fix it and say so.
Target 4.7 — knowledge and skills for sustainable development
"Ensure all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including through human rights, gender equality and global citizenship."
We claim this one partially and say so. Our courses teach the rights and fairness dimensions of AI systems directly: discrimination in automated decisions, transparency duties, the accountability of institutions deploying AI, and the professional habits that prevent harm to people affected by systems they did not choose. We do not teach sustainable development broadly, and we are not going to imply that we do.
How to check: full syllabi for every course, unit by unit, are published before purchase at lsaig.org.uk/executive-certificate.
Bursary places
We award twenty bursary places a year: a full paid course of the learner's choosing, at no cost. A bursary place is the same course, the same assessment and the same certificate a paying learner receives. There is no separate track and nothing on the certificate distinguishes one.
Places are awarded in two rounds of ten, one in each half of the year, and applications are open year-round.
Who is eligible. Applicants resident in countries classified by the World Bank as low-income or lower-middle-income economies. We use an external classification rather than our own judgement so that eligibility is checkable and does not depend on us.
How to apply. Email [email protected] with the subject "Bursary", your country of residence, the course you want, and a short paragraph on the AI governance responsibility you hold or are taking on. We reply to every application. Places are awarded on the strength of that paragraph, not on financial documentation, which we do not ask for and could not verify.
Why single courses rather than the full programme. Twenty people gaining a certified skill serves this goal better than a smaller number gaining a deeper one, and a course bursary costs us no marking capacity, which means the commitment survives a busy quarter instead of quietly lapsing. We would rather promise what we can deliver every year than something larger we would miss.
How to check: the number of places granted is published in our annual report below. If we award none in a year, that number will say so.
What we publish annually
Each year we publish four figures with a stated "as at" date: free-course completions, certificates issued, countries reached, and bursary places granted. The figures are unaudited and labelled as such.
First report: September 2027. If it does not appear, this page is making a promise the school did not keep, and you are entitled to say so.
Why we publish this at all
Claiming alignment with a development goal is easy, unverifiable and extremely common, and a school that teaches people to audit exactly that kind of claim should expect the same scrutiny it teaches. So this page names specific targets rather than the goal, states what we do rather than what we believe, and gives a way to check each one. If any commitment here stops being true, the right response is to change this page, and you should hold us to that.