Which university will you go to? Pandai is an AI-powered learning app from Malaysia that can predict how well a student will do on their big exams. By analyzing students’ academic performance on the app in the previous years, Pandai can determine which courses, universities, and scholarships students can achieve based on their current performance.
The good news is that this prediction is not fixed. The app informs students which opportunities they can open up if they improve their performance on different subjects. Using AI, students are offered personalized recommendations for exactly where they can improve, down to the chapter itself. AI Study Buddy offers personalised learning paths, instant help with math and reading drills, AI-powered answers to questions, and even subjective and essay marking.
Since starting in 2020, Pandai has now scaled to 1.3 million registered students. And it is making a difference. 92% of students have improved their grades within 2 months of using Pandai. And the app not only supports students’ learning but also helps students to explore future career pathways.
92% of students have improved their grades within 2 months of using Pandai
For example, the Pandai student profile highlights their academic achievements from using the app, providing a summary of their academic progress. Students can also upload additional certifications to their profile, such as volunteer experiences and extracurriculars, to create a personal archive or CV. Pandai has also created a personality test in collaboration with an expert on psychology from the Malaysian Ministry of Education to evaluate students’ personality traits and learning methods to suggest suitable careers for them.
On the other side of the world, Bachillerisitario CUNBRE is a university that is working in Colombia to create real opportunities for education and employment for vulnerable youth. They aim to provide early low-cost higher education that centres student autonomy, cultural identity, and connection to place so that students can grow professionally without losing their roots.
A professional path for your children! - Bachillersitario Introduction Video
They work in both urban and remote rural contexts, allowing students from 9th grade to take higher education courses in a hybrid model. These academic lessons are connected with local projects such as agriculture or tourism so that they are contextualised and rooted in their current reality. In addition to academic training, students also design a community impact project that allows them to generate real opportunities for employment and local entrepreneurship.
By bringing higher education to these students using technology, students can find opportunities in their own communities while maintaining close ties with their cultural roots.
It is important to equip these students with these skills because in Colombia many students finish high school without a pathway to higher education or job opportunities. As a result, students from rural areas may choose to move to the city for more opportunities. However, in doing so, they often lose connection with their cultural identity and drain talent from their own local communities. By bringing higher education to these students using technology, students can find opportunities in their own communities while maintaining close ties with their cultural roots.
The impact is great - students in rural areas advance their education, become entrepreneurs, and communities gain young leaders. For example, one of their students created Tunatu, a sustainable fashion brand that creates clothes with biodegradable materials and employs women affected by conflict in Colombia.
Catalog Photo from Tunatu
Improve Liberia Cooperation Movement is also supporting thousands of children in rural Liberia to improve their reading, writing, math, and problem-solving skills through personalized and project-based methods. They create personalized lesson plans by first understanding each student’s current skills, interests, and challenges. Then they assess what the students already know and where they need extra support. From this assessment, they design lessons that match their pace and learning style. For example, a child interested in farming might learn math through measuring crops, parents and leaders can collaborate on initiatives like school gardens and cultural exchange events, promoting sustainability and pride.
This approach connects learning to real social impact, reduces poverty, strengthens communities, and builds a new generation of responsible and active young citizens in underserved areas.
By making learning engaging through personalized and project-based methods, they build student agency, strengthen essential life skills, and encourage active community participation. Their program reduces generational illiteracy and fills resource gaps, turning schools into centres of sustainable development and lifelong learning.
Personalized learning in action: students engaging with education that reflects their world. Photo courtesy of TTL (partner school)
For example, last year at Trinity School of Excellence, a group of tenth-grade students in their program learned environmental protection through a beekeeping project. They produced honey and turned it into marketable products that supported their education and provided extra resources for their families while caring for their environment. This approach connects learning to real social impact, reduces poverty, strengthens communities, and builds a new generation of responsible and active young citizens in underserved areas.
These innovations demonstrate the power that personalized learning can have on students from any context. Whether it be through AI, digital platforms, or traditional lesson planning, students deserve to have tailored learning that best suits their needs.
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