An educational framework initiative

Quantum-Safe Futures for Schools Framework

Preparing people and schools for quantum-era change.

QSFS supports students to understand, question and make informed choices. Targeted professional development helps teachers support them. Schools create safe, equitable and sustainable conditions for learning.

Learning about a technology does not require adopting it — a reasoned decision to adapt, defer or reject can be a successful learning outcome.

Pilot draft v0.1 • October 2026 • For school review

Three pathways through five domains

Students, teachers and schools

Cross-cutting conditions

  • Wellbeing

    Predictable participation, respectful relationships, proportionate demands and routes to support. A design condition — not a sixth domain, a score or a clinical program.

  • Agency

    Students influence questions, formats and decisions that genuinely remain open, and see an adult response to what they recommend.

  • Equity

    No compulsory accounts, paid services, home internet or personal devices. Accessible equivalents keep the same thinking and the same recognition.

Available now: 6 pilot-draft resources, including the activity bank and the digital trust starter module. QSFS does not yet claim proven learning or wellbeing effects.

Mission

QSFS explores how primary schools, secondary schools, universities, industry and governments can prepare learners for a future shaped by quantum technologies, post-quantum cryptography, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and emerging digital systems.

This is not a framework for learning quantum physics. It is a framework for preparing learners, educators and institutions for quantum-safe futures.

The framework

Five interconnected domains

Hover or select a domain to explore how it shapes learning from primary school through to university and industry.

Domain 01

Quantum Literacy

What should every learner know about quantum technologies?

A developmental progression from pattern and probability thinking in primary years through to quantum algorithms and research pathways at university.

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Actions and observable outputs by role

Proposed actions, not borrowed assessment standards.

Programs

Coming soon

Flagship programs

Broader student, teacher and school support is available as pilot drafts; the four flagship programs below remain planned.

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Secondary students

Coming soon

Cracking the Future

A cryptography challenge unit that moves learners from breaking simple ciphers to briefing a mock board on post-quantum readiness.

Teachers and STEM coordinators

Coming soon

Quantum-Safe Schools

Professional learning that builds educator confidence to teach quantum literacy and cybersecurity futures without a physics background.

Principals, school leaders, education executives, board members

Coming soon

Boardroom Briefing: Quantum Futures

A strategic briefing translating quantum and cryptographic change into governance, risk and planning decisions leaders can act on.

Students and teachers

Coming soon

Cyber Futures Lab

Planned hands-on digital trust learning using fictional/synthetic activities, or a separately authorised, isolated, school-approved sandbox only. No real school targets, passwords, records or production scanning.

Official sources

Latest news & guidance

Explore reviewed official updates on quantum readiness, digital safety and responsible technology use, with context for schools.

Browse news and background guidance

Indicative roadmap

Evidence- and approval-gated stages

Each stage proceeds only if the previous one shows learning, access, safe participation and workable delivery. No partnerships, publications or policy influence are guaranteed.

  1. Stage 1

    Draft and review

    Pilot drafts (v0.1, October 2026) published for school, curriculum and scientific review.

  2. Stage 2

    Local pilot (if approved)

    Optional, school-authorised delivery with agreed time, equivalents, safeguards and any required research approvals.

  3. Stage 3

    Review decision

    Continue, adapt, pause or stop based on student transfer evidence, access and workload — not satisfaction alone.

  4. Stage 4

    Documented repeat

    Another teacher delivers with the pack; findings described with limitations, no causal claims.

  5. Stage 5

    Independent review

    Wider use considered only after independent review. No guaranteed partnerships, publications or policy influence.