The U.S. Department of Labor awarded Voorhees University a $1.2 million grant to establish the Artificial Intelligence Institute of Technology and Research Center (AIITRC). The university will transform Bedford Hall into a hub for AI education, research and community engagement, equipped with advanced computing infrastructure, GPU-enabled systems and hybrid instructional technology. The institute plans to embed AI competencies across academic programs, support faculty development and expand undergraduate research opportunities.
Beststudy Education announced at a launch event that it will jointly build an artificial intelligence laboratory with South China Normal University, creating a two-way model of university research plus frontline teaching practice. The lab will focus on four core topics: student profiling and knowledge tracing, multimodal classroom evaluation, educational psychology large models, and a student energy system for primary and secondary schools. Beststudy also officially launched a new AI brand, the AI Whale Growth System, an AI upgrade of its previous Whale system, structured in four layers. The system has for the first time moved beyond Beststudy's own schools into Qiaozhu Middle School in Puning, Guangdong.
The Economic Times reported on October 3, 2026 that college students in India are increasingly using online platforms such as Coursera, Simplilearn and upGrad to add practical AI skills alongside their degrees. Simplilearn's enterprise business for student-related college and university programmes rose 250% year on year as of end-September, and student enrolments grew 50% year on year about six months after its AI Accelerator launch, with 90% of learners self-funded. Coursera has more than 120 campus partners in India, about one million learners in its Campus certifications accounting for at least three million enrolments, and has trained more than 100,000 faculty members.
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Cambridge University Press & Assessment released the report 'Shaping AI Policy and Practice in English Language Teaching,' recommending that Indian policymakers work closely with teachers to shape school AI policy. Drawing on English language teachers worldwide who were early adopters of generative AI, the report sets out eight key principles, including involving teachers and learners in AI governance, design, procurement, implementation and evaluation. It says teachers' top concern is how to support students to become AI-ready, able to critically analyse AI outputs and question their accuracy.
An original research article in Frontiers in Psychology surveyed 486 full-time teachers from five public universities in Guangxi, China, all of whom had used at least one generative AI tool in teaching or course preparation. The study measured AI technostress, teaching self-efficacy, professional identity, and perceived organizational support, using confirmatory factor analysis and a moderated mediation path analysis with 5,000 bootstrap resamples. AI technostress was negatively associated with professional identity, teaching self-efficacy partially mediated this association, and perceived organizational support moderated the first link of the pathway.
China's State Council issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for Education Development (Guo Fa [2026] No. 19) on June 22, 2026, and the National Development and Reform Commission published it on September 28, 2026. The plan calls for advancing AI education at all levels, improving students' AI literacy, and strengthening their ability to raise and solve problems. It also proposes sharing Chinese standards and solutions in fields including AI education, and enhancing leadership in digital-intelligence education and STEM education.
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From September 9 to 13, 2026, the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services, co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and the Beijing Municipal People's Government, was held at Shougang Park in Beijing. iFlytek took part in the education services exhibition area, presenting education-wide service capabilities covering teaching, learning, exams, evaluation and management on its Spark large model foundation. Two application scenarios for student growth, Jingxiaoxue and Jingxiaojian, were highlighted, and Jingxiaoxue has been piloted in some high schools.
Ruanyun Edai Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: RYET) announced a strategic collaboration with Intersect Holding to advance AI education, technology localization, and venture development in Saudi Arabia. The memorandum of agreement was signed on July 10 at LEAP East 2026 in Hong Kong. The collaboration aims to combine Ruanyun's AI education and China market capabilities with Intersect Holding's Saudi commercialization and venture-building platform, focusing on technology localization, venture building, and commercial opportunities in the Kingdom.
