UPES expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud by rolling out 10,100 Gemini Enterprise for Education licenses for students and faculty in Dehradun. The university celebrated Google Gemini Day with representatives from Google India and deployment partner ParadigmIT. The initiative aims to integrate AI into teaching, learning, and research, marking what the university calls the largest Gemini campus in northern India.
The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education announced it will operate an AI Education Center at AI KOREA 2026, held at BEXCO from September 9 for three days. The center will feature 52 booths, with 51 schools showcasing AI education cases from real classrooms and offering hands-on experiences. Eight live lesson demonstrations will cover topics including Korean language education using 'AI for All Korean'.
In the summer of 2026, the Southeast China High School Mathematics Exchange Activity was held in Fuqing, Fujian, featuring the first-ever simultaneous answering and unified grading between a math AI and contestants. The AI won a gold medal in the Grade 10 group and a silver medal in the Grade 11 group. The event covered 25 provinces and brought together over 2,600 experts and students.
On September 3, 2026, Xinhua News announced the 17th Xinhua Education Forum, themed 'AI+Education for New Momentum'. The forum will include sessions, seminars, achievement collection, and exhibitions, inviting officials, academicians, and university presidents. The 2026 Education Innovation and High-Quality Development Achievement Collection has also been launched.
People's Daily reported that 71.0% of students use AI to assist with homework, raising concerns about thinking skills. Experts noted that AI study camps emphasize marketing over practice, and industry standards are lacking. The Ministry of Education has issued guidelines prohibiting primary school students from using open content generation alone, but enforcement is difficult. Experts suggest establishing a tiered governance system.
The University of Glasgow's School of Education has released a free 92-page toolkit to help teachers make deliberate decisions about digital and AI technology in learning. Developed by Mark Peart and colleagues, it guides teachers through examining assumptions, lesson design, and ethical checks, without recommending specific tools.
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Bihar's Education Minister Mithilesh Tiwari met with Google for Education India head Sanjay Jain to discuss expanding the Google AI Educator Training Series across schools and higher education institutions, providing free AI capacity-building for teachers. The talks also covered setting up AI labs in selected schools, using platforms like Gemini and NotebookLM, and deploying Chromebooks. Implementation timelines and coverage are yet to be detailed.
AI Academy and Tomorrow University announced a partnership to establish a future-ready AI education hub in Sri Lanka. The center aims to offer AI courses and training to cultivate local talent. The collaboration will integrate resources to advance AI education in the country.
In late August, Tencent Yuanbao updated and launched the AI Lecture feature, focusing on dynamic blackboard writing and two-way voice interaction for problem explanation, covering photo search, homework correction, interactive explanation, and mistake consolidation. The feature is currently free and supports photo Q&A for all subjects and grades. Yuanbao now integrates AI learning functions including Q&A, lecture, correction, practice, and college application guidance.
Researchers at Texas A&M University will develop 30 AI-assisted professional learning modules to train 900 aspiring math teachers across eight universities. The project is backed by a $2 million NSF grant and will run for five years, testing whether AI's real-time feedback can supplement traditional teacher training. The study will assess participants' content knowledge and mathematical creativity before and after the program.
