Aptech Limited has entered a strategic collaboration with Get Set Learn (GSL), an Arvind Mafatlal group company, to develop and deliver a specialised Generative AI Filmmaking Course. GSL will lead curriculum and content development, while Aptech will drive delivery, faculty enablement, student enrolment, operations and marketing. The 100-hour programme will be rolled out in phases across Arena Animation and MAAC in virtual and hybrid formats for learners across India, with admissions based on a creative assessment and selection process.
The Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development and the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced Tuesday a partnership with Google to provide free online courses, Google Career Certificates and specialized AI training to educators, students and job seekers statewide through the Grow with Google program. State agencies will distribute Google for Education AI tools, including Gemini for Education and Gemini Notebook, along with standards-aligned teacher training through the Google AI Educator Series. Missouri has roughly 100,000 active educators and 1.1 million K-12 and postsecondary students, and local school districts and charter schools retain full discretion over whether to implement the tools in their classrooms.
Dalian University of Technology has officially unveiled its AI HUB college, a new academic entity directly led by the university and positioned as an interdisciplinary, open, platform-based reform vehicle. The college will build a "3+1" framework around general intelligence, embodied intelligence, intelligent applications and intelligent R&D, and adopt a flat, matrix-style model of AIHUB-research institutes-centers/principal investigators. It will lead AI talent training across the university, build interdisciplinary course clusters and connect undergraduate through doctoral training.
On 9 September 2026, UNESCO awarded its 2026 ICT in Education Prize during Digital Learning Week in Paris to Finland's Generation AI and Brazil's Redação Paraná. Generation AI, developed by the University of Eastern Finland, the University of Helsinki, the University of Oulu and other partners, provides classroom activities and tools to help students understand and critically assess AI systems; its materials have been accessed more than 200,000 times across over 50 countries, and workshops and school interventions have involved 1,500 students and teachers. Redação Paraná, developed by the State Secretariat of Education of Paraná in Brazil, combines AI-assisted feedback with teacher involvement to support writing and revision, reaching approximately 850,000 students across 2,000 schools, with teachers trained to integrate its materials. The two projects were selected from more than 100 nominations, and the 2026 prize focused on approaches that use AI while encouraging learners to retain critical thinking, creativity and independent judgement.
Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar's 100-day report announced AI education from Class 6, a proposed government-led AI university in Bengaluru, a 7.5% reservation for rural government-school students in professional courses, and the filling of 72,000 government vacancies. The Higher Education Department notified draft amendments on September 5 proposing 15% of government seats in professional institutions be reserved for rural students, split into two 7.5% categories, with 15 days for objections and suggestions.
Fortune reports that some affluent families pay up to $75,000 per year to send their children to Alpha School, where AI tutors lead core instruction. A spokesperson told Fortune the school has more than 1,200 students and plans to expand to 50 campuses this year. Students spend two hours a day on core subjects with an AI tutor and afternoons in workshops, while human teachers called Guides motivate students but do not plan lessons or grade homework.
On September 10, 2026, Thunkable announced the conclusion of its artificial intelligence education pilot program in West Virginia. Supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and implemented with the State of West Virginia, the pilot ran in high schools across Monongalia, Kanawha, and Berkeley counties for students in grades 9 through 12. Four schools completed the curriculum, and approximately 120 students developed an estimated 80 final applications to help classmates and communities.
Education Week reports that AI-generated text has entered elementary school classrooms alongside classroom library books and early reading curricula. Tools for educators can rewrite articles to different reading levels or generate decodable text. Jean Gunderson, a Title I reading interventionist in South Dakota, said AI can write stories and comprehension questions in minutes, a task that used to take hours, but she must prompt precisely and sort through all output. Researchers flagged three risks: AI's middle-ground tone, tools struggling to hit requested grade levels, and weak alignment with academic standards and curricula.
On the afternoon of September 8, 2026, Jinshan Primary School in Ganyu District, Lianyungang, held a launch ceremony and first teaching research activity for its AI literacy course, attended by Vice Principal Mu Haidong, academic affairs staff, teaching group leaders, and information technology and related subject teachers. The school issued an appointment letter to teaching group leader Xu Hengsheng, formally establishing an AI literacy teaching research group, and specified at least 8 class hours per school year. The school will also begin exploring student AI literacy assessment across knowledge, skills, thinking, and values.
The Jiangsu provincial government issued the High-Level University Construction Plan (2026-2030), setting targets of 1-2 universities entering the world's top tier and 3-5 entering the world-class ranks by 2030. The plan lists a dedicated AI Empowerment for High-Level University Construction program, supporting AI general education, AI-related disciplines and majors, and agent development, and expanding AI applications in teaching assistance, learning assistance, research assistance and administration. The provincial education and finance departments will set annual funding based on each university's AI empowerment results.
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An Indian-origin couple, Anuradha and Vikas Sinha, has donated $20 million to the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, to establish a new college focused on artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. The Anuradha and Vikas Sinha College of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics will focus on the development, application and responsible use of AI, intelligent systems and data analytics, with six permanent endowments. The college will have two academic divisions, and UNT also plans an Applied Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Institute.
Ohio State University President Ravi Bellamkonda revealed on Sept. 9 that the university will partner with Google to establish an on-campus AI space in its Innovation District, calling it likely the largest foundational partnership between Google and any U.S. university. The collaboration will allow access to Google DeepMind's AI R&D lab and launch a first-of-its-kind internship program with Google Public Sector.
Oxford University Press announced on 9 September 2026 that its AI Study Assistant has expanded to Business, Politics and Science Trove, following its October 2025 launch on Law Trove, so all Trove platforms now offer the tool. It generates summaries, answers and targeted quizzes drawn only from textbook content, and the Science Trove version includes textbook images, figures and their original captions. An AI literacy module covering generative AI fundamentals, academic integrity, critical thinking and prompting is available to all Trove users.
Coursera previewed Project Helix, an AI-native skills platform, at its annual FWD customer event on September 8, 2026. The platform aims to help organizations address talent gaps and verify workforce capabilities, drawing on over 30,000 global content partners and instructors from Coursera and Udemy. It will generate adaptive learning paths based on business goals expressed in natural language, with broad availability to enterprise customers expected in the first half of 2027.
East Tennessee State University and Kingsport City Schools were selected as recipients of SCORE's inaugural AI Innovation Fund, with their joint project receiving $50,000. The $450,000 fund supports educator-led projects exploring responsible, student-centered uses of artificial intelligence in education. The project expands a leadership-first AI capacity-building model to assistant principals, instructional coaches, teacher leaders and educator preparation faculty through hands-on training and guided professional learning. The announcement came during SCORE's statewide symposium, "AI in K-12 Education: Keeping Students at the Center."
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Indian-origin engineer couple Anuradha and Vikas Sinha donated $20 million to the University of North Texas to establish the Anuradha and Vikas Sinha College of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics. The college will be organized around the Division of Applied Intelligence and Informatics and the Division of Information and Learning Applications, and will house the Applied Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Institute. The gift establishes six permanent endowments supporting college leadership, student scholarships, endowed professorships, entrepreneurship and incubation, advanced research and emerging technologies.
