AcademyAI has raised £1.65 million in a pre-seed funding round to assess and boost employees' AI skills. The platform assesses employees against a six-axis AI capability framework built with the Alan Turing Institute Methodology, identifying gaps in critical thinking, judgement, prompting, evaluating outputs and building skills, then delivers personalised micro-learning and practical use cases built around each person's real role. Training consists of five-minute applied modules that are role specific and rooted in an organisation's context, tools and language, with the platform powered by underlying AI models and AI generated content.
On September 15, 2026, a report republished by PEdaily and originally from Temperature Chronicle said a 30-person startup in Shandong focused on custom AI-enabled courseware, AI digital literacy courses and VR device sales to schools, having customized AI-enabled courseware for 2,000 to 3,000 teachers over three years at prices from 800 to 10,000 yuan per order. The report said whether AI is used has become a hard criterion in teaching competition reviews, leading some teachers to pay for outsourced courseware. After visiting more than 30 schools, the company found idle VR devices to be common, with actual buyers mostly universities in Guangdong.
During the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services, the Beijing RISC-V Digital Infrastructure Innovation Center and Beijing Beinengda, a company in the Zhongguancun Fengtai Park, launched the city's first AI Future Learning Space at the education services exhibition area, presenting a complete EPC turnkey delivery. The space is built on the RISC-V open-source technology ecosystem and integrates domestic computing power into basic education teaching scenarios, creating two core teaching scenarios: a K-12 AI laboratory and a future classroom. The K-12 AI laboratory covers four teaching scenarios: labor and technology courses, AI interactive physics, chemistry and biology experiments, AI general courses, and embodied intelligence innovation.
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On September 14, the "Million Talents Gather in Guangdong" 2026 cyber talent job fair was held at the Guangzhou International Campus of South China University of Technology, jointly hosted by the Guangdong Provincial Talent Office, the Provincial Cyberspace Administration, the Provincial Education Department and the Provincial Human Resources and Social Security Department. Nearly 120 companies offered more than 4,000 on-site positions, while the online "Yue Employment" section gathered 134 companies with over 7,000 positions. Some roles specifically target AI, focusing on candidates' ability to use AI tools, AI Agent-related projects and learning ability.
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Dong-eui University announced on September 15 that it signed a business agreement on August 29 with 14 Busan-area organizations to establish an 'AI Edu Tech Education Platform Governance' mechanism. Participants include the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education, the Busan Metropolitan Childcare Center Association and the Silla University Women's Studies Institute, covering education, childcare and edutech. The parties will combine educational infrastructure with AI technology to grow the regional education ecosystem and cooperate in fostering the edutech industry in the southeastern region.
BNV Solutions showcased its multi-agent AI transformation education platforms, led by DuoMath and the duoAX suite, at the Techsauce Global Summit 2026 held at QSNCC in Bangkok, Thailand, from August 26 to 28, 2026. DuoMath captures high-resolution time-series data including stroke coordinates, timestamp intervals, pen pressure, and angle via a digital pen, processes inputs through an on-device-first Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition engine with a Vision LLM fallback, and verifies structural equivalence using a server-based SymPy symbolic computation engine. The platform breaks down learning data into 12 structured indicators across cognitive, affective, metacognitive, and pedagogical domains, and when mastery of a concept drops below 60%, a knowledge-graph backtracking algorithm traces prerequisite dependencies and auto-generates equivalent transfer questions.
The opening ceremony of the 2026 National Cybersecurity Week was held on September 14 in Jinan, Shandong, where the Youth Development Blue Book: National Survey Report on Internet Use by Minors was released. The report says China has 198 million minor netizens with a 98.3% internet penetration rate, and the urban-rural penetration gap has narrowed to 0.4 percentage points. The survey shows 78.5% of surveyed minor netizens use AI daily for study, creation or entertainment, and 83% of surveyed teachers worry about students misusing AI.
The final of Hebei Province's "Skills Light Up the Future" AI Trainer (Data Annotator) Vocational Skills Competition was recently held at Shijiazhuang University, co-hosted by the Hebei Provincial Data and Government Services Bureau, the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, the Provincial Department of Education, and the Provincial Federation of Trade Unions. The competition aligns with Level 3 (senior worker) of the national vocational skills standard for AI trainers, features employee and student groups, and uses a dual assessment of theoretical knowledge and practical skills across five tracks: images, video, speech, text, and 3D point clouds. More than 1,100 contestants registered, 183 advanced to the provincial final, and 9 of Shijiazhuang's 14 contestants won awards.
Penn State's College of Education has named Priya Sharma, associate professor of learning, design and technology, as its faculty director for AI Literacy and Innovation, effective Aug. 1 for a two-year term. She will work with interim associate dean for faculty affairs Susan Land and faculty across the college to advance faculty AI literacy and support thoughtful, ethical uses of AI in teaching and research. Dean Gwendolyn Lloyd said the role will help faculty navigate AI's opportunities and challenges and serve as a connector between faculty and academic leadership.
The College of Arts and Sciences and Syracuse University Libraries have launched the AI Literacy Digital Badge, a free, self-paced microcredential available exclusively to A&S undergraduates. Designed by faculty across the humanities and sciences, the online modules cover how generative AI tools work, how to evaluate AI-generated information and how AI is used across disciplines, with each module taking about 30 to 60 minutes and no prior AI experience required. Completers receive a digital credential shareable on résumés, LinkedIn profiles and professional portfolios.
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India-based AI education technology company Haus of Intelligence announced on September 14 that its Agentic AI Mastery Program has crossed 1,000 enrolments in its first cohort. The program is a 28-week structured course with three progressive cohorts—AI Builder, AI Architect and AI Operator—priced below ten thousand rupees for a single enrolment with lifetime access. The company says learners range from ages 13 to 70, including students, working professionals and business owners.
Vietnam plans to expand AI education across its school system from the 2026-2027 academic year, following pilot programmes in 2025-2026. In August 2026, the government approved the National Programme for Developing Artificial Intelligence Human Resources, targeting at least 80% of general education students to acquire basic AI knowledge and skills by 2030, at least 80% of vocational learners and all higher education students to receive AI-related training. The AI Education Content Framework issued the same month requires 12 periods of core AI content per year group annually, emphasising information verification, responsible use and critical thinking.
Under Plan No. 4758 of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training, from the 2026-2027 school year, 100% of educational institutions in the city will deploy AI education content for students in grades 1 to 12, with 12 periods per class per school year of core AI content. Some students said they want hands-on practice, AI ethics and information verification; parents want content suited to each age group, with more practice and guidance on proper use.
On September 2, 2026, New York City announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI use for public elementary and middle school students. The same day, Los Angeles Unified School District announced restrictions on generative AI tool access on all student-issued devices across all grades for the 2026-27 school year. The next day, the American Psychological Association released a report recommending thorough analysis of edtech tools and citing generative AI as a particular risk.
Cape Town-based education technology incubator Injini has opened applications for its AI for Education Venture Builder and Incubation Program, aimed at prospective founders in South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The eight-month programme will start with 12 teams working on research, product development and live testing, then select five for a three-month incubation from April to June 2027, each receiving $25,000 in equity-free funding. Applications opened on 7 September and close on 27 September 2026, with support from philanthropic funder Coefficient Giving.
Liaoning Petrochemical University issued an Action Plan for AI-Empowered Education and Teaching, deploying 17 special initiatives across five areas: AI+ majors, AI+ courses, AI+ training, AI+ teachers and AI+ governance. The university also issued an implementation plan for the "First Class of the New Semester" and completed AI teaching innovations in multiple courses during the first week. It developed the "Mengxi Juzhi" petrochemical education large model to bring industry frontiers into the classroom.
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