🧭 90 days of AI in education.
By mid-2026, roughly one tracked partnership in eight is explicitly an AI partnership, from campus- wide rollouts to national AI-university projects. Reimagine early bird ends next week!
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Through Q3, institutions, governments and companies made strong AI commitments while the terms behind them were still developing. The latest analysis maps four players, each writing part of those terms. Governments are defining acceptable use, model developers are moving into credentials, universities are building AI capability and employers are defining skills. AI-native firms now outnumber online-program partners in higher-ed partnerships, and India and Nigeria sit close behind the US on AI training.
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Catch up with the QS Innovation Series to keep exploring how universities are putting AI to work, including the November 25 session, innovating with integrity: sustainability, AI & the responsible institution.
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🪄 Reimagine Education is set for early December and early bird tickets are available now.
Reimagine Education 6-8 December, InterContinental London - The O2 London, United Kingdom
Higher education's biggest questions land in London this December. QS Reimagine Education Awards & Conference brings university leaders, employers, and edtech innovators together across four tracks: Future University, Future of Skills & Work, Future of Learning, and Future of International Education. Expect debate on funding models, graduate outcomes, AI in the classroom, and student mobility.
📍 Upcoming Education Innovation Events
| Event | Date | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 🌱 Webinar: Innovating with Integrity: Sustainability, AI and the Responsible Institution | 25 Nov, 16:00 GMT | Register |
| 📅 QS Reimagine Education 2026, London ⏰ Early bird runs to 31 Oct. |
6–8 Dec | Register today → |
| 🗓️ 2026 Innovation Webinar Series | On-demand + live | Sign up to the series |
⭐ AI & Digital Innovation Spotlight
👩🏫 Russia’s Ministry of Education plans to train 250,000 teachers to deliver a new AI course.
🤖 The UAE has made AI a mandatory subject across K–12 education, integrating age-appropriate AI literacy into school curricula and planning to train 22,000 teachers to use AI in teaching, assessment, and lesson planning.
🛡️Canada renewed its AI security partnership with the UK and separately committed an additional $500M over five years to support business AI adoption.
🤝 Policy & Partnerships
💼 Indonesia’s Ministry of Manpower is expanding vocational training and internship programmes to improve job readiness and align skills with industry needs.
🎓 UK universities are withdrawing offers from some international applicants amid stricter student visa compliance rules.
🤝 Indonesia and Egypt are expanding educational cooperation, with Egypt offering additional scholarship opportunities for Indonesian students, particularly in STEM.
💪 Power Moves & Funding
💻 LearnUpon secured a $50M to support its corporate learning platform.
🎓 MESA School of Business raised $12.6M to develop industry-ready management talent and expanding alternative pathways to business education in India.
🤖 Coding Giants secured $6.9M to support its international expansion of extracurricular STEM education models.
📝 Carnegie Learning acquired Ethiqly, an AI-powered writing platform, which expands the company's literacy offerings to intelligent writing instruction.