March 2024 - News, News, and more News!

Record number of Indian students at US institutions...
Link: At US universities, record numbers of Indian students seek brighter prospects — and overseas jobs (yahoo.com)

Scholastic investing in 9 Story Media...
Link: Scholastic to Invest in 9 Story Media Group, Significantly Expanding Opportunities for Production and Global Licensing of Scholastic IP (newswire.ca)

Wow, Accenture is looking into acquire Udacity! Amazing eh?
Link: Accenture to acquire Udacity to build a learning platform focused on AI | TechCrunch

UWorld Acquires Aspen Publishing...
Link: UWorld Acquires Aspen Publishing to Deliver Extensive Legal Learning Resources

This might be on a pay firewall, I was able to read it as it was my 4th of 5 articles daily.
Link: Fontbonne University to close in 2025 (insidehighered.com)

 

StraighterLine Acquires ProSolutions Training

Wow, seems like StraighterLine is acquiring and growing their customer base more rapidly than I thought...

Link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/leading-providers-early-childhood-education-040100368.html

Bluffton U to merge with University of Findlay
Link: https://www.highereddive.com/news/bluffton-u-merger-university-of-findlay-ohio-christian-private-colleges/711054/

Cornerstone & Spatial Learning Acquisition
Link: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240319649738/en/Cornerstone-Becomes-End-to-End-Learning-Content-Solution-with-Spatial-Learning-Acquisition

Making College Mergers Easier in New York

Interesting, shouldn't they focus on college mergers in the state first before venturing outside the state? Example, two or more in-state colleges about the same size are struggling, merge them both and try to streamline their systems.

Link: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/state-policy/2024/03/26/making-college-mergers-easier-new-york

 

Keystone Partners Announces Acquisition of The Center for Executive Coaching (CEC)
Link: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/keystone-partners-announces-acquisition-of-the-center-for-executive-coaching-cec-302110462.html

Skillshare® Acquires Creator Tooling Start-Up Superpeer to Expand its Suite of Products for Creatives
Link: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/skillshare-acquires-creator-tooling-start-up-superpeer-to-expand-its-suite-of-products-for-creatives-302088169.html

FRA acquires London College of Beauty Therapy
Link: https://www.fashionretailacademy.ac.uk/news/fra-acquires-london-college-of-beauty-therapy

Leading early educator acquires Gold Coast-based centre
Link: https://newshub.medianet.com.au/2024/03/leading-early-educator-acquires-gold-coast-based-centre/40567/

International students considering markets beyond the Big 4
Link: https://www.applyboard.com/applyinsights-article/student-survey-spring-2024

Minister confirms Canada’s final cap allotments for provinces and territories
Link: https://thepienews.com/news/2024-to-2025-allocations/