March 2024 - News, News, and more News!

[bjcheung77]

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)

[NotJoeBiden]

You are clearly someone who clearly follows online education closely. Can you interpret what these changes might mean for a layman like myself?

[bjcheung77]

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-p...00368.html

Bluffton U to merge with University of Findlay
Link: https://www.highereddive.com/news/blufft...es/711054/

Cornerstone & Spatial Learning Acquisition
Link: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/2...cquisition

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/gove...r-new-york

[edugoabroad]

@bjcheung77 Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic. I appreciate your perspective and the insights you've provided.

[LevelUP]

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)

Clear your cookies, and you can read 5 more.

[bjcheung77]

Keystone Partners Announces Acquisition of The Center for Executive Coaching (CEC)
Link: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases...10462.html

Skillshare Acquires Creator Tooling Start-Up Superpeer to Expand its Suite of Products for Creatives
Link: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases...88169.html

FRA acquires London College of Beauty Therapy
Link: https://www.fashionretailacademy.ac.uk/n...ty-therapy

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

International students considering markets beyond the Big 4
Link: https://www.applyboard.com/applyinsights...pring-2024

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

[bjcheung77]

Bumping this thread!

Blue Owl-Led Private Debt Group Takes Ownership of Pluralsight

Link: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/com...uralsight/

California College of the Arts announces possible layoffs

Link: https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...717095.php

Keystone College Plans to Merge With Fledgling Think Tank

Link: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quic...think-tank

Peirce College to Merge with Lackawanna College

Yes, it's the same Pierce College we have a WIKI page on, they've got programs that allow up to a max of 102 transfer credits.
Some of these are actually interesting Bachelors that aren't as common. https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Peirce_College

Link: https://www.lackawanna.edu/peirce-colleg...a-college/