Nature Publishing Group (NPG), the influential science journal publisher that is part of Macmillan, has launched a new imprint - Nature Education (NE) - to develop resources and tools for science students and educators. This brand extension aims to build on NPS’s strong reputation, with NE taking a ‘non-traditional approach’ to creating leading edge, digitally-based learning solutions in biology, chemistry and physics for the US college market. NE will fall under the remit of Richard Charkin at Macmillan in London, but be run out of the US by Publishing Director Vikram Savkar, until recently Director of New Ventures at Pearson.

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