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Qualifications and Assessment
New chair for Ofqual
April showers for Edexcel
Half year revenues up 39% at EDI
ETS – what went wrong?
Farewell ETS
QCA Enterprises delivers £3.8m profit
ACCA and JHP Training renew contracts with EDI
New chair for QCDA
Electronic marking of exam scripts up 33%
Former owners of ASET miss out on extra £200k
Government scraps SATS for 14 year olds
Pearson receives £40m dividend from Edexcel
Granada Learning Unplugged
Revenues up 34% at EDI
ETS blamed for Sats fiasco
AEC education looks to UK for acquisition opportunities
UK market and exchange rates helping EDI
Wynford Dore reduces holding in EDI
Edexcel and SSAT team up to support language teachers
BTL Group results
Revenues down at DRS but education business grows
Pearson targets Australia’s English language testing market
Revenues flat at AQA
RM signs up the IB
EDI bullish for 2009
Jim Slater increases stake in EDI
RM wins £9m e-marking contract from ACCA
Half year revenues up 33% at EDI
Sales fall 18% at QCA Enterprises
BTL to deliver AQA’s e-Assessment programme
GL Assessment grows sales by 11.6%
Jerry Jarvis to leave Edexcel
EDI to “at least meet market expectations”
GL Assessment launches online versions of test series
Mike Cresswell to step down at AQA
EAL’s revenue up 28.8%
City & Guilds in JV with Manipal Education in India
Another profitable year for BTL
Education sales up 3.8% in first 10 months at DRS
Profits up 3% at Edexcel despite fall in revenue
Sales down 5.3% at VTCT
Profits up 198% to £8.05m at EDI
Revenue up 33% at NCFE
Revenue up 3% at ABC Awards
i-nfer assessment lost £1m in first full year of business
Education Development International: The Assignment Report’s Education Company of the Year 2009
Contract wins for DRS and RM
EDI acquires Peter Honey Publications
Income up 1.2% at OCR
Private Equity
Lyceum Capital closes fund at £225m
Exponent closes second fund at £805m
Englefield raises €1bn
Sovereign Capital promotes three directors
M&A activity continues but at a slower pace
Potential new strategic investor at SPARK Ventures
Awards for private equity companies
Award for Bridges Ventures
LDC invests in Chinese Growth Fund
Hg Capital restructures its buy-out teams
Richard Taylor joins Sovereign Capital
David Smith’s new venture raises £3m on AIM
Beringea and Panoramic launch new ECF funds
Government invests in social enterprises fund
EQT V and GIC agree to acquire Springer
Pre-School
Tight margins at Kids Unlimited
ABC gets a harsh lesson in playing the game by big boys' rules
The ceiling falls in on ABC Learning
ABC Learning agrees Morgan Stanley deal
ISIS exits KidsUnlimited for £45m
Eddy Groves still in charge at ABC
ABC to sell UK nursery business
Class action threat against ABC Learning Centres as ABC prepares to write-off A$213m
Computershare buys ABC’s UK voucher business
“Business as usual” at ABC Learning!
ABC Learning year-end numbers delayed again
Australian government provides A$22m as ABC Learning goes into administration and 400 childcare centres face closure
A$34m government funding for ABC childcare centres
Sales up 18% at nursery provider Child Base
Knowledge Universe expands into the UK via purchase of Busy Bees
Revenue up 7.5% at Kidsunlimited
Receivers finally sell ABC Learning Centres
Revenue up 8.8% at Asquith Nurseries
Revenue up 11% at Child Base
Support Services
Outsourcing delivers big growth
North of England expansion for Edison Schools
Changes in school inspection arrangements
Sales hit £105m at CfBT
What’s up at Ramesys?
VT closes Waltham Forest contract
KKR closes Northgate deal
Civica to go private
Mouchel acquires Hedra
Tribal revenues up 11%
Additional funding for Ramesys from Lloyds
Contract win for Sodexo in Milton Keynes
Northgate plans public sector expansion
Tribal win in New Zealand
Vincent McDonnell takes over at Prospects
First half revenues up 29% at Nord Anglia
Capita’s education revenues hit £260m
Strictly Education performs well for Bond International
Constellation Software rebuffed by Gladstone
Ramesys gets an extra £9m from Lloyds and restructures balance sheet
Anite’s public sector business close to sale
Capita extends Teachers’ Pension contract
Contract Win for Tribal
Gladstone strengthens board
Profits up 47% at VT Education and Skills
Prospects acquires Gabbitas
Outsource contract for RM at Aberdeen College
Edunova to deliver e-learning services in Qatar
Tribal acquires HELM
CFBT adds Harrow to Connexions contracts
GTC appoints Cambridge Education to expand Teacher Learning Academy
VT Group merging education business with naval training division
Edison Schools rebrands and buys online learning company
Serco extend Walsall contract for further 12 years
Nord Anglia accepts £190m offer
DCSF’s shared recruitment services – a damp squib
Constellation half year sales up 30%
Anite sells public sector business to Northgate
Baring Asia’s offer goes unconditional
Profits up at Place Group
Tribal wins DCSF Parent Know How contract
Tribal to continue acquisition hunt
Seven firms compete for new Ofsted contracts
Synarbor to de-list from AIM
Half year revenues up 35% at Strictly Education
Prospects acquires graduate recruitment events
Ofsted may divide school inspections into only two contracts
Another outsourcing contract goes off the rails
Sales pass £500k at Novatia
Acquisitions fuel growth at Mouchel
Sales up 30% at Appleyards
Ofsted contracts – the moveable feast
Tribal appoints new education director from Nord Anglia
Gladstone rejects offer from Constellation Software
Eteach delivers first profit
DCSF seeks to include supply teacher agencies in a vendor neutral managed service
Goodbye Liberata; welcome back Capita
Sales up 3.5% at Prospects
DCSF signs up to vendor neutral managed service
EdisonLearning Limited post £1.1m loss
Eteach International is launched
Launch of online database of CPD providers
New Contract Wins for Serco
CfBT reports 14% increase in income
Cambridge Education win CWDC contract
Tribal to meet market expectations
VT Group exits shipbuilding to focus on its service businesses
EduAction sold to Strictly Education and Eteach
Prospects wins Leeds Connexions contract
Two more academy projects for Appleyards
Navigate launches school leadership recruitment portal for Sheffield
TES launches HighWire
Serco strengthens position in education market
Education revenues flat at Capita
New inspection contractors announced by Ofsted
Work on ContactPoint stalls
Outsourcing up at Bond
Half year numbers from Mouchel
Sales up 27% at Fieldwork Education
Cambridge Education extends partnership with New York City schools
Ofsted inspection contracts signed
Capita awarded £68m EMA contract
Decision on DCSF’s schools recruitment service expected in April
International growth powers Nord Anglia
Sales up at Tribal’s education business but margins are squeezed
Sovereign Capital expands foster care agency business
Mott Macdonald acquires Teamwork Management Services
Appleyards win feasibility project in Richmond
National Strategies contract extended
Tribal wins Schools Recruitment Services contract
Protocol National sales down 1.5%
Better Choices revenues down 15.8%
Prospects wins Kensington and Chelsea Connexions contract
Revenues up 31% at VT Education and Skills
DCSF expects new Schools Recruitment Service to ‘substantially’ reduce paid-for advertising
Becta publishes new consultancy services framework
National strategies to be scrapped
Sales up 68% at Place Group
Gabbitas expands into South Korea and China
Cambridge Education to provide school consulting services in China
Comensura wins Temporary Workers in Education contract
Tribal appoints new MD for inspection business
Capita’s half year education sales hit £157.3m
TSL targets local authorities
Sales down at Synarbor
Sales up 39% at Strictly Education
New inspection regime saves Ofsted money
Half year revenue up 2.4% at Tribal’s education division
Synetrix for sale
DCSF launches schools recruitment service
Andrell Education in the red
Sales up 4% at Cocentra
Redstone in bid discussions
Education sales up 33% at Northgate
Education drives European Electronique
Low interest rates impact on Strictly Education’s half year results
Prospects grows recruitment business
UNITE completes £82m share placing
David McGahey joins AMC
VT Group’s £219m warchest
Schools Recruitment Service official launched by DCSF
Tough year for Mouchel
Capita to deliver home access grant
Gloom at Tribal but Education continues to shine
Serco wins CLSA contract
Teacher mentoring is still good business for CUREE
Talks with potential buyer for Redstone are ended
Revenue up 9.6% at Agilisys
BSF remains central to VT’s education business
Trading conditions deteriorate at Bond
2,000 secondary schools now signed up to TES HireWire
RM branches out into social housing
Tribal buys out minority interest in Helm subsidiary
Capita acquires Synetrix
Revenue up 2.2% at Prospects
CfBT reports 17% increase in income to £139.5m
Birmingham BSF scheme a priority for Redstone
VT Group bids for Mouchel
Takeover Panel gives VT Group a “put up or shut up deadline”
Tribal extends contract with University of Sydney
Navigate Resourcing continues to expand
Revenue up 35% at Synetrix
LSN acquires FE Associates
Ramesys agrees a new financial package with its bankers
2009 was a good year for Serco’s education and children’s services business
Income up 43% at SSAT
Three-way take over tussle hits VT’s move for Mouchel
Education Solutions looks for further acquisitions
Revenue up 15% at CEFM
Nord Anglia wins Backing Young Britain Mentoring contract
Education revenue up 19.7% at Capita
Prospects and Tribal win share of £135m early years inspection contract
Retail
Sales flat at The Consortium
Sale of Education and Adventure Travel Group reaches final stage
Findel’s education sales up 6% but bad debts hit hard
Credit Suisse snaps up school travel business
Good year for Findel Education
Boomerang Media acquires www.letsgowiththechildren.co.uk
RM continues partnership with Tesco
Bowmark Capital sells school travel group for £100m
Stagecoach shows signs of improvement
Findel’s trading update
Half year revenues up 9% at Havelock’s education business
Explore Learning breaks even
Findel's education sales down 1% in first six months
Education delivers £109.5m sales for Holidaybreak
Half-year results from Stagecoach Theatre Arts
Order levels “encouraging” at Havelock
Explore Learning raises another £750k from shareholders
Sales down 3% at Findel Education
Holidaybreak’s education division 13% up on last year
Sales up by 5.6% at The Consortium
Ex-Findel Education MD joins RM
Education key driver for Holidaybreak
Education and Adventure Travel Group’s sales up 9.5%
Lenders put pressure on Findel as year end results are delayed
Credit crunch holds back new schools for Stagecoach Theatre Arts
Holidaybreak’s £31m rights issue for acquisitions in its education division
Holidaybreak raises £31m for acquisitions
Findel to raise £81m to reduce debt; education sales down 4%
Findel’s shareholders approve £75m net fund raising
Profits up 2.7% at Stagecoach Theatre Arts
Holidaybreak spends £9.4m acquiring new centre
Education sales up 11% at Holidaybreak
Further losses at Explore Learning
Findel’s education business continues to suffer
TutorVista plans to grow UK business
New CEO at Findel
Revenue up 29.3% at Kumon Educational UK
Education sales up 11.7% at Holidaybreak
Share buy-back values The Consortium at £6.3m
Half-year sales down 20% at Findel Education
Revenue up 3.7% at The Consortium
Research and Consultancy
Vocational and Professional Education
Peacekeeping English in China
McDonald’s gains official awarding body status
Kaplan Financial acquires Hawksmere
MBO at 7city Learning
NVM exits Develop Training; Close Brothers invests in Protocol Skills; MBO of TSW Training
Nord Anglia retains Army Foundation College contract
CEL and QIA to merge
EDI reorganise ASET business
Where next for Carter and Carter?
If it ain’t broken, break it
Revenues hit $2bn at Kaplan
Revenues up to £150m at BPP Holdings
Melorio plc and Woodspeen Training
Newcastle College bags Carter and Carter
City College Norwich becomes first university of FE
FE college’s student centre wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise
First quarter revenues up 15% at BPP
Sovereign Capital invests £15m in Paragon
UK companies spend £38bn on training
Kaplan’s first quarter revenues up 14%
First deal for Woodspeen Training
New assessment systems for vocational programmes
New terms of trade for Train to Gain providers
Melorio delivers first set of numbers
2008 will be a big year for Nord Anglia
What’s up at AEC?
Revenues up 15% at BPP
AEC delivers half year results on time
Melorio pays £2.7m for HB Group
Serco loses out on military training college
Government to use £350m Train to Gain monies to support small businesses
Train to gain brings benefits - but more employees need to be involved
VT's education and skills business delivers half-year revenues of £122.3m
BPP revenues up 11% after nine months' trading
Melorio acquires Zenos
Melorio reports revenues of £9.3m for first half year
AEC to raise £2.4m for acquisitions
Adrian Carey steps down at Melorio
JHP Training increases revenues by 45%
Melorio expects results to be ahead of expectations
AEC raises only £1.05m through share placing
BPP Sales up 10% in 2008
Thirdforce rejects bid approach
Revenues up at Protocol Skills
Pearson expands further into China
Apollo’s bid values BPP at £303.5m
Woodspeen Training completes acquisition of A&R Training
Revenues hit £31.4m at Melorio
Sales more than double at AEC
Pearson in joint venture with Educomp in India
Woodspeen announces its first set of results
Apollo Global snaps up BPP for £303.5m
Train to Gain – Not good value for money according to NAO
Apollo Global completes BPP acquisition
Sales flat at Kaplan Financial UK
AEC acquires English language business in London
ThirdForce e-learning sales fall 11%
REDTRAY acquires PPi Learning Services
Melorio on course to meet expectations for fiscal 2010
Half year sales up 21% at AEC Education
Revenue up 14% at 7 City but 2009 likely to have been a tough year
ThirdForce to be taken private
Zenos acquisition powers Melorio in first half year
ThirdForce goes private
New Career Skills reports small profit
Redtray acquires CareConnect Learning
Revenue up 75% at ESG
LDC backs MBO at JHP Group
Revenue up 31% at JHP Group
AEC agrees SG$2m facility with HSBC
SkillSoft to be taken private in $1.1bn deal
EU Tenders
Bridges Ventures goes vocational
Executive Soapbox
Every year fifty or sixty private schools shut. Why?
Is Avian Influenza really a threat to education businesses?
Can students sue their universities over the current industrial action?
The impact of workforce remodelling for companies selling into the schools market
The school food debate
A slightly satirical look at politics and education
Building Schools for the Future?
China the land of opportunity?
Mobile Technologies vs New Victorian Architecture
A little multilingualism please!
The emerging ICT landscape
Peter Beeby is the Executive Chair of School Trends.
1st week of August 2006
Drug and alcohol addiction and its impact on school standards.
Collaboration between schools and business is important for both sectors.
Mobile Learning and the death of the PDA
David McAll, of SUMS Online, thinks the best way to survive the end of eLCs is to think small (small-screen).
Andrew Haldenby of Reform looks at the education market
Why can’t the government provide an accurate database of schools?
The assignment report's new website
Charles Keen, CEO of Keen Furniture, writes about the educational furniture market
Building relationships via education - is it worth it and can you measure it?
Barbarians welcomed at the school gates
Constructive Engagement not Boycotts
The increasing pressures on schools and colleges, and how these can be alleviated through the effective procurement of suppliers and services.
Andrew Fitzmaurice, Chief Executive of Nord Anglia
Anastasia de Wall of Civitas, looks at the impact of OFTED inspections on independent schools
Diplomas, ready or not
2007: An eventful year for UK education
What did you get out of BETT?
One child, one view
Chris Kington reviews the rapidly changing competitive arena of education publishing
State of the art e-assessment is not e-marking.
Life at the coal face
How to liberalise the market for schooling in the UK
Home Access: But who benefits?
Executive Soapbox
Are SATs the wrong target?
Is Web 2.0 the problem for VLEs?
Transforming education is a messy business!
Diplomas – current market positioning ignores the compelling reason to buy
Dell launches new notebook – benefits v features
The role of the private sector in delivering public services for education and skills
eReaders and the future of textbook publishing
A far from robotic education
The current squeeze on public spending is an opportunity to raise standards.
Evolution of Technology or Shovelling Water?
Is the UK education community stakeholders in human progress?
Transport
US style Yellow School Buses
School bus pollution problems in New York
School Transport v School Meals – a battle for hearts, minds and money
Almost a poison yellow pill
Yellow school buses – all but dead and buried?
Car free zones?
Bad boys what you gonna do….?
Northern Ireland revs up
Resurection man
The Eddington Transport study
First Group expand
School transport plan failure
Company News
Inspection services
Europasia Education’s results
HTI
VT
Teaching Awards CEO resigns
EduAction
Education Connections
AEC Education
Hull BSF
Partnerships for Schools
School supplies market subdued
Home Office frustrate recruiting of supply teachers
Possible takeover of the Hot Group
Business support for new Skills Academies
Freehold buyout
Another language business is sold
Recruitment opportunities
Head office for sale
Educational HR
Annual results
PGL sell to Holidaybreak
NCSL look for a COO
Findel
Shine Trust
Nelson Thornes look for a Managing Director
Nord Anglia Group Finance Director
Huveaux Plc take over the Epic Group
Leap Frog Nurseries targeted by animal rights extremists
Creative Educations Irish preschool investment
Europe Asia Education in the black
Havelock Europa see improvements at ESA McIntosh
RM confirm large Scottish contract
White Green and Young grow in the public sector
Adval Profits
AEC Education Profits
Teaching Awards and United Church Schools Trust
Tribal win another major contract
Oise list on AIM
BPP
Emap
Education Development International
Is Findel in play or just a good investment?
Mouchel Parkman keep growing
EduAction
Pearson and the BBC
Capita rename
Ely Property
Carillion
Education Development International (EDI)
The Hot Group shuffle directors
Nord Anglia
Aramark seek to expand in the UK
Mowlem
Civica
Compass – some good news at last
Tribal improve their half-year profit
First Group results
JISC Content Procurement Company
EuropAsia Education’s results
AMEC restructure
Nord Anglia’s annual results
Pearson’s annual results
Espresso and Crick Software products
Havelock Europa’s new Group Finance Director
Huveaux restructure senior management team
Education Development International results
Mite Group’s results
RM’s annual results
Testing times
Planet Sport’s CEO resigns
Sir Digby Jones joins HTI
Teacher’s TV goes to Video On Demand
iTrain director resigns
Recruiting season in education
A mystery or not?
RM win at the DfES
Changes at the DfES
New chair for BECTA
Goldman Sachs take a stake in Nord Anglia
Significant losses at Creative Education Corp
Pearson ‘s strong education results
Reed Elsevier disappoints
Capita shines
VT buy again
Special Advisor Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
Partnerships for Schools makes changes
NCC Education still looking for a Managing Director
Kumon expands
Changes at the DfES and TDA
EduAction expands
Futuremedia acquires EBC
Adval merge with Maxim Learning
Special Agent sold to Vedior
Nord Anglia expand in Asia
Syscap sale
Capita boss steps down
Amec preliminary results
Results for Huveaux
BPP Results
Enterprise expand
Nord Anglia continue expanding in the Middle East
Europe Asia Education invest in China
AEC Education takeover speculation
Capita expand in educational IT
Capita play for MARCOMS work
Teacher’s TV recruits and Ten Alps expands
Creative Education Corp reshuffle
Ely property expand in education
Havelock Europa restates accounts
Findel and Sainsbury’s
Pearson expand in the US educational testing market
Nord Anglia grow in China
TQ seek a new Business Development Director
IBM staff in schools
Education Development International expand
Pearson buy two more US companies
John Harris leaves Epic
HBS expands their education team
Shell Step
RM’s interim results
Nord Anglia news
Findel’s results
EdCOMS amongst top sponsorship agencies
Azzurri Communications sale
Tribal’s results
Findel acquire again
Education Development International results
Creative Education raises capital
Havelock Europa
Pearson races ahead
BECTA’s new boss
Tribal’s education incubator offer
One we missed
Nord Anglia sale and leaseback
Ely Property takeover
SERCO’s confirm possible PFI sales rumours
RM get a groove
John Laing board appointment
Interserve under the pump
AdVal breakup
Daily Mail and General Trust sell The Study Group
Money for jam
Sodexho win MoD childcare vouchers
Sovereign expands its Employability and Skills Group
Stagecoach & Nord Anglia
Name changes for nfer Nelson and Mouchel Parkman
Huveaux sale falls through
Goldman Sachs invest in student finance
AEC restructure ownership
Findel’s Chief Executive backs his team
Northgate Information Solutions sold
Reed Elsevier completes its Houghton Mifflin disposal
RM’s new Non Executive Director
RM and Microsoft
Tribal
Riverdeep start the offload
Worse and worse
Coca Cola’s capability
AEC Education expands
Education Development International results
Findel
Havelock Europa’s results
Huveaux
itrain rebrands
RM buys again
Sovereign Capital keep faith with training
Holidaybreak break the bank
School Inspectors, the TV series
BBC jam II?
STAR Awards
Englfield invest in Laureate
Apollo’s moon shot
Permina stay in touch with education
ILX a tough call for investors
Education Development International buy eNVQ
Carter & Carter’s woes continue
Nord Anglia takes a very big hit
There’s cash in games
Emap sold
Alpha Plus Sold
The Promethean shuffle
Ramesys
Nord Anglia’s big chill
New Chair of the ‘new OFSTED’
AEC Education’s disappointing results
Creative Education Corp raised funds
The Study Group sale complete
Is Findel’s education business for sale?
Interior Service Group runs into political uncertainty
Kier like education but not BSF
Nord Anglia update
Reed Elsevier appoint boss for Harcourt US
Tribal win The University of the West of England
BESA get close to GEMS in Dubai
Special Agent restructure
More changes in the nursery sector
WCLS look to the Middle East
Carter & Carter chase a new CEO
CfBT looks for an International Operations Director
Edging ahead
Creative Education Corp does it tough
Europeasia Education abandons education
UNITE keep on
AEC Education acquire in Singapore
Education Development’s results
Principle Capital Partners rebuffed by Nord Anglia
Tribal move on up with the QIA
VT find education tougher
Stagecoach grant more options to directors
Kier win more work in London
Together For Children succeed with the DfES
Findel Education named in FPB’s Hall of Shame
RM – results and Dacta acquisition
Nord Anglia’s half-year results
VT
MITE
Huveaux
For sale signs?
News Corp announce e-learning buy
Kaplan bid to open UK university
3i bid for Enterprise
BECTA
Pearson exceed
Creative Education Corp restructure
Nord Anglia’s improved results
Informa off the boil
RM’s final results
Hobsons does well for DMGT
VT get traction in Greenwich
EDI improve and broaden their shareholder base
Findel
Tribal continue to improve
Findel’s results
ETS win a prime UK contract
National Programme for Gifted and Talented Education
Findel focus online
Capita win a contract in Leicestershire
Blackstone roars (quietly)
Sovereign sells SENAD
Fronter win London Grid for Learning (LGFL)
Pearson watch
Nord Anglia appoints new Non-Executive Director
UNITE reshuffle
SENAD’s new owner
Our crystal ball works for Reed Elsevier
Kip McGrath franchise buy back
UniServity appoint Stephen Heppell
Tribal’s Trust
Netmedia keeps Northern Grid
LOCOG appoints Head of Education
Cambridge Education Group purchased by Palamon Capital
Ravenstone House restructure
Cognita expands (again)
New appointments at Espresso
AQA beef up
Harcourt link with City & Guilds
Wolters Kluwer Education’s results
Thomson Learning
Springer Science
The new Ofsted
DMGT sell Atalink to Ten Alps
Findel purchase Philip & Tacey
First Group Yellow bus business
Havelock Europa’s results
Huveaux’s results
Lyceum Capital and Asquith Nurseries
Pearson win another large US contract
Carter & Carter withdraw BPP offer
Capita expand its database offering
Tribal ring in the changes
Europeasia Education in play
Less money for examination fees?
Granada Learning keeps selling
Blackboard acquires NTI Group
Pearson gets conditional thumbs-up
The 800 pound gorilla?
McGraw-Hill: education sales up 7.2% but 300 jobs go
Findel sells James Galt & Co.
Gladstone expanding its education division
Houghton Mifflin College
Education Management Corporation goes for IPO
EDI completes Singapore disposal
Kingswood and School Travel Group for sale
Drinkall takes helm at Macmillan Education
Nigel Ward to Collins
Futurelab seeks a new Chief Executive
Monthly Share Watch - 2008's winners and losers
Catering
PPP/PFI - who actually provides the food?
Plenty of lettuce in school food
Jamie Oliver trains Sainsbury’s Food Advisors
Compass struggle
Vending machines
School Food Trust
Improving school meals may be made more complex due to outsourcing and subcontracting
Smart Card research
Policy Lite courtesy of Kelly’s Calorie Counter
Vending machines already out of French schools
Junk food gets Terminated in California
Scholarest wins at Harrow
Is the DfES Numerically Challenged?
Watch out Coke
School Food Trust CEO - a poisoned chalice?
Computerised School Meals?
School Food Trust
March 2006 School Food Trust structure
Another Talkfest/Consultation
School Dinner Ladies Challenge 2006
Here comes Jamie’s School Dinners again
School Food Trust appoints CEO
School fruit and veg scheme scrapped
US to introduce voluntary soft drink ban in schools
School Food Trust expands (and contracts)
School Food Trust recruits a new Chair
Yale’s sustainable food project
There’s brass in muck
Are catering colleges a disgrace?
Coffee wars on campus
A paucity of policy - or pathetic politics?
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Free lunches for all – let them eat cake!
New interim chair at the School Food Trust
Farm to college – is it a serious market?
Harrison catering clean up in education
About time
An expanding empire
A fried Mars bar anyone?
Eat better and raise money – is it really possible?
Amey – new biometric security systems are not in vein
Have schools dinners turned the corner?
Government launch free school meals pilot
Contract extension for Compass in Kent
Schools
Kelly Hours
Established players extend their business offering
Sponsors get cold feet
An unintended consequence after the government bailout of an Academy School project?
Another Academy completed
Value for money private schools
Extended Schools
Extended schools sports provision
A Livery Sponsored Academy
Academy Schools
Will an Ark Academy School be like US Charter School?
Academy School bid
Montessori moves into the UK mainstream
Academy Boarding Schools
Specialist Schools and Academy Sponsors Trust
Is it sponsorship, philanthropy or a voluntary tax?
Educational Travel
Granada Learning’s sponsorship to go ahead
Will independent schools sponsor Academies?
A difficult month for the Academy Schools programme
Heathfield St Mary’s merger
Are the Americans coming?
Companies interested in Trust/Foundation schools
Academy School targets – are we there yet?
Academy Boarding Schools
Another private school merger
Moderate fee increases - independent schools told
UK School Games
The tarnished gold standard
New York schools lead the way for UK trust schools?
Specialised Diplomas – a pig in a poke?
Charities Bill
Death of the golden standard?
Choice Advisors – and the winner is the Civil Service
Another new Chief Inspector of Schools
Learning Days
Rumbold of the Bailey?
Growing demand for bursars
Foreign students from independent schools
Hitting the right note
New League Tables
Extended schools - a serious new market?
Devil in the detail for Specialised Diplomas
New appointments at NCSL
SSAT restructure
ISC ring in a change
Ready or not? Not
Working Nine to Five
Ballymore’s Docklands nursery and prep school
OFSTED contracts – less money to come
Are independent schools too expensive?
Special sauce
Bullshit bingo
School spending on books
Shrinking the General Teaching Council?
2012 and education?
Quango to charity via the DCSF
Printing and bananas – there’s a link
Professional service helpline for schools goes live
Kelly hours
School uniforms update
The right to private tuition
PISA'd off
Money (that’s what I want)
Service Children’s Education
Out of the frying pan?
Capturing IP
Are exams a £600m or £1bn market?
Pre-U moves ahead
More please
Diplomas, fact or fiction?
Changes to sponsorship of Academy Schools
Academies really are independent schools
haysmacintyre Independent Schools Survey 2007
Safety first – taking the hassle out of school visits
Dearing report into language learning
HBSC makes an exciting social investment in the tutoring market
You can’t trust the DfES’s number about Trust schools?
GEMS find the UK market isn’t a gold mine
Cognita expands
Music and singing in schools
Parents want hard facts, not socially engineered spin
SEN a growth market for independent schools
Diplomas on edge
New Chair sought at the Girls’ Day School Trust
Teacher recruitment figures inflated
Edging ahead
The admissions lottery
BAE’s take on the Jesuit approach to education
Teach First expands
Standard School Year expands
Knives are OK, but iPods aren't
Civitas New Model Schools
Parents to get their children’s reports online
VT Education and Skills takeover at Waltham Forest
Nord Anglia – growth in Asian school numbers
The Kings Group seeks CEO
NCSL’s Multi-Agency Team Development contract winners
Interest in trust schools continues to grow
Cognita buys again
GEMS seeks £200m investment for UAE
Tenders from DCSF
British Schools of America to be acquired
New advanced diploma for school business managers
Education voucher programme in Qatar
GEMS to open new school in Saudi Arabia
New CEO for the ISC
115 more Trust schools
Three more schools for Cognita
Sovereign in £34m MBO of British Schools of America
Private firms might educate excluded pupils
Explore Learning raises £750k from investors
Stagecoach Theatre Arts to exceed profits target
Cognita expands in Spain
Nord Anglia rejects £180m offer
Milken set to buy Nobel Learning Communities
Diplomat becomes CEO at ISC
CfBT adds another school to its portfolio
Nobel Learning Communities still reviewing Knowledge Learning’s $186m bid
Nobel Learning in talks with Knowledge Learning Corporation
State Schools cut spending on learning resources to offset energy overspends in current year
£15m for one-to-one tuition
Cognita expands in Singapore
Another school joins Cognita
EdisonLearning to launch online charter school
Palamon injects a further £2.48m into Cambridge Education Group
Acquisitions fuel growth at Cognita Schools
Net debt increases at GEMS UK business
Nord Anglia’s Abu Dhabi school to open in September
Revenues up 80% at WCL
Revenue up 16% at Acorn Care and Education
Cambridge Education Group files first set of full-year accounts
Sales up 12% at Alpha Plus schools
Bank takes control of Asquith Nurseries
Revenue up 39.5% at US virtual school company
Cognita completes school acquisition in Thailand
Beaconhouse to manage four schools in Abu Dhabi
Publisher moves to the GDST
Phoenix sells Acorn Care and Education for £155m
Paul Brett leaves Alpha Plus
Onsite university foundation courses are good news for CEG
Net debt up 6.8% to £51.9m at GEMS
Higher Education
Apprenticeships, cheaper than recruitment and retraining
Coals to Newcastle and back
Tory HE Education policy – the high tech way
It’s people not science - universities are told
Academy schools sponsored by FE colleges
Litigation – student power versus unions
The cornucopia of fee-paying foreign students?
Top Up Fees versus alumni donations
Sallie Mae sale falls through
James Dyson sponsors a technology college
All praise the Emperor
Back to the picket lines?
Higher Education Academy
Even the EU are getting worried
Oops!
Kaplan start UK moves
Reputation and contact hours
The big deal about Diplomas
The future of UK training – in Poland
Cheating, surely not!
uniTEST rolls out downunder
Defence studies exported to Downunder
Free university for asylum seekers in Scotland
Online petitions
Edge go to the edge and back
Commission for Employment and Skills Chair
Employers and college-led qualifications
Australia to phase out fees?
Leitch Skills Review
Are student attendance contracts anti-competitive?
Yale buys into biology
What cost failure or another scare story?
WorldSage
Uniforms, punctuality and employability
The LSC builds a stockade
BPP to award degrees
All talk and no trousers?
A stupid brain drain
Leitch report
Pushed over the Edge?
Oxbridge reject the ANZACs
Harvard funding revolution
Over-endowed?
Top slicing
UNITE sells £172m of assets
Cruising towards a degree
Limkokwing University launches London campus
The 157 Group, another quango or a serious player?
Government aims for more students in HE
Applications to universities in England at a record high
New HE centres planned for towns and cities
Universities in Saudi partnership
Credit crunch hits Sallie Mae and for-profit universities in US
Queen’s Award for University of Glasgow
Enrolment on online programmes boosts Education Management
7.8% rise in number of applications to UK universities
40% of total enrolments at DeVry Inc are now online
Online enrolments up at Education Management
New business for founder of The Princeton Review
Kaplan’s first half revenues up 14%
UNITE closes fundraising at £58m
Kaplan's CEO quits
Unite to focus on London
UNITE make a few changes
UNITE signs JV with Connaught
Bridgepoint raises $142m through IPO
Applications up 8.8% at UK universities
A recruiting revolution?
Hobsons on course for double digit sales growth
UNITE to raise £77.8m net through placing
Kaplan merges its Aspect business into Kaplan International College
UNITE concludes £167m USAF capital raise
Higher Education drives Kaplan forward
International
Should university expansion be based on sound investment criteria or upon wider political issues?
Will English become a competitive disadvantage?
Competition from overseas hurting UK schools
Language Learning
The hidden reason for falling enrolments from China
IDP a model for foreign student recruitment?
Private schools in China a boom market
Europe’s competitiveness dips
When is motivation bribery?
School bus pollution problems in New York
Nord Anglia take on GEMS in their own backyard
International and domestic expansion
Brown’s budget targets overseas students
Macmillan Grow in Argentina
Mandarin the foreign language of business?
Parental choice and selection - an interesting example
15 & 15%
Getting Top Up Fees paid
Using global mobility to escape national education systems
A European version of M.I.T.
European Schools Recruitment
Student Numbers Rise
Americans invade the Middle East (again)
And the British are going to America
Childcare Lessons from Australia
Too little and too late?
Harvard Business School
Have Macmillan really outsold the Da Vinci code?
Pearson buy two more US companies
Learn Chinese for free
Is that New York calling? Not right now
Expansion in the Middle East
He giveth and he taketh away
Good behaviour pays!
Export Opportunities in Iraq and Asia
Collateral damage in HE/FE?
Orient Global’s US$100m (£50m) education fund
Super Nova no longer
GEMS expands in the Middle East
Something for the weekend sir?
Exporting Heads
Cognita’s international expansion
Crisis management lessons from the Antipodes
The private equity train rolls on
Chinese students flex their muscles
Bribery in education – how shocking!
Nord Anglia’s licence for new Shanghai school
Finland's educational success – can we replicate it?
The China syndrome
Australian school PPPs
ABC Learning making inroads into the UK market
GEMS and Edison work together
British International School in New York
A lesson in trying to tap overseas HE markets
China thinks ranking students is harmful
Do UK investors really understand China?
Private school marketing in Australia
You can paint it any colour so long as its black
One third of business leaders were educated overseas
The Canadians are coming
British International School of New York opens
Flogging a dead horse for fundraising
Uganda, the £500m education market?
More tutoring from India
Saudi Arabia cuts out the bureaucrats
Is Education First (EF) really the world’s largest private education company?
Major league philanthropy reaches German education
US education lenders under the spotlight
The Indian effect
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Australia looks at public private partnerships
Re-examination of Blackboard’s e-learning patent
Sunscreen and sunglasses
Running rings around the competition
Veronis Suhler Stevenson keep buying in the US
Obeikan JV with Cambridge University Press
MIT put all courses online
Fundraising and narcissism
Kaplan buy in Australia
Ken Boston pushes another National Curriculum
Qatar wants more ‘outstanding private schools’
India’s new universities to adopt US model
Australian government to invest in new school buildings
Government Funding
Parents Undertake Serious Saving
School fundraising
My Rich Uncle as a source of funds
Educational finance – a growth market?
A new campaign to explain top-up fees
What’s better a gimmick or a good deal?
Will university be cheaper for smarter students?
Student loan difficulties
Dexia report strong results and receive a takeover offer
Fundraising in degree?
Are private schools pricing themselves out of reach?
Is a Top-Up-Fee disaster looming?
Real Estate and Education
Finance offers for education union members
Nord Anglia takeover speculation continues
History can hurt
A potential explosion of bad debt?
Are tertiary fees a lottery?
Till Death Do Us Part
The Budget
Select Committee report on education spending
Parental Donations
Syscap sale
Getting EU Students to pay Top Up Fees
Syscap sale continued
A good investment
Halifax survey links fees to results
Are students a good market?
Changes at the School Loans Company
Is the strong £ hurting education?
Student loans the pain continues
The stock market meltdown and education
Kids are expensive – who would have guessed?
Contracts without competition
Paying for school fees
The cost of being listed
Macquarie Bank uses education to attract top talent
That hoary old chestnut - independent school fees
My Rich Uncle
Financial education in schools
Money for nothing
Flipped out?
Facebook versus HSBC
It’s money but not as we know it
Student Loans Company restructure
US student loan scandal update
Lloyds TSB Money Doctors education scheme
Will the Olympic damage education?
Are Middle Eastern investors about to compete with private equity funds in the education market?
Tutoring and the black economy
Planning, fees and economic development
Student loans – hard and harder
£6bn SLC loan book sale – who would have guessed?
Use it or lose it – the £1.6bn question
Private equity wins for teachers, but not in the UK (yet)
IMF says private equity collapse increasingly possible
Sallie Mae sale
NDPB auditing
Stay at school, be healthy and live longer
£38bn for schools in England in 2008-2009
LSC funds for 16-19 education to be transferred to Local Authorities
Extra funding for language teaching
Extra £100m to tackle failing schools; £60m more for adult skills
£555m funding package for Scottish FE colleges
Government publishes legislative programme for schools
Extra funding fails to reach poorest pupils
School budgets being squeezed
£10m for training SENCOs
DCSF underspends 2007-2008 budget by £774m
The government accelerates £1,242m of school and college building work but education is likely to be squeezed after 2010
Extra funding for 16-19 education to be matched by ‘efficiency’ savings
DCSF’s capital underspend increases to £2.4bn; 40% of schools have excessive surpluses
Schools could save £400m through better procurement
School balances fall by £80m in 2008-09
DCSF spending under pressure – How can the DCSF cut expenditure while protecting standards in schools?
BSF and Construction
Interior Service Group acquisition
Antipodean acquisitions?
Redcar and Cleveland PFI
Sheffield City
Building Schools for the Future (BSF)
Transform
Solihull
First Class
Barr
Interserve
New Manchester sports college goes to Hochtief
Northamptonshire opt for Transform
Leeds Combined Secondary Schools Project
Norfolk to Academy Services
East Dunbartonshire shortlist
QED is Slough
Scotland
Business Academies
PPP/PFI accounting uncertainties
QED Consortium in Leeds
Learning Village
Keir Scotland
New wins for Wates Construction
Skanska and the PFI Infrastructure Company
Mowlem Write Down
£16bn wasted in tendering for projects
Will the new White Paper impact on BSF?
Balfour Beatty win York College
‘New’ cash for building schools
Can construction software increase profitability?
Ely Property
RM win Solihull BSF
Will the Education White Paper damage BSF?
Show me the money
Kier
Balfour Beatty
Mowlem – Carillion come out of the closet
Costain
Atkins
Has BSF simply become a procurement exercise?
Will Richard Bowker from P4S replace Bob Kiley?
Carillion and Mowlem
Skanska win Bristol BSF
BSF overload
PFI Infrastructure Company expands
Macquarie stalk the infrastructure sector
Delays cause a cost blow out at North Liverpool Academy
Student accommodation
BSF conference
Bradford to Integrated consortium
BSF and Academies to work together
Refurbishing 50% of all primary schools
Harris Academy building tender
Academy Services win in Norfolk
Unite’s annual Student Experience report
PFS appoint
Partnerships for Schools (P4S) in crisis mode
Building Schools for the Future
PFI Infrastructure Company results
Lancashire BSF preferred bidder
Absolute Return for Kids and Academy Schools
VT home in on Greenwich
The education energy market
BSF announcements
Aura
Pyramid
InspirED Consortium
Ely Property offer
CABE say schools are poorly built
A contrarian view
Partnerships for Schools new Chief Executive
Solihull goes BAM!
Feedback
Ramesys move ahead in BSF
PFI win in Ireland for Sodexho and Macquarie
Taking fire safety seriously
PfS start some Academies
Hackney appoints
Guildford College expansion
Interserve win in Merseyside
Architecture workshops
Energy costs (a lot)
InspirED consortium in East Dunbartonshire
Miller win Leicestershire
Dorset BSF showcase school
BSF announcements: Kent, Leicestershire and Lewisham
BSFI announces appointment of Chairman
Newcastle financial close
Is Nicholas Porter making a slow exit at Unite?
P4S announce preferred Academy suppliers
Leeds announce preferred supplier
Waltham Forest goes to Bouyques
Amey preferred bidder in Northern Ireland
Two new schools for Salford
BSF - stuck in the slow lane or on the wrong track?
PFI tie up with Hochtief
‘It’s not easy being green – and I think it’s the way I want to be’
Bog Standard?
Boring on about BSF
Learning 21 preferred bidder in Lewisham
Lots of loot at P4S
Blackstone stir up the London student accommodation market
Stand up and be counted
Green schools?
Sprinklers and arson
BSF pay disparity?
Environments for Learning close with Leeds
Let there be light
Students to be consulted on BSF designs
RM wins Sunderland BSF bid
Balfour Beatty selected for Walworth Academy
BSF wins for Carillion
BSF win for Willmott Dixon
Willmott Dixon awarded contract to build City of London KPMG Academy
Carillion preferred bidder for Nottingham BSF contract
NAO to review BSF programme
RM closes £16m Sunderland ICT contract
BSF Wins in April 2008
RM extends contract with Leeds
Construction companies in the dock
New consultancy framework for sixth form and FE colleges
New proposals to speed up entry into BSF
Review of LEPs launched
Willmott Dixon wins £100m Middlesbrough BSF
£200m more for National Challenge
P4S selected financial advisors
£90m closure on Nottingham BSF project
Eight authorities join BSF fast track programme
Financial close on Phase 1 of Islington BSF; Carillion preferred bidder for £118m Kent academies programme
PfS expected to double framework contractors
Interserve wins first ever non-education BSF contract
ISG wins £50m education project
RM confirms Haringey BSF contract closure
Property revaluations hit UNITE but student reservations are up
Willmott Dixon win £20m RSA academy project
BSF fast-track plans announced
New board appointment at Partnership for Schools
Financial close in Kent
BSF programme to be more vigorously fast-tracked
Kier wins £90m academies contract in Cumbria
Balfour Beatty is selected bidder for £200m BSF scheme in Southwark
Revenues up 16% in first 10 months at Havelock
Short-list for Hull's BSF project announced
Birmingham delays BSF decision
Equitix preferred bidder for Derbyshire BSF project
Financial close in Hackney
European Investment Bank to put £300m into BSF
Mouchel reviews involvement in BSF bids
Northgate to supply Apple
Ramesys recruiting extra staff
BSF Technical Advisory Framework advisors announced
Government remains upbeat about BSF funding
PfS names 11 firms to advise local authorities on BSF
Laing O’Rourke preferred bidder for Barnsley
Luton selects Wates Group
Financial close at Tameside
RM secures £6.6m Lambeth contract extension
Catalyst Lend Lease wins £2.4bn Birmingham BSF scheme
Bouygues pulls out of bid for Essex BSF
Environments for Learning wins £370m Sandwell BSF project
DCSF accelerates capital spending as Treasury steps in to rescue stalled PFI projects
Shortlist for Rochdale’s BSF project named
Interserve sells Sheffield PFI stake
Willmott Dixon selected for the Hereford Academy
PPF 2009 Awards shortlist announced
Havelock’s Education division up 20%
Hackney BSF reaches financial close
Carillion preferred bidder for £500m Durham BSF
Preferred bidder for Salford and Wigan BSF programme
Financial close on Luton’s BSF scheme
Interserve closes on £80m Northern Ireland PPP contract
Financial close on £71m Lancashire BSF project
Hochtief Laing O’Rourke confirmed as Salford and Wigan BSF preferred bidder
Camden, Derby, Ealing and Hertfordshire announce BSF shortlists
17 firms on new legal advisory list
Education business still good for Havelock
Financial Close on Birmingham's BSF scheme now expected end of July
LSC approves 13 FE college building bids
Discussions to acquire Morse terminated
Interserve still sees education as an attractive market
Havelock’s education revenue up 37% in first half
Stoke selects partners for BSF
Financial close on phase one of Birmingham’s BSF scheme is good news for Redstone
Financial close for Durham’s BSF scheme; Capita enters BSF
Financial close on phase 2 of Bradford’s BSF project
Balfour Beatty preferred bidder for 4 West Sussex Academies
Southampton appoints BSF advisory team
Kier acquires Telereal’s stake in Kent BSF project
Morse loses £1.0m on STaG BSF contract
Kier preferred bidder for Telford & Wrekin’s £200m BSF project
Blackburn and Bolton name Balfour Beatty as preferred BSF bidder
Tribal named ICT adviser for Peterborough’s BSF programme
PfS announces new contractors’ framework
Morgan Sindall preferred bidder for Hull’s BSF project
Havelock’s education orders up 35% in Q3
Gladstone receives indicative offer of 33p per share
Operational issues and bad weather hit Havelock’s education business
Financial close for Blackburn and Bolton BSF programme
Carillion achieves financial close in Rochdale and is named preferred bidder in Wolverhampton
Sales flat at KM Furniture
Preferred bidders for Essex BSF and Somerset BSF announced
Media
Open University, open source, open to anyone
Thomson Learning and Harcourt
What a waste of time and money
The Milk Round
ITN invest in Espresso
Magazines
Pearson Professional Development Partnership
Teacher’s TV
TSL for sale
Peasron acquire
Disney goes with John Brown
Language Learning in the air
BBC Backstage and the sale of BBC Broadcast
TES Sale
Is Granada Learning for sale?
BBC Digital Curriculum
Teacher’s TV
Crossover between outsourcing and the media
Independent Publishers Group Seminar
Bookstart’s £27m boost
Granada Learning sale
Has the race for TSL Education narrowed?
Teachers’ TV
A tempting target in the literacy market?
An expanding education portfolio John Brown Citrus
Digital Public Expand
Exponent Private Equity wins TSL Education
Granada Learning, the never ending story
Online second-hand book sales hurt publishers
Google sued by publishers – will the fallout hit the UK education market?
e-Learning Credits to Stay
The new digital education divide – irrelevant schools
Granada Learning (again)
Advertising and sponsorship on trial at Teacher’s TV
The Granada Learning saga
Is radio the overlooked educational media?
Teacher’s TV goes to Video On Demand
Teacher’s TV sale rumours
Revision guides – a bright spark for publishers
Rosettastone focus on the UK education market
University Choice TV
Granada Learning – is the end in sight?
Hodder Education use SMS
Competition in the language sector
Against the flow - a recipe for publishing success
TwoFour win DfES framework agreement
One to watch out for, or rather to listen for
World Book Day 2006
Specialist Schools magazine
Teacher’s TV
BBC Bitesize – not up to scratch?
Are Discovery heading to Europe?
Edexcel vs AQA and OCR in the publishing market
A sticky situation at BBC jam
Granada Learning - sold at last!
Chorion move into EFL
Heather Rabbatts leaves Channel 4 Education
Beat student magazine
Looming battles in bookland
Pearson buy Italian educational publisher
Teacher’s TV dispute with Sky
Is the Study Group for sale?
BBC signs video-on-demand deal in Korea
IT versus books: the investment debate
Teacher’s TV
Will Lonely Planet be BBC jam II?
Teacher’s TV metrics
Can the BBC be education’s YouTube?
Pearson’s aberration
Open Books Open Minds
Taunton School buy into the language learning market
Mindshare win LSC tender
TES onwards and upwards?
OFCOM’s Public Service Publisher gets a boost
The Boffin Squad
School leaving age boom?
The Times target education and teachers
Riverdeep and Houghton Mifflin
TES flipped
Thomson Learning sold for £3.9bn
Pearson swoop on part of Reed Elsevier education
Will it never stop? Pearson buys another company!
DfES phonics back down
Teacher’s TV
Granada s(t)inks
Editing Wikipedia
CGP hope to have turned the corner
Educational publishers move online
May the Cengage be with you
BBC jam/education
Schools ignore BECTA’s advice
The National Year of Reading (again)
Curriki
Espresso acquire Netmedia
The strange case of David Fulton and Informa
So C4 isn’t about TV anymore
Advertising on the BBC
South African publisher to launch in UK
Huveaux pick up Letts Education and Leckie & Leckie
Informa buy some of Granada Learning
Getting HE students into magazines
Huveaux buys some of Granada Learning from Veronis Suhler Stevenson.
Are Macquarie looking at educational media assets?
The story of how an English language textbook outsold Harry Potter in China
Editis buy Paraschool
Letts and TutorVista
Electric Word acquire Speechmark
John Brown win Sure Start
Riverdeep mountain high?
Teacher’s TV tender, where are we?
JISC Strategic e-Content Alliance
Informa, takeover and possibly taken over?
Demise of the Specialist Schools Trust magazine
Will Hodder miss the boat on languages?
CMG buy Independence Educational Publishers
TES shuffle the deckchairs
Yahoo Teachers – soon for the UK?
Personnel to education for the new TES editor
C4 Education’s new strategy
Teacher’s TV
Riverdeep swallows Houghton Mifflin
Thomson Learning sale
Wolters Kluwer sale
Blackwell Publishing sells to John Wiley & Son
Teacher’s TV’s Labour bias?
BBC jam and BECTA’s Content Advisory Board
TES redesign
DfES win an award
Gamekeeper turned poacher?
Will Lord Puttnam end up at the BBC?
What are schools doing online?
Frankfurt beckons
Bertelsmann still like education
BETT 2007- bigger and better?
Another new student magazine
Podcasting for the real world
Back to Nature
Teacher’s TV second year report card
Heather Rabbatts and the BBC
The BBC in a jam about BBC jam
Wolters Kluwer Education sale
Espresso buy C4 Learning
The BBC Trust say ‘let them eat jam’!
Public Service Publisher
A boom in language resources?
Mathletics gets a major media investment
ProQuest - problems in the US
Sky Learning
Schoolsweb delays
TES faces an uphill battle
Huveaux merges Letts and Lonsdale
EMAP update
TES v eTeach
Another teacher certification win for Pearson
Electric Word raises stake in MyChild
Marshall Cavendish acquires Summertown
Publishing drives Informa
Hachette Livre seeks UK education publishing acquisition
News Corp launches Slingshot Labs
Education powers Electric Word’s growth
Is Huveaux about to break up?
£1m dividend at Teachers TV as Ten Alps retains contract
David Gilbertson to Emap
Continuum posts £6.2m loss
Revenues hit £2.684bn at Pearson Education
Tough year for Huveaux but Education Division grows
Ten Alps retains Teachers TV contract
Will Ethridge joins Pearson’s main board
Why McGraw Hill is excited by prospects in education
TSL Education exits from ECCTIS
Tinopolis delists
Members sought for Teachers TV board of governors
Marshall Cavendish acquires Learning Edvantage
GTI Group acquires Hobson’s graduate recruitment divisions
Further restructuring at McGraw-Hill
MBO at Informa?
Electric Word on course for growth this year
Pearson buys schools in China
Bloomsbury acquires Featherstone
Providence and Carlyle in for Informa
Revenues up 18% at Ten Alps
Hobsons acquires College Confidential
Cengage Learning completes acquisition of Houghton Mifflin College
Summer sales come early at Huveaux
The ‘three Rs’ drive profits at the TES
Informa receives another buy-out approach
Education revenues up 2.2% at McGraw-Hill
Wiley acquires HE titles from Cengage
Acquisitions help to grow EW’s education sales
DCSF seeks supplier for shared recruitment services for schools
Education sales up 17% at Pearson
Education sales flat at Huveaux
TSL Education acquires Education Data Surveys
Revenues up 15% at Scholastic
Pearson takes control of Longman Nigeria
Bloomsbury hunting academic publishers
Sales up 7.2% at CGP
Informa deal collapses
Wiley buys US HE newsletter list
New Board for Teachers TV
US Education market showing signs of softness for McGraw-Hill
Rising Stars continues to grow
HMH receive €30m of state aid to set up R&D hub in Dublin
Revenues up 38% at EdComs
Revenues up 18.6% at Mark Allen Holdings
Bloomsbury acquires Berg Publishers and launches academic imprint
Pearson consolidates in South Africa
Business stabilises at Education Connections
Education sales fall at McGraw-Hill
Education market still buoyant for Pearson
$6.27bn debt mountain at Cengage
International expansion for EMPG
Espresso launches new CPD service
Van Kuffeler exits Huveaux
Nelson Thornes records 3.6% fall in sales for 2007
Sales up 41% at Twofour Communications
John Catt Educational returns to profit
US education publishers win copyright infringement lawsuit
Granada Learning update
Education accounts for 20% of TenAlps revenues
Wiley's HE revenues up 9% in first six months
Electric Word's education business expected to be ahead of 2007's numbers
Galore Park in profit
Continuum cut losses as new strategy takes hold
Sales up 6% at Jolly Learning
Education Digital receives £834k bonus
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt dispute Moody’s downgrade
Weakness in US schools market hits McGraw-Hill
Bloomsbury still sitting on £50m cash pile
Education business ahead of Pearson’s expectations
TES to launch online Application Tracking System
Open Textbook business enters US market
Ten Alps raises £3m for acquisitions
HMH hit by another ratings downgrade
Cengage denies finance structure limits capacity to invest
Sales up 15% at Kaplan to $2.33bn
Education drives growth at Electric Word
Acquisitions drive growth at Pearson
Dollar’s strength hits Wiley’s HE business
Lenders relax EMPG’s covenants
Revenues up 13.6% at Informa’s academic information business
Bloomsbury looking at deals in academic publishing
Sales down 11% at Huveaux’s education division
Analysis: Pearson PLC
Pearson and Livemocha to launch online English language courses
Sales up 18% at Espresso as potential buyers circle company
Downloads from TES Connect hit 1 million mark
Rosetta Stone raises £112.5m through an IPO
McGraw-Hill:Impact of federal stimulus
Flat World Knowledge raises $8m
Informa raises £242m to pay-down debt
Publishers sign up to Amazon’s large-screen Kindle
Electric Word renegotiates financing facilities
Gains in HE offset poor performance elsewhere at Cengage
Pearson expects tough market conditions for US school publishing
Revenues up 15.9% at TSL
Flatworld Knowledge adds assessment software to offer
SAM Learning looking to develop opportunities in the US
Wiley’s HE revenue up 1%
EducationCity continues upward path
Reduced Teachers TV contract impacts on Ten Alps’ numbers
Sales up, profits down at CGP
Pearson pays $12.5m for stake in online tutoring company
Philip Walters joins Rising Stars
New CFO at Cengage
Education offsets problems with trade publishing at Macmillan
Academic publishing best performer at Informa
First half revenue down at Huveaux’s education division
Bloomsbury splashes the cash
US schools market still a problem for McGraw-Hill
Education ahead of Pearson’s expectations in first half
EMPG restructures debt to avoid going bust
A new, new internet business for back-to-university bargains
Scholastic’s UK business being ‘resized’
Marshall Cavendish sells ELT business to Cengage
Bloomsbury’s specialist publishing division up 34% in first six months
Electric Word raises £2.45m net to reduce debt
Cengage to launch textbook rental site
Like-for-like sales up 4.8% at OUP as US business suffers
Ten Alps to roll our Teachers TV internationally
Prisa to sell 25% stake in Santillana to private equity
Revenue up 7.8% at Mark Allen’s education division
Sales up 16.6% at Cengage’s academic and professional division
Monetizing online teaching resources
HMH partners with educaLine in Spain
Louise Rogers named CEO of TSL Education
New appointments at Cengage Learning and Wiley
Cengage paid £1.9m for ELT business
BBC Trust partially upholds BESA’s fair trading complaint
GTI reports sales of £25.2m
Revenue up 4.3% at Hotcourses
A tale of two markets for McGraw-Hill in third quarter
Higher education, assessment and digital products drive sales at Pearson
EdComs sales up 16.1%
Informa in discussions to acquire Springer
Nelson Thornes missed 2008 sales target by 10%
Scholastic’s accounts reveal problems with UK business
Flatworld Knowledge raises $6.18m
TSL Education acquires i-board
Sales up 14.3% at CUP
Wiley’s HE revenue up 13% in first half-year
Education margins expected to be lower at Electric Word
Pearson teams up with Sun Microsystems
TTV is good business for Ten Alps
Publishing revenue up 2.1% at Continuum
Revenue up 11.4% at Espresso
TSL Education acquires englishteaching.co.uk
Sales up 10% at Jolly Learning
Galore Park still in profit
Strong growth in US higher education is good news for Pearson’s education business
Gains in HE fail to offset 18.4% decline in US school market for McGraw-Hill
EMPG forced to restructure to avoid bankruptcy
BDP Media Group acquires 25% stake in MediaCorp Online
Livemocha Raises $8m in Series B Funding
HMH confirms agreement with lenders
Ten Alps takes TTV to Thailand
Sales down 12.5% at Sanoma’s learning business
Espresso launches Home Learning service
Half year Revenue down 2.8% at Cengage’s academic business
Revenue down 1% at EW’s education division
Education sales up 21% at Pearson
ICT
Microsoft v Google/Sun the battle is heating up
Dell also win in Bristol
e-Gif compliance
New Adobe education offer
New Digital Network for Scottish Schools
Is Open Source really a cheaper option?
RM wins Scottish contract
Granville Technology
Managing assets, helping education and building long-terms markets
Online Physical Education?
Anti plagiarism software in the UK
Driving home the lessons of ICT excellence
Data Collection and The Children Act
The end for Curriculum Online and e-Learning credits?
Cisco’s Networking Academies support UK SMEs
Sun and Google v Microsoft
The $100 laptop – is it a wind up?
David v Goliath –competition in educational IT
Ignorance is no defence – especially in education
Security
BBC jam launched
SuperJanet5
Using SMS to deliver educational products
BETT 2006 award winners
Making IT work in modern buildings
Educational businesses are at risk
Post BETT hiatus
BECTA decide to try to become engaging
Windows Vista
Timetabling
Is edutainment software anti-educational?
More educational IT awards
£150m university computer contract
Green PC’s
The new iPod?
BETT speeds towards us again
RM buy Australian educational software company
Tutor Vista secures VC funding
$100 laptop follow up
No Child Left Behind and The Children Act (TCA)
London Grid for Learning (LGFL)
Nortel targets UK education
Digital Rights Management
Schools face software piracy litigation
Google Page Rank
Google’s PageRank for several well-known UK education companies
834 Tips for Successful Online Instruction
BECTA moots changes to e-Learning credits
A mildly annoying mosquito
Palgrave Macmillan publish on USB
Site Intelligence for the OU
Nortel and Microsoft alliance
Computers for Pupils
Untramobiles and handhelds
Did we speak too soon?
Microsoft and the OFT
Why getting Googled isn’t always a good thing
UCAS jumps on the social networking bandwagon
BECTA continues to bamboozle
e-paper update
Maths software from Northern Ireland
WiTricity – coming soon?
iTunes university launches in the UK
Google plagiarism and Turnitin
Google Apps for Education
Ramesys advertise on Teacher’s TV
Free printers – what’s the catch?
Virtual, virtual school?
Dispute about printer health risk
‘Money for nothing, and your kicks for free’
Google’s Knol versus Wikipedia
Intel joins One Laptop Per Child
TALMOS Britannica – the prodigal returns?
School IT spending
A potential conflict of interest?
Are News Corp dipping their toe into e-learning?
Patent threat to Moodle and Sakai?
Ramesys win phase one in Manchester
RM move ahead in Stoke-on-Trent
OLPC and Intel split
Mobile Learning
Web filters’, a salutary lesson from downunder
Money back or free?
RM wins BECTA open standards contract
RM win £21m contract from Cambridge Assessment
Nigerian students get porn via OLPC
Myspace and OLPC
Intel crank up Classmate production in India
Coals to Newcastle for YouTube
Skype and HE/FE networks – an incompatible mix?
The $100 laptop and the Great Dictator
Green Wi-Fi
Sony’s e-reader sells out
BECTA reports Microsoft to the OFT
Lost data – Pearson in the headlights
Has Apple really overtaken Dell?
BECTA governance
RM win more BSF work
Anti IT?
BBC’s Adventure Rock
The enemy within
Is it going to be DVD or EVD?
BECTA spill on BBC jam
BETT survival guide
BECTA reported to the European Commission
Floods bring IT issues to the fore
London MLE contract signed
Reranking
An Amazon.com for school purchasing
ipod education
MOU, Vista, Office 2007 and Grava from Microsoft
BT rings in the changes
Microsoft Vista –less power or still too expensive?
Looming consolidation in educational software?
It’s not cheating?
Gamekeeper turned poacher?
Web gremlins hit RM and OFSTED
UniServity gets more investment
ThirdForce win BP e-learning contract
Dell run into problems in Scotland
Terrorist threat via universities
Google wins PageRank litigation
To fingerprint or not
Becta’s note of caution for schools implementing Vista
Buzz off?
NFER launches i-nfer
OPEN or Shut?
Government funding for home computing
College win for DRS
Microsoft offers free developer software for students
Education content on mobiles
LeapFrog to launch Tag Reading System
Blackboard in the black
Teachers still require ICT training and leadership
Northern Ireland schools to receive new laptops
BSF increases seasonality of RM profits
GlobalScholar raises $27m for online education
New owners for TAG Learning
Elonex launches sub £100 laptop
SMS service from Pearson in Australia
Revenues up 34% at DRS
Winners of ERA Supplier of the Year
TAG Learning acquires Economatics Education
Leapfrog loses $101m in 2007
Blackboard to partner MyLearningPlan
Futurelab launches Power League
RM in exclusive deal with HP
UniServity in link-up with SIMS
RM acquires 25% stake in Inclusive Technology
Losses continue at Espresso
Blackboard’s widget for Facebook
DRS in Wolverhampton pilot
Enquiring Minds launches Exploratree
Becta refers Microsoft to the European Commission
Jam tomorrow?
Fall in first-half profits at RM
New version of SIF published
BESA seeks assurances from the BBC
Espresso extends partnership with Editure
Tim Pearson steps down at RM
Rush to get schools to spend their ELCs
Government launches new technology strategy for education
Online learning in US schools gathers momentum
RM buys EasyTrace
Sherston, BlackCat and SEMERC acquired by BLI
US court denies Blackboard’s motion for contempt
RM appoints new MD of Education Resources Group
Share buy-back values Logotron at £1.75m
US business hits DRS but education sales up
UniServity’s losses increase
Tutoring just went in a whole new direction
Becta’s dispute with Microsoft nearing resolution, but OFT complaint remains
Government announces £300m for home access but not for another year
Espresso teams up with Lovereading
Trading in line with expectations at RM
Open source supplier included in Becta’s new software framework
Government announces home access pilots
Autology up and running
Sales up 107% at Frogtrade
Birchfield Interactive breaks even
BSF drives growth at Ramesys but at a cost
Northgate sees big opportunities in education
Sales up 25% at Promethean
More online tuition from India
Constellation extends offer for Gladstone
Latest RM numbers reveal underlying change in the nature of the company's business
Interim chair of Becta appointed
Polish exam board pilots DRS e-Marker
Losses increase at LJ Group but company expects to be profitable in current year
UniServity enters into Chinese partnership
Pearson acquires Fronter
Constellation fails in bid for Gladstone
Make or bust time for Amteus and imJack
Promethean launch premium content section on website
Constellation now seeks place on Gladstone’s board
RM launches new merged software business
5 suppliers approved for Home Access pilot
Use of VLEs resembles “a cottage industry” says Ofsted
2Simple Software wins ICT Company of the Year at BETT Awards
Amteus losses increase
Sales up 5.2% at Inclusive
QCA developing a new service – mycurriculum.com
Promethean sees opportunities in France
Gladstone expects half year sales to be similar to 2008
Revenues up by 30% at Blackboard but net income flat
DCSF to spend £5m on improving quality of ICT teaching
Gladstone’s board wins latest skirmish
Promethean commits to Becta’s common file format
Spreadex acquires small stake in Amteus
FrogTrade wins ERA Supplier of the Year award
CORE completes acquisition of The Princeton Review's K-12 testing business
RM wins Open School for Languages project
MOD selects UniServity’s learning platform for its 40 schools
SMART challenges NextWindow; Desire2Learn wants Blackboard to ‘put education first’
Pearson bolts-on two more US acquisitions
Sales flat at Gladstone
Amteus signs deal with SSAT
Malcolm Brighton steps down at DRS
Further losses at Caspian Learning
Blackboard buys competitor
Amteus plans to raise £1.95m net of expenses to stay afloat
it’s learning acquires Netmedia Education
RM acquires Isis Concepts
Revenue up 14% in first half at RM
Tribal signs up University of Sydney for its SITS:Vision system
Etech to partner Serco Learning in the Republic of Ireland
imJack raises £1.99m as half year losses shrink to £969k
UniServity to partner Microsoft
Portuguese investment company acquires 25% stake in Autology
Five companies appointed to HE’s desktop and notebook framework agreement
Blackboard loses patent case with Desire2Learn
DRS’s education revenue up 12% in first half of 2009
imJack to charge schools for software
Stephen Warshaw appointed non-exec chairman of Espresso Group
Sales down 14% at Renaissance UK
Sales up 49% at Promethean
Two new non-executives at Promethean
Sales down 5.4% at Cambridge Hitachisoft
RM wins £10m Glow extension
Another CEO in at imJack
RM establishes JV with GEMS Education in MENASA region
First set of accounts from Black Lion Investments
Kazakhstan contract helps deliver 68% increase in sales at LJ Group
More bad news from imJack
Promethean plans IPO
BSF, education resources and Computrac drive up revenue by 19.8% at RM
Promethean extends reach in Europe
XIHA Life launches a social learning marketplace
Inclusive Technology reports revenue down 4%
Blackboard and Desire2Learn finally settle patent dispute
imJack’s main shareholder reduces stake
Inclusive Technology named ICT Company of the Year
BLI Education approved as supplier for Home Access programme
imJack seeking cash injection
Gladstone still in offer talks
Becta drops Studywiz from framework after Etech enters administration
Revenue up 35.8% to £205m at Promethean ahead of expected IPO
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