Peter Evans is global managing director of ExpertFile, an online communications platform that helps academics to raise their public profile through the media and other outlets and attract research grants, learned society memberships and public engagements
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The multi-national computer giant is forging partnerships with schools, universities and businesses across Latin America in a drive to tackle the region’s acute digital skills shortage, writes Jason Mitchell
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Chinese government plans to dramatically expand public preschool education by 2020 are a further blow to private kindergarten providers in China, following draft regulations banning them from floating on the stock market, writes Josh O’Neill
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Do pathway providers stand to gain from the uncertainties posed by Brexit to UK universities? James Pitman, Study Group’s managing director for UK and Europe, shares his predictions for the market in an historic year
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UK independent schools are shock-testing their budgets and making drastic contingency plans to cope with a 43% hike in their contributions to teachers’ pensions, sector leaders tell Josh O’Neill
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Ed tech firm Sparx is rolling out its digital maths homework platform across the UK after achieving outstanding results in live trials involving disadvantaged students, chief executive Dan Sandhu tells Liz Heron
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A five-fold increase in deal volumes in the last two decades and recent multi-billion dollar transactions show that education is likely to be a key focus for investors globally in 2019, according to recent research by L.E.K. Consulting. Jitin Sethi, Sudeep Laad and Priyanka Thapar of L.E.K.’s global education practice outline the sectors and regions with greatest promise
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Global University Systems has been expanding rapidly and gained five new campuses in 2018 alone. Founder Aaron Etingen tells Liz Heron about his unique formula for scaling an international higher education platform
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