Katie Duncan

US-based Duolingo, creator of a popular free smartphone language learning app, has this month launched a free service that aims to make it easier for educational institutions to use the app in a structured learning environment.

Global payment solutions provider for the education industry, peerTransfer, has raised US$22m in new funding which will be used to support its three-pronged growth strategy of international expansion, new products and new verticals.

The domestic appetite for teachers is very high: US schools love international teachers

Enrolment statistics from 2013/2014 for UK HE institutions reveal little ground has been gained on the back of last year's startling stagnation. Sector leaders have urged for a more unified approach to jumpstart the flow of international students back to the country.

Education technology holding company, Sibling Group has acquired mobile education software platform, Urban Planet Mobile, provider of the largest low-cost English language product Urban English.

CVC, one of Latin America’s biggest travel agencies, has hired former STB CEO Santuza Bicalho to head up a new division for study travel, which the company hopes will account for 4.5% of turnover in sales for the business.

After a AUS$3 million investment from global agency, Information Planet, a cloud-based booking platform that aims to revolutionise the language travel industry is set to launch this month.

The Finnish government has abandoned plans to introduce tuition fees for non-EEA students, following Minister of Education Krista Kiuru's proposal in October last year to implement fees from 2016.

In its first US expansion move, Oxford International Education Group (OIEG), formerly known as ISIS Education, has acquired its first ELT school in San Diego, which joins the company's two other North American schools in Canada.

Education providers and organisations have told The PIE News that US President Barack Obama's announcement this week to restore US diplomatic and economic ties with Cuba carries encouraging signs for international education.