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AEC Education Plc, owner of the Malvern House chain of English language schools, has announced the sale of Malvern House Ireland to Oscar World Education Limited in Ireland.

PwC has acquired a 15% stake in the HE provider, TOP Education, to boost education collaboration between Australia and China.

Pro Linguis, one of Switzerland’s oldest and largest education agencies which went into liquidation last month, is being acquired by StudyLingua AG, another Swiss language travel agency based in St Gallen.

Experience English, which operates four UK English language schools, has been acquired by the Real Experience Group, which also owns low-cost brand, The English Studio. Further growth in the ELT sector is now on its agenda, The PIE News can reveal.

Cambridge Education Group's English language school division, Stafford House International, has acquired two Canadian centres owned by Omnicom School of Languages.

A shortage of student accommodation in Australia is attracting large scale tranches of foreign capital, with two major property investments worth a collective A$1.2bn announced in the last month.

WorldStrides, a US-headquartered education travel company, has been acquired by Metalmark Capital, a private equity firm and Silverhawk Capital Partners, an independent investment group, for an undisclosed amount.

LCI Education, a network of postsecondary campuses around the world, has acquired the Canadian as a Second Language Institute in Vancouver for an undisclosed amount, as it looks to work with more language schools.

Flight Centre Travel Group, a global travel agency, has acquired StudentUniverse for $28m, marking its further expansion into the booming youth travel industry. The acquisition will enable StudentUniverse to scale worldwide as well as grow within existing markets.

From 2018, "stocks and bonds" will be replaced with "study and travel" when EF moves its headquarters to the building currently housing the Swiss Stock Exchange. The move will centralise 1,000 employees in Zurich.

KGIC, formerly Loyalist Group, has secured the investment it needs to stay in operation, has new management and has already announced a strategic partnership with two Indian institutions to build student recruitment channels.

Ireland-based investment firm, Real Experience Group, has acquired ECM college in Dublin in a deal valued at more than €1m. The move marks the group's second acquisition in the English language sector, after it bought The English Studio in London last May.

Aspiring Minds, an India-based job skills credentialing service, has acquired the country’s largest online and mobile internship platform, LetsIntern.com, for an undisclosed amount.

French for-profit higher education group Studialis has been acquired by Galileo Global Education, a Luxembourg-based post-secondary group focused on Europe and Latin America, for upwards of €200m.

Kaplan International is set to buy Mander Portman Woodward, a sixth form college group with three locations across the UK, marking its first venture into the secondary school sector.