Partnerships

Global business school LSBF has teamed up with one of the best known British football teams, Liverpool Football Club, to launch a new education brand that will offer management and leadership training by teaching skills that segue from football club to professional world.

An Australian English language school that operates interesting "Teach and Travel" programmes in China and Vietnam has received official endorsement from the government of Vietnam. English Language Company (ELC) Australia signed an MOU with the government earlier this month.

An innovative partnership of 16 London universities, London Universities International Partnership, has worked with premier Indian online job board Firstnaukri.com to set up a jobs portal specifically for returning Indian graduates of London institutions, promoting their world-class commercial experience and more creative attitudes.

The British Council has signed two new agreements with Microsoft to improve digital education in developing nations via a top-down professional development programme for educators...

Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) in the west of Ireland has signed a landmark deal with Yangtze University in Jingzhou, China, that will see up to 120 students a year travelling to Ireland to complete studies in civil engineering and construction management.

Languages Canada and the Italian Association of Language Consultants and Agents (IALCA) have announced a collaboration agreement that may build student exchange to Canada as well as uphold high standards in language teaching and exchange.

UK-based INTO University Partnerships has announced its latest partnership with a US university - this time, Marshall University in Huntington, West Virgina. This is the fourth university in the US to sign up with INTO, which also announced this week that it is bringing one of the largest delegations of education agencies to the UK for a fam tour of partner institutions.

A new British Council-backed award for international collaboration in UK further education (FE) has been won by South West College in Northern Ireland for a tri-national tourism and hospitality seminar that it co-hosts with college counterparts in Germany and the USA.

American InterContinental University (AIU) has collaborated with Buckinghamshire (Bucks) New University to launch a dual MBA programme enabling students to earn two degrees- one American and one British.

Pearson, the education and media giant, is to launch a private higher education college in the UK next month, in a symbolic first step into the small but growing private higher education market. Its first courses will be industry-linked, "designed by business, delivered with business", but the college will not have degree-awarding powers...

A delegation of Presidents and VPs from top Chinese research universities visited Australia last week to further agreements on HE exchange between China and scholars at Australia's Group of Eight (Go8) universities...

A new website has been developed by a UK-based education agency which enables affiliates to direct their own community of students to the comprehensive ELT listings for the UK and Australia...

The British Council hosted Aung San Suu Kyi this week and announced an agreement to train 10,000 English teachers per year from the 20 state teacher training colleges, reaching 41,000 schools and 2 million Burmese youngsters. Suu Kyi used her Westminster speech to highlight education goals for her country.

The British Council and Instituto Cervantes have released a joint book to help explain the political, social and economic factors influencing the growth of Spanish and English. The book highlights the evolution and importance that both languages have in today's global society.

Academic pathway provider Study Group will offer English foundation programmes for the first time to Dutch students through its partnership with Nyenrode Business Universiteit in September this year. The move will take Study Group into continental Europe...