Partnerships

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...

ELS Educational Services has announced the opening of its first English language pathway programme in Europe. The Berlitz-owned company represents a major network of IEPs, with 63 centres in the USA (predominantly), Canada and Australia. Partnering with global operator SKEMA Business School in France, the new venture will open early 2013.

FEDELE in Spain and the market research company StudentMarketing have signed an MOU to work collaboratively. Student Marketing will help select and recruit agencies to attend the annual conference in Spain and inform members...

Global education provider Berlitz and European education agency AILS have teamed to launch Berlitz-study-abroad.com – a pilot website promoting language schools in eight countries to French students. The venture is exclusive to France, but plans on are on the table for offerings in Germany, Austria, England, Italy and Spain.

International fashion students will soon be able to take a foundation course at Istituto Marangoni, which has campuses in London, Paris and Milan, due to an alliance unveiled with Study Group in London.