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Delhi-based education financing platform GyanDhan has introduced a loan-based university selector tool aimed at helping students find the best-fit universities according to the financial assistance they are eligible for. 

Queen Mary Online has stopped accepting students onto their postgraduate online courses as its partnership with CEG Digital ends.

Sweden-based Sqore has launched a new student recruitment tool for HEIs which it says offers better custom advice on global options and increases conversion into enrolment.

MIP Orbis, a world-leading online data visualisation tool, has been developed by Austrade and access of it is “almost 10 times greater" by its stakeholders, the government export agency has revealed.

English UK has forged an alliance with StudyPortals.com and its sister site, LanguageLearningPortal.com, in a targeted move to better leverage direct sales opportunities for its members, part of its current three-year international strategy.

Study travel trip organiser, Horizons du Monde, is launching a cruise-based package as it identifies a trend away from pure language courses towards cross-curriculum and tailor-made group tours.

Sqore, a Swedish startup providing online challenge-based skills testing has received $3.5m investment ahead of its full launch this Summer. The company intends to use the investment to take its tests targeting skills gaps at universities and companies world wide.

A new summer school mini-programme is being launched this year by Study Group's Embassy Summer division that will give students the opportunity to visit some of the USA’s top universities.

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.

Malta-based ELT company EC has launched a new website this month, offering 360-degree tours which means students and agents can get a good look at the school in which they will be studying. The company is also toasting its employee engagement rating.

The English language-focused MOOC has been the singularly most popular online programme offered by UK platform, FutureLearn, which has shared with The PIE News information about who signed up for the course. Meanwhile, Australia's own ELT MOOC also suggests massive demand for online ELT.

The result of nine months' design work, ‘Ultimate Search’ is a new course search tool from Hotcourses, which matches students to courses in 10 study destinations by taking into account their current or predicted academic qualifications, budget and level of English proficiency. The company claims its new tool will lead to better qualified enquiries.

Student recruitment company Hotcourses has launched its "virtual agency services" for Indian students interested in higher education programmes. The move will expand the company's portfolio which already includes a university course search site and online application services.

Embassy English – Study Group's English language teaching arm – will open its newest study centre close to Soho in central London, sharing space with new private HE player University of Law. "For years our agents and students having been asking about central London" said the company's President.

Astrum Education, a leading group of London-based independent sixth form colleges, is partnering with pathway provider North Consortium UK to launch four International Foundation Year pathways this September covering business, humanities, science and engineering streams.