Recruitment continues via virtual events
Student recruitment companies are embracing virtual tours and recruitment fairs in efforts to keep universities and prospective students connected.
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“Five year recovery period” predicted for global student mobility
Economic implications, combined with health concerns around Covid-19, could disrupt the movement of internationally mobile students for up to five years, a leading scholar has suggested. He also suggested east Asia would grow in power as an education destination.
Most institutions expect to be worse off, but edtech can lessen impact – survey
91% of respondents to a survey indicated they will be moderately (69%) or substantially (30%) worse off in the short term due to COVID-19. However, by enhancing edtech provisions they expect to lessen the impact of drop in face-to-face enrolments.
London seed fund to tackle global work-skills crisis
A London-based seed fund building a technology portfolio to tackle the growing hole in contemporary work-centred skills is attracting a “dream team” of investors.
Coronavirus: Ed tech offers free services
Ed-tech companies around the world are offering free services to universities, schools and students to limit the disruption caused by coronavirus.
humanroads raises €1.5m to boost its HE focus
Edtech specialists humanroads has just completed its first fundraising round for a total of €1.5 million, which will allow it to accelerate its focus within the global HE and vocational sectors.
Edvisor and Book&Learn announce merger
Agent software providers Edvisor and Book&Learn have announced that they will be merging, bringing more than 7,500 agency users and 1,500 schools together.
Online learning shift will bring positives, but adapted not replicated content is key
Moving from real-time to online education delivery is not seamless, say experts in the field, but they agree a side-effect of the covid-19 outbreak is that digital delivery of education will improve and expand.
Collaborative online exchange in US, Japan
COIL exchange programs are helping Japanese and US students prepare for the workforce complete with “global perspectives”, according to program organisers.
Indian gov’t supports domestic online degrees
The government in India has reiterated its support for developing fully online domestic degree programs in the minister of finance’s 2020-21 budget speech.
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