Education agency Yes Atlas has launched Modarby, a platform connecting students with instructors aiming to become the "Airbnb for online teaching".

Student recruitment platform Adventus.io has secured AUD$12 million in series A funding as it seeks to secure around 2% of the global international student market by 2023.

Canada-based online higher education program placement organisation Aplic.io has said it is seeking to boost user numbers to hit 100,000 in 2020.

Global accommodation platform HousingAnywhere has raised €6 million in a Series B Financing Round for product innovation and market expansion.

A concern over education agencies selling language school courses "based on what makes us the same, not what makes us different", was a standpoint pitched against a process of standardisation in the Big Debate at the IALC Workshop last week in Leeds and York.