Student recruitment companies are embracing virtual tours and recruitment fairs in efforts to keep universities and prospective students connected.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Classes are continuing for China's 180 million students through apps and online platforms as measures to halt the spread of coronavirus shuts down schools.