Overseas education platform Leap has raised $17 million in Series B funding to expand its geographical footprint and ramp up its tech and business teams.

Preply, a global edtech marketplace for tutor-based foreign language learning, today announced a Series B funding round of $35 million.

LeverageEdu, an edtech startup that helps Indian students gain admission to global universities has raised $6.5m in its latest round of funding. 

Digital learning provider FourthRev has raised £2.3 million in its seed fundraising round, which it will use to continue to expand globally.

The chairman of e-commerce giant Rakuten has made a personal ¥90,000,000 donation to support future Japanese participants in the US Fulbright program.

Institutions in Scotland are seeking to maintain enrolments from the EU and the government will increase the international activity budget by 674% to £6.75m.

Coursera has raised $130 million as part of a Series F round of financing. To date, the California-based company has raised $464m.

An education "emergency" – in addition to the global health crisis – will exacerbate education iniquity globally, education professionals have been warned.