Global education provider, Navitas Group, has received an unsolicited AUD$1.97bn bid from a consortium, including former Navitas chief executive Rod Jones.

Navitas has signed a partnership agreement with The Hague University of Applied Sciences to provide international students with pathway programs to study at the world-leading university in the Netherlands.

Navitas Limited shared a "disappointing" report for the fiscal year 2018, with $55.8m loss resulting from a 2.5% drop in overall revenues.

Navitas has signed a partnership with the University of Twente in the Netherlands in what is the pathway provider’s first step into continental Europe.

Navitas has recorded 3% growth in student enrolments for the first semester of 2018 in its University Partnerships Division

Swansea University has announced a £45m college project with education provider Navitas on its campus in south Wales.

Navitas chief executive Rod Jones has announced he will be succeeded by current chief financial officer, David Buckingham in March 2018. Jones will move to a non-executive position.

An award-winning English language school in New Zealand, Christchurch College of English Limited (CCEL) is to be acquired by Navitas.