As part of a Massachusetts trade mission to the UK, Shorelight Education has announced that it will fund two US community college students to attend the School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Bath Spa University. The Shorelight Scholars will receive two years of entrepreneurial business education.

Huron Consulting Group, a Chicago-based management consulting company, has made a strategic investment in Shorelight Holdings LLC, a parent company of Shorelight Education. Huron, which offers services in life sciences, law, finance and healthcare as well as education, will participate on the board of directors at Shorelight Holdings.

US-based Shorelight Education has closed agreements with the US's second largest university, University of Central Florida, as well as Fordham University in Manhatten and Bath Spa University in the UK. Shorelight says it has the capital to make universities' international dreams a reality.