August 2011 5

Kip McGrath – punt, bunt or bury?

Tutoring is a massive international business with few international brands. Kumon is one of those brands; arguably Kip McGrath, the listed Australian tutoring franchise company, is another. The question is, with its shares at rock bottom, a disastrous foray into higher education, and the tutoring industry in transformation, will Kip McGrath still be around in a […]

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Pearson or another to make a bid for RM?

RM is in the midst of a perfect storm –a plummeting share price (down almost 13% at lunchtime today),  falling sales, downgraded forecasts, savagely cost cutting, a weak currency and a management admission that,’ shareholders should anticipate a potentially difficult and unpredictable period in the near term’.  Add to this mix the growing chaos on […]

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Apollo Group pay $75m for Carnegie Learning

Apollo Group owners of the University of Phoenix and BPP have paid $75m to buy Carnegie Learning (CL). CL, founded in 1998 and provides specialist adaptive maths software, assessment and services and is a spin out of Carnegie Mellon University, to whom Apollo have agreed to pay $21.5m (over 10 years) in a separate, but […]

12 years ago Education More

US medical training competes with British model in Malaysia

Malaysia is not a country I cover often, but perhaps I should. Unlike many countries the Malaysian economy has grown steadily and at the same time the country has slowly but steadily improved education system.  Until recently Malaysia’s medical education was modelled on the British undergraduate system where students start 5 year courses aged about […]

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Baby buggies and literacy

Last week the BBC’s Today programme has recently ran a story about ‘Children who don’t know their own name’. During the program Sanchia Berg interviewed Neil Wilson, Headteacher, and Government ‘Communication Champion’ Jean Gross. The story looked at why a significant minority of children arrive at school not knowing their own name. This morphed into […]

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