Education news from 2024
Education and edtech events from 2024: universities, funding, mergers, investors and public programmes across five regions.
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AUC names business school for Onsi Sawiris after gift of more than $30 million
The American University in Cairo (AUC) announced on December 2, 2024, that its School of Business would be named the Onsi Sawiris School of Business following a gift…
Chulalongkorn University and Google Cloud unveil ChulaGENIE AI platform
Chulalongkorn University in Thailand unveiled ChulaGENIE, a generative AI platform built with Google Cloud, in an announcement made in Bangkok on November 28, 2024. The…
Imperial College London opens San Francisco hub, Imperial Global USA
Imperial College London announced on October 30, 2024, the launch of Imperial Global USA, a hub in San Francisco that it said makes it the first UK university with a…
Eruditus secures $150 million Series F led by TPG's The Rise Fund
Eruditus, the Mumbai-based provider of professional and executive education programs, announced on October 18, 2024 that it had raised $150 million in a Series F…
Institute of Science Tokyo launches after merger of Tokyo Tech and TMDU
The Institute of Science Tokyo, known as Science Tokyo, was established on October 1, 2024 through the merger of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Tokyo…
Bain Capital agrees to acquire PowerSchool in $5.6 billion transaction
PowerSchool Holdings, a Folsom, California provider of cloud software for K-12 schools, announced on June 7, 2024 that it had agreed to be acquired by the private…
EdVentures selects 12 Egyptian startups for Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship
EdVentures, the investment arm of Egypt's Nahdet Misr Group, announced in a statement dated June 6, 2024, the 12 startups chosen for the first Egyptian cohort of the…
Alef Education raises AED 1.89 billion in Abu Dhabi IPO
Alef Education, an Abu Dhabi-based education technology provider, completed the bookbuilding for its initial public offering on June 6, 2024, raising AED 1.89 billion…
Techstars relaunches Workforce Development Accelerator with 12 startups
Techstars announced on June 3, 2024 the relaunch of its Workforce Development Accelerator and named the 12 startups selected for the 2024 class. The three-month…
Zen Educate raises $37 million Series B to expand school staffing platform
Zen Educate, a London-based online marketplace that matches schools with teaching staff, has raised $37 million in a Series B funding round. The financing was reported…
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia launches Malaysia's first AI faculty
Malaysia's first Faculty of Artificial Intelligence was launched at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) on May 10, 2024. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim officiated at the…
EdUHK entrepreneurship fund backs five teams and adds Cyberport as partner
The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) held the final pitching event for the 2023/24 round of its Education+ and Social Entrepreneurs Fund, known as the EASE…
Singapore details SkillsFuture Level-Up Programme for mid-career workers
Singapore's Ministry of Education and SkillsFuture Singapore on March 4, 2024, set out the details of the SkillsFuture Level-Up Programme, a package of training support…
India launches SWAYAM Plus platform for industry-linked online courses
India's Ministry of Education launched SWAYAM Plus, an extension of the national online course platform SWAYAM, on February 27, 2024. The platform was unveiled in New…
Arizona State University announces collaboration with OpenAI on ChatGPT Enterprise
Arizona State University announced on January 18, 2024 that it had entered a collaboration with OpenAI, the company that develops ChatGPT, to bring ChatGPT Enterprise…
Kuwait's Baims acquires Egyptian tutoring startup Orcas
Kuwait-based education technology company Baims has acquired Egyptian tutoring startup Orcas, in a deal reported on January 8, 2024. Baims took full ownership of Orcas…
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