Million Girls Moonshot aims to bring 1M girls into school STEM programs

Oct 9, 2020

As schools continue working to better engage girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, a number of STEM-focused foundations are partnering to form the Million Girls Moonshot initiative to hook one million more girls on these subject areas over the next five years. The organizations — which include the Intel Foundation, the Gordon and Betty […]

Adtalem to buy Walden U in $1.5B deal expanding healthcare programs

Sep 15, 2020

Dive Brief: Adtalem Global Education announced Friday that it plans to buy the Minneapolis-based Walden University from Laureate Education for $1.5 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close in mid-2021. The for-profit online university enrolls more than...

More China TNE programs adopting fully in-country model, report finds

Sep 10, 2020

As of 2019, China hosted around 2,240 Sino-foreign joint programs and institutions, involving over 600 Chinese HEIs and 800 foreign partners from 40 countries.  “A joint program in one destination may help limit the complexity… but it significantly changes the nature...