Education news in the UK | Page 5

An overview of news, trends and research in the Education industry in the UK:

BCG develops education strategy for distressed schools The Walton Family Foundation (WFF) and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (WRF) have joined forces to support better education for students at Arkansas public schools in their ForwARd initiative. The philanthropic organisations have appointed The
31 December 2014
EY: Parental advice leaves out alternatives to university Parents play an important part in the career choice process of their children, reveals research by EY. The survey shows that 70% of parents prefer their child to attend university, and 50% admitted to try to influence their children’s choice.
18 December 2014
Chairwoman Capgemini leads governmental institution The UK Government has set up a new governmental institution that aims at creating links between schools and businesses to provide youngsters advice needed to make informed career choices and prepare them for the rest of their lives. The new company
17 December 2014
Capita to provide new IT service for Nottingham school Capita has signed an IT contract to continue its IT support services to a school in Nottingham, which follows a county-wide support contract, under which the firm had provided the school with a new IT system. The new con
26 November 2014
CGI helps Oslo with modernisation of public schools ICT Oslo’s Agency for Education has hired CGI to modernise a large ICT system used by the city’s public schools. The new system will support more than 90,000 students and teachers in all of Oslo’s 172 public schools and lea
16 October 2014
50 new jobs for Erasmus team in Cardiff, Wales In the coming months the Erasmus team of the British Council Wales will significantly grow its headcount from 6 FTE to more than 50 FTE. The expansion follows from the British Council’s extended responsibility to manage the Erasmus
02 October 2014
CGI supports University of Winchester with IT programs IT services firm CGI is partnering with the University of Winchester on two new degree programs: a BA (Hons) Business Management for Information Technology and BSc (Hons) Information Systems Management, and the associated Foundation Degr
01 October 2014
Strategy& and INSEAD conduct analytics research Consulting firm Strategy& and INSEAD have signed a research partnership in the field of demand analytics. In the coming months the partners will conduct research on the link between a company’s ability to master demand analytics and comme
03 September 2014
PA launches Raspberry Pi challenge for pupils & students For the third year in a row PA Consulting Group is organising its so-called ‘Raspberry Pi programming’ competition, a programming challenge for pupils and students. This year, PA is tasking entrants to ‘revolutionise people’
26 August 2014
KPMG UK invests 20 million in Big Data analytics centre KPMG and Imperial College London are entering in a partnership to create the ‘KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics’.
12 August 2014
Altran technology engine behind CubeSat mini-satellite Mid-November last year, a consortium of companies, including consulting firm Altran, launched the so-called ‘Lunar CubeSat’ satellite.
07 January 2014
University Rutgers pays BCG 1.1 million for strategy The American university Rutgers has hired strategy consulting firm The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to develop its new strategy. The Boston Consulting Group was selected through a competitive bidding proces
15 April 2013
KPMG: Education sector stimulates innovation inadequately Educational sectors in Europe provide students - future leaders - too little baggage in the area of innovation. According to a report from KPMG, 58% of respondents across Europe claim the way pupils are educated stifles innova
03 August 2012
Bain develops new MBA curriculum for business school International business school HEC Paris has decided to revamp its M.B.A. curriculum following an assessment from Bain & Company and lessons learned from its own faculty members. The strategy consulting firm worked
11 May 2012

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