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Member Content GL Education partners with FFT to enhance school progress measure
Oct 31, 2018
GL Education and FFT Education have announced a partnership to provide schools with a new value-added assessment tool.
Member Content ACER’s UK business benefits from first year of the Scottish National Standardised Assessments
Oct 31, 2018
ACER International UK, the UK arm of the Australian Council for Education Research, has reported a 51% increase in revenue to £5.1m for the year ended 30 June 2018.
Member Content New CEO for OCR
Oct 31, 2018
Cambridge Assessment has appointed Jill Duffy as Chief Executive of OCR, its UK exam board, effective 5 November 2018.
Member Content GL Education delivered EBITA margin of 47% in 2017
Oct 31, 2018
GL Education, the London-based provider of formative assessments, has reported an EBITA before exceptional expenses of £16.5m for the year ended 31 December 2017, on revenue of £34.9m.
Member Content Revenue up 14% at Questionmark Computing
Oct 31, 2018
Questionmark Computing, the assessment technology and services company, has reported an EBITDA loss of £1.3m for the year ended 31 December 2017, on revenue up 14% to £11.3m.
Member Content International sales continue to drive growth at BTL Group
Sep 28, 2018
BTL Group, the Shipley-based assessment technology company, has reported an operating profit of £101k for the year ended 31 March 2018, on revenue up 51% to £11.7m
Member Content HMH sells Riverside
Sep 28, 2018
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Riverside clinical and standardised testing business to San Francisco-based Alpine Investors, a private equity firm, for $140m.
Member Content ACT completes strategic investment in Open Assessment Technologies
Sep 28, 2018
ACT, the US-based non-profit assessment provider, has completed a strategic investment in Luxembourg headquartered Open Assessment Technologies, a global provider of open source assessment solutions, including its core proprietary QTI-based TAO platform.
Member Content Pearson launches ‘tablet-only’ English test
Sep 28, 2018
Pearson has launched a tablet-based test for 6-13 year olds in private language and primary schools, providing a novel way to measure speaking, listening, reading and writing “through fun and engaging assessments on devices the age group likes to use.”
Member Content OxfordAQA appoints new MD
Sep 28, 2018
Oxford International AQA Examinations (OxfordAQA), the international joint venture between Oxford University Press and exam board AQA Education, has appointed Sadie Visick as its new Managing Director. 
Member Content Largest Chinese school in Malaysia selects Cambridge
Sep 28, 2018
The Foon Yew High School in Kota Baru, Malaysia, has selected Cambridge Assessment English's CELT-S qualification to develop the capabilities of its English teachers.
Member Content IELTS drives revenue growth at IDP Education
Aug 31, 2018
IDP Education, the Melbourne-based English language testing and international student placement company, has posted an EBITDA of A$89.0m for the year ended 30 June 2018, on revenue up 24% to A$487.2m
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