The education technology company Packback adds $2.5 million in new capital as it grows revenue 2.4x in the past year. The company expects more than half a million students at 200+ universities to have used Packback by the 2019 academic year.
Investment management company Investcorp has acquired a controlling stake in Revature, a technology skills-training company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. University Ventures exited its investment in the Reston, Va.-based company, according to a press release.
Investcorp has acquired a controlling stake in Reston, Virginia-based Revature, a technology talent development company. No financial terms were disclosed. Jefferies LLC served as financial adviser to Revature on the deal.
Private equity firm Investcorp acquired a controlling stake in Revature, an IT training and staffing firm based in Reston, Va. Revature's founders remain as shareholders.
Purdue University says it is the first four-year institution in the country to offer an income-sharing agreement, or ISA.
Colleges may be facing pressure to separate their credentialed learning from their other offerings, Ryan Craig writes. Our work-force development system, meanwhile, could learn a thing or two from higher education.
As assistant director of annual giving at John Carroll University, Sloan D. Cargill is part of a team that is always trying to find innovative ways to reach more people and raise more money to advance the Cleveland institution.
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This is Kay and I just wanted to introduce a post we got from Ryan Craig (the Author of A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College.) Aaron personally read through an ebook copy of the book and was...