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SunGard Announces Plan to Spin off Availability Services Business; Will Separate into Two Strong, Industry-leading Companies; Provides Guidance on Revenue Growth and Reaffirms 2004 Earnings Outlook

Cristóbal Conde, SunGard’s president and chief executive officer, said, “This is great news for our stockholders, customers and employees. We are pursuing a strategic separation of SunGard into two financially strong, independent companies so that each can better focus on its distinct type of business and better pursue its own growth opportunities. Our software and […]

Study reveals trends in ed-tech spending

Overall, K-12 schools will spend more than $7 billion on new technologies over the next 12 months, the study states.Read the Full Story

Laureate Education Acquires Remaining 49% Interest in Walden University; Now Wholly-Owned, Walden Becomes Centerpiece of Laureate Online

Walden University will be the centerpiece of Laureate Online, the new name of the Company’s online higher education division, previously referred to as Online Higher Education (OHE). Read the Full Story

Pathlore Acquires DKSystems; Pathlore Market Share Now Tips 36 Percent

According to DKSystems founder and CEO Dave Kripke and Pathlore CEO and President Steve Thomas, both companies share a common approach to the market in terms of building quality solutions, while minimizing total cost of ownership. Kripke added, “DKSystems believes its customers are in good hands with Pathlore.” Said Thomas, “We intend to continue to […]

Buying books online has its ups and downs

They’re bypassing lines at the cash register in exchange for the computer and online bargain books.Read the Full Story

Measuring Return on Technology Investments Is Hard Work

There is an old saying in business, “What gets measured gets done; what gets rewarded gets done repeatedly.” Read the Full Story

Online Course Development: What Does It Cost?

The costs of developing online programs are significant, yet there are few resources to help planners. Here, Judith Boettcher proposes a few guidelines for predicting the costs involved in the design and development of online instruction. Read the Full Story

SA Varsities Cash in On Foreign Students

Tertiary education is becoming an export commodity – a trend that holds lucrative potential for higher education institutions and the country as a whole.Read the Full Story

Apollo’s Apple

They were schooling the market on rich stock gains as the country retooled the workforce in the grand pursuit of higher learning.Read the Full Story

Apollo Group Inc. Reports Business Outlook for Fiscal 2005

We are pleased to report that we expect degree enrollments at local campuses to grow between 12% and 13% over the prior year at the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2005. In addition, we expect online degree enrollments to grow in excess of 40% over the prior year at the end of the […]

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