Episode description
Episode description
In this Week in Edtech, we cover:
1) Lawsuit Alleging Price-Fixing at Top Universities
- NY Times
2) Phil Hill's Coverage of the Shrinking Non-Profit University Ecosystem
- Phil on Edtech
3) India cracks down on OPM providers in Higher Ed
- Times of India
- Economic Times
4) LEAD Becomes the First Indian Edtech Unicorn of 2022 with a $100m round
- The News Minute
- Techcrunch
5) Around the World
- US: GSV Elite 200 Edtech companies Released
- UK: MyTutor acquires coding platform Fire Tech
- Africa: Egyptian Edtech Orcas Raises Round, $10M Future of Learning fund from Future Africa
- LATAM: Ubits raises $25m to create the Netflix of corporate training
6) Education Labor Force
- 74Million: Report shows that there is no 'big quit' in education, but specialized positions are still hard to fill
We also play a game of 'fill in the blank' with questions like "University Presidents should feel _________ given the barrage of negative recent headlines about legacy Higher Ed" and take questions live from the On Deck Ed Tech fellowship.