OTTAWA, Oct. 12, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- betterU Education Corp. (the “Company” or “betterU”), is pleased to announce that it has partnered with several additional global educators adding thousands of additional pay-per-use and subscription based courses to betterU. Open Colleges (Australia), IELTS Online (Australia) and Career Academy (USA) are now available in India through www.betterU.in adding to the Company’s ongoing efforts in supporting India’s access to the world’s repository of quality education.
The Company’s vision of providing Education for All moves a little closer each day with the aggregation of the world’s leading educators through betterU’s global education marketplace. This collective collaboration of leaders expands betterU’s ability to meet the growing needs across large populations. "We are excited to be partnering with betterU to bring our online certification training library to the Indian market. Our courses focus on delivering critical information to the learner in the highest quality format at a very affordable price. We look at this as a truly unique opportunity to help facilitate job and industry growth throughout India," said Joel Kestenberg, President CareerAcademy.com Inc.
betterU continues to expand their content acquisition teams around the world to educate educators about the opportunity of working together for the collective good. The Company has set its targets on countries with governments focused on supporting India. Australia is just one of these countries known for quality education with a strong interest in India. In a recent visit to India, the Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull emphasized the promoting of higher education and a better collaboration between the two countries. Having established an office earlier this year in Australia, betterU has been able to attract some significant educators to its mission. Open Colleges, owned by one of the largest educators, Apollo Education Group, was listed on betterU recently and will provide a wide range of certificate & diploma courses in Digital Media, Web Technology, Business, Human Resources, Leadership & Management, Marketing & Communication, Project Management and Business Administration to name a few. “Content partners in Australia are looking for better ways of supporting the growth requirements from India and betterU is gaining a lot of interest for our in-country efforts. Partnerships from Australia gives us even more depth in our offering to consumers with courses ranging from Management, to Aviation, to Medical and Care based industries,” said Pankaj Raina, Australia’s Country Head of betterU.
About Open Colleges
Open Colleges is Australia’s leader in online education and has been providing education for over 100 years. Open Colleges has helped over 800,000 students gain the skills to launch, change or take the next step in their careers. They been continuously evolving their approach to meet the needs of the learners by offering flexible, accessible and affordable courses that support the students on their way to reaching their personal and career goals. Open Colleges is part of Apollo Education Group, Inc. With over half a million current learners across eight countries, Apollo Education Group is one of the world’s largest education providers. All the courses are Australian government accredited courses.
About IELTA Online
IELTS Online is a leading online IELTS preparation product carefully designed and developed, using best-practice standards in online teaching and IELTS test preparation. Established in 2005 their goal is to provide IELTS test candidates with the skills and knowledge to take the IELTS exam with confidence. IELTS has more than 100,000 students across 140 plus countries.
About CareerAcademy
CareerAcademy was established in 1999 to provide people with the knowledge and skills that they need to deal with changes in the 21st century hi-tech world. CareerAcademy video based training classes have been used in the world’s most prestigious career training centers as the foundation of the Microsoft award winning Mentored Learning training model. Tens of thousands of people have improved their job performance and advanced in their careers through the use of CareerAcademy’s video classes. CareerAcademy courses focus on covering all material required for a student to sit and pass the Industry Standard certification exams needed to validate a student’s knowledge.
CareerAcademy.com provides the industry’s best value learning membership. For one low annual fee, learning members have access to over 1,500 online certification training courses, featuring project management, business skills, HR, office productivity, IT networking and cyber security. Through their membership, students have the ability to earn PDUs, CEUs, CPEs, certificates of completion and college credits at American Business & Technology University.
About betterU
betterU, a global education marketplace, aims to provide access to quality education from around the world to foster growth and opportunity to those who want to better their lives. The company plans to bridge the prevailing gap in the education and job industry and enhance the lives of its prospective learners by developing an integrated ‘education-to employment’ ecosystem. betterU’s offerings can be categorized into four broad functions: to compliment school programs with flexible KG-12 programs preparing children for next stage of education, to foster an exceptional educational environment by providing befitting skills that lead to a better career, to bridge the gap between one’s existing education and prospective job requirement by training them and lastly, to connect the end user to various job opportunities.
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