This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 9/16/22
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Guest: Fadl Al Tarzi), Founder & CEO @ Nexford University)

• Online University Nexford will use $8M to plug affordability and relevance gaps in education)

Topics This Week:

• Ads in Education

• The next chapter for Learning on YouTube)

• Roblox jumping into ads in effort to diversify beyond virtual goods)

• SPACS & Aging Unicorns

• London Looks to Un-Meme the SPAC Market )

• A Sober Look at SPACs)

• College Chaos

• Malignant) by Scott Galloway

• College Student Transfers Declined By Nearly 300,000 During Pandemic)

• Oberlin Says It Will Pay $36.59 Million to a Local Bakery)

• The Post-Pandemic College Campus as a Design Challenge)

• France hits 400,000 international student mark after record growth)

• Stanford Law to offer 'income share' financing as law school costs soar)

• Religion & Education

• In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Yeshivas Flush With Public Money)

• Yeshiva University doesn't have to recognize LGBTQ student group for now, Sotomayor rules)

• Funding + M&A

• 3 in 10 Education Companies Secured VC or Made Acquisitions Over the Last Year)

• Virtual Internships raises $14.3M)

• uDocz raises $2M )

• Hone raises $30M)

• Tract raises $7M)

• Docquity raises $44M)

• Edupia raises $14M)

• Code First Girls raises £4.5M)

• Citizens Financial Group acquires College Raptor)

• Lepaya acquires vCOACH)

• Orenda Education Merges with Think Together)

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