📈 Trends in 2025 Impacting Postsecondary and Workforce Training. Join us for Global Skills Week, March 24-28. 🇺🇸
AI, workforce demands, sustainability, and collaborative partnerships are driving change in the soon to be $10 trillion education market. Dive into the trends and numbers shaping education in the decades ahead.
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AI, workforce demands, sustainability, and collaborative partnerships are driving change in the soon to be $10 trillion education market. Postsecondary institutions are adapting to a skills-first economy, increasingly embracing hybrid models, alternative credentials and new partnerships to meet evolving demands. Work-integrated learning programs are becoming central to the experience, and career navigation tools increasingly integrated, forging more explicit links between education, skills and work. Read the full snapshot of HolonIQ’s 2025 Top 10 Trends shaping the years ahead.
Hybrid and Flexible Post Secondary Models are Growing
🇺🇸 Join us for Global Skills Week and Forum Washington D.C, 24-28 March
Global Skills Week brings together skills-focused industry, colleges and universities, policy-makers, economic development and technology leaders from around the world. The Future of Skills & Work Forum on Wednesday March 26, is the main program for Global Skills Week in 2025, connecting the global skills economy to advance ideas, initiatives and partnerships for next-generation skills, quality jobs and economic growth. Numbers are limited - Register Now!
🌐 Global Conferences & Events
Meet with higher education leaders and experts from around the world, in person and online, at one of the QS Global events in 2025 to discuss emerging trends and pressing challenges in higher education.
2025 events include the QS EduData Summit and QS Reimagine Education, and regional and country-focused events for Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Americas, Europe, China, India and Arab region. Learn More.
💪 Power Moves
🤝 The Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) has partnered with Minerva to implement the skilled-based educational model starting in the first semester of 2025.
🤖 Pearson and Microsoft announced a multiyear partnership to introduce AI-powered tools, credentials, and personalized learning solutions to address global workforce challenges.
💡 Berkeley Executive Education partnered with Emeritus and launched a three-month program AI program to equip mid-level and senior professionals with the insights and tools needed to effectively integrate AI into their business strategies.
💰 Funding
🔬 Cengage Group, a US-based curriculum resource provider, acquired Visible Body, a provider of interactive 3D models and software for science education.
💡 Jotit, an Israeli learning platform provider, raised $10M in funds to expand its platform operations and development.
💸 GrayQuest, an Indian finance solution for students, raised $9.3M in funding to scale its operations in the country.
🏘️ hostU, a US-based platform dedicated to student housing, secured a second round of funding to expand key markets in the US, develop an AI-integrated data engine, and improve its technology platform.
🫂 Wayable, a Canadian platform specialized in support for international students, acquired Psymood, a mental health and mentorship provider targeted at international students.
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