Tribal leader in overseas student surveys after i-graduate takeover

By David Matthews. An outsourcing company has announced that it will buy i-graduate, a firm that surveys international students and agents, for up to £7.5 million.
Tribal Group, which entered takeover talks in 2011 after a collapse in its share price, said the acquisition would help it offer more data to customers in the education sector.
i-graduate, founded in 2005, is responsible for reports including the ICEF Agent Barometer, which surveys agents for international students across the globe about their perceptions of higher education in different countries.
It also owns the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, a body that also looks at trends in global higher education. The OBHE was founded by Universities UK and the Association of Commonwealth Universities but joined i-graduate in 2010. Read more...