Investors in bid for Cambridge Education Team

Schooling Trader claimed three private equity companies were vying to obtain the Bridgepoint-owned CEG. Sky News later named Oxford Global Schooling Team, Bahrain-based Investcorp and American investor Vanta as the companies trying to find to takeover the firm, according to its city sources.

One banker has prompt OIEG was likely to be at an advantage because of to expense synergies it could extract, according to the information organisation.

Schooling Investor claimed in February 2022 that Bridgepoint was exploring the sale of CEG. The private financial commitment firm to begin with obtained the education and learning enterprise in 2013 in a £185 million deal.

Former-entrepreneurs, Palamon Funds, bought CEG in 2007 and accomplished an acquisition a number of of 11 periods the latest year buying and selling forecast (EBITDA), the PIE noted at the time.

CEG counts eight Uk universities between its partners, in addition to its ONCAMPUS centres in London, Paris, Lund, Boston and Chicago providing pathways to a quantity of institutions.

It also companions with the College of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. CEG gives healthcare-related pathway courses by means of its Castel Training manufacturer and online classes by means of CEG Digital and iheed.

OIEG currently has worldwide colleges partnership in the British isles with De Montfort, Bangor, Dundee, Bradford and Greenwich, in addition to its courses at the OIEG London Centre. In the US, OIEG will work with San Francisco Condition College on pathways.

Neither OIEG nor CEG responded to requests for comment from The PIE.

In accordance to respective sites, Kaplan has pathway partnerships with 16 UK universities, Review Group 15, Navitas 13, INTO eight, Kings 3. A CEG takeover by OIEG would make it one of the most significant pathway providers in the United kingdom.