synopsis: International Education Corporation announced that it has acquired American Auto Institute for cash. Headquartered in Cerritos, California, American Auto Institute has unique transportation education programs that prepare students for entry-level careers in the automotive industry.

synopsis: Tyneside Training Services Ltd., a training school for trucking, is pleased to be able to announce that Tyneside Training Services Ltd (TTS) will be joining the Gateshead College Group.

synopsis: BC Partners has acquired ATI Holding Company. ATI operates vocational schools and training centers in Texas, Florida, Arizona and New Mexico.

synopsis: International Education Corporation announced that it has acquired American Auto Institute for cash. Headquartered in Cerritos, California, American Auto Institute has unique transportation education programs that prepare students for entry-level careers in the automotive industry.

synopsis: International Education Corporation, a leading national provider of career education and parent company of UEI College, has acquired Emergency Training Services (ETS), a leading emergency medical care training college in Santa Cruz, California. ETS provides training for Emergency Medical Technicians, Paramedics and First Responders.

synopsis: International Education Corporation announced that it has completed the acquisition of MCed Career College headquartered in Fresno, California. Founded in 1989, MCed Career College is an accredited post-secondary institution now offering career-focused programs in healthcare, business, legal, and information technology.

synopsis: International Education Corporation announced that it has acquired American Auto Institute for cash. Headquartered in Cerritos, California, American Auto Institute has unique transportation education programs that prepare students for entry-level careers in the automotive industry.

synopsis: Babington Business College announced the acquisition of Michael John Training Limited, which trades as Training for Today. It delivers training solutions across a range of applications including hairdressing and beauty therapy, health and social care, information technology, management, skills for life, business administration and customer service.

synopsis: International Education Corporation announced that it has completed the acquisition of MCed Career College headquartered in Fresno, California. Founded in 1989, MCed Career College is an accredited post-secondary institution now offering career-focused programs in healthcare, business, legal, and information technology.

synopsis: Brookline College, a multi-campus higher education company, announced it has completed the acquisition of Oklahoma Technology Institute in Oklahoma City.

synopsis: Beam Reach Education's Tulsa Welding School has acquired The Refrigeration School, Inc., one of the nation's largest and best-known accredited single-campus career schools for heating ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R), with more than 500 students and 45 instructors and administrators.

synopsis: The Hartcourt Companies, Inc. announced that it has entered into a Plan of Reorganization and Share Exchange Agreement Sino-Canada Investment Group Inc. Both Hartcourt and Sino-Canada are holding companies focused on the Chinese education market.

synopsis: Lincoln Educational Services Corporation announced that it has completed the acquisition of Baran Institute of Technology for approximately $25.3 million in cash, subject to customary post closing adjustments. Baran Institute of Technology comprises five distinct schools serving approximately 1,900 students.

synopsis: CIBT Education Group Inc. is pleased to announce that it has completed its acquisition of Sprott-Shaw Community College (“SSCC”). Existing SSCC management has been retained to continue day to day operations and conduct SSCC’s expansion into other parts of Canada and Asia by joining forces with CIBT Schools in China.

synopsis: Steiner Leisure Limited, today announced that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Utah College of Massage Therapy, Inc., which operates a post-secondary massage therapy school with a total of seven campuses located in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Utah.

synopsis: Kaplan, Inc. today announced that its higher education division has acquired Professional Careers Institute (PCI), a career-oriented post-secondary institution providing training in the fields of allied health, information technology and paralegal studies.

synopsis: Kroton Educacional SA has agreed to buy Anhanguera Educacional SA in an all-stock deal that will create the world’s biggest for-profit education company by market value with about 1 million students.

synopsis: Estacio Participacoes SA announced that, through its indirect subsidiary Sociedade Educacional Atual da Amazonia Ltda, it will acquire UNIUOL Gestao de Empreendimentos Educacionais e Participacoes SA, an institution with headquarters and campus located in the city of Joao Pessoa, Paraiba state, Brazil.

synopsis: Estacio Participacoes SA announced that, through its indirect subsidiary Sociedade Educacional Atual da Amazonia Ltda, it acquired Sociedade Educacional do Rio Grande do Sul Ltda, which maintains Faculdades Riograndenses, an institution with headquarters and campus located in the city of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil.

synopsis: San Francisco-based UniversityNow is acquiring Patten University, a regionally accredited four-year institution with deep roots in Oakland, California, through its New Charter University subsidiary. The acquisition enables Patten University to continue to serve Bay Area students while extending its national reach.

synopsis: DeVry Inc., a global provider of educational services, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Faculdade Boa Viagem (FBV). FBV offers undergraduate, graduate and master's degree programs in business, law, engineering, communication, culinary, hospitality, fashion design, and information technology.

synopsis: Dade Medical College has completed the purchase of Southern Career College, a Jacksonville-based, private higher learning institution. Southern Career College offers programs in occupations such as medical assistant, business, computer drafting and design and network administration.

synopsis: Laureate Education, Inc. acquired Germany's BTK Group, consisting of the BTK University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and Academies of Design in Berlin and Hamburg, bolstering its global network of private post-secondary institutions. The addition of these institutions expands the Laureate International Universities network in Germany.

synopsis: Anhanguera Educacional Participacoes, Brazil's largest publicly-traded education company, has bought rival Uniban. The deal includes a payment of 380 million reais for control of Uniban, which has about 50,000 students, and about 130 million reais for real estate.

synopsis: Baring Private Equity has acquired the tertiary education business of PSB Academy Pte Ltd (PSB), one of the largest independent education institutions in Singapore. PSB provides a suite of programmes from foundation, certificate, diploma, to degree, post graduate degree and doctorate courses across multiple disciplines.

synopsis: Laureate Education, Inc. has acquired Instituto Superior de Linguas e Administracao (ISLA), the third largest and oldest private institute of higher education in Portugal. ISLA joins Laureate International Universities, and is the first institution in the network located in Portugal.

synopsis: U.S. private equity firm Providence Equity Partners has acquired university programme provider Study Group from Australia's CHAMP Private Equity.