EdSurge: “Kaplan Buys Healthcare Test Prep Assets from Adtalem”
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New York, NY (August 19, 2019) — Kaplan, a premier provider of educational and career services, announced it has acquired certain of the healthcare test preparation assets of Becker Professional Education, a subsidiary of Adtalem Global Education (NYSE: ATGE), a leading global workforce solutions provider. In conjunction with the acquisition, Kaplan also entered into multi-year deals with Adtalem to provide USMLE review programs to its two medical schools, Ross University School of Medicine and American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The acquisition includes certain assets related to Becker’s U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (USMLEⓇ) review programs.
The move expands Kaplan’s reach among medical students preparing for the USMLE. The acquisition is also Kaplan’s latest signal of its commitment to investment in the health care and education space. Last year, Kaplan advanced its capabilities in health care training with the acquisition of i-Human Patients, a leader in virtual interactive medical simulation.
“With the U.S. facing a projected shortage in healthcare professionals in the coming years, medical students are becoming an increasingly vital demographic, which makes ensuring their training and development critically important,” said Steven Marietti, President of Kaplan Prep & Achieve. “Along with our partner schools, we’re committed to providing more students with high-quality preparation and training resources to help them on their professional journeys to becoming licensed physicians and nurses. This acquisition will help us expand educational support for future healthcare professionals.”
About Kaplan
Kaplan, Inc. serves more than one million students globally each year through its array of higher education, test preparation, professional education, English-language training, and university preparation programs, and offerings to individuals, institutions, and businesses. Kaplan has operations in about 30 countries, employs more than 12,000 full- and part-time professionals, and maintains relationships and partnerships with more than 1,000 school districts, colleges, and universities, and about 10,000 corporations and businesses. Kaplan is a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company (NYSE : GHC) and its largest division.
About Adtalem Global Education
The purpose of Adtalem Global Education is to empower students to achieve their goals, find success, and make inspiring contributions to our global community. Adtalem Global Education Inc. (NYSE: ATGE; member S&P MidCap 400 Index) is a leading workforce solutions provider and the parent organization of Adtalem Educacional do Brasil (IBMEC, Damásio and Wyden institutions), American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, Becker Professional Education, Chamberlain University, EduPristine, OnCourse Learning, Ross University School of Medicine and Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine. For more information, please visit adtalem.com and follow us on Twitter (@adtalemglobal) and LinkedIn.
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New York, NY (July 28, 2019) — On Thursday, July 25, the State Bar of California inadvertently leaked essay question topics for the July 30-31 state bar exam to a number of law school deans in California. Those topics are Civil Procedure; Remedies/Constitutional Law; Criminal Law and Procedure; Professional Responsibility; and Contracts. The State Bar also inadvertently shared the task and topic of the performance test question, which will be a memo format with Evidence issues. Standard procedure is that the topics to be tested on the state bar exam are not known in advance, requiring test takers to prepare for all of the nearly 20 topic possibilities. Following the Thursday leak, on Saturday, July 27, at 9:16 PM PT, the State Bar emailed the leaked topics to all California bar takers to ensure that no exam taker would have an advantage going into Test Day.
The following statement, which includes advice for California bar exam takers, comes from Tammi Rice, Vice President, Kaplan Bar Review:
“This leak represents an unprecedented situation for a widely taken bar exam and while there are still questions to be answered about how this happened, right now students’ only concern should be their final days of review. The good news for exam takers is that it eliminates about a dozen possible essay topics, so they know exactly which essay topics to focus on and which to ignore in their last days of preparation. This gives them the opportunity to hone their skills in the lead up to Test Day. We advise students to remain focused on their prep and to not let this throw them off their game. For all the students who have been studying hard for the bar exam: they’ve got this.”
The California Bar Examination is generally considered to be the most challenging in the country. According to the National Conference of Bar Examiners, in 2018, 12,772 aspiring practicing lawyers took the California exam.
For reporters who want to speak with a bar exam expert at Kaplan Bar Review, please contact Russell Schaffer at 917.822.8190 or russell.schaffer@kaplan.com.
About Kaplan Bar Review
Kaplan Bar Review (www.kaplanbarreview.com) offers a robust suite of personalized onsite, live online and on-demand offerings, as well as a complete array of print books and digital products, for the bar exam in 51 jurisdictions (all 50 states and Washington, DC), including state-specific bar exams and the Uniform Bar Examination. Kaplan Bar Review also offers supplemental preparation for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE). Additionally, Kaplan’s Excellence Program provides law schools with learning tools, skill support, and assessments to help their students succeed at every stage of their legal education, from admissions to through licensing. Established in 1938, Kaplan is the world leader in the test prep industry.
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