They already own the China-based bits of the Wall Street English conversation school chain, so they just keep getting bigger. The article in the FT doesn’t speculate on it (because they are also owned by Pearson??), but I wonder whether they’ll use that position to push their PTE Academic test to replace IELTS. It’s certainly worth a try if it’s true that “500,000 Chinese students sit the internationally recognised English language assessments each year – a fourfold increase over the past five years.”

Pearson buys English teaching group in China (free registration needed to view)