London (UK), April 2014 - The City & Guilds Group has announced its acquisition of Mindset Limited, a digital-learning company that provides services to colleges and employers in the UK. Mindset has developed a leading platform known as Profiler to manage and deliver functional skills. The core capabilities include initial and diagnostic testing and the assessment of maths, English, and ICT. This acquisition will further enhance the City & Guilds functional-skills offer in the UK.
Mindset's Profiler platform will now be integrated into City & Guilds Kineo's managed learning suite and will form a key part of the new managed apprenticeship offer. It will link people to the National Apprenticeship Service website to deliver vacancy matching and help more people into an apprenticeship. The platform will also streamline the administration of funded programmes for customers.
The Mindset business and team will be fully integrated into the City & Guilds Group. Steve Rayson, MD of City & Guilds Kineo said, "Elly Scantlebury, the founder of Mindset, and the Mindset team are one of the most respected in the industry. I am excited about working with them to develop the leading online platform for managing functional skills in the UK and for managing funded programmes. The integration of Totara LMS, Learning Assistant, Profiler, and Evolve provides a sophisticated learning platform to meet the needs of today's employers."
Elly Scantlebury commented, "This is a really exciting step for Mindset. We are looking forward to joining City & Guilds and working together further to support people, colleges, and businesses to develop the skills they need. The acquisition follows the Group's acquisition of Flexible Learning (now Kineo Pacific) in late 2013. It also follows the announcement of City & Guilds Kineo as the UK's leading learning provider by LPI in February this year. These are exciting times for us, and I am very much looking forward to the year ahead."
