The Hotcourses Group was the public name for Hotcourses Ltd, an educational guidance company based in

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and the world's largest course database. In January 2017, Hotcourses Group was bought by IDP Education and was rebranded as IDP Connect in January 2019. IDP Education was founded in 1969 and in 1989 co-founded

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, an English testing system.

Background

The company, now known as IDP Connect, has offices in the UK, India, the US and Australia and their websites provide information on educational choices worldwide. Websites owned by IDP Connect include Hotcourses, Postgraduate Search, Whatuni,

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, Hotcourses Abroad, as well as 11 other sites across the globe. They're all free for potential students to use. Universities, colleges and other course providers advertise on these websites as well as working in partnership with IDP Connect to learn more about their students and generate enrolments. IDP Connect also supported a charity, the Hotcourses Foundation, set up in 2004, which worked with Nyumbani UK to help children in Kenya have access to education. In 2013 changes to Hotcourses' articles of association were filed at

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three years late. In January 2017, The Hotcourses Group was bought by IDP Education.

References

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