NEWS Archives - Construct Education

Construct Supports The Launchpad Child and Youth Care Center in Cape Town

June 1, 2023

May 31, 2023, Cape Town, South Africa Construct Education, a digital learning services company, committed to transforming learning opportunities for people and communities, has announced the success of its recent toiletry drive in support of The Homestead Projects for Street Children. Over April and May, staff members at Construct Education…

Construct Education Announces Leadership Transition

May 4, 2023

4 MAY 2023 David Philipps, CEO of Construct Education, has announced that he will resign from the company to pursue new opportunities and further his career goals. During his tenure, David played a pivotal role in driving the growth and success of Construct. Under his leadership, the company experienced significant…

Construct Education Rebrands its In-house Production Team to Construct Studios

February 28, 2023

As Construct enters its 10th year, it’s formally pushing its creative media department into the spotlight. Media production has always been a fundamental part of our business since the beginning, says Carl Dawson, co-founder of Construct, and this year, we want to demonstrate how we elevate online learning further with…

Online Education Services (OES) Completes Acquisition of Construct Education

February 7, 2023

7 FEBRUARY 2023 OES, a market-leading OPM, and online education enabler has concluded its acquisition of global online program enablement company Construct Education. The closing of the transaction on the 31st of January 2023, firmly brings together two of the world’s leading digital learning companies and affirms OES’s investment into…

Santa Shoeboxes Bring Cheer to Children at The Homestead

December 15, 2022

15 December 2022 Cape Town, South Africa Since announcing a partnership with The Homestead earlier this year in July, Construct remains committed to making an impactful difference in the local communities within which it operates. As Winston Churchill beautifully said, "We make a living by what we get, but we make a…

Construct Enters 10th Year of Delivering Transformative Online Learning

November 18, 2022

Previous Next Tuesday of November 15, 2022, marked Construct Education’s ninth year in the EdTech industry. Founded by Carl Dawson and Krishan Meetoo in November 2013, the company was born out of a desire to bridge the gap between education and employability using the latest technology. During the day’s ‘Global All Hands’…

Introducing Gareth Stevens: Director of Delivery

November 10, 2022

Media Release Construct Education Appoints Gareth Stevens as Director of Delivery Cape Town, South Africa, November 10, 2022. Construct Education is excited to announce the appointment of Gareth Stevens as the new Director of Delivery for the company. An experienced business leader, Gareth took on this newly created role on the 1st of…

Edtech Company Sponsors Sanitary Pads to Alleviate Period Poverty

October 4, 2022

In our ongoing support for The Homestead in Cape Town, South Africa, Construct and our staff members came together to collect period products for the girls and young women registered with The Homestead centers. In South Africa, one in three girls miss school every month because their families cannot afford to…

Attain Partners | Juran looks to Construct and edX for future Lean Six Sigma courses

September 2, 2022

SEPTEMBER 2022 Attain Partners | Juran, a management consulting firm with a dedicated practice specializing in Lean Six Sigma, has chosen Construct Education to manage the migration of its Black Belt course to the edX platform. As an edX specialist that has designed more than 100 courses Construct is perfectly placed…

Construct Education hands over hygiene packs to The Homestead

August 19, 2022

Construct Education hands over hygiene packs to The Homestead Thursday, 18 August 2022 Cape Town, South Africa In July this year, Construct Education announced its partnership with The Homestead, a South African Non-Profit Organization providing care and support for children from the streets since 1982. To kick off the partnership,…

HELM appoints Construct as design partner for Higher Ed leadership programs

August 18, 2022

Construct Education is pleased to announce our partnership with Higher Education Leadership and Management (HELM) program. HELM is a program of Universities of South Africa (USAf), an umbrella body representing the 26 public universities in SA. The project that Construct Education will be providing support for, will touch on a…

HBKU edX enrollments reach over 15k learners across 127 countries

March 28, 2022

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) was the first university in the Middle East to offer innovative massive open online courses (MOOCs) with edX, a non-profit online learning platform. Through this platform, HBKU aims to make quality professional programs and courses accessible to millions of learners around the world. Multiple courses…

KAUST Entrepreneurship Course Exceeds 70k Registrations

March 21, 2022

In this interview with Haitham Alhumsi, the Online Learning Manager at KAUST Entrepreneurship Center, we unpack the thinking behind and the success of the KAUST Entrepreneurship Adventures course. As a university, you would expect King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) to benchmark itself against other research and higher education institutions.…

Construct announces new partnership with BIGD

March 14, 2022

March 2022 - BIGD has partnered with Construct Education for the development of two blended learning courses designed for Bangladeshi government officials. The two courses, Introduction to Governance and Lessons in Development, will be developed collaboratively with BIGD faculty ensuring the pedagogy and the digitization of the courses represent the…

VVOB Launches Online Course to Promote Gender Equality in ECD

February 28, 2022

March 2022 | Pretoria, South Africa VVOB's Gender Responsive Pedagogy for Early Childhood Education (GRP4ECE) project has created a variety of resources that can be used by teacher trainers, ECD practitioners, and teachers of young children to develop knowledge and skills to promote gender equality in early childhood development. The material supports…

2021: Our Year in Review

February 17, 2022

Off the back of an eventful 2020, which ended with Construct being listed in the Top 20 of Deloitte’s 50 fastest-growing Technology Companies in the UK ", we started 2021 not wanting to stand still, investing in our structures, technology, new geographies, and internal development. These actions have led…

Jesus College partners with Construct to design unique online course on edX

February 15, 2022

February 2022 | Jesus College, Cambridge, England | Construct Education, London, England Construct Education is proud to have Jesus College, one of the oldest University of Cambridge Colleges, as one of our clients. Jesus College is made up of a diverse community of undergraduates, postgraduates, Fellows, and staff that encourage open…

Our Top 5 Trends for Edtech in 2022

January 31, 2022

Construct works globally; from emerging economies to Ivy League schools. This means I get to work on so many exciting projects from the University of Michigan to the IFC - International Finance Corporation, VVOB to the University of Oxford. Since 2013, Construct has also been a small but growing cog…

The Role of Online Learning Design in Helping Remote Employees Stay Connected

January 25, 2021

A remote workforce does not have to be a disconnected workforce. Learn how organizations design more engaging corporate training to help remote workers stay connected.

Online Learning in 2020: How Construct Education Met an Unprecedented Surge in Demand

December 9, 2020

In January of this year, Construct was coming off a strong period of growth. The company had seen roughly 500% growth in their business between 2018 and 2019. It had no idea that online learning in 2020 was about to grow even faster.