General Questions
What is the relationship between findcourses.co.uk and hotcourses.com and floodlight.co.uk?
findcourses.co.uk is the UK arm of EMG - Educations Media Group, which since 2009 has been helping individuals and companies find professional training and courses with education providers. We are partnered with the Independent and power their course search to reach a wider audience of course buyers.
From October 2019, findcourses.co.uk will be the new home of adult learning courses and content, and will take over the responsibility for the hundreds of thousands of users and the companies and institutions that advertise and list their courses on floodlight.co.uk and hotcourses.com.
Thanks to a recent tech investment, findcourses.co.uk will soon be an all-in-one adult education comparison site covering the whole of the UK as well as listing online courses from all over the world. Becoming the best resource on the web for finding professional, vocational and hobby courses fulfils our vision of helping everyone in the UK find the right education. In the coming months, we will be developing our site to best service people across the UK and abroad who want to take a course where ever they are on their learning journey.
What is the relationship between EMG and findcourses.co.uk?
findcourses.co.uk is the UK arm of EMG. Founded in 2001, EMG has pioneered 20 local brands spanning the entire education spectrum and works with over 4,000 education providers in 40 different countries across the world.
EMG help 30 million visitors across their sites every year find the right course for their needs. Their platform accelerates the growth of educational institutions by providing a one-stop-shop for promoting any type of course or degree programme, using targeted marketing to find the right students. EMG reaches out to students and professionals worldwide through its leading online services, comprehensive media partners, school visits and educational conferences and exhibitions.
EMG has 170 employees working out of the global head office in Stockholm, and local offices in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Mannheim and Oslo. For more information, please visit www.educationsmediagroup.com
Is EMG GDPR compliant?
EMG - Educations Media Group works with over 4,000 schools and course providers and processes personal information for more than 3 million members every year. For EMG, working with personal data has always been at the core of our business, and we have been compliant well before the new EU GDPR regulations went into effect. Read more about EMG’s GDPR policy here.
Will hotcourses.com still be running?
The website www.hotcourses.com will no longer be active. All institute and course content will be moved to findcourses.co.uk and all traffic will be redirected to findcourses.co.uk for a period of two years. IDP Connect will however retain ownership of the brand hotcourses.com.
Will the floodlight.co.uk website still exist?
No, the Floodlight brand and domain ownership will move to EMG and its content will be moved and redirected to findcourses.co.uk for a period of two years. Findcourses.co.uk will build on the legacy of floodlight and look forward to providing their clients and users with a rounded service on findcourses.co.uk.
Who do I contact to find out more about this transition?
Tony Rush, our Sales Manager is available to help you transition over to findcourses.co.uk. Tony is best reached on tony@findcourses.co.uk and looks forward to working with you.
