Education sector experts, The Lygon Group, and EdTech disruptors, The Voyage Group, announce a strategic alliance to revolutionise decision-making in the higher education sector
The Lygon Group, Australia's leading international education advisory organisation, has announced a strategic alliance that sees the transfer of the award-winning The Social Source - the revolutionary AI-powered international student sentiment and insights platform - to tech entrepreneurs, The Voyage Group (Voyage). The alliance capitalises on Voyage’s outstanding technological capabilities to accelerate The Lygon Group's product development and unleashes The Social Source's full market potential to support the education sector.
The Social Source, already with established prestigious government and university clients, is renowned for its dynamic, market-leading insights, which empower subscribers to make better decisions based on real-time knowledge about emerging trends, challenges and opportunities. Under its new ownership, Voyage will evolve The Social Source into a global technology platform to offer subscribers dynamic student insights via a real-time dashboard to inform marketing and recruitment, collating trends and data to forever change how the international education sector accesses and understands international students' sentiments, experiences, and challenges.
Renowned for their credibility and reputation in the international education sector, the collaboration ensures that The Lygon Group's clients will experience a rapid enhancement of the current product’s underlying technology and fortify their ongoing client work with invaluable data sources from Voyage’s wider marketplace platform. Thus allowing The Lygon Group to maintain their competitive edge, while preserving the organisation's core mission and focus on consultancy.
For The Voyage Group, combining The Social Source with Voyage’s innovative marketplace and community technology completes their vision of creating the world’s first global market network in international education. This will comprise a one-stop shop marketplace, an online community, and now an insights tool - The Social Source - all on the Voyage platform. It marks a significant step forward in Voyage’s work of leveraging its technology expertise to create value for international students, businesses and service providers.
The Lygon Group CEO, Angela Lehmann says,
“We have always been committed to bringing clients the best insight and expertise to solve challenges and shape solutions, which originally led us to create The Social Source. Whilst we remain committed to our consultancy work, I feel excited and convinced that we have found the best possible technology partner to become custodians of The Social Source and unlock its potential for the sector.”
Matthew Donlon, Founder and CEO of The Voyage Group, said,
“As a previous international student myself, I’ve envisioned a platform that would serve as an all-encompassing hub for international students, granting them access to stakeholders, goods and services, and vital support throughout their educational journey. The acquisition of The Social Source meshes seamlessly with our mission to enhance the international student experience as it allows us to leverage student and market insights. I’m grateful The Lygon Group understood our vision and recognised our technological capability and ambition to elevate the fantastic tool they created.”
Existing clients of The Lygon Group can be assured that there will be a seamless transition alongside a rapid enhancement of The Social Source's underlying technology and insight into the international student sector. To support this Janee Hefferman, co-founder and CEO of The Lygon Group, becomes The Chief Commercial Officer of Voyage, bringing her outstanding knowledge and relationships across the international education sector to Voyage’s senior leadership team. Varsha Balakrishnan also moves to Voyage in her new role as Head of Student Strategy & Insights.
The alliance signifies a game-changing step forward for international education, bringing together the experience, vision, and technology needed to shape the future of the industry and the understanding of international students. For more information about The Lygon Group consulting or to see a demonstration of the game-changing student insights and sentiment tool please contact the respective organisations.
About The Lygon Group
The Lygon Group is one of Australia’s most respected brands as a consulting and advisory company to the international education sector, providing institutions, government agencies, and businesses with bespoke research reports and a suite of products powered by market insights.
About The Voyage Group
The Voyage Group is a global first: an international education market network comprised of an aggregated marketplace platform, an online community, and an AI-powered international student market insights platform. The Voyage platform is an all-encompassing solution tailored to the needs of international students and sector stakeholders worldwide.
The Voyage Group’s vision is to revolutionise the international education sector through a global first - the all-encompassing Voyage platform. The Voyage platform is an international education online ecosystem comprising an AI-powered international student and market insights tool, a one-stop shop marketplace and an online community, all tailored to the needs of international students and sector stakeholders worldwide.