Wey Education Share Discussion Threads

[netcurtains] 17/2/2018 09:07

Thanks for the LTG info.

AS you might be aware much is being done behind the scenes at WEY with their new funds for marketing. Some of this new marketing effort is being spent overseas, probably to promote INFINITY (the premium fee paying school) and the language school.

Some time in March or April we might get something like this (as we did last year)

[multibagger] 16/2/2018 20:50

I have held LTG for a few years now - not sure that WEY is a kind of company that would make a good strategic fit for them. Anyway, just my tuppence.

However, the LTG RNS seemed to indicate a step change in ambition - so I took another 42k shares today in LTG.

[666james] 16/2/2018 18:28

Off topic a bit but Learning Technologies Group (LTG) has appointed Goldman Sachs as joint Corporate brokers along side Numis Securities.
It seems that this is good news as the shares have risen again today and comments on their thread suggests that LTG could be looking to buy another company and /or leave the AIM listings. Someone suggested that the move would expose them to the USA market.
They are much larger than WEY so they might be looking in this direction...but I am not sure we would make a good fit.

[netcurtains] 16/2/2018 10:19

Two INTERHIGH (WEY education) students have got to the final of this competition:


(see twitter feed for interhigh)
cheers net

[netcurtains] 13/2/2018 07:10

I was talking with WEY concerning their SEO.
As part of the discussion they reminded me that they were also working on websites (and I guess associated SEO ) for the non-UK market. The virtual expansion overseas appears to be happening in parallel with the UK expansion.... So perhaps we might see some of this in results during summer.

PS WEY have also produced a video of their Waterloo bill board. Public opinion:

[netcurtains] 12/2/2018 16:27

LOL Just click on the ALL trades.

[nmulm] 12/2/2018 16:17

Why are none of the days 63k buys showing on the Mobile app?

[netcurtains] 07/2/2018 11:51

malverninternational certainly is interesting Hydrus. Thanks. But the "new bit" is just a web page at present without enough content to make much sense of it. WEY Education is clearly the best available investment for UK online education - I'd say by a clear mile.

It potentially shows that WEY's English as a foreign language website might be worth £5 MILLION by itself!!!!! Perhaps MORE!!!

I've provided the link below:

[hydrus] 07/2/2018 09:52

Hi NetIt's an established provider of a range of courses in the UK and Asia, including ACCA, EFL and various business courses. Generates about £4m revenue from that.https://www.malverninternational.comThe online aspect is new and looks rough and ready to me at this stage. But I guess that's factored in to the price.Anyway - just flagging it for interest. Good luck.

[netcurtains] 07/2/2018 09:48

thanks Hydrus... but MLVN is not for me. Problem is it does not say what it teaches and how much it costs. Then it seems mainly based for SE Asia too. Seems a lot of money (mrk cap of about £5m) for just a blank web site.

[hydrus] 07/2/2018 09:42

For those interested in education providers, Malvern (MLVN) which is a £4m Mcap company has launched an online service of its education offering today.The company has relatively new management who have grown their traditional education offering well over the last 12 months. It's a standing start for the online service though, which is why it's only £4m I suppose. Certainly no where near as developed as WEY's offering.

[netcurtains] 07/2/2018 09:07

would need to break 31p before its significant.

[666james] 07/2/2018 08:23

yes net, it looks like buying is on the cards this morning.

[netcurtains] 06/2/2018 18:16

The price seems to be holding round about the recent offer price to buy Academy21.
I guess people think this price is relatively safe to buy in at as its the same price the "millionaires" paid. Lets see how the next few days pan out.

[netcurtains] 06/2/2018 15:57

microscope: I emailed the company with various SEO ideas. I'm sure they are on the ball.

[sf5] 06/2/2018 10:21

There is a 4 min video pitch for Shaw here
hxxps://www.shadowfoundr.com/investments/462/shaw-academy
Agreed it doesn't look a competitor to WEY, though there may be synergies - mainly short vocational/ tech courses aimed at young adults. Doubt their diplomas carry much sway - eg 'Diploma in Household Budgeting' ffs! Perhaps a part of their target market may be SMEs where they could offer in-office business education, customised for larger employers?

The investor pitch and Q&A is 7.00 pm 15 Feb in London. I doubt I'll be going - had too many fingers burned on unquoteds in the past. I expect it will be recorded, though it sounds like they're close to hitting their funding target anyway.

[netcurtains] 06/2/2018 08:50

What could be interesting nearer results time is Infinity.

I've noticed that in certain google searches "Online school UK"(no need for quotes) infinity comes up FIRST on the google list (about 35% of the time - so need to use the refresh button as the ads are recycled to see it).

As you can imagine 'if' this school takes off......

[netcurtains] 05/2/2018 22:21

microscope - you would not expect way to appear in either of your searches. Google uses the TITLE tag as the MAIN SEO identifier followed by the META DESCTIPTION fields.
You will notice that most sites savvy with SEO will have many labels in the TITLE concatinated together for searching

INTERHIGH (WEY) has: online school uk...

If you put that in (online school uk) as a search INTERHIGH comes up quite high. I would perhaps change the title to be Online school igcse uk (but perhaps not - its quite good as it is - I'm no expert)

Here is a list of some of InterHighs META SEO search parms (as you can see they are quite a good selection)


meta name="description" content="InterHigh School, complete independent online Secondary School and Sixth Form. Pupils from UK and around the world study online at home, with great results"
meta property="og:title" content="Online school UK | Online secondary school | GCSE & A level education
meta property="og:description" content="InterHigh School, complete independent online Secondary School and Sixth Form. Pupils from UK and around the world study online at home, with great results"
meta name="twitter:description" content="InterHigh School, complete independent online Secondary School and Sixth Form. Pupils from UK and around the world study online at home, with great results"
meta name="twitter:title" content="Online school UK | Online secondary school | GCSE & A level education"

I'm no marketing person but perhaps significant numbers of people search the web and put more emotive terms in their search parms and hence "GREAT RESULTS" as part of a search might get more hits then you think (mixed with On-line school etc).

If InterHigh could do better I think perhaps mentioning igse as well as gse might help and K STAGE this that and the other..

Put them on a totally SEPERATE PAGE that you cannot like to from the main site but you can link from that page to the main site.

Thus for example, Nectarcard promotion for SANTA you can LINK TO the main site, but the SANTA link is not linkable from the main site - I'm suggesting that InterHigh should use a "santa" type page(s) to see how high they can get their name on loads of various combinations of META DESCRIPTIONS and TITLES...

Google re-indexes every TWO days - so after about TWO WEEKS you should be able to get the best combination of words to appear on most searches....

[microscope] 05/2/2018 18:45

Hi All. Some of you might remember that i posted here a fair bit last year. Ultimately i took a different view to the market on results and length of time I envisaged for prospects to be realized and though i moved on, have kept a healthy interest both in the company and in reading this thread...

It was partly sf5's post that has brought me back for another look. I was impressed by Wey's acquisition and fundraising (less so by the advertising at Waterloo) and the fact that Wey are building a bigger business.

The Shaw thing is interesting in that with a bit of tweaking you could see Shaw as providing exciting synergies with Wey and opening up the Irish market.

Their growth story should not be sneezed at - it is, albeit from a different business model, what Wey are aspiring to do - to scale their business.

As Verulamium has pointed out, a lot of the courses at Shaw are free, for 30 days, but if you then convert to premium it's 49 euros a month. There's no talk however of profit, which would be concerning.



With some tweaking of the business model at Shaw, (and i suspect an increase for example of conversions to premium) you could envisage Wey making an exciting go of it, if they ever acquired it. Adding 4 million 'contacts' and a number of them ultimately fee paying to Wey's armoury would be exactly the sort of boost that would take Wey a step closer to the sort of growth people here are hoping to see.

Pure speculation of course, but another example of the exciting potential that Wey has to offer if they get it right.

Purely out of interest i googled 'online learning courses' - and 'online education courses' and the first page brought up a fairly random but intriguing selection of names (udemy perhaps the most familiar, while futurelearn is UK based). Unfortunately Wey didn't appear on the first page of either.

[verulamium] 05/2/2018 17:20

Prerecorded video lessons leading to a "diploma" in various non-subjects. 30 days free, so you can do a course without paying. Then it's $30-$40 a course, often discounted further. A completely different kettle of fish.

[netcurtains] 05/2/2018 17:11

Hi sf5: This shaw thing does not make sense. If 1.5 million students used the company in 2016 but only has 11 million in revenue what sort of course could that be?? I mean that is roughly £10 a course? It cant be worth the paper its written on - unless I've misunderstood what you said ..
Stick to a PROPER company like WEY with PROPER courses - dont invest in £10 courses that sounds absolute nonsense.

[sf5] 05/2/2018 17:03

fwiw, ShadowFoundr are doing a private investor fund raise for the unquoted Shaw Academy. The blurb in their email says:-

"......leading global Education Technology (EdTech) company, Shaw Academy.
Based out of Dublin, Shaw Academy is at the forefront of the EdTech sector, providing low-cost, highly accessible education, regardless of geography or financial status.
The company has grown at an incredible rate. Since 2014, more than 4 million students registered with Shaw Academy and in 2016 alone, nearly 1.5 million students successfully completed a course provided by the company.
Currently, 250,000 students utilise Shaw Academy each month.
Financially, Shaw Academy’s annual revenue has increased at a compound annual growth rate of 130% from 2012 to 2016. In 2017, the business generated over €11 million in revenue."

I've no position in WEY but have been tempted. Obviously with Shaw there's no exit route. It seems not to attract EIS relief, being Irish.

[seanworld] 05/2/2018 16:36

Its all on the U.S markets. If they bounce back then so does
the FTSE. Always been the case.

My best purchase price previously was 28.9p on Dec 13th.

Waited patiently to add more today at 28p.