Here is an event you won’t want to miss, if you can pay the price of admission.

So many opportunities to cash in on the emerging market of education.

There are, as the ad says, lots of needs to address:

“This is a long-overdue shift the public has been clamoring for — measuring quality by what students are able to master, not by time spent in a classroom — and the private sector is offering numerous opportunities to ride this wave.

“Another example is the push to enhance offerings in the K-12 space, potentially opening up more early childhood and supplemental education.

“And many for-profit providers are finding opportunities in partnerships with hospitals and universities and other large employers, so what was once a demand stemming primarily from affluent parents is now trickling downwards.

“These are just some of the excellent reasons why investors who appreciate expanding opportunities in attractively-priced companies belong at The Capital Roundtable’s ENCORE conference — “Private Equity Investing in For-Profit Education Companies,” being held in New York City on Thursday, July 25th.

“Here are even more reasons that new technologies have created among education companies focused on support services —

“Teacher Evaluations — now being put into the hands of third parties.
Enrollment Specialists — outsourcing this key activity to dedicated firms.
Student Services and Job Placement — increasingly being turned over to middle-market providers.
Admissions and Financial Aid IT — with huge interest in software and SAAS providers.
Massive Open Online Courses — helping institutions deliver large-scale MOOCs that are typically free to take and to serve to build an institution’s brand.
Syndicated Content — helping institutions save on course development and faculty costs with pre-packaged curriculums to be delivered online with the institution’s own brand.
No argument, this is an amazing moment for private equity investors to explore for-profit education opportunities. And this encore conference from The Capital Roundtable is particularly valuable if you are new to the education marketplace and need to understand its particular complexities such as the Higher Education Reauthorization Act implications.

“Just consider —

“The education sector represents the second biggest category of GDP, so there’s a lot of need to address.
63% of the deal value last year in the for-profit education sector represented private equity transactions, up from 51% the year earlier.”

What are you waiting for?