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Study Group Appoints Rajay Naik As Chief Commercial Officer

THE Open University’s former director Rajay Naik has been appointed as chief commercial officer at Study Group, a provider of international education.

He was one of five members of a landmark review of UK higher education chaired by Lord Browne.


Naik was also previously Keypath Education’s European CEO and helped lead the expansion of the company’s online degree programmes on behalf of the University of Exeter, Aston University and other higher education institutions.

“Universities are increasingly looking at new forms of academic delivery and they expect private sector partners to recognise this and satisfy demand,” Naik said.

The Study Group enables students from all over the world develop the necessary study and language skills. Last year, it was involved with 60,000 students from 150 countries.

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  • Government departments wrote off £6.6bn in failed spending during the last financial year.
  • The Rwanda deportation plan and Stonehenge tunnel project were among the biggest cancelled schemes.
  • MPs warned fraud, waste and abandoned projects are becoming too common across Whitehall.

British taxpayers are carrying the cost of billions of pounds lost on abandoned government projects, after Parliament’s spending watchdog warned that repeated policy reversals and weak financial controls are draining public money across Whitehall.

A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found government departments wrote off around £6.6bn during the 2024-25 financial year alone. The losses covered spending that failed to deliver its intended purpose or produced no value for taxpayers, according to the committee.

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