{"id":66116,"date":"2016-01-06T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bf35c3ff0c45825f83d0e6f70662e492"},"modified":"2016-01-06T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T10:34:00","slug":"news-story-pearson-vuelearndirects-cbt-business-merger-inquiry-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66116","title":{"rendered":"News story: Pearson VUE\/learndirect\u2019s CBT business merger inquiry cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) received assurances from <abbr title=\"Pearson Professional Assessments Limited, trading as Pearson VUE\">Pearson VUE<\/abbr> and <abbr title=\"learndirect Limited\">learndirect<\/abbr> Limited that the anticipated acquisition has been abandoned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/cma-refers-computer-based-testing-merger-for-in-depth-investigation\">On 16 December 2015<\/a>, the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> referred Pearson Professional Assessments Limited\u2019s &#8211; trading as <abbr title=\"Pearson Professional Assessments Limited, trading as Pearson VUE\">Pearson VUE<\/abbr> (<abbr title=\"Pearson Professional Assessments Limited, trading as Pearson VUE\">Pearson VUE<\/abbr>) &#8211; anticipated acquisition of the <abbr title=\"computer-based testing\">CBT<\/abbr> business of <abbr title=\"learndirect Limited\">learndirect<\/abbr> for an in-depth phase 2 investigation. On the same day, <abbr title=\"Pearson Professional Assessments Limited, trading as Pearson VUE\">Pearson VUE<\/abbr> requested a 3-week suspension of the phase 2 investigation timetable.<\/p>\n<p>For further information please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/pearson-vue-learndirect-s-computer-based-testing-merger-inquiry\">case page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA formally cancelled its inquiry into Pearson VUE\u2019s anticipated acquisition of learndirect\u2019s computer-based testing (CBT) business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}