[1] It has a large share of the market in CIPD Human Resources and Learning & Development courses and online GCSEs and A Levels.

[1] It also provides professional qualifications and apprenticeships in accountancy, IT, marketing, procurement, leadership, project management, corporate governance, and finance.

[3] Unsatisfied with this solution, in 1889 he founded the Colliery Engineer School of Mines, the first distance learning institution in the United States.

"[2] To achieve its goal, ICS did not instruct its students by standard textbooks, which it believed often contained extraneous amounts of material and "demand[ed] too great a knowledge of mathematics and other subjects."

He advanced steadily with the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, and eventually became the mine's superintendent.