Further reorganizing what remains of their fully-owned educational companies after the big merger of Macmillan Science and Education with Springer earlier this year, Macmillan is taking the logical step of bringing together Macmillan Higher Education and Macmillan New Ventures into a single unit as of January 1. The combined entity will be called Macmillan Learning going forward, still under the direction of ceo Ken Michaels (who is currently ceo of the two separate units). Macmillan Higher Education comprises the US publishing lines Bedford/St. Martin’s, W.H. Freeman, and Worth Publishers; Macmillan New Ventures has been their ed-tech investment arm, and comprises start-ups including Hayden-McNeil, Sapling Learning, Late […]