Navitas MD named entrepreneur of year

Rod Jones, the founding and managing director of global education services provider Navitas, has been named the 2008 Ernst & Young Australian Entrepreneur of the Year. Since Navitas’s establishment in 1994 and its subsequent listing on the ASX in 2004, Jones has overseen the development of an international suite of education services, encompassing university programs, English-language programs, and workforce and student recruitment divisions. Navitas (formerly IBT Education) is now Australia’s largest provider of university pathway education and English language programs to international students. It also has operations in six countries, including the UK, Canada and Sri Lanka.