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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, June 14, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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Harrods International Academy’s sixth campus was inaugurated by Secretary of State to Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Dr Soeung Rathchavy on June 8 – a major achievement for Harrods, which has been providing international and dual education to students for nearly a decade.

Dr Soeung cut the ceremonial ribbon to inaugurate the campus that will provide International and Dual Curriculum to Lower Primary students from Year 1 to Year 3. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Soeung said: “Harrod’s efforts at providing quality national and international education is of critical importance and of substantial contribution to Cambodia’s human resource development, particularly in the growth of talented and intelligent children.”

Harrods International Academy is part of the renowned Global Schools Foundation, which has a presence in 10 countries with 35 campuses, imparting education to more than 31,500 students. The new campus will continue the Foundation’s tradition of providing new-age education fit for 21st-century aspirations through modern infrastructure in a digital environment.

Campus 6 marks a new frontier for the GSF school in Cambodia, bringing quality International Primary curriculum for students to strengthen their academic and extracurricular skills through activities like arts, sports, music and languages.

GSF Co-founder and Chairman Mr Atul Temurnikar hailed it as a major step in the right direction for Harrods International Academy. “Campus 6 is a great addition to our family of schools. In the last 9 years, Harrods has shown remarkable dedication to the cause of quality education for the new generation. The new campus will continue this tradition,” he said.  

Harrods International Academy, Campus 6 offers a comprehensive Lower Primary educational programme that includes IPC as well as Dual Curriculum. The school also features state-of-the-art facilities, including modern classrooms, science labs, libraries, and sports facilities.

About Global Schools Foundation (GSF)

GSF, a Singapore-based not-for-profit foundation that reinvests for growth, has a network of 35 campuses across 11 countries including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Cambodia, United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia where 32,000 students from 70 nationalities study. It is a recipient of over 450 international education excellence awards from national quality organisations. In addition to International Baccalaureate and Cambridge IGCSE, its schools provide American, IPC, CBSE and ICSE curriculum. 

About Harrods International Academy 

Harrods International Academy is the fastest growing school of GSF. It has been operating five campuses in Cambodia since 2014, with two more campuses to be added to the HIA family this year. Students of Harrods get multi-curricular education, with a well-defined tertiary programme that includes Cambridge Advanced ‘A’ Levels and Harrods Secondary Certificate (HSC). It provides students with a way to a good university education.  

Source: Global Schools Foundation

SINGAPORE, May 25, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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Singapore-based Global Schools Foundation (GSF) has announced a strategic partnership with India’s Vikaasa schools – a pioneer in ICSE schools in Tamil Nadu state, which currently owns and operates five reputed ICSE schools in Madurai. 

The partnership between GSF’s personalised and adaptive learning programmes and the 50-year-strong legacy of Vikaasa schools promises to open new avenues of expansion for students in the new-age education driven by data analytics and artificial intelligence. 

Vikaasa schools offers education in international curricula like Cambridge IGCSE & ICSE. Their meritorious legacy of academic excellence has run through generations, with many alumni going on to have illustrious careers in high positions in different fields like finance, banking, etc. One alumnus, Mr. Anand Selvakesari, was recently appointed the Chief Operating Officer of Citigroup Inc. 

Global Schools Foundation is reputed for offering a range of international opportunities to its students and teachers through collaborations and exchange programmes and University Connect programmes that provide good higher learning opportunities to all. Their students have received offers from Ivy League universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, London School of Economics, Harvard and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), among many other leading universities.

GSF’s extensive network of international teachers will also be available to Vikaasa teachers, who can expand their skills through collaboration and polish their competencies through professional development courses. In addition, GSF University — the skills and development arm of GSF — will also offer courses to staff to help train them in skills and develop their subject-matter expertise.  

“We believe that this GSF partnership will further bolster our existing programmes of student exchange, great academic results, and university counselling to nurture students into global leaders,” said Vikaasa’s founder, Mr. Biju Sudhakaran. “l am excited to see the positive impact it will have on our student community.” 

Welcoming the partnership, GSF India Country Director Mr. Ashish Tibdewal said, “We are pleased to be strategically partnering with Vikaasa. The school’s rich legacy and incredible commitment to values-based education have produced thousands of success stories at national and international levels. We believe GSF’s innovation capabilities will help us accelerate these successes to touch newer heights.”

With these partnerships, GSF India now operates 16 top international schools across six cities in India to date. 

About GSF

GSF, a Singapore-based not-for-profit foundation, has a network of 35 campuses across 11 countries and educates 32,000 students from 70 nationalities. It is a recipient of more than 450 international awards. Its schools provide multiple international curricula, including International Baccalaureate, Cambridge IGCSE, British National Curricula, American common core and IPC.

GSF schools rank high in the list of schools performing well in IB programmes, with over 100 students scoring World Topper (45/45) and Near Perfect Scores (44/45) in the IB Diploma exams. Over 800 of its Cambridge students have scored A and A* in all subjects to date, and 84% of its cohort scored A or A* in all subjects. 

Source: Global Schools Foundation

SINGAPORE, April 6, 2023 (Newswire.com)
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Singapore-based Global Schools Foundation (GSF) has announced a strategic partnership with India’s Vikaasa schools – a pioneer in ICSE schools in Tamil Nadu state, which currently owns and operates five reputed ICSE schools in Madurai. 

The partnership between GSF’s personalised and adaptive learning programmes and the 50-year-strong legacy of Vikaasa schools promises to open new avenues of expansion for students in the new-age education driven by data analytics and artificial intelligence. 

Vikaasa schools offers education in international curricula like Cambridge IGCSE & ICSE. Their meritorious legacy of academic excellence has run through generations, with many alumni going on to have illustrious careers in high positions in different fields like finance, banking, etc. One alumnus, Mr. Anand Selvakesari, was recently appointed the Chief Operating Officer of Citigroup Inc. 

Global Schools Foundation is reputed for offering a range of international opportunities to its students and teachers through collaborations and exchange programmes and University Connect programmes that provide good higher learning opportunities to all. Their students have received offers from Ivy League universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, London School of Economics, Harvard and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), among many other leading universities.

GSF’s extensive network of international teachers will also be available to Vikaasa teachers, who can expand their skills through collaboration and polish their competencies through professional development courses. In addition, GSF University — the skills and development arm of GSF — will also offer courses to staff to help train them in skills and develop their subject-matter expertise.  

“We believe that this GSF partnership will further bolster our existing programmes of student exchange, great academic results, and university counselling to nurture students into global leaders,” said Vikaasa’s founder, Mr. Biju Sudhakaran. “l am excited to see the positive impact it will have on our student community.” 

Welcoming the partnership, GSF India Country Director Mr. Ashish Tibdewal said, “We are pleased to be strategically partnering with Vikaasa. The school’s rich legacy and incredible commitment to values-based education have produced thousands of success stories at national and international levels. We believe GSF’s innovation capabilities will help us accelerate these successes to touch newer heights.”

With these partnerships, GSF India now operates 16 top international schools across six cities in India to date. 

About GSF

GSF, a Singapore-based not-for-profit foundation, has a network of 35 campuses across 11 countries and educates 32,000 students from 70 nationalities. It is a recipient of more than 450 international awards. Its schools provide multiple international curricula, including International Baccalaureate, Cambridge IGCSE, British National Curricula, American common core and IPC.

GSF schools rank high in the list of schools performing well in IB programmes, with over 100 students scoring World Topper (45/45) and Near Perfect Scores (44/45) in the IB Diploma exams. Over 800 of its Cambridge students have scored A and A* in all subjects to date, and 84% of its cohort scored A or A* in all subjects. 

Source: Global Schools Foundation

Press Release
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Dec 20, 2022 09:00 EST

SINGAPORE, December 20, 2022 (Newswire.com)
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Global Schools Foundation (GSF) Singapore, the award-winning not-for-profit foundation, plans to invest over US$500 million in India’s school education sector by Year 2026, as it continues its global expansion plan to serve more communities across Europe, the Middle East, India and Japan. 

Recognised as the world’s most awarded school network with more than 450 international awards in Business and Education Excellence, GSF already has a network of 35 campuses across 11 countries. Its schools offer multiple curricula like International Baccalaureate, Cambridge IGCSE and Indian CBSE to nearly 32000 students of more than 70 nationalities.

The new investment in India is aimed to fulfill the massive post-Covid increase in demand from domestic communities moving across Indian cities, as well as relocating families from and into India. Many existing student communities from international regions across East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the U.K. and the U.S. are relocating to cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad. 

GSF’s expansion will include Mergers and Acquisitions of greenfield projects into cities that also include Mumbai, Madurai, Noida and Nagpur.

“It is imperative that GSF takes necessary steps in investing to provide guaranteed admissions to such relocating students across its networks with zero disruptions,” said Mr. Atul Temurnikar, Executive Chairman and Co-founder of GSF. 

The most recent step in this direction was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Noida Authority and GSF with support from Enterprise Singapore, a division of Ministry of Trade and Industry-Republic of Singapore. The MoU commits to the investment towards new international schools that will offer International Baccalaureate and Cambridge IGCSE education in addition to CBSE.

In the last 20 years, GSF schools – like Global Indian International School and One World International School – have ranked high for their results in IB exams, with 96 students having scored World Topper (45/45) and Near Perfect Scores (44/45) in the IB Diploma exams. Over 800 students have scored A*s and As in seven or more subjects in Cambridge IGCSE. 

GSF students receive offers from world’s leading universities, including some of the Ivy League colleges such as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, UC Berkeley and others, and every year over 150 universities from around the world visit school campuses for career guidance to students. Its 2500 faculty members undergo extensive and continuous training and development programmes in skills and subject-matter expertise.  

GSF has only recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with much fanfare. 

Source: Global Schools Foundation