Edify Edu plans 8 schools in Gujarat

Updated on: Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Hyderabad-based Edify Education, which aims to start 50 schools across the country by 2015, has announced its plans to start eight schools in the state, with an aim to provide international education. The group is assessing locations like Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Surat, Vadodara, Anand, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Porbandar, Junagadh, to name a few for setting up schools on franchisee model.

Edify Education is an initiative of DRS Group, which has interests in logistics, warehousing. The group forayed into education in May this year and will be setting up three schools in Ranipet (Tamil Nadu), Nagpur and Amravati (Maharashtra) in 2010-11. Besides Gujarat, the group aims to start more schools in the coming years in prominent centers of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and other states.

AK Agarwal, director, DBS Group said, "We plan to start two schools in Gujarat in the academic year 2011-12 and eight across the state by 2015. There is a huge demand-supply gap for quality education at affordable prices and Edify Education has been launched to tap this demand. Edify will provide quality international education with global orientation pan-India and will be in easy access to even middle class families. We have an aggressive growth plan to launch 50 branches by year 2015."

The evaluation process in these schools will be skill based and will assess the child's ability to conceptualize, process information and apply the same in a creative manner. While, the schools will follow CBSE curriculum; it will also bring in global orientation like learning by participation. All these campuses will have temperature controlled classrooms, and all other facilities which will help in the development of mind, body and soul, a release from the group stated.

In the process of exploring franchising options for the state, Edify will host a Franchise India Expo on July 24-25 in Ahmedabad.

Edify Edu plans 8 schools in Gujarat

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