Inspired Education Group

Inspired Education Group
Company typePrivate
IndustryEducation
Founded2013
HeadquartersLondon
Area served
Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America.
Websitehttps://inspirededu.com/

Inspired Education Group is a co-educational, non-denominational, international provider of for-profit private schools. It was founded in 2013 by Lebanese-British businessman Nadim Nsouli and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The group offers education for children aged 1 to 18 years and currently serves approximately 80,000 students worldwide across 111 schools in 24 countries.[1][2]

History

Inspired Education Group was founded in 2013 by Nadim M. Nsouli, a businessman and co-founder of the Lyla Nsouli Foundation for Children's Brain Cancer,[3] following the group's acquisition of Reddam House in South Africa.[4] Since then, Reddam House has acquired and established nine schools in South Africa.

  • Reddam House Atlantic Seaboard
  • Reddam House Ballito
  • Reddam House Bedfordview
  • Reddam House Constantia
  • Reddam House Durbanville
  • Reddam House Fourways
  • Reddam House Helderfontein
  • Reddam House Umhlanga
  • Reddam House Waterfall

Along with the group's "flagship school," Reddam House Berkshire, near Wokingham, England. In 2015, the school grounds in Winnersh were acquired from Bearwood College.[4]

Nsouli, the founder, CEO and Chairman, has previously worked as a lawyer and an investment banker and has led the group since its inception.[5] Inspired's strategy has been described as "buy and build,"[6][7] involving the acquisition of existing schools as well as the construction of new institutions. The group maintains offices in London, Milan, Auckland, Bogotá, Johannesburg, and Dubai.[8]

Schools in other European countries that are part of the Inspired group include St. George's International School in Switzerland,[9] St. John's International School in Belgium,[10] St. Louis School in Italy,[11] and Sotogrande International School in Spain.[12] In the Middle East, the group acquired the British School of Bahrain.[5] Inspired's Latin American schools include Blue Valley School in Costa Rica,[13] Colegio San Mateo in Colombia,[14] and Cambridge College Lima in Peru.[15] By 2017, Inspired operated more than 30 schools,[16] and by 2018, it educated over 35,000 students across 46 schools.[17]

In 2018, Inspired acquired part of New Zealand's largest private education provider, ACG Education’s schools division, from Pacific Equity Partners for approximately NZ$500 million.[18]

By 2020, Inspired was described as "the world's largest premium education provider," with 64 schools across five continents.[19] The group also secured investments from firms such as Oakley Capital[20] and TA Associates.[21]

In May 2021, Inspired acquired Wey Education PLC, which operated two online education brands, InterHigh and Academy21.[22] In November 2021, Inspired merged its online schools, InterHigh and King's College Online, under the new name King's InterHigh.[23]

In May 2022, Stonepeak, a US-based private equity firm, invested €1 billion[24] in exchange for a minority stake in Inspired.

In 2023, Inspired acquired the Alpha Plus Group, which included schools such as Wetherby School and Pembridge Hall.[25]

References

  1. ^ "Virtual School Open Days as Inspired Group's schools help thousands of parents searching for September school places". Cision. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  2. ^ "ᐅInspired Education ᐅ Premium Private Schools Worldwide". www.inspirededu.com. 2023-09-12. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  3. ^ "Inspired". Oakley Capital Investments. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  4. ^ a b "Group Opens Flagship School in UK". Business Day. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  5. ^ a b gulfinsider (2018-02-11). "The British School of Bahrain gets inspired". Gulf Insider. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  6. ^ "Inspired | Consumer Sector | TA | A Private Equity Firm". TA Associates. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  7. ^ "Investments : EDUCAS, an education investment firm". www.educasinternational.com. Retrieved 2019-01-04.
  8. ^ "CONTACT US". inspirededu.com. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  9. ^ "St. George's | International School in Montreux Switzerland". stgeorges.ch. Retrieved 2019-01-21. St. George's International School is a proud member of Inspired, a leading global premium schools group operating...
  10. ^ SU. "The Brussels Times - St John's International School in Brussels joins the "Inspired Network"". Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  11. ^ "EducationInvestor - Article: Italy: Inspired invests in two Italian schools". www.educationinvestor.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2019-01-22. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  12. ^ "Sotogrande International School". Sotogrande International School. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  13. ^ "Inspired Group invertirá $2 millones en centro educativo costarricense Blue Valley". La Nación, Grupo Nación (in Spanish). 17 July 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  14. ^ "Colegio San Mateo Apóstol (Bogotá)". Los Mejores Colegios de Colombia (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  15. ^ "Inspired international schools group acquires Cambridge College Lima". thepienews.com. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  16. ^ GmbH, finanzen net. "EQT Credit Completes Financing to Leading Premium School Group Inspired | Markets Insider". markets.businessinsider.com. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  17. ^ "Inspired Schools - Premium Private Education". inspirededu.com. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  18. ^ "Inspired Is Said to Near Acquisition of ACG's Schools Unit". Bloomberg.com. 2018-09-20. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
  19. ^ "Global online school open to NZ students". New Zealand Herald. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  20. ^ "Inspired is one of the world's fastest growing premium private school groups". Oakley Capital Investments.
  21. ^ "Inspired Receives Private Equity Investment from TA Associates". FinSMEs. United Kingdom. 27 July 2017.
  22. ^ ""UK: Inspired to acquire AIM-listed online school for more than £70m"". EducationInvestor Global. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  23. ^ "Online schools join forces to launch King's InterHigh". Independent Education Today. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  24. ^ ""Stonepeak invests €1bn in private schools operator Inspired"". Financial Times. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  25. ^ Wallop, Harry (2023-10-25). "The school the A-list fight to get their kids into — at 4". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
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