Inspired Education Group

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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.

It provides education for children aged 1 year up to 18 years, and to date has around 80,000 students globally, across 111 schools in 24 countries.[1][2]

History[edit]

Inspired Education Group was founded in 2013 by Nadim M. Nsouli, a businessman and co-founder of Lyla Nsouli Foundation for Children’s Brain Cancer,[3] when his group acquired Reddam House in South Africa.[4] Since 2013, Reddam House has acquired and constructed nine schools in South Africa, along with the Inspired’s “flagship school,” Reddam House Berkshire, near Wokingham, England. In 2015 the school grounds in Winnersh were taken over from Bearwood College.[4]

Nsouli, the founder, CEO and Chairman, has worked as a lawyer and as an investment banker, and has led the group since its founding.[5]

The group's strategy has been described as "buy and build",[6][7] involving the purchase of existing schools, as well as the building of new schools. It has offices in London, Milan, Auckland, Bogotá, Johannesburg, and Dubai.[8]

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

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

In 2020, Inspired was described as "the world's largest premium education provider," with 64 schools spread across five continents.[citation needed][19] In addition to several investments from firms such as Oakley Capital[20] and TA Associates.[21]

In May 2021, Inspired acquired Wey Education PLC, which had two online education brands, InterHigh and Academy21.[22]

Inspired-owned online schools, InterHigh and King's College Online merged in November 2021, relaunching under the new name King's InterHigh.[23]

In May 2022, Stonepeak, a US private equity company, invested €1bn[24] in exchange for a minority stake in Inspired.

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

References[edit]

  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. 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). 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. 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. 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". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-10-25.

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