迈杰思幼儿园进入马来西亚市场，目标在2024年开办20所国际学校

MindChamps ventures into Malaysia, aims for 20 pre-school centres by 2024@The Strait Times

MindChamps PreSchool（迈杰思幼儿园）已签约马来西亚教育集团Victoria Education作为主要特许经营商，标志着新加坡早期教育集团首次跨越新柔长堤。

该公司周三（10月10日）宣布，随着协议的达成，迈杰思计划在2024年之前在马来西亚开办20所国际学前班。其已在阿拉伯联合酋长国、越南、菲律宾和缅甸签订特许经营协议，并在澳大利亚拥有并经营10个中心。

迈杰思在一份媒体声明中称，20个马来西亚校园将“被称为一个学习型村庄，教室聚集在社区群体中，围绕着共同的协作空间，允许不同年龄的孩子在社交环境中互动和学习”。

第一所学校的建设预计将在一年内开始，计划于2019年6月开设第一所校园。

此外，还计划在吉隆坡建立10,000平方米的旗舰校园，约有100名儿童，预计将于2021年完工。迈杰思还计划在新山开设一个2019的校园，预计接纳650名儿童。

这两个校区将设有一个多层感官花园和一个20米室内游泳池。

MindChamps股价在公布后的周三下午交易价格为62.5分，下跌0.5分或0.8％。🇸🇬@The Strait Times

MindChamps PreSchool has signed Malaysian education group Victoria Education as a master franchisee, marking the Singapore early education group's first expansion across the Causeway.

With the deal in place, MindChamps plans to launch 20 international pre-schools in Malaysia by 2024, the company announced on Wednesday (Oct 10). MindChamps already has franchise deals in the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, the Philippines and Myanmar, and owns and operates 10 centres in Australia.

MindChamps said in a media statement that the 20 Malaysian campuses will be "styled as a learning village, where classrooms are clustered in community groupings around common collaborative spaces, allowing children from different ages to interact and learn in a social setting".

Construction of the first of these schools is expected to begin within a year, with plans to open the first campus in June 2019.

There are also plans for a flagship 10,000 sq m campus in Kuala Lumpur for about 100 children, expected to be ready in 2021. MindChamps also plans to open a campus in Johor Bahru by 2019, which is expected to cater to 650 children.

These two campuses will feature a multi-level sensory garden and a 20m indoor swimming pool among its facilities.

Victoria Education chief executive Jeffrey Lai Jiun Jye said in the statement: "We were instinctively drawn towards MindChamps' breakthrough pre-school curriculum which has a proven track record of success in the competitive Singapore market."

Singapore Press Holdings, which publishes The Straits Times, owns a 20 per cent stake in MindChamps.

MindChamps shares were trading at 62.5 cents as at 3.11pm on Wednesday after the announcement, down 0.5 cent or 0.8 per cent.