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BYJU’S - World’s leading EdTech company Launches ‘BYJU’S Tuition Centre’ in Chennai
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Offers students across classes 4-10 the best of offline and online learning methodologies to gain a competitive edge
8 centres to be operational across Chennai
Targets to launch 500 centres across 200 cities this year
Expected to create over 10,000 jobs across the country this year
Aims to enroll over 1 million students in the next two years
Chennai, February 18, 2021: BYJU’S, the world’s leading EdTech company with 115 million registered learners, today announced the launch of ‘BYJU'S Tuition Centre’ – a first-of-its-kind comprehensive program for students that brings together the best of offline and online learning experiences. In Chennai, 8 BYJU’S Tuition Centres will be operational. 6 have been functional since December 2021. The centres are spread across Egmore, Anna Nagar, Porur, Selaiyur, Velachery, Purasawalkam, Alwarpet and Vadapalani.
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Available for students in classes 4-10, BYJU’S Tuition Centres will be the neighborhood tech-enabled physical tuition centres that provide world class learning experience with focus on engagement and better outcomes through the two teacher model.
With strong positive feedback from the first 80 centres launched as a part of the pilot program,rning with its 360 degree teaching and learning system but also create employment opportunities for over 10,000+ people across India within a year of operations. BYJU’S targets to enroll 1 million students into this program in the next two years.
(L to R) Himanshu Bajaj, Head of BYJU’S Tuition Centre; Asheesh Sharma, Academic Head, BYJU'S
BYJU’S Tuition Centre combines the best of technology, teachers and formats that ensures a wholesome and impactful learning experience for students. Standardized teaching methodologies offer deep teacher connect along with delivering superior learning experiences that enable better outcomes. With technology that enables identification of doubt expression, student engagement in class, anytime doubt resolution support, regular tests/practice sessions and frequent parent teacher meetings - students get the best of both worlds - access to high quality teachers and personalised attention.
Commenting on the launch, Himanshu Bajaj, Head of BYJU’S Tuition Centre, said, “We are happy to announce the launch of BYJU’S Tution Centre in Chennai. This fortifies our commitment to make quality education accessible while addressing the needs of our students across the country. Owing to the pandemic, students had to oscillate between offline and online learning but this new offering of BYJU’S will address complex concerns of students and parents across the country. BYJU’S Tuition Centres is the next step in personalized learning. It will offer students 1. Two teacher model in tech-enable physical centres 2. Teacher-student personal connect supported by analytics led assessment of progress and performance and 3. Access to BYJU’S online ecosystem. By keeping students’ requirements at the core, we hope that this new offering will stand as an example and achieve scale resulting in nurturing future-ready students, and a forward-looking and unique academic environment.”
The BYJU’S Tuition Centre offering has been designed in a way where students will get to bridge learning gaps, strengthen conceptual understanding and reinforce learning through regular practice and tests that ensures exam readiness. Students will also have the same teacher for their offline and online classes who will support them with their personalized learning journeys.
Keeping pace with the current scenario and student requirements, with this launch, BYJU’S is reaffirming its student-centric approach, and creating new and innovative experiences, products, and services based on learners' real needs. With blended learning set to be the future of education in a post-pandemic world, the BYJU’S Tuition Centre is setting new benchmarks for this format.
Last year, the company launched BYJU’S Classes with a two-teacher advantage for its learners. With 115 million registered students and 7 million paid subscriptions, BYJU’S sees an annual renewal rate of 86%. Under BYJU’S Education for All social initiative, BYJU’S has helped 3.4 million children access education through digital learning and aims at empowering 10 million children from underserved communities by 2025.
About BYJU’S:
BYJU’S is the world’s leading edtech company and the creator of India’s most loved school learning app which offers highly adaptive, engaging and effective learning programs for students in LKG, UKG, classes 1 -12 (K-12) and competitive exams like JEE, NEET, CAT and IAS.
BYJU'S launched its flagship product, BYJU’S - The Learning App, for classes 4-12 in 2015. Today, the app has over 115 million registered students and 7.5 million annual paid subscriptions. With an average time of 71 minutes being spent by a student on the app every day from 1700+ cities, the app is creating a whole new way of learning through visual lessons. The Disney BYJU'S Early Learn App was launched in June 2019, a special offering from BYJU'S for students in classes 1-3 featuring Disney’s timeliness characters. In early 2019, BYJU'S acquired Osmo, a Palo Alto based maker of educational games to transform the whole offline to online learning experience. Since then, BYJU'S has expanded its family with strong partners like EPiC, Tynker, White Hat Jr, Aakash, Great Learning, Gradeup etc strengthening its portfolio of offerings and its reach globally.
Over the years, BYJU’S has built and expanded its portfolio of products and services as well as the formats that it offers like self-learning, 1:1, 1:20, phygital etc across the globe. Taking the vision of creating active learners around the world and expanding globally, BYJU’S also launched BYJU’S Future School recently. Powered by 12,000 qualified women teachers, this is available in the USA, UK, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico and will progressively expand to more geographies in the near future. Furthermore, BYJU’S Learning App featuring Disney was launched in the USA in July 2021, to help children ages 4–8 explore, practice, and understand math, language and reading concepts through interactive learning journeys combined with Disney’s world-class storytelling.
Delivering a world-class learning experience, programs from BYJU’S are making learning contextual and visual. The apps have been designed to adapt to the unique learning style of every student, as per the pace, size and style of learning. BYJU'S is paving the way for new-age, geography-agnostic learning tools that sit at the cross section of mobile, interactive content and personalised learning methodologies. BYJU’S is also the official sponsor of the Indian Cricket Team.
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