EtonHouse International Education Group is an international provider and franchiser of private schools based on the International Baccalaureate, Serra International and Reggio Emilia approach systems. Primarily an operator of primary schools, it owns 90 such institutions across Asia, including schools in India, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, China and Malaysia.
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EtonHouse is headquartered in Singapore with more than 100 international schools and pre-schools spread across Singapore, Hong Kong, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Middle East and Kazakhstan. Together these schools provide high quality international education to over 10,000 children globally and 61 different nationalities in Singapore alone. EtonHouse has 8 International Baccalaureate (IB) World Schools and 1 IB candidate school in its fold.
History
The first EtonHouse school was opened in Singapore in 1995 by Ng Gim Choo, who had been inspired by her observations as a parent of play-based preschools in London. Initially, the school had difficulty acquiring local staff due to a lack of educators with early-childhood education training and so brought in teachers from overseas. By 2010, the Group's average annual revenue was $40 million with 26 schools across Asia.
Developments
As of 2014, the group was operating E-Bridge Pre-School, alongside its regular institutions, which offers education at lower fees in return for government priority in opening. High demand for registration created long lines and a requirement for revision to enrollment procedures. In 2016, the group opened the Large Child Care Centre in Edgedale Plains in Punggol. The centre is the first of five mega childcare centres run by anchor operators to open, to meet the growing demand for childcare services in Singapore.
EtonHouse also offers Mandarin-only classes for children, in its campus located in Hwa Chong Instituition in Singapore. Children in the Pre-nursery and Nursery classes will be taught entirely in Mandarin in the Mandarin Immersion Programme, from 18 months till 4 years old.