Expressnews
Chennai, 6th August 2023: SIP Academy India celebrated its 20th anniversary in Chennai recently at Taj Wellington Mews, Tharamani. Starting the journey in August 2003 with 20 centers of SIP Abacus programme, 5 employees and 5 area partners – the business has now grown to be a leading company in the skill development of children with presencein across 350 cities, 950 franchisees, 5000 teachers,association with over 1000 schools and 240 employees and partners across 11 countries.
Over 1 Million students have benefitted from the skill development training with SIP Academy’s various programmes like SIP Abacus – a franchisee based Abacus programme, Global Art – a franchisee based art programme, and MiKids – an English language programme in schools.
The company has forged ahead with success in its vision to make a significant impact on the mental potential of childreneven during the challenging times of Covid. The company has focused on developing the right skills for children. SIP Academy’s belief has always been to develop programmes ‘Keeping the Child in Mind’ and provide the skills necessary for the child to achieve excellence not only in academics, but also in other walks of life.
The SIP Abacus programme helps students to develop the key skills of concentration, memory and arithmetic ability. This helps students do well not just in Maths but the skills help them to do well in all subjects. Through the Globalartprogramme, children are able to develop their creativity and acquire the skills to think differently and express their unique ideas. The MiKids programme gives students the confidence of communication through developing their phonic-based English abilities.
The strong SIP Academy Alumni network across the world is a testament to the transformation that the programmes have delivered to the students and the life-long benefits they have acquired in pursuing a bright future.
Mr Dinesh Victor, Managing Director – SIP Academy India said, “The 950 strong SIP Academy learning centres represent a strong network of entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives to the development of learning skills in students. Coming from backgrounds that had nothing to do with children’s education or running a business, more than 95% of the franchisees are owned by women who have acquired the skills and confidence to run a successful business. A dedicated All-Women team of 5000 Course Instructors are teaching the programmes and ensuring the students are developing their skills”.
“We are deeply committed to environmental sustainability. We have created two Miyawaki forests one in Thiruvallur near Chennai and one in Jalgaon in Maharashtra. We encourage our students to participate in socially consciousprograms such as Water Warriors for rainwater harvesting and Respect the Girl Child Programme. Equally important is our commitment to inclusivity, demonstrated by our initiatives like SIP Samatva and SIP Foundation, aimed at reaching economically challenged students”, Mr Dinesh Victor further added.
Such initiatives have developed SIP Academy to be the best Abacus Company in India in terms of making an impact on children, the largest chain of art centres by far and the largest school based English language provider to children.
SIP Academy has a strong team of 240 employees and partners managing the operations. Through our culture of developing potential in employees and offering a nurturing work environment, SIP Academy has been awarded as ‘Great Place to Work’ – for 2 years consecutively 2022-23 and 2023-24.
SIP Academy is an ISO 9001:2015 certified organization. It was awarded the best coaching institute in skill development for children in India by Worldwide Achievers at Asia Education Summit 2015 and awarded 6 Limca Book of records across its programmes. SIP Academy was awarded Excellence in Effective Offline and Online Coaching at ET achievers 2022 event, by the Times Group.
Over 2 lakh children across the world learn at SIP Academy every week.
