Singapore education firm KinderWorld eyes Hai Phong city investment
Singapore-based educational firm KinderWorld International Group plans to expand its activities in Vietnam to the northern city of Hai Phong by building an international education complex.
Children at a KinderWorld kindergarten. Photo courtesy of the company.
Chairman of KinderWorld Ricky Tan delivered the proposal with two options to Le Tien Chau, chief of Hai Phong Party Committee at a Monday meeting. The first option is to build a complex featuring facilities for various education levels from preschool to high school, college/university, and vocational training. The second is to build an eco-tourism and education complex, called Pegasus, featuring a life-skills-training school and an eco-tourism facility per international standards.
Welcoming the suggestion, relevant municipal agencies made location recommendations for the project. Highly rating the project, Chau proposed the municipal authorities and KinderWorld sign a memorandum of understanding for the cooperation.
The complex will serve foreign experts' children in Vietnam and Hai Phong citizens, Ricky Tan said.
Le Tien Chau (R), Secretary of Hai Phong city's Party Committee, gifts a souvenir to KinderWorld chairman Ricky Tan at a meeting in the northern city on July 31, 2023. Photo courtesy of Hai Phong's news portal.
KinderWorld International Group was set up in 1986 in Singapore, and extended to overseas markets in the 1990s, including preschool facilities named KinderWorld International Kindergarten (KIK) in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 2000. The firm opened international primary schools called Singapore International Schools (SIS) in Hanoi and HCMC in 2004.
In Vietnam, KinderWorld International Group has a presence in eight localities. There are three KIK and three SIS in Hanoi; one SIS in Ha Long town, the northern province of Quang Ninh; one SIS in the central city of Danang; one SIS in the southern industrial province of Binh Duong; one SIS in HCMC; one SIS in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau; and one KIK and one SIS in the southern city of Can Tho.
The group ventured into the multi-level school sector with a Singapore Vietnam International School (SVIS) in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa in 2014.
As of the beginning of 2022-2023 academic year, Hai Phong city had about 500,000 learners and 827 schools, including 427 public facilities.
Hai Phong is a port hub and a manufacturing center in northern Vietnam.
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