Company profile
Pearson Education Services Pvt Ltd Meena Ganesh, CEO, MD
Srikanth Iyer, COO
Company Profile Pearson Education Services is a part of Pearson, a global education, media and publishing group, represented by Pearson Education, Financial Times and Penguin. The world’s leading education company, Pearson helps educate more than 100 million people worldwide. Pearson in India is committed to bringing this depth of international experience to contribute to measurable, outcome based and technology enabled learning in India. Pearson Education Services (PES) provides end-to-end customised education solutions in the K-12 segment, with a focus on technological innovations. PES’s current market offerings include: School management services, on-line tutoring, ICT solutions and technology aided coaching classes and test preparation services.
Products and Services
Company Name: Pearson Education Services Private Limited Management Team: Chief Executive Officer: Meena Ganesh Head of Operations/COO: Srikanth Iyer Head of Finance/CFO: Ramesh Subbarao Head Office: 10, 3rd Main, Ashwini Layout Intermediate Ring Road, Ejipura Koramangala, Bangalore 560 047 Karnataka, India Website: www.pearsoneducationservices.com Major Regional Offices (India) 1. Delhi 2. Jaipur 3. Bombay Contact Person For Clarification: Preethi Frederick, ManagerMarketing & Communication, + 91 9739984042
Pearson Education Services (PES) provides end-to-end education solutions in the K-12 segment, with a focus on technological innovations. Being a part of Pearson, PES aims to seamlessly combine content and technology and offer customised solutions of international standards to audiences not just in India but worldwide. PES’s current market offerings include: School management services, by way of which they manage, operate and build high quality schools across the country that leverage Pearson’s global knowledge and expertise in the school space; on-line tutoring, that offers quality online tuitions to students across the world at very affordable prices; ICT solutions known as DigiClass, for both schools and higher education institutions by employing the DigitALly application; technology aided coaching classes and test preparation services for various Entrance (CET, AIEEE, IIT-JEE, AIPMT) and School/ Board exams (State, CBSE, ICSE).
Achievements What started off as Edurite Technologies providing e-learning content to students through CD-ROMs in 2000, has now grown on to become Pearson Education Services Pvt Ltd. A couple of years after its inception, Edurite Tutorials, a technology enabled tutorial service was also launched alongside the core business. In 2007, TutorVista, global online tutoring company, acquired Edurite Technologies and they launched DigiClass - a classroom solution that combines state-of-the-art hardware with multimedia content. They continued to expand their foothold in the market with the acquisition of Tandem - Kerala’s premier tutorials company. The same year, they also launched their chain of brick and mortar schools which has now been rebranded to Pearson Schools. At the beginning of this year, Pearson officially took over as the majority stake holder and has given them access to Pearson’s global resources, expertise, content and reach. They also successfully acquired SmarThinking, a US based online tutoring company.
Target Verticals The presence of Pearson Education Services is spread across the board, from K-12 to Higher Education, from Tutorials to distance learning. Pearson also offers Teacher Certification which certifies teachers in usage of Digital classroom solution.
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