Maldives expansion for British Youth International College

The British Youth Inter national College (BYITC) repor ts that it is expanding into the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, following the success of its pioneering game-based maths lear ning prog ramme for children in Sri Lanka

BYITC, a Scottish college founded in 2015 by Glasgow-based academic and educator Dr Rashmi Mantri (right), star ted as an in-person tuition prog ramme with classes in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and now offers online tuition reaching students around the world

The move to the Maldives is being led by Jude Xavier, BYITC’s franchisee in Sri Lanka, who has been impressed with the results of the company’s maths prog ramme using a counting tool that has been used for millennia – the abacus

Xavier said: “I really like the way gamebased lear ning has helped our children improve their maths calculation and visualise solutions faster than a calculator. Our students have improved their mental arithmetic skills so much that they’re known as ‘Maths Mavericks’ when they go back to their regular schools.”

Businessman, Xavier, is also the founder and chief executive of Anka Cor poration, a g roup of businesses based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, incor porating commodity trading as a sole trader, par tnership, or limited company)

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BYITC delivers online abacus maths prog rammes and explains that it has developed the f irst games-based abacus maths application, with brightly coloured g raphics and characters inspired by digital games, designed to engage children in the lear ning process

Dr Mantri said she was proud the positive impact BYITC’s prog ramme was having on Xavier’s students: “We are thrilled to continue our par tnership with Mr Xavier and to work towards our shared goal of providing quality education to children across the globe and making fun-tastic maths lear ning ”

BYITC says The Maldives business will become its 11th franchise ter ritor y operating globally (including Dubai and the UK) teaching maths, in addition to English, cyber security and prog ramming n