Listed education group Stadio Holdings, has consolidated four of its private tertiary education brands in South Africa, into a new institution called Stadio Higher Education.<\/p>\n
The new institution is a consolidation of the Southern Business School (SBS), Embury, LISOF and Prestige Academy.<\/p>\n
“Stadio represents a new vision, purpose-built to meet the real needs of South African tertiary students with credible qualifications constructed with the workplace in mind and delivered with a combination of online and in person \u2013 to allow students to qualify in ways that suit them, from wherever they need to be based,” it said.<\/p>\n
From 26 October 2020, Stadio said it will offer over 50 accredited qualifications across five faculties and ten campuses for more than 20,000 students.<\/p>\n
It said it has made a solid investment in technology and physical infrastructure and is ideally placed to cater to a wide range of student needs. This is shown by the fact that 80% of its students are making use of distance learning, said Stadio’s chief academic officer, Dr Divya Singh,<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re completely focussed on providing rigorous, affordable and practical qualifications that produce employable outcomes for students,” she said.<\/p>\n
Stadio’s campuses are located in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, and Cape Town and offer qualifications in:<\/p>\n
History of Stadio\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Stadio started as a subsidiary of Curro Holdings, which has been a proud provider of pre-school and school-based education since 1998. Curro is the largest independent school group in Africa, and was listed on the JSE in 2011.<\/p>\n In 2017, Curro unbundled its interest in Stadio and listed Stadio Holdings on the JSE in October 2017.<\/p>\n The intention was to create a separate listed business with a focus on higher education with a strong management team and a dedicated anchor shareholder, namely PSG Alpha Investments Proprietary Limited, to become the leader in the higher education market in South Africa.<\/p>\n Stadio subsequently acquired further a number of registered higher education institutions, namely AFDA, Milpark Education, LISOF, Prestige Academy and Southern Business School, as well as the business of CA Connect.<\/p>\n AFDA\u00a0and\u00a0Milpark Education operate independently, and the other institutions were consolidated with Stadio to form one Stadio Higher Education institution.<\/p>\n
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