Kaplan
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Kaplan emerged from humble beginnings some 70 years ago when founder Stanley Kaplan started offering "tuition" classes in his Brooklyn basement in 1938. It has since become a world leader in private education, catering to more than 900,000 students in 4,000 classrooms across 79 campuses globally.
Kaplan Singapore was set up with an overriding aim to increase our footprint in Singapore and to serve as our base for the Asia Pacific region. Kaplan's first foray in the Singapore education industry involved the acquisition of The Financial Training Company (FTC) in February 2003. Having established FTC as one of the nation's leading centers in ACCA and financial training, Kaplan acquired the Asia Pacific Management Institute (APMI) in May 2005, to capitalise on the growing demand for professional and postgraduate education in Asia. Currently there are 7300 Kaplan students in Singapore pursuing a wide variety of programs, ranging from diplomas, degrees to professional ACCA and CFA qualifications & post-graduate degrees like MBAs, DBAs and PhDs.
While Kaplan's largest business revolves around higher education, spanning diploma programs to doctoral degrees, Kaplan also offers a broad range of other products and services for children and schools, including curriculum and professional development for teachers. We continue to lead the test preparation industry and our professional training division provided approximately half a million courses in 2005, many of these to the world's leading financial institutions.
Kaplan global expansion has been swift, to say the least, and our international programs have enabled us to serve students and professionals in locations across the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Israel, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.
One of Kaplan's consistent growth strategies has been to acquire outstanding businesses and then look for every imaginable cost-effective way to grow it by changes in technology, in organization, in marketing, in real estate or in geography - injecting global expertise and best practices, thereby ensuring high-level education quality everywhere it operates. Our latest acquisitions include Sydney listed Tribeca Learning Limited for approximately A$56 million, and HKPVS (the Mandarin School) in Hong Kong.
Kaplan is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Washington Post Company and has become a US$1.4 billion international corporation - making it The Post's largest revenue producer and fastest growing division.
For more information, visit www.kaplan.com
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