Alex's Startup
An student centric intellegent portal for learners of languages/core curriculum whilst meeting the needs of national governments and various stakeholders
- Stage Product In Development
- Industry Education
- Location London, UK
- Currency GBP
- Founded February 2014
- Employees 3
- Incorporation Type C-corp
- Website academus.org.uk
Company Summary
With 1.8 billion English learners and $2.7 billion market, the demand for English is quiet substantial. Our model is simple; governments want a provision that will benefit all stakeholders to support them to deliver a high quality provision that is evidenced based, padegogically sound, cost effective and meets OECD/CERI recommendation for "School of Tomorrow" and can be scaled to millions.
Team
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FounderSoftware Engineer, Teacher of IT with Special Education Needs specialisation, E-learning consultant.
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Zainab RamjiHead of CurriculumZainab is a Cambridge Graduate teacher specialising in English as Foreign Langaguge. She herself was a refugee from Burundi and who arrived in the UK understanding just a handfulfew words of English and has a natural empathy for learners of English as a second language. Becuase of her experience of crossing language boundaries, she speaks three langagues fluently.
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Khatija SacranieAssitant CEOKhatija is a qualified corporate lawyer and has extensive experience in dealing with refugees, new migrants, assylum seekers as part of the many charities she has been involved in setting up. She travels extensively and her understanding of the need for accessing a universal language, such as English, to support those who have been uprooted is key to their successful adoption of a new country.
Previous Investors
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Academus Learning LtdUnconfirmed
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