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LONDON, UK - MediaOutReach - 5 August 2019 - Kipinä, the fastest growing international preschool brandfeaturing an "Enhanced Finland" curriculum will join forces with ILA Vietnam tolaunch 10 new Kipinä preschools throughout Vietnam in the the next 3 years.
ILA Vietnam is one of the leading providers of 21st centuryEnglish Language programs in Vietnam, with over 43 centres across Vietnamemploying more than 800 teachers and delivering programs to more than 30,000students.
Kipinä already has schools in 14 countries, mainly acrossthe Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe. The Vietnam roll-out bringsKipinä's number of scheduled school openings to 42 and marks the beginning of aplanned expansion throughout India, Asean countries and China.
Kipinä's Finland university partner Häme University ofApplied Sciences will provide certified teacher training in Finnish Pedagogythrough a special program for foreign teachers that it jointly developed withKipinä.
"Finnish Early Childhood Education is not easily exportable,"says Dzu Tran, CEO of ILA. "Kipinä substantially adapted the framework to suitenvironments and teachers outside Finland. Their approach to creating extensiveresources and tools for teachers, combined with a practical approach to teachertraining delivered online through Häme, and in local workshops, means we candeliver the best approach to educating children while ensuring sustainabilityand investing in our teachers."
Kipinä Managing Director Kieran Galvin adds, "Kipinä recognisesthe difficulties inherent in opening schools in new markets. It's why we workwith experts like ILA who have more than 20 years experience in the sector."
"While a lot of preschool franchisors turn their attentionto the potentially lucrative US market, at Kipinä we prefer to work withinnovators and disrupters in countries where the benefits of good qualityeducation can make an enormous impact."
Kipinä uses an enhanced Finland approach based on theFinnish National Core Curriculum for Early Childhood Education and Care, withextra elements added to make the program more suited to internationalenvironments. These include: Focused Instruction Methodology, 21st CenturySkills and Executive Functioning skills for children.
