Private tertiary education specialist Stadio Holdings’s ambitious long-term goal of enrolling 100,000 students will be driven by its distance learning offering. Stadio’s interim results, released on Monday, showed student numbers at the end of August topped 29,000 compared with about 25,000 at the end of June 2017. Distance learning courses accommodated over 24,000 students.
Stadio’s prelisting statement forecast the student number to reach 56,000 by 2026. Stadio CEO Chris van der Merwe said this could grow over the longer term to 100,000 students, of which 70% is expected to comprise distance learners. Stadio’s tertiary offering is premised on a "multiversity" concept that offers both contact and distance learning in a variety of existing and planned courses that range from fashion design to engineering, and performing arts to commerce. He stressed that the benefit of distance learning is that it does not necessarily require vast investment in infrastructure. Van der Merwe sa...
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