AdvTech: Targeting those who can pay for education
AdvTech provides education to more than 92,000 pupils, making it the most significant private education business in SA
AdvTech is an education and human resource group with a footprint across SA and in some Southern African countries. It has a schools division, which contributes about 45% to the group’s total revenue, a tertiary division (about 39%) and a resourcing division (about 16%). AdvTech is a competitor to Curro in the private school space, though through its various brands of schools it educates just over 27,000 pupils, making it about half the size of Curro. But it has two divisions that Curro does not have: the tertiary education and recruitment businesses. Brands, or schools, owned by AdvTech include Crawford Schools, which has 20 campuses in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal; Trinity House, with 13 campuses in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal; Centurus Colleges, with nine campuses in Gauteng and North West; Maragon Schools, with nine campuses in Gauteng; and Junior Colleges, with seven campuses in Gauteng. There are a few more, but the ones listed here have the largest footprint of the various brands....
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