With an initial
investment of Rs 100 cr, the 10 acre
international campus at Sarjapur
will have a student intake of about 2500. The teacher-student ratio will be as low as 1:10 and as of now the classes
are from Nursery to VII STD.
The Oakridge International School at
Bangalore will boast of facilities and infrastructure such as multi-purpose hall,
volleyball, basketball, squash courts, swimming pools, skating rink, fashion
technology lab, hi-tech air-conditioned buses, among others.
Speaking at the press conference, Mr. Shomie Das, Chairman, People Combine
Educational Initiatives, said, “Oakridge firmly believes that every child
is unique and our motto is learning the treasure within and our pool of
teachers are facilitators for the process. All our schools are child centric
and our teachers ensure that the learning is engaging, relevant, challenging
and significant in order to meet the diverse needs of the student—physical,
social, intellectual, aesthetic, cultural.”
Further to this he added, “Oakridge is
dedicated to nurturing responsive and motivated students through a dynamic,
success-oriented education program empowering students with a global and local
perspective, to demonstrate our commitment to this space Rs.200 cr is set aside as further investment during the academic year
2012-13. Oakridge is desirous to pursue an approach to learning that
becomes a lifelong habit. As a definitive step towards this pursuit, we plan to set up 50 world schools across the
country by 2015.”
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