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Preschool education pioneer
Lina Ashar is the Mumbai-based founder-director of Kangaroo Kids Education Pvt. Ltd (KKEL), Mumbai. Educated in Africa, UK and Australia and an education alumna of Victoria College, Melbourne, Ashar began her career as a secondary school teacher in Australia in 1987. Four years later she relocated to India to promote KKEL.
Starting with one preschool in Bandra, Mumbai with a first batch of 13 children, Ashar has engineered the growth of KKEL across 24 cities in India, Dubai and the Maldives. Today the company provides its services to 55 Kangaroo Kids preschools and 18 Billabong High International schools run on the franchise model. KKEL has recruited, trained and nurtured a team of over 65 skilled and experienced educationists who design, develop and deliver curricula based on contemporary education research and pedagogies — apart from dispensing continuous in-service teacher training to its 73 franchised schools.
Over the past 18 years since she started her first preschool in Mumbai, Ashar has refined and enriched her education philosophy and pedagogies, which have beneficially impacted the neglected area of preschool education in particular, raising standards countrywide.
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