Bellevue Education
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Bellevue Education Group Limited is an education management company established in 2003,[1] which owns eleven independent schools in the UK and two Swiss boarding schools.[2] [3]
Through the Bellevue Place Education Trust, set up in partnership with Place Group, Bellevue Education also runs, or has been pre-approved to run, a number of UK state-funded academies, under the Free School programme.[4] [5]
35% of Bellevue Education is owned by its Chief Executive, and founder, Mark Malley, and the other major shareholder is Plato One Ltd, a Hong Kong listed company controlled by Bellevue's chairman Marwan Naja, an entrepreneur and investor focusing on the education sector.[6] [7] [8]
Company history
Bellevue Education Group Limited was founded under the name House Education by Mark Malley in 2003, when he took over the Norfolk House preparatory school in London.[1] [9]
In 2008 House Education was renamed The Really Great Education Company Limited (EDCO) and purchased Weston Green School in Surrey.[1] [9] [10] It also purchased Skippers Hill Manor Preparatory School in East Sussex in 2010.[9]
The company adopted the name Bellevue Education in 2011, prior to acquiring three more independent schools: Edenhurst Prep School in Staffordshire, Brabyns Preparatory School in Cheshire, and Gateway School in Buckinghamshire.[1] [9]
Bellevue acquired its two international Swiss boarding schools in 2012,[9] and its sixth UK independent school, Wandsworth Preparatory School.[9]
During 2013, Bellevue acquired two more UK independent schools: Montessori House Nursery in Muswell Hill and Elmhurst School in South Croydon.[9] In the same year they formed Bellevue Place Education Trust, in partnership with Place Group, and opened their first state-funded free school, Rutherford House in Balham.[11]
Bellevue acquired two more UK independent schools in 2014, making a total of 11: Forest Preparatory School in Altrincham and Forest Park Preparatory School in Sale, Cheshire.[9] [12] Through the Bellevue Place Education Trust it also opened two more free schools, Braywick Court School in Maidenhead and Whitehall Park School in Islington, and obtained Government "pre-approval" to open three more free schools in 2015 and 2016.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "BELLEVUE EDUCATION GROUP LIMITED". http://www.dellam.com/04924426-BELLEVUE%20EDUCATION%20GROUP%20LIMITED.html. Retrieved on 9 November 2014.
- ↑ "Our UK Independent Schools". Bellevue Education. http://www.blvue.com/uk-independent-schools/schools/. Retrieved on 9 November 2014.
- ↑ "Swiss Boarding Schools". Bellevue Education Limited. http://www.blvue.com/swiss-boarding/schools/. Retrieved on 9 November 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Academies: Schools". Bellevue Education Limited. http://www.blvue.com/academies/schools/. Retrieved on 9 November 2014.
- ↑ "Place Group gains first Free School approval as part of a proposer group". Place Group. http://www.place-group.com/news121.html. Retrieved on 9 November 2014.
- ↑ "Bellevue Education continues empire building". Education Investor Website (Education Investor). 22 Oct 2012. http://www.educationinvestor.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=3012. Retrieved on 9 November 2014.
- ↑ "BELLEVUE EDUCATION GROUP LIMITED - Annual Accounts". Bellevue Education Group Limited. https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/documentextract/56750437. Retrieved on 9 November 2014.
- ↑ "Marwan Naja". https://www.nchum.org/marwan-naja. Retrieved on 9 November 2014.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 "About Us: Timeline". Bellevue Education Limited. http://www.blvue.com/about-us/timeline/. Retrieved on 9 November 2014.
- ↑ "EDCO". http://www.theagencyforeducation.co.uk/work.php?item=edco&sub=2. Retrieved on 9 November 2014.
- ↑ "About Us". http://www.rutherfordhouseschool.co.uk/aboutus.php?rt3k=. Retrieved on 9 November 2014.
- ↑ "Bellevue buys two schools in Cheshire". Education Investor. 27 Feb 2014. http://www.educationinvestor.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=3756. Retrieved on 9 November 2014.