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                                            EduTrack
Research4India                    Fortnightly update on Education Industry



         In The Spotlight                                                         Contents

Government ties up with Pearson in school
education
                                                                    News of the fortnight                       1
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
and the Pearson Foundation will set up a centre for
                                                                    Investment Activity                         2
assessment, evaluation and research, marking the
first concrete move by the Indian government
towards fostering public-private partnership (PPP) in               News and Policy Update                      3
the space and aimed at reforming the higher-
secondary segment. How the venture fares will help
                                                                    Corporate Update                            5
set the country’s PPP education agenda during the
12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17).
                                                                    Stock Market Update                         9
The central government has been trying to set up
2,500 model schools with private participation for the
last two years. The centre will develop research and                Peer Benchmarking                           9
assessment capabilities and resources for CBSE, its
network of 13,000 schools and tens of thousands of
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teachers. It will focus on international best practices
in school-based assessment, teaching techniques and
high-stake examinations.

The    government      has    been    seeking   private
participation in education to improve access and
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Investment Activity

        Recent PE Deals in 2012
                                                      Stake   Amount
Date         Investor(s)         Target                                    Business             Stage
                                                      (%)     ($Mn)
             SBI Holdings        Liqvid eLearning
1-Aug-12                                               NA       3.0        E-Learning            Early
             (Japan)             Services Pvt Ltd

                                                                           Educational
1-Aug-12     Imagine K12         BrainNook             NA       NA                               Early
                                                                           Game Portal

             Accel Partners &    Mind Edutainment
13-Aug-12                                              NA       0.5        Edutainment           Early
             Others              Pvt Ltd

             IndoUS Venture                                                Online Skill
13-Aug-12                        Mettl                 NA       4.0                              Early
             Partners & Others                                             Assessment

                                                                           Digital Learning
16-Aug-12    Seedfund            LurnQ                 NA       NA                               Early
                                                                           Solutions




        Recent Mergers & Acquisitions in 2012
                                                      Stake      Amount
Date        Acquirer             Target                                          Target's Business
                                                       (%)        ($Mn)

            Ma Foi Strategic                                                     Vocational/Skills
26-Jul-12                        Axis-V               51%             NA
            Consultants                                                          Development

26-Jul-12   HCL Infosystems      Edurix               100%            NA         Content development
            Birla Shloka         Ojus Healthcare                                 e-Governance &
1-Aug-12                                              51%             NA
            Edutech Ltd          Pvt Ltd                                         healthcare solutions




        Year-to-Date PE and M&A Deals in 2011 and 2012




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 News and Policy Update

Higher education poised for huge growth:                world university ranking or the Academic
E&Y                                                     Ranking of World Universities of Shanghai Jiao
In the next eight years, around 500mn of the            Tong University. Foreign institutions would have
                                                        to ensure that courses offered by them are in
population will be under the age of 20. This will
                                                        conformity with the standards set by Indian
throw open huge scope for the higher education
                                                        regulatory bodies. Indian partners of foreign
market to flourish, according to a latest report
                                                        educational institutions are mandated to have
by Ernst & Young (E&Y). The number of
                                                        accreditation by National Assessment and
institutes offering higher education in India is
                                                        Accreditation Council with an A or an equivalent
44,668. Of that, 33,668 offer various degrees
and the rest offer diplomas. The total number of        grade. Indian collaborators would require at
                                                        least five years experience of offering education
institutes in China is 4,192, while in the US, the
number is 6,500. The growth has not witnessed           at post-graduate level. However, Indian
                                                        educational institutions run by Centre, state or
any abetment so far as the number of institutes
is concerned. Says the E&Y report, the numbers          Union Territory administration would be free
                                                        from mandatory accreditation and experience.
of colleges, institutions awarding diploma and
institutes awarding degree stood at 23,264,             UGC    proposes regional          centres    for
6,500 and 408, respectively, during 2007-08.            education management
In the previous financial year, the numbers
                                                        The    University    Grants    Commission    has
were 33,023, 11,000 and 645, respectively. So,          proposed     regional    centres  of  education
in the last four years, the number of
                                                        management in prestigious IIMs to strengthen
educational institutions grew almost 50%. The           and improve teachers' education and develop
number of students pursuing higher education
                                                        specialised cadre of academy of teaching and
is also on the rise. In 2007-08, 13.6mn                 teacher educators. It has suggested the
students enrolled themselves in regular
                                                        regional centres of education management in
courses, while the number of students in                IIMs at Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Bangalore and
various distance learning courses stood at
                                                        National University of Educational Planning and
3.6mn. The numbers swelled to 20mn and
                                                        Administration, the Consultative Committee of
4.2mn, respectively, for 2011-12. Though
                                                        Parliament on HRD was informed. To develop
comparatively lower than developed countries,
                                                        specialised cadre of academy of teachers, the
India’s gross enrolment ratio (GER) has been
                                                        panel was also informed that UGC has proposed
witnessing a rise. In the previous fiscal, it was
                                                        a centre of excellence in science and
17. In the US, GER stands at around 75-80.              mathematics in centres such as Indian Institute
UGC lists norms for tie-ups with foreign                of Science and Tata Institute of Fundamental
varsities                                               Research. Towards this end, the Ministry has
                                                        set up a committee of Central Advisory Board of
With the foreign educational providers Bill put
                                                        Education (CABE) on national mission on
on hold, University Grants Commission (UGC)
has finalized regulations through which foreign         teachers and teaching under the chairmanship
                                                        of Minister of State for HRD D Purandeswari.
institutions would be able to come to India in
collaboration, partnership or in twinning               India backs out of global education test for
arrangement with local educational institutions.        15-year-olds
The regulations, to be notified shortly, mandate
                                                        India has backed out of this year's Programme
that only those foreign institutions would be           for International Student Assessment (PISA), a
allowed who are among the top 500 institutions
                                                        global evaluation process by the Organization
in the world as per Times Higher Education's            for Economic Co-operation and Development


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(OECD)      Secretariat    that  gauges     where    commence from the first week of September
schoolchildren stand alongside their peers from      and each session would be of 20 days. An
other countries. This academic Olympics              amount of over ` 204.8mn had been approved
measures the performance of 15-year-olds in          for the project. In addition, 1,665 recently
their reading, math and science abilities.           recruited science and maths teachers have
Indians were put to test for the first time in the   already received training under the induction
last assessment in 2009. On the global stage,        programme. A 12-days training programme for
they stood second last among 73 countries,           5,784 head teachers had also been approved
only beating Kyrgyzstan on reading, math and         and a sum of ` 11.6mn would be utilised on the
science abilities. India ranked second last          project.
among the 73 countries that participated in
                                                     Talent search examination for std VIII, X
PISA, conducted to evaluate education systems
worldwide by the OECD (Organisation for              The National Talent Search Examination
Economic Co-operation and Development)               (NTSE), conducted by the National Council of
Secretariat. It is also yet unclear whether India    Education Research and Training (NCERT) for
will put itself up for the assessment in 2015. In    standard VIII, will be held for standard X as
the last assessment, Tamil Nadu and Himachal         well from this year. The examination will be
Pradesh, showpieces of India's education and         tough and will be held in two parts - Mental
development, were put through the PISA               Ability Test (MAT) and Scholastic Ability Test
evaluation and they performed miserably. The         (SAT), with a short time gap between the two.
idea was that the entire country would               Both MAT and SAT will be of 90 minutes
participate in the next round of assessment.         duration and will carry maximum 100 marks.
However, that plan was also dropped. Experts         The qualifying marks are set at 40 and the two
estimate that an Indian Class VIII student is at     tests will have 90 questions each. The results
the same level as a South Korean Class III           will help identify students for a national
student in math abilities or a Class II student      scholarship scheme. The scholarship will be
from Shanghai when it comes to reading skills.       awarded on the basis of the combined scores of
                                                     MAT and SAT.
New IIT entrance format may see students
migrating to ‘weaker’ States                         Plan panel: Indian professors better paid
                                                     than BRICS peers
The furore over the change in common
entrance exam for the elite Indian Institutes of     Indian professors are better paid than their
Technology (IITs) has died down, but concerns        counterparts in BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia,
over the format persist. There is a clause under     China and South Africa) and even in France and
which students have to score within the top 20       Germany,      according    to     the   Planning
percentile to qualify for IITs. Industry experts     Commission. The government is examining
believe that there is a need to examine if the       working conditions as it seeks to attract
different boards could be brought on par. Also       teachers, of whom there is a shortage, into
the new format may lead to other distortions,        higher education in India. The perception that
while opening new opportunities for coaching         teachers are poorly compensated in India is
institutes and hike in the fees of around 5-10%.     misplaced, according to the official. The
                                                     Planning Commission note is based on a recent
Haryana government announces special
                                                     study by the Center for International Higher
training programme for teachers
                                                     Education, Boston, and the Higher School of
In its effort to improve the quality of education    Economics, Moscow that compared academic
in the state-run schools, the Haryana                salaries across 28 countries on purchasing
government today announced a special training        power parity (PPP) terms. It said the entry level
programme for 68,000 teachers. The training          salary (in PPP terms) in India is $3,954 against
programme for the in-service teachers would          $259 in China, $433 in Russia and $1,858 in


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Brazil. However, it’s relatively low when
compared with the US ($4,950) and Canada
                                                      Corporate Update
($5,733). The study did not take into account
private   non-aided      institutions. Mid-level    TCS, HDFC partner to invest in sports
academic salaries ($6,823) are better than in       education startup
China ($758), Russia ($563), and Brazil             Tata Consultancy Services and HDFC have
($3,190), the note said.                            come together to invest in a startup that is in
Deccan Education Society offers course in           the business of sports education. More than a
American studies                                    decade ago, both of these companies entered
                                                    into equal JV Intelenet for Business Process
Deccan Education Society (DES) will be offering
                                                    Outsourcing while Susir Kumar playing a key
Diploma in American Studies from September
                                                    role. This time, Kumar and the Intelenet team
3. The course is designed with the help of
                                                    of a score of executives came up with the idea
American Centre, Mumbai after it was found
                                                    for    Kids    Out    Of   Home      (KOOH).      N
that the over 600,000 Indian students going to
                                                    Chandrasekharan, CEO of TCS and Susir Kumar
the US every year face various difficulties from
                                                    who is CEO of Serco Global Services have
communication to food habits, which affects
                                                    invested 15% each in KOOH. The venture would
their     academic  performance,     said    DES
                                                    ask schools to outsource their Sports Education.
Chairman Ajit Patwardhan. The course can
                                                    KOOH will compete with startups such as
make students overcome these challenges by
                                                    Edusports, Leapstart and Sportseed, which
facilitating their understanding of American
                                                    provide outsourced sports education for
culture.
                                                    schools. Two of the co-founders who were part
Credai sets up realty institute,          offers    of the founding team at Intelenet, Prabhu
scholarships at Ahmedabad                           Srinivasan and Ramachandra Panickar, are on
Aiming to promote excellence and bring in           the board of the new venture along with Kumar.
global standards in real estate arena,              All the co-founders will continue in their existing
developers apex body Credai has announced           roles at Serco and leave the management of
two major projects - an institute for research      the new venture to an independent team. Well-
and professional studies and educational            known cricket personality Ajit Wadekar and
scholarships for needy students pursuing higher     former Delhi cricket player Sanjeev Sharma
education. The Credai Institute of Real Estate      have joined as advisors. KOOH will draw on
Research and professional Studies will be set up    lessons from the business process outsourcing
at Ahmedabad. The Credai institute, aiming at       industry to train coaches in areas such as voice
imparting world class education and research in     accents and child psychology. The coaches will
real estate related subjects, will be functional    also undergo training at the Lausanne,
from June 2014. It and will have tie-ups and        Switzerland-based Centre for Sports Education
affiliations with top International Institutes      founded     by     the   International     Olympic
having expertise in real estate domain. Credai      Committee. Discussions with a private equity
has also announced the launch of an                 fund are at an advanced stage according to
Educational Scholarship Scheme (ESS) for            Kumar. If a deal fructifies, the fund could hold
promoting     higher   education   by    offering   15%. The 20 cofounders, including Kumar, will
scholarships to deserving students who are          hold the rest.
pursue full-time degree/post-graduate degree        IL&FS   Education         to    set    up     skill
courses in Civil Engineering or Management          development centre
Degrees related to Real Estate sector at any of     IL&FS Education and Technology Services Ltd in
the colleges or institutes recognized by the All    collaboration with the West Bengal Government
India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).       will set up a skill development centre here for
                                                    IT and ITeS courses. As part of the National


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Skill Development Corporation’s programme,          Next Education India Pvt Ltd, a digital learning
IL&FS Education, a subsidiary of IL&FS India,       technology company, will raise ` 1.5bn from
expects to train 2,000 people a year for five       private equity players by December end.
years at the proposed local centre. The skill       According to Beas Dev Ralhan, CEO, the
development centre is expected to be                company had so far invested ` 2.5bn, including
commissioned by September. IL&FS Education          ` 600mn on research and development of
also plans to set up three multi-skill training     content. It raised the money from internal
centres in the State at Howrah, Durgapur and        accruals and some debt from Kotak. It clocked
Siliguri. In certain sectors, the gap between the   revenue of ` 1bn in the last financial year. The
demand and supply of skilled workers was            company has tie-ups with 4,000 schools (in
yawning. Dilip Chenoy, CEO and Managing             CBSE and ICSE streams) across the country
Director of NSDC, pointed out that the job          and claims a student user base of 800,000.
market entrants were less keen to join
infrastructure and construction-related skill       Birla Shloka Edutech acquires Ojus Health
development courses but interested in IT and        Care
ITeS courses. Nearly $ 1tn is likely to be
                                                    Birla Shloka Edutech Limited, a Yash Birla group
invested in infrastructure in the 12th Five-year
                                                    company has acquired 51.1% stake in Ojus
Plan and the industry requires 103mn skilled
                                                    Healthcare Private Ltd, thereby making it a
workers.
                                                    subsidiary of the company. Under the terms of
IT-ITeS firms     tie   up   with   educational     acquisition, the operations of Ojus will be
institutes                                          managed jointly by Birla Shloka and Ojus’s
                                                    promoters. Further, two of Birla Shloka’s
Tired of complaining about the employability of     personnel Vijay Mishra and Sunil Abraham have
graduates in the country, individual information    duly been appointed on the board of Ojus.
technology-information       technology-enabled     Established in 2001, Ojus Healthcare provides
services (IT-ITeS) firms are now tying up with      innovative IT solutions in e-governance and
educational institutes to be able to hire more      health care solutions. Birla Shloka was
employable graduates. In the bargain, there will    established in 1992 by Shyamsunder Rathi and
be not only faculty development and creation of     in 1998, the Yash Birla Group acquired the
desired curriculum, but also real-time work         controlling stake in the company. It is engaged
experience for students, all at campus level.       in providing IT and IT enabled solutions to
Recently, Genpact signed an agreement with          schools and institutions under the Information &
the Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur         Communication Technology (ICT) projects. This
(IIM-U), to create a “knowledge partnership”.       includes setup of computer labs, Digital
Under the seven-year agreement, IIM-U and           classroom solutions and Audio Visual solutions.
Genpact will jointly develop a centre for asset-
based lending and finance and an analytics          Accel   Partners        invests       in   Mind
laboratory which will give students the             Edutainment
opportunity to solve real-time problems, work
                                                    Mind Edutainment Private Limited has raised `
on proprietary and industry software tools and
                                                    27mn from Accel Partners and group of angels
technology, as well as get hands-on industry
                                                    led by Meena Ganesh - CEO & MD Pearson
experience.    Genpact    will   offer   summer
                                                    Education. The funds raised will be used to
internships to full-time students and set up a
                                                    scale the initial pilot project of THOTS Lab from
merit-based scholarship. HCL Technologies, last
                                                    3 cities to 8 cities and to integrate ICT in
year, entered into a unique tie-up with the
                                                    delivery process to create an ideal mix of ICT
Madras University.
                                                    and Experiential Learning. Earlier, the company
Next Education to raise ` 1.5bn by year-            had received funding from the Department of
end                                                 Science and Technology and individual angel


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investors. Founded in 2007 by Sangeeta             education startups. Imagine K12 Incubates the
Khurana    and    Ashutosh    Khurana,    Mind     edu-startup from early stage to the point of
Edutainment develops and provides solutions to     being a company investable by seed investors
improve social and emotional thinking skills       or traditional venture capitalists. The possible
among school-going children. The company has       funding is in between $14,000 - $20,000
developed 'Higher Order Thinking Skills'           depending upon the team size, against 4-8%
program with the use of physical Thinking Tools    stake in the company.
and Mind Games. The program created has
been adopted by 40 plus schools and 50,000         Mettl raises Series A funding from IndoUS
plus students of UKG to Grade VIII as a            Venture Partners, existing investors
complete    subject     on    thinking    skills
                                                   An online skill assessment platform Mettl, has
development. Mind Edutainment plans to install
                                                   obtained $ 4mn in funding in its Series A round
THOTS     Lab    across    Delhi,    Dehradun,
                                                   led by IndoUS Venture Partners and its existing
Chandigarh, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai,
                                                   investors. The startup had earlier raised angel
Kochi & Pune.
                                                   rounds from Blume Ventures and other
SBI Holdings Invests In eLearning Content          individual      investors    including      Sasha
Provider - LIQVID                                  Mirchandani, Puranjaya Singh, Sunil Sharma
                                                   and Naveen Tewari. Founded in 2010 by Ketan
LIQVID, an integrated eLearning content            Kapoor and Tonmoy Singhal, both IIT - IIM
solutions company specializing in English          alumni, Mettl is an assessment platform to
Language Training, has raised $ 3mn funding        measure, analyse and improve professional
from SBI Ven Capital, a subsidiary of SBI          skills   across     multiple   industries.    The
Holdings, Japan. The company plans deeper          assessment platform is primarily used for
penetration into the school market with its        screening pre-hires for recruitments and for
'EnglishEdge Portable Language Lab' and to         employees for competency tracking/ training
expand its offerings in the college segment with   across aptitude, personality and technical
a comprehensive solution that caters to the        aspects. In addition, job portals, education
growing    demand      for   English   Language    companies,             large           publishers,
Enhancement, Business Communication skills         colleges/institutions      and       training/skill
and Personality development. LIQVID is focused     improvement companies are also using Mettl for
on providing technology-aided English Learning     their business needs.
& Training (ELT) solutions to individuals and
organizations under the EnglishEdge brand          Seedfund Invests         In   Digital   Learning
name. The solutions are offered on PCs, Tablets    Platform LurnQ
and Mobiles.
                                                   LurnQ, a digital learning platform run by
Imagine K12 invests in BrainNook                   Mumbai-based Technium Labs Pvt Ltd, has
                                                   raised an initial round of funding from
Educational games portal, BrainNook has            Seedfund, as reported by Techcircle. The report
secured seed funding from Imagine K12.             claims that the funds raised will be utilised to
Founded by Abhijeet Vijayakar, BrainNook is        develop more digital content, and to hire
online educational games based on important        people. Technium, that runs LurnQ, was
concept in the critical foundational subjects of   founded in 2011 by Tarun Mitra, Rajshekhar
Math and English Grammar. The startup started      Ratrey, Ramesh Nidadavolu and Devvrat Arya.
off with a focus on India, but is now solely       LurnQ is a digital learning platform where users
focused on US market. BrainNook partnered          can post collection of articles/videos to create a
education-focused social networking platforms      lesson. Other LurnQ users can follow the posts
like Edmodo to sell its products in US. Imagine    and comment on the topics.
K12 is a Silicon Valley incubator focusing on


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HCL My EduTab Wins ‘Best Tablet
Providers in Education’ Award at the World
Education Awards 2012

HCL Learning, the education & learning division
of HCL Infosystems Ltd., India’s premier
hardware, services and ICT Systems Integration
and Distribution Company, bagged the Public
Choice Award for the ‘Best Tablet Providers in
Education’ for My EduTab at the World
Education Awards 2012, held recently as part of
the World Education Summit in New Delhi.
HCL’s My EduTab received the maximum votes
from the people and emerged as the winner
amongst competition by a huge margin of
public votes. HCL Learning continued its
winning spree by bagging its fifth award since
December 2011. The HCL My EduTab comes in
two versions: K12 and HE (Higher Education).
My EduTab– K12 version enables students,
teachers & parents to connect, collaborate and
share information as well as content over the
Cloud. My EduTab - Higher Education (HE)
Version is an edutainment platform which
brings together world class rich multimedia
content on technical and professional skills,
assessments and Apps.

Innovation in education gets            EzVidya
mBillionth South Asia Award

Chennai-based education research and service
provider EzVidya bagged the mBillionth South
Asia Award for their attempts to bridge the
digital divide in the country. The organisation
received the juror's distinction under the m-
education and learning category for its 'BridgeIT
India' project from among 60 nominations.
EzVidya representatives were given the award
for their innovations in reaching out to
government schools to share improved teaching
methodologies using mobile phones. Preloaded
content on phones were attached to televisions
in 89 rural and urban government schools.




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   Stock Market Update

   Share Price Performance

     As on 17th Aug 2012            Market Cap                Price                                    Percentage Price Change
                                      (`mn)                   (In `)            1 Week               1M           3M         6M                      12M
     Core Education                  33,288                    294                0.8%              1.6%        -0.6%       5.7%                    -1.3%
     Educomp                         22,958                    159               -1.7%             -5.5%         0.0%      -31.7%                  -38.1%
     Navneet                         12,876                     54               -1.4%             -5.8%         2.1%       -6.2%                  -12.8%
     Tree House                        8,570                   254                5.5%            16.9%        27.2%        16.8%                      -
     Zee Learn                         6,713                    26               -6.4%             -1.9%       33.4%        70.9%                  35.9%
     NIIT Ltd                          5,704                    35               -3.0%            -16.0%       -14.5%      -28.7%                  -27.3%
     Everonn                           3,593                   164               -0.8%            -13.6%       -21.4%      -47.6%                  -66.7%
     Aptech                            3,569                    73                5.4%             -1.4%         2.3%      -20.8%                  -45.1%
     MT Educare                        3,310                    84               -3.9%             -7.0%       -10.8%          -                       -
     Career Point                      2,678                   148                1.2%             -7.4%        -6.1%      -37.6%                  -47.5%
     Compucom                           866                     11               -0.5%             -2.2%         6.3%          -                       -
     Edserv                             503                     19               -2.8%             -4.3%       16.5%       -53.9%                  -82.1%
     Jetking                            250                     42               -2.0%             -9.7%         0.5%      -27.5%                  -39.3%



   Financial Benchmarking


   Quarterly Results – Q1 FY ’13, ending 30th June, 2012

                                                                          Revenues                             EBITDA                                 PAT
Figures in Rs mn    Year Ending     Fiscal year   Quarter
                                                              Current     Last Year   % growth    Current     Last Year   % growth    Current     Last Year   % growth
Educomp                March         2012-13        Q1         3,253        2,924        11%        707         1,054       -33%         49          366        -87%
NIIT Ltd               March         2012-13        Q1         1,999        3,148       -36%        114          307        -63%        115          131        -12%
Core Education         March         2012-13        Q1         4,826        3,255        48%       1,901        1,240        53%        785          662         19%
Navneet                March         2012-13        Q1         3,587        3,030        18%       1,140         959         19%        718          611         18%
Everonn                March         2012-13        Q1          671          669         0%        -105          343         NA        -229          110         NA
Aptech                 March         2012-13        Q1          386          464        -17%         28           46        -39%         38          537        -93%
Edserv                 March         2012-13        Q1          121          267        -55%         35          118        -70%         1           73          NA
Career Point           March         2012-13        Q1          158          158         0%          23           29        -22%         31          33          -6%
Compucom               March         2012-13        Q1          179          183         -2%        100          112        -10%         25          44         -43%
Zee Learn              March         2012-13        Q1          233          154         52%        -16           -4         NA         -34           -8         NA
Tree House             March         2012-13        Q1          275          163         69%        158           94         67%         80          52          54%
Jetking                March         2012-13        Q1           88           82         7%          7            16        -59%         4           10         -63%
MT Educare             March         2012-13        Q1          362                                  43                                  25


                                                                                                                                                  Figures in Rs.`mn
   Trailing Twelve Months (TTM)


                                                  Revenues                              EBITDA                                PAT                  % EBITDA     % PAT
 Figures in Rs mn     TTM Quarter
                                       TTM Y0       TTM Y-1    % growth     TTM Y0      TTM Y-1    % growth     TTM Y0      TTM Y-1    % growth     margin      margin
 Educomp                Q1 FY13        15,242        14,154        8%        3,737       5,813       -36%        1,017       3,440       -70%        25%         7%
 NIIT Ltd               Q1 FY13        12,883        12,743        1%        1,282       1,613       -21%        1,086        923        18%         10%         8%
 Core Education         Q1 FY13        17,950        11,967      50%         6,878       4,487       53%         3,355       2,479       35%         38%         19%
 Navneet                Q1 FY13         6,719        5,641       19%         1,529       1,387       10%          911         849         7%         23%         14%
 Everonn                Q1 FY13         3,041        3,239        -6%         237        1,660       -86%        -504         767         NA          8%          -
 Aptech                 Q1 FY13         1,666        1,920       -13%         223         204          9%         259         938        -72%        13%         16%
 Edserv                 Q1 FY13          711         1,274       -44%        -176         548         NA         -137         395         NA           -          -
 Career Point           Q1 FY13          796          786          1%         285         298         -4%         318         274        16%         36%         40%
 Compucom               Q1 FY13          696          767         -9%         392         429         -9%          92         133        -31%        56%         13%
 Zee Learn              Q4 FY12          687          427        61%         -222          25         NA         -301          19         NA           -          -
 Tree House             Q4 FY11          885          392        125%         484         169        186%         245          92        166%        55%         28%
 Jetking                Q1 FY13          338          371         -9%          40          91        -56%          16          58        -73%        12%         5%
 MT Educare             Q4 FY12         1,272        1,051       21%          231         187        24%          128          80        61%         18%         10%
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Four s fortnightly education track 6th august - 20th august 20123

  • 1. 6 A U G ’ 1 2 – 2 0 A U G ’ 1 2 EduTrack Research4India Fortnightly update on Education Industry In The Spotlight Contents Government ties up with Pearson in school education News of the fortnight 1 The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the Pearson Foundation will set up a centre for Investment Activity 2 assessment, evaluation and research, marking the first concrete move by the Indian government towards fostering public-private partnership (PPP) in News and Policy Update 3 the space and aimed at reforming the higher- secondary segment. How the venture fares will help Corporate Update 5 set the country’s PPP education agenda during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17). Stock Market Update 9 The central government has been trying to set up 2,500 model schools with private participation for the last two years. The centre will develop research and Peer Benchmarking 9 assessment capabilities and resources for CBSE, its network of 13,000 schools and tens of thousands of About Four-S Services 10 teachers. It will focus on international best practices in school-based assessment, teaching techniques and high-stake examinations. The government has been seeking private participation in education to improve access and About Research4India quality. Currently, only 20% of India’s schools are run by private entities. While CBSE will provide, among Research4India is the research other things, physical infrastructure, Pearson will take services arm of Four-S Services Pvt care of operational expenditure, including the salaries Ltd. Here we provide regular research in the initial two-year phase. The details about the reports on key sectors of the Indian amount to be invested were not revealed by the economy, and large unlisted either side. companies in these sectors. These reports will be available on our upcoming site www.research4india.com, as well as from leading international research sellers like Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, Research and Markets, CapitalIQ etc. Research4India is the research services arm of Four-S Services Pvt Ltd, a leading provider of high-end research, financial consulting and Investment banking services. For subscription / custom queries, please contact Seema Shukla at seema@four-s.com
  • 2. EduTrack Investment Activity Recent PE Deals in 2012 Stake Amount Date Investor(s) Target Business Stage (%) ($Mn) SBI Holdings Liqvid eLearning 1-Aug-12 NA 3.0 E-Learning Early (Japan) Services Pvt Ltd Educational 1-Aug-12 Imagine K12 BrainNook NA NA Early Game Portal Accel Partners & Mind Edutainment 13-Aug-12 NA 0.5 Edutainment Early Others Pvt Ltd IndoUS Venture Online Skill 13-Aug-12 Mettl NA 4.0 Early Partners & Others Assessment Digital Learning 16-Aug-12 Seedfund LurnQ NA NA Early Solutions Recent Mergers & Acquisitions in 2012 Stake Amount Date Acquirer Target Target's Business (%) ($Mn) Ma Foi Strategic Vocational/Skills 26-Jul-12 Axis-V 51% NA Consultants Development 26-Jul-12 HCL Infosystems Edurix 100% NA Content development Birla Shloka Ojus Healthcare e-Governance & 1-Aug-12 51% NA Edutech Ltd Pvt Ltd healthcare solutions Year-to-Date PE and M&A Deals in 2011 and 2012 Research4India 2
  • 3. EduTrack News and Policy Update Higher education poised for huge growth: world university ranking or the Academic E&Y Ranking of World Universities of Shanghai Jiao In the next eight years, around 500mn of the Tong University. Foreign institutions would have to ensure that courses offered by them are in population will be under the age of 20. This will conformity with the standards set by Indian throw open huge scope for the higher education regulatory bodies. Indian partners of foreign market to flourish, according to a latest report educational institutions are mandated to have by Ernst & Young (E&Y). The number of accreditation by National Assessment and institutes offering higher education in India is Accreditation Council with an A or an equivalent 44,668. Of that, 33,668 offer various degrees and the rest offer diplomas. The total number of grade. Indian collaborators would require at least five years experience of offering education institutes in China is 4,192, while in the US, the number is 6,500. The growth has not witnessed at post-graduate level. However, Indian educational institutions run by Centre, state or any abetment so far as the number of institutes is concerned. Says the E&Y report, the numbers Union Territory administration would be free from mandatory accreditation and experience. of colleges, institutions awarding diploma and institutes awarding degree stood at 23,264, UGC proposes regional centres for 6,500 and 408, respectively, during 2007-08. education management In the previous financial year, the numbers The University Grants Commission has were 33,023, 11,000 and 645, respectively. So, proposed regional centres of education in the last four years, the number of management in prestigious IIMs to strengthen educational institutions grew almost 50%. The and improve teachers' education and develop number of students pursuing higher education specialised cadre of academy of teaching and is also on the rise. In 2007-08, 13.6mn teacher educators. It has suggested the students enrolled themselves in regular regional centres of education management in courses, while the number of students in IIMs at Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Bangalore and various distance learning courses stood at National University of Educational Planning and 3.6mn. The numbers swelled to 20mn and Administration, the Consultative Committee of 4.2mn, respectively, for 2011-12. Though Parliament on HRD was informed. To develop comparatively lower than developed countries, specialised cadre of academy of teachers, the India’s gross enrolment ratio (GER) has been panel was also informed that UGC has proposed witnessing a rise. In the previous fiscal, it was a centre of excellence in science and 17. In the US, GER stands at around 75-80. mathematics in centres such as Indian Institute UGC lists norms for tie-ups with foreign of Science and Tata Institute of Fundamental varsities Research. Towards this end, the Ministry has set up a committee of Central Advisory Board of With the foreign educational providers Bill put Education (CABE) on national mission on on hold, University Grants Commission (UGC) has finalized regulations through which foreign teachers and teaching under the chairmanship of Minister of State for HRD D Purandeswari. institutions would be able to come to India in collaboration, partnership or in twinning India backs out of global education test for arrangement with local educational institutions. 15-year-olds The regulations, to be notified shortly, mandate India has backed out of this year's Programme that only those foreign institutions would be for International Student Assessment (PISA), a allowed who are among the top 500 institutions global evaluation process by the Organization in the world as per Times Higher Education's for Economic Co-operation and Development Research4India 3
  • 4. EduTrack (OECD) Secretariat that gauges where commence from the first week of September schoolchildren stand alongside their peers from and each session would be of 20 days. An other countries. This academic Olympics amount of over ` 204.8mn had been approved measures the performance of 15-year-olds in for the project. In addition, 1,665 recently their reading, math and science abilities. recruited science and maths teachers have Indians were put to test for the first time in the already received training under the induction last assessment in 2009. On the global stage, programme. A 12-days training programme for they stood second last among 73 countries, 5,784 head teachers had also been approved only beating Kyrgyzstan on reading, math and and a sum of ` 11.6mn would be utilised on the science abilities. India ranked second last project. among the 73 countries that participated in Talent search examination for std VIII, X PISA, conducted to evaluate education systems worldwide by the OECD (Organisation for The National Talent Search Examination Economic Co-operation and Development) (NTSE), conducted by the National Council of Secretariat. It is also yet unclear whether India Education Research and Training (NCERT) for will put itself up for the assessment in 2015. In standard VIII, will be held for standard X as the last assessment, Tamil Nadu and Himachal well from this year. The examination will be Pradesh, showpieces of India's education and tough and will be held in two parts - Mental development, were put through the PISA Ability Test (MAT) and Scholastic Ability Test evaluation and they performed miserably. The (SAT), with a short time gap between the two. idea was that the entire country would Both MAT and SAT will be of 90 minutes participate in the next round of assessment. duration and will carry maximum 100 marks. However, that plan was also dropped. Experts The qualifying marks are set at 40 and the two estimate that an Indian Class VIII student is at tests will have 90 questions each. The results the same level as a South Korean Class III will help identify students for a national student in math abilities or a Class II student scholarship scheme. The scholarship will be from Shanghai when it comes to reading skills. awarded on the basis of the combined scores of MAT and SAT. New IIT entrance format may see students migrating to ‘weaker’ States Plan panel: Indian professors better paid than BRICS peers The furore over the change in common entrance exam for the elite Indian Institutes of Indian professors are better paid than their Technology (IITs) has died down, but concerns counterparts in BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, over the format persist. There is a clause under China and South Africa) and even in France and which students have to score within the top 20 Germany, according to the Planning percentile to qualify for IITs. Industry experts Commission. The government is examining believe that there is a need to examine if the working conditions as it seeks to attract different boards could be brought on par. Also teachers, of whom there is a shortage, into the new format may lead to other distortions, higher education in India. The perception that while opening new opportunities for coaching teachers are poorly compensated in India is institutes and hike in the fees of around 5-10%. misplaced, according to the official. The Planning Commission note is based on a recent Haryana government announces special study by the Center for International Higher training programme for teachers Education, Boston, and the Higher School of In its effort to improve the quality of education Economics, Moscow that compared academic in the state-run schools, the Haryana salaries across 28 countries on purchasing government today announced a special training power parity (PPP) terms. It said the entry level programme for 68,000 teachers. The training salary (in PPP terms) in India is $3,954 against programme for the in-service teachers would $259 in China, $433 in Russia and $1,858 in Research4India 4
  • 5. EduTrack Brazil. However, it’s relatively low when compared with the US ($4,950) and Canada Corporate Update ($5,733). The study did not take into account private non-aided institutions. Mid-level TCS, HDFC partner to invest in sports academic salaries ($6,823) are better than in education startup China ($758), Russia ($563), and Brazil Tata Consultancy Services and HDFC have ($3,190), the note said. come together to invest in a startup that is in Deccan Education Society offers course in the business of sports education. More than a American studies decade ago, both of these companies entered into equal JV Intelenet for Business Process Deccan Education Society (DES) will be offering Outsourcing while Susir Kumar playing a key Diploma in American Studies from September role. This time, Kumar and the Intelenet team 3. The course is designed with the help of of a score of executives came up with the idea American Centre, Mumbai after it was found for Kids Out Of Home (KOOH). N that the over 600,000 Indian students going to Chandrasekharan, CEO of TCS and Susir Kumar the US every year face various difficulties from who is CEO of Serco Global Services have communication to food habits, which affects invested 15% each in KOOH. The venture would their academic performance, said DES ask schools to outsource their Sports Education. Chairman Ajit Patwardhan. The course can KOOH will compete with startups such as make students overcome these challenges by Edusports, Leapstart and Sportseed, which facilitating their understanding of American provide outsourced sports education for culture. schools. Two of the co-founders who were part Credai sets up realty institute, offers of the founding team at Intelenet, Prabhu scholarships at Ahmedabad Srinivasan and Ramachandra Panickar, are on Aiming to promote excellence and bring in the board of the new venture along with Kumar. global standards in real estate arena, All the co-founders will continue in their existing developers apex body Credai has announced roles at Serco and leave the management of two major projects - an institute for research the new venture to an independent team. Well- and professional studies and educational known cricket personality Ajit Wadekar and scholarships for needy students pursuing higher former Delhi cricket player Sanjeev Sharma education. The Credai Institute of Real Estate have joined as advisors. KOOH will draw on Research and professional Studies will be set up lessons from the business process outsourcing at Ahmedabad. The Credai institute, aiming at industry to train coaches in areas such as voice imparting world class education and research in accents and child psychology. The coaches will real estate related subjects, will be functional also undergo training at the Lausanne, from June 2014. It and will have tie-ups and Switzerland-based Centre for Sports Education affiliations with top International Institutes founded by the International Olympic having expertise in real estate domain. Credai Committee. Discussions with a private equity has also announced the launch of an fund are at an advanced stage according to Educational Scholarship Scheme (ESS) for Kumar. If a deal fructifies, the fund could hold promoting higher education by offering 15%. The 20 cofounders, including Kumar, will scholarships to deserving students who are hold the rest. pursue full-time degree/post-graduate degree IL&FS Education to set up skill courses in Civil Engineering or Management development centre Degrees related to Real Estate sector at any of IL&FS Education and Technology Services Ltd in the colleges or institutes recognized by the All collaboration with the West Bengal Government India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). will set up a skill development centre here for IT and ITeS courses. As part of the National Research4India 5
  • 6. EduTrack Skill Development Corporation’s programme, Next Education India Pvt Ltd, a digital learning IL&FS Education, a subsidiary of IL&FS India, technology company, will raise ` 1.5bn from expects to train 2,000 people a year for five private equity players by December end. years at the proposed local centre. The skill According to Beas Dev Ralhan, CEO, the development centre is expected to be company had so far invested ` 2.5bn, including commissioned by September. IL&FS Education ` 600mn on research and development of also plans to set up three multi-skill training content. It raised the money from internal centres in the State at Howrah, Durgapur and accruals and some debt from Kotak. It clocked Siliguri. In certain sectors, the gap between the revenue of ` 1bn in the last financial year. The demand and supply of skilled workers was company has tie-ups with 4,000 schools (in yawning. Dilip Chenoy, CEO and Managing CBSE and ICSE streams) across the country Director of NSDC, pointed out that the job and claims a student user base of 800,000. market entrants were less keen to join infrastructure and construction-related skill Birla Shloka Edutech acquires Ojus Health development courses but interested in IT and Care ITeS courses. Nearly $ 1tn is likely to be Birla Shloka Edutech Limited, a Yash Birla group invested in infrastructure in the 12th Five-year company has acquired 51.1% stake in Ojus Plan and the industry requires 103mn skilled Healthcare Private Ltd, thereby making it a workers. subsidiary of the company. Under the terms of IT-ITeS firms tie up with educational acquisition, the operations of Ojus will be institutes managed jointly by Birla Shloka and Ojus’s promoters. Further, two of Birla Shloka’s Tired of complaining about the employability of personnel Vijay Mishra and Sunil Abraham have graduates in the country, individual information duly been appointed on the board of Ojus. technology-information technology-enabled Established in 2001, Ojus Healthcare provides services (IT-ITeS) firms are now tying up with innovative IT solutions in e-governance and educational institutes to be able to hire more health care solutions. Birla Shloka was employable graduates. In the bargain, there will established in 1992 by Shyamsunder Rathi and be not only faculty development and creation of in 1998, the Yash Birla Group acquired the desired curriculum, but also real-time work controlling stake in the company. It is engaged experience for students, all at campus level. in providing IT and IT enabled solutions to Recently, Genpact signed an agreement with schools and institutions under the Information & the Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur Communication Technology (ICT) projects. This (IIM-U), to create a “knowledge partnership”. includes setup of computer labs, Digital Under the seven-year agreement, IIM-U and classroom solutions and Audio Visual solutions. Genpact will jointly develop a centre for asset- based lending and finance and an analytics Accel Partners invests in Mind laboratory which will give students the Edutainment opportunity to solve real-time problems, work Mind Edutainment Private Limited has raised ` on proprietary and industry software tools and 27mn from Accel Partners and group of angels technology, as well as get hands-on industry led by Meena Ganesh - CEO & MD Pearson experience. Genpact will offer summer Education. The funds raised will be used to internships to full-time students and set up a scale the initial pilot project of THOTS Lab from merit-based scholarship. HCL Technologies, last 3 cities to 8 cities and to integrate ICT in year, entered into a unique tie-up with the delivery process to create an ideal mix of ICT Madras University. and Experiential Learning. Earlier, the company Next Education to raise ` 1.5bn by year- had received funding from the Department of end Science and Technology and individual angel Research4India 6
  • 7. EduTrack investors. Founded in 2007 by Sangeeta education startups. Imagine K12 Incubates the Khurana and Ashutosh Khurana, Mind edu-startup from early stage to the point of Edutainment develops and provides solutions to being a company investable by seed investors improve social and emotional thinking skills or traditional venture capitalists. The possible among school-going children. The company has funding is in between $14,000 - $20,000 developed 'Higher Order Thinking Skills' depending upon the team size, against 4-8% program with the use of physical Thinking Tools stake in the company. and Mind Games. The program created has been adopted by 40 plus schools and 50,000 Mettl raises Series A funding from IndoUS plus students of UKG to Grade VIII as a Venture Partners, existing investors complete subject on thinking skills An online skill assessment platform Mettl, has development. Mind Edutainment plans to install obtained $ 4mn in funding in its Series A round THOTS Lab across Delhi, Dehradun, led by IndoUS Venture Partners and its existing Chandigarh, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, investors. The startup had earlier raised angel Kochi & Pune. rounds from Blume Ventures and other SBI Holdings Invests In eLearning Content individual investors including Sasha Provider - LIQVID Mirchandani, Puranjaya Singh, Sunil Sharma and Naveen Tewari. Founded in 2010 by Ketan LIQVID, an integrated eLearning content Kapoor and Tonmoy Singhal, both IIT - IIM solutions company specializing in English alumni, Mettl is an assessment platform to Language Training, has raised $ 3mn funding measure, analyse and improve professional from SBI Ven Capital, a subsidiary of SBI skills across multiple industries. The Holdings, Japan. The company plans deeper assessment platform is primarily used for penetration into the school market with its screening pre-hires for recruitments and for 'EnglishEdge Portable Language Lab' and to employees for competency tracking/ training expand its offerings in the college segment with across aptitude, personality and technical a comprehensive solution that caters to the aspects. In addition, job portals, education growing demand for English Language companies, large publishers, Enhancement, Business Communication skills colleges/institutions and training/skill and Personality development. LIQVID is focused improvement companies are also using Mettl for on providing technology-aided English Learning their business needs. & Training (ELT) solutions to individuals and organizations under the EnglishEdge brand Seedfund Invests In Digital Learning name. The solutions are offered on PCs, Tablets Platform LurnQ and Mobiles. LurnQ, a digital learning platform run by Imagine K12 invests in BrainNook Mumbai-based Technium Labs Pvt Ltd, has raised an initial round of funding from Educational games portal, BrainNook has Seedfund, as reported by Techcircle. The report secured seed funding from Imagine K12. claims that the funds raised will be utilised to Founded by Abhijeet Vijayakar, BrainNook is develop more digital content, and to hire online educational games based on important people. Technium, that runs LurnQ, was concept in the critical foundational subjects of founded in 2011 by Tarun Mitra, Rajshekhar Math and English Grammar. The startup started Ratrey, Ramesh Nidadavolu and Devvrat Arya. off with a focus on India, but is now solely LurnQ is a digital learning platform where users focused on US market. BrainNook partnered can post collection of articles/videos to create a education-focused social networking platforms lesson. Other LurnQ users can follow the posts like Edmodo to sell its products in US. Imagine and comment on the topics. K12 is a Silicon Valley incubator focusing on Research4India 7
  • 8. EduTrack HCL My EduTab Wins ‘Best Tablet Providers in Education’ Award at the World Education Awards 2012 HCL Learning, the education & learning division of HCL Infosystems Ltd., India’s premier hardware, services and ICT Systems Integration and Distribution Company, bagged the Public Choice Award for the ‘Best Tablet Providers in Education’ for My EduTab at the World Education Awards 2012, held recently as part of the World Education Summit in New Delhi. HCL’s My EduTab received the maximum votes from the people and emerged as the winner amongst competition by a huge margin of public votes. HCL Learning continued its winning spree by bagging its fifth award since December 2011. The HCL My EduTab comes in two versions: K12 and HE (Higher Education). My EduTab– K12 version enables students, teachers & parents to connect, collaborate and share information as well as content over the Cloud. My EduTab - Higher Education (HE) Version is an edutainment platform which brings together world class rich multimedia content on technical and professional skills, assessments and Apps. Innovation in education gets EzVidya mBillionth South Asia Award Chennai-based education research and service provider EzVidya bagged the mBillionth South Asia Award for their attempts to bridge the digital divide in the country. The organisation received the juror's distinction under the m- education and learning category for its 'BridgeIT India' project from among 60 nominations. EzVidya representatives were given the award for their innovations in reaching out to government schools to share improved teaching methodologies using mobile phones. Preloaded content on phones were attached to televisions in 89 rural and urban government schools. Research4India 8
  • 9. EduTrack Stock Market Update Share Price Performance As on 17th Aug 2012 Market Cap Price Percentage Price Change (`mn) (In `) 1 Week 1M 3M 6M 12M Core Education 33,288 294 0.8% 1.6% -0.6% 5.7% -1.3% Educomp 22,958 159 -1.7% -5.5% 0.0% -31.7% -38.1% Navneet 12,876 54 -1.4% -5.8% 2.1% -6.2% -12.8% Tree House 8,570 254 5.5% 16.9% 27.2% 16.8% - Zee Learn 6,713 26 -6.4% -1.9% 33.4% 70.9% 35.9% NIIT Ltd 5,704 35 -3.0% -16.0% -14.5% -28.7% -27.3% Everonn 3,593 164 -0.8% -13.6% -21.4% -47.6% -66.7% Aptech 3,569 73 5.4% -1.4% 2.3% -20.8% -45.1% MT Educare 3,310 84 -3.9% -7.0% -10.8% - - Career Point 2,678 148 1.2% -7.4% -6.1% -37.6% -47.5% Compucom 866 11 -0.5% -2.2% 6.3% - - Edserv 503 19 -2.8% -4.3% 16.5% -53.9% -82.1% Jetking 250 42 -2.0% -9.7% 0.5% -27.5% -39.3% Financial Benchmarking Quarterly Results – Q1 FY ’13, ending 30th June, 2012 Revenues EBITDA PAT Figures in Rs mn Year Ending Fiscal year Quarter Current Last Year % growth Current Last Year % growth Current Last Year % growth Educomp March 2012-13 Q1 3,253 2,924 11% 707 1,054 -33% 49 366 -87% NIIT Ltd March 2012-13 Q1 1,999 3,148 -36% 114 307 -63% 115 131 -12% Core Education March 2012-13 Q1 4,826 3,255 48% 1,901 1,240 53% 785 662 19% Navneet March 2012-13 Q1 3,587 3,030 18% 1,140 959 19% 718 611 18% Everonn March 2012-13 Q1 671 669 0% -105 343 NA -229 110 NA Aptech March 2012-13 Q1 386 464 -17% 28 46 -39% 38 537 -93% Edserv March 2012-13 Q1 121 267 -55% 35 118 -70% 1 73 NA Career Point March 2012-13 Q1 158 158 0% 23 29 -22% 31 33 -6% Compucom March 2012-13 Q1 179 183 -2% 100 112 -10% 25 44 -43% Zee Learn March 2012-13 Q1 233 154 52% -16 -4 NA -34 -8 NA Tree House March 2012-13 Q1 275 163 69% 158 94 67% 80 52 54% Jetking March 2012-13 Q1 88 82 7% 7 16 -59% 4 10 -63% MT Educare March 2012-13 Q1 362 43 25 Figures in Rs.`mn Trailing Twelve Months (TTM) Revenues EBITDA PAT % EBITDA % PAT Figures in Rs mn TTM Quarter TTM Y0 TTM Y-1 % growth TTM Y0 TTM Y-1 % growth TTM Y0 TTM Y-1 % growth margin margin Educomp Q1 FY13 15,242 14,154 8% 3,737 5,813 -36% 1,017 3,440 -70% 25% 7% NIIT Ltd Q1 FY13 12,883 12,743 1% 1,282 1,613 -21% 1,086 923 18% 10% 8% Core Education Q1 FY13 17,950 11,967 50% 6,878 4,487 53% 3,355 2,479 35% 38% 19% Navneet Q1 FY13 6,719 5,641 19% 1,529 1,387 10% 911 849 7% 23% 14% Everonn Q1 FY13 3,041 3,239 -6% 237 1,660 -86% -504 767 NA 8% - Aptech Q1 FY13 1,666 1,920 -13% 223 204 9% 259 938 -72% 13% 16% Edserv Q1 FY13 711 1,274 -44% -176 548 NA -137 395 NA - - Career Point Q1 FY13 796 786 1% 285 298 -4% 318 274 16% 36% 40% Compucom Q1 FY13 696 767 -9% 392 429 -9% 92 133 -31% 56% 13% Zee Learn Q4 FY12 687 427 61% -222 25 NA -301 19 NA - - Tree House Q4 FY11 885 392 125% 484 169 186% 245 92 166% 55% 28% Jetking Q1 FY13 338 371 -9% 40 91 -56% 16 58 -73% 12% 5% MT Educare Q4 FY12 1,272 1,051 21% 231 187 24% 128 80 61% 18% 10% Figures in Rs.`mn Research4India 9
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