Why timeless business practices are the best innovation for SL Education

Find out what it has impressively accomplished.

In this day and age where start-up SMEs are increasingly looking to set up shops in high growth industries such as IT, one SME has shown that thriving in mature industries is possible despite highly challenging conditions.

SL Education Centre is an education company geared towards helping young academically struggling students maximise their potential. Established in 2005, the company has already received the 2014 SME of the Year award despite having been in the industry for less than ten years.

Timeless business practices
SL Education stands out as an excellent enterprise through a well thought combination of modern technology and classic education principles an values. The company’s focus on its staff is one example of these tightly-held values. According to Susan Lim, owner of SL Education, “the success is built on people. We have qualified teachers and specialists on board to share their knowledge as well as their experience with the students.”

Any successful business will know that people are a firm’s most valuable assets. Another principle that has been a source of growth and loyalty for SL
Education is their genuine care for the well-being of their customers. Unlike other industry players who are focused on just learning the material (whether it be Science or Maths), SL Education focuses on the core of their students and not just on the lessons. “We create a fair and warm environment, and we teach them ownership and responsibility,” says Lim.

“With this open concept, kids learn to make initiatives and care for one another.”

Despite SL Education’s grounding in basic core principles, the company is likewise unafraid of newer methods. For instance, SL Education possesses the
savviness of tech companies as they build in house apps to enhance teaching. “We try to teach beyond the textbooks to make learning interesting for students so that they can go far on their own in the future.” Truly, a grounding on timeless principles paired with the creativity to utilise modern technology is a formidable combination for a solid enterprise.

Results oriented growth
Beyond the awards and recognition, the test of an educational institution’s true success is what they are able to make out of their students. And SL Education’s teaching philosophy is truly reflected in how their students grow and change.

“We have students who used to be mischievous in schools and are now studying in university, taking law or even marketing,” says Lim. What’s next for SL Education? “We hope to go into franchising after the fundamentals are done. We will take it one step at a time.”

For more information, kindly visit:
SL Education Centre
Bedok Branch 84 Bedok North St. 4
#01-19 SG 460084 or Tampines Branch
267 Tampines St. 21 #01-37 SG 520267
www.sleducation.edu.sg

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