C K Menon (centre) announcing the plans for a new campus of the Bhavan’s Public School
Indian expatriate educational institution Bhavan’s Public School (BhPS), presently operating in Al Wakrah will launch a new campus in Doha’s Matar Qadeem in the first week of April. Chairman C K Menon said the new campus is being launched due to the “remarkable response and patronage” the school received from the expatriate communities in Qatar.
The school, started with about 60 children in April 2009, has close to 900 students now and has more than 150 in the waiting list, Menon said yesterday.
“It has been possible only because of the patronage extended to the school by the residents of Qatar.”
The decision to start the new campus in Mattar Qadeem was taken as the area would be convenient and accessible to a large section of people in and around Doha, Menon said. “We hope to reach more communities now,” he added.
The new campus, located at Building No16 on Street 45 in Mattar Qadeem, will have classes from one to eight. However when the academic session starts on April 4 there will only be classes seven and eight.
The present school complex in Wakrah will accommodate only kindergarten children.
Menon said the BhPS has the necessary approvals from the Supreme Education Council (SEC) to conduct classes from KG to Higher Secondary.
BhPS, owned and managed by Al Misnad Education Centre under the patronage of Ali Nasser Abdulla a-Misnad is in a tie-up with the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, a well-known educational consortium which runs hundreds of schools across India and abroad.
Yesterday’s meeting was also attended by school governing council members J K Menon, R O Abdul Khader, P N Baburajan and Principal G Manulal.