The MindChamps Group of Companies is a global education group headquartered in

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

. It comprises MindChamps PreSchool, MindChamps Enrichment Academy, MindChamps MindSpace, and MindChamps Allied Care, with a total of more than 140 centres across Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar and soon, the US. Its

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

is based on the research of the world renowned neuroscientist Professor Emeritus

Allan Snyder Allan Whitenack Snyder (born 1942) is the director of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney, Australia where he also holds the 150th Anniversary Chair of Science and the Mind. He is a co-founder of Emotiv Systems and winner of t ...

, Fellow of the Royal Society, from the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

, and incorporates concepts from Snyder’s study of the Champion Mindset. It is the first Singapore education group to hav
attained patent status for its education methodology in 3 major territories - the US, UK and Australia
New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Dr Joseph A. Michelli has hailed MindChamps as "a global education movement."

History

MindChamps was founded in

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

in 1998 as an educational research centre in

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, by Australian David Chiem. In 2008, it opened its first preschool in Singapore. It subsequently expanded its number of schools through a mix of company-owned, company operated centres, and as well as franchising. In 2019, the company was the subject of a book ''The MindChamps Way'' by

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and Wallstreet Journal bestselling author Dr Joseph A. Michelli. In 2022, MindChamps launched ''MindChamps MindSpace'' – an Afterschool Centre and Enrichment Academy. The first MindChamps MindSpace centre opened in Bishan in January 2022. As of 2024, there are now 28 MindSpace centres across Singapore. In July 2023, MindChamps won a trademark infringement case in China over a "copycat" school in Xi’an, the capital city of Shaanxi province. In September 2023, MindChamps embarked on an extensive research program with the University of South Australia to investigate the mechanisms by which MindChamps' programmes promote children’s maths and language skills. In August 2024, MindChamps became the first Singapore education group to attain patent status for its education methodology in 3 major territories - the US, UK and Australia. In November 2024, MindChamps partnered with Western Sydney University, signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

References

{{reflist Educational organisations based in Singapore 1998 establishments in Australia Companies listed on the Singapore Exchange