Nairobi is set to benefit from a unique partnership between a major real-estate development and a leading innovator in education to create a better Nairobi and a better Kenya.
Nova Academies, a growing network of affordable, world class schools that is changing education across Kenya, is launching its first all-girls 8-4-4 boarding high school at Tatu City, the satellite city development near Nairobi, in January.
Nova’s Tatu campus will become the company’s regional flagship campus for East Africa. By 2019, Nova Academies Tatu City will house a set of schools from pre-primary through secondary, including two single-gender boarding high schools. Nova’s boy’s school, which is currently located in Kikuyu, will move to Tatu in 2018.
“We are delighted with this site for our flagship campus which will serve as a beacon for educational excellence in the region,” said Chris Khaemba – former Principal of Alliance who is now director at Nova Academies. “Tatu City enables us to reach thousands more students in a world-class learning environment to develop future innovators and leaders.”
A leading Vision 2030 project, Tatu City – which is located on 2,500 acres of rolling green landscape within minutes of the Thika Superhighway and the junction of the Northern and Eastern Bypasses — is central Nairobi’s first mixed-use, mixed-income satellite city and will ultimately cater to 100,000 residents and house offices for top local and multinational companies.
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Nova Academies currently operates five schools across South Africa and Kenya, and which has larger ambitions for the rest of the continent, will be Tatu City’s first education provider.
Nova Academies’ first school in Kenya was launched in January of 2016.
“Providing an education platform for future residents is vital to the growth of Tatu City,” said Nick Langford, Kenya Country Head for Rendeavour, Tatu City’s majority owner. “It is clear that Nova’s leadership team has decades of experience working with some of the leading educational institutions and companies both in Africa and around the world, creating a perfect fit with the ethos of Tatu City.”
“The results will be that Nova students develop into leaders and innovators who are prepared to take on the world,” says Chinezi Chijioke – Nova Academies CEO, a graduate of Harvard and Stanford who most recently served as Head of McKinsey & Company’s African Education Practice. “Our learning approach prepares students to be globally competitive innovators and leaders in the 21st century, and these are the students who will go on to change the continent.”
Nova has formed a partnership with innovative developer TechnoConstruct to construct the first phase of its flagship campus. TechnoConstruct uses light gauge steel manufacturing technology that is increasingly used in major developments in the United States and UK and enables Nova to achieve global standards at reasonable cost in short time.