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school/college managements to slash Maya Menon, founder-director, The
administration expenditure and Teacher Foundation; Dr. Nirmala
boost faculty productivity to improve Krishnan, former country head of
students’ learning outcomes,” says education, Jindal Group; Nivedita
Goyal. Mukerjee, education consultant and
Future plans. With Meritto and Sajeetha, a former principal and
Collexo well-established brands in teacher trainer.
India, Goyal has drawn up plans to According to Thapar, since
expand the company’s operations introduction of LBE a decade ago,
to Malaysia, the UAE, and US. “As teacher-led pedagogy innovations in
we focus on global growth, we are RIGI and REN schools have “mul-
also developing AI-driven modules tiplied exponentially” improving
to upgrade and enhance our exist- teacher morale and students’ learn-
ing products. Moreover, we plan to ing outcomes.
propagate our recently introduced History. An alumna of Delhi Uni-
Goyal: new horizons overseas Meritto certification programmes for versity and Rani Durgavati Vish-
education professionals managing wavidyalaya, Jabalpur, Thapar began
History. An alumnus of the Tech- student recruitment and enrollment her career in 1995 as a teacher and
nological Institute of Textiles and functions,” he says. acquired 25 years of rich teaching
Sciences, Bhiwani, Goyal’s entre- Autar Nehru (Delhi) and admin experience in several
preneurial journey precedes his reputed schools including Army
corporate experience of a decade, Innovator by Public School, Kota, Bharatiya Vidya
beginning with Honeywell Technol- Bhavan, Secunderabad, St. Anne’s
ogy Solutions in 2008 followed by School, Jodhpur, and Evergreen
tenures at Edukriti Learning Solu- example Public School, Delhi after which she
tions Pvt. Ltd and Careers360 as as was appointed the regional head
promoter-director and Chief Strategy IDHI THAPAR is Vice (academics) of the North and West
Officer. President (academics) Zone of REN. In 2020, she was
According to Goyal, the educa- Nof the Bengaluru-based promoted to office of Vice President
tion sector has been slow to adopt Ryan Edunation Services Pvt. Ltd (academics).
technology. Therefore, Meritto (REN), a company that manages 16 Currently as head of academics
experienced “tough times” to educate K-12 “premium academies” of the in REN, Thapar is also in charge of
school and college managements Mumbai-based Ryan International REN’s English Language Enrichment
about the time and costs saving ad- Group of Institutions (RIGI), India’s Program, and the Math Center of
vantages of ERP (enterprise resource largest chain of proprietary K-12 Excellence, and has played a key role
programs) that automate student schools. The parent RIGI owns in launching the financial literacy
admissions, enrolment and billing. and manages 150 K-12 schools in and entrepreneurship curriculums of
“However by sponsoring and par- India and the Middle East with an Thapar: pedagogy innovation focus
ticipating in education conferences aggregate enrolment of 2.5 lakh
and seminars, the company has suc- children.
ceeded in impacting its Meritto ERP Thapar heads a team that designs
software programme upon schools education innovation initiatives for
and colleges,” he says. REN academies. A spearhead initia-
Direct talk. “Meritto not only tive is the annual Lead By Example
processes admission data but also (LBE) convention at which RIGI and
enables education institutions to REN teachers showcase pedagogy
scale their admissions and student innovations and best practices to an
engagement initiatives. Thus far, independent jury of academics.
Meritto has processed over 5 million Newspeg. The 11th edition of
admission applications. Our second LBE was convened in Bengaluru
big product is Collexo, a full-stack on February 8 and attracted 191
payments and financial cloud suite entries from RIGI and REN teach-
that facilitates all student payments ers. Of them 50 finalists presented
to education institutions. Both prod- classroom teaching innovations to
ucts complement each other enabling an independent jury comprising

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