New Eras in Living

As standards of living, and the quality of life continuously increase, so do the changing demands of consumers, parents, educational institutions, and organisations utilising the by-products of educational systems.

To maintain competitiveness and survival, all organisms, social organisms, and organisations must constantly re-invent themselves:

• This applies to businesses, colleges, universities, and children's education as well.
  
• The competitive bar gets higher daily; there are changes at every level.
  
• New-paradigms will always be a thing of the present.
  
• With every structure, whether human, natural, or man-made, the foundation is key to enduring fabric.

New Eras in Education

For over 30 years, SEGi has been rooted in providing education and training throughout Malaysia.

• SEGi has pioneered distance education, various teaching and learning formats, joining leading universities in the search for new ways of creating and delivering knowledge, advancing understanding.
  
• Researching shifts in micro and macro environmental elements is preliminary to determining future courseware requirements, and program offerings.

New Era in National Development

SEGi has been a vital source to personal, organizational, and national growth.

• SEGi programs conducted locally are based on the requirements and pathways that lead to degree programs from foreign universities, whether completed at SEGi in Malaysia, a SEGi affiliate, or the university abroad.
  
• This shift from mainstream education towards a visionary commitment to improvement has contributed greatly to help keep Malaysians competitive and current in every aspect, contributing to National Visions.

New Eras in Capital: Intellectual-property

The dynamics affecting organisational capital has shifted from businesses' focus on tangible equipment to Intellectual Property, and the management of Knowledge Resources.

• SEGi and its group members have been building Intellectual Property and proprietary educational systems to become one of the largest private educational providers in Malaysia and the region.
  
• SEGi’s links with renowned professional bodies, public and government universities, enables SEGi to conduct a consortium of licensed programs available through SEGi's strength, and earned platforms of trust to enable the transfer of intellectual property.

Through SEGi member institute, proprietary intellectual courseware for St. Nicholas Montessori Centre has been developed. The programs are to international standards, localized for cultural adaptation, and in line with the Malaysia National Preschool Curriculum.

New Era of Alliances

SEGi has invested significant resources to produce leading edge Intellectual Property -- tremendous amounts of time, effort, energy, money. SEGi has perfected alliance capabilities and core competencies for St Nicholas Montessori Centre preschools including strategic academic product differentiators; related systems; and continuous improvement mechanisms.

With proven academic systems in place, SEGi, is actively seeking to increase St. Nicholas Montessori Centre market share through alliance expansion via Joint-venture partners, to build upon, complement, and supplement our valuable core of Educational Intellectual Properties.

Through our licensee network, we plan to increase brand & concept awareness; to make our programs the highest quality; and, our affiliates the leading providers of ECE in Malaysia and the region.

We seek licensees for development & implementation, to capitalize on our proven strengths.

• for new businesses turn-key consulting is available
  
• for existing pre-schools, upgrade-conversion is simple, inexpensive
  
• area development licenses are also available

License-partners benefit by St. Nicholas Montessori Centre alliance development programmes. They are provided an opportunity to operate a business with superior products in place, minimizing risks significantly compared to going it alone; reducing startup expenses, learning curves.

Through coaching and consulting, licensees will have in hand the necessary expertise needed to run the educational centres efficiently Continuous business training, consulting, and in-house corporate support is available to licensee partners.

New Era in Early Childhood Education

St. Nicholas Montessori Centre focuses on the acquisition of basic knowledge and skills to learning. To enable every child to realise his or her full potential.

We focus on the total child and start them early to develop competencies to bridge the fundamental framework from which teachers prepare the learning environment and plan appropriate experiences.

The curriculum and adult interactions with children are responsive to individual differences. Each child is a unique person with an individual pattern and timing for growth. Experiences should match the child's developing abilities while challenging their interest and understanding.

The St. Nicholas Montessori Centre focuses on Social and Cultural Appropriateness. A child's unique personality is developed as a result of their own personal history and the experiences they have within the cultural group they belong to. Among the rules they learn are how to show respect, how to organize time and personal space, and how to interact with people. Decisions about how to care for and educate young children cannot be made without knowledge of the child's cultural and social context.

The new era in Early Childhood Education is structured to make children more confident and independent. Children take a discovery approach to and become enthusiastic about learning. Motivation and positive reinforcement are part of a personalized approach to learning.