UCMAS expanding into School Education After Massive Franchise Expansion Across India

UCMAS Global Education Group is holding talks with state governments in India to introduce the abacus programme in the local school curriculum to enhance mathematical skills among children.

Dr Dino Wong Hoon Wan, founder President of UCMAS, said the company had submitted proposals to two state authorities, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, to promote the abacus programme.

"As a pilot project, we will introduce it in Gujarat, once the government there approves our proposal.We are also in talks with the Tamil Nadu education department.

"Our moderators will train the teachers in these schools.

"The cost will be borne by the states, while teaching materials and training will be undertaken by us. This will help poor children who cannot afford to attend private classes," Wong told Bernama.

He was in Chennai recently to attend the 10th All India UCMAS Abacus Mental Arithmetic Competition-2010, organised by UCMAS India franchisee.

The Kuala Lumpur-based company, which pioneered the Abacus programme and promoted it globally, has about 250,000 students currently mastering the mental arithmetic technique in 3,000 private centres across India.

Malaysia's Consul-General in Chennai, Anuar Kasman, who presented prizes to the competition winners, said the event would provide a platform for children to use their mental skills in calculating arithmetic systematically.

"The continuous efforts of UCMAS will discover genius' and smarter children. It will also create talent for the new generation in arithmetic calculation skills, using their imaginative power," he added.

The company is also in talks with authorities in Botswana, Bahrain, Egypt, and Sudan to introduce the abacus, an ancient art of mental mathematics which originated in China,at the school level.

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Source:P. Vijian/Bernama/CHENNAI, July 26

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