Regent Group
Regent Group is a private sector organisation which specialises in the provision of technology enabled education services.
Regent Group, which has a staff of 200 team members, was founded in 2000 as a small education provider. After twenty years of growth and diversification it has a sizable higher education operation, Regent College London, with locations across London. Partnering with awarding body Pearson and several well-respected universities, the College offers courses ranging from RQF Level 3 to Level 7 to circa 3,000 students. The Group also retains its small sixth form provision, Regent Independent College, located in north-west London. Regent Group values the role that technology can play in educational delivery and has developed a platform, Regent Digital, to facilitate its new approach for delivery by live, blended and digital formats. Additionally, Regent Group has recently grown to include Regent Investment Management, a property management company.
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Dr Selva Pankaj
CEO
Regent GroupDr Selva Pankaj is an educator, knowing vs. doing gap researcher and an educational leader. He co-founded Regent with his life and business partner Tharshiny Pankaj in the year 2000, by providing private tuition for £20. He started his life in the UK at the age of 19, growing up in war-torn Sri Lanka and coming to the UK with just £100 given to him by his father in 1990.
He qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant and then achieved his MBA, when he was with Prudential Financial, Inc. which he joined in 1994 and where he worked for a decade. He spent the next five years in the real estate investment management sector and worked for Schroder, Grosvenor and Fortress Investment Group until 2008. In 2009 he became the CEO of Regent Group. Regent Group is a global technology-enabled education, real estate investment and management organisation, and is celebrating 20 years of valuable service to its consumers.
He had the great fortune to be the student of the late Professor Clayton Christensen at Harvard Business School in 2015, which changed his life completely in the quest to understand the meaning of natural laws, compared to manmade laws. He is spearheading Regent College London’s rapid and ground breaking transformative evolution into a New British University with the mission of creating a society with a growth mind-set and a belief that the end result of education is character and is championing the life-long learning habit. The entire project is indeed a paradigm shift.
