A visit to the School of the Air in Alice Springs brought me to a new business idea.
The School of the Air is a primary school, the classes for children between 6 and offers 13 years in the Australian Outback. The students live mostly in remote farms, often hundreds of miles from the nearest town or from the nearest neighbors. So they get a modern education, makes the School of the Air since 1951 education by radio.
past sat the kids in the morning for several hours at the transmitter, and communicate with their teachers and classmates to share to present their homework or sometimes together to sing a little song, as in primary school children is so common. The teacher had a real radio studio in front of him, where he could combine the signals of the students. Since 2005, "broadcasts" from the School of the Air Alice Springs not by radio, but via Internet, everything else is pretty much remained the same.
far, so good, where is the business idea?
Like me one of the teachers leading the weekend visitors through the world's only school, told told, is the School of the Air more than just an emergency solution for the socially isolated outback children: In the Australian Ministry of Education regularly conducted performance reviews is the School of the Air is always in the top 10%. The kids have no chance, not to do their homework, for 5-10 minutes every afternoon there private tuition for everyone!
Earlier, as everything was still on the amateur radio could hear because everyone - everyone who was staying in Australia's red-hot, "Red Center" and had nothing better to do. But has started since the Internet age in Alice Springs, provides the encoded video stream.
Ok, but where is the idea for a business?
Sometimes it some outback parents just too hot in the desert: visit and three families whose children are the School of the Air, it has just devious foreign countries: Indonesia, Cambodia, India. Temporarily, of course. And so they simply take further part in the lessons via webcam, due to the time difference is now only slightly get up earlier.
And since it has been ringing with me: Do
parents are not always the best education for their kids? The School of the Air is one of the best primary schools in Australia, if you look at the results of performance tests.
When asked whether he gets for even requests from parents in the cities who want to send her child to the correspondence school, stirred from our leaders: We must stay at least so many miles from the nearest primary school from having to be received.
Um .. but why?
What with all the rich parents who live with their children anywhere else in the world because it is the job so required? Where is the online registration? Where to enter their credit card information and to register his child for the School of the Air?
The man winks at me from the school: Give me something off if they have the first million together. Fast nor asked what would happen with social problems that get the kids later when they visit any "normal" school: Nothing doing: The kids from the School of the Air is well on it and have much better communication than others, wants the school have found out.
I can well imagine. The oil executives in Rwanda, banking chief in Brazil, the diplomat in Laos. Should they send their children to six years to a local school? Most of these high earners to hire expensive private tutor or try himself as a teacher. If this is at all allowed by the home country.
course remains open, whether as the German state would recognize such a private Internet-primary school (which may also taught in English) as the fulfillment of compulsory education, but it's worth a try!
is booming, the market for remote universities, why not the market for the private school of the very small, those with wealthy parents?
Convert himself from that school fee you can ask where you get the bitter teachers, and whether this right can not work from home. And if They have combined their first million ... You know.
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