GEMS Education is one of the world’s leading private K-12 education providers, educating over 200,000 students from 176+ nationalities across its global network of owned and managed schools. With nearly half a million alumni, GEMS has built a legacy of impact that spans generations and continents.
Established in Dubai in 1959, GEMS remains a family-founded and family-led organisation, guided by its visionary founder and chairman Sunny Varkey, and his sons Dino Varkey (Group CEO) and Jay Varkey (Deputy Group CEO).
With a focus on delivering high-quality education to students from all walks of life, GEMS offers a wide range of curricula and learning pathways. Each year, GEMS students graduate into the world’s top universities, including all eight Ivy League institutions and every UK Russell Group university, and go on to become leaders, innovators, and changemakers in every sector.
Through its expanding school network and philanthropic initiatives, GEMS is committed to its mission: to put a quality education within reach of every learner, everywhere.
We have been opening minds since 1975, and our core values of tolerance, diversity, respect and access to all have never wavered and never will. No other educational conglomerate public or private offers the unique combination of academic excellence, access, commitment to education service and athletic prowess like The Narayana Group.
What makes The Narayana Group truly stand out are our intangibles: the openness, freedom and acceptance academically and artistically, politically and culturally that are impossible to communicate with just statistics and facts. We all need to communicate in a way that engenders excitement, confidence and a desire to participate in our mission.
The Narayana group fuels a perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, ethical and social value. We integrate research with teaching, the artistic with the scientific, the scholarly with the athletic, and the up-and-comer with the advantaged.
Our diverse and kinetic community draws inspiration from every discipline, sparks dynamic interactions and produces revelations about the brand culture we aspire to live in. With the drive to ask critical questions and embrace new challenges, we are redefining ourselves and the role of educating every individual.
Sri Chaitanya started its historic journey in 1986 with the inception of a Girls Junior College at Vijayawada. Since then, there has been no turning back. The inception of Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions was the result of a vision rather than the mere setting up of an institution.
Our Founders and Mentors, Dr. B. S. Rao and Dr. Jhansi Lakshmi Bai, were hugely successful in the medical profession and decided to look at a fresh approach to Intermediate level education. A systematised methodology was introduced that changed the very face of education in Andhra Pradesh, for the better. A fresh chapter in the pre-university stream of education in the state began with the introduction of a more professional approach to teaching and staff management.
The growth of Sri Chaitanya – post 1986, has been phenomenal and part of folk-lore. A Boys’ Junior college(1991), branches in Hyderabad (1996), Visakhapatnam (1998), Tirupathi and Guntur (2000), Eluru, Bhimavaram, Rajahmundry, Kakinada and Machilipatnam (2002), Tenali, Ongole, Srikakulam, Amalapuram, Chittoor, Nellore and Ananthapur (2003) in Andhra Pradesh.
Sri Chaitanya continued its march forward by stepping beyond the state. Branches opened in Delhi (2004), Hamirpur-Himachal Pradesh (2005) and Bellary – Karnataka. In 2006, the institution opened IIT-JEE / AIEEE / PMT Coaching Centres at Mandi-Himachal Pradesh, Ranchi and Bokaro – Jharkhand and Indore - Madhya Pradesh.
The Group continued its march forward with the inception of Sri Chaitanya Techno Schools in various districts of AP in 2008, and expanding to cover fourteen districts of the state and 3 districts of Karnataka including four branches in Bangalore by 2011.