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Cognita, a subsidiary of Cognita Topco Limited registered in Jersey, is a private for-profit company which owns and operates independent schools throughout the United Kingdom, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil and Chile and is expanding in Asia and Latin America. Based in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK, Cognita currently has a portfolio of 66 schools, employs some 4,600 teachers and educates around 30,000 children in a variety schools, including nursery, pre-preparatory, preparatory and senior schools as well as all-through bilingual and international schools. In 2014 revenue was £264.7 million with earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization of £44.7 million before exceptional costs and the company posts losses annually with 2014 losses of £68.9 million. ==History== Cognita was formed in October 2004 by its management and Englefield Capital, a private equity firm, now called Bregal Capital, and its former chairman, Sir Chris Woodhead, the former Chief Inspector of Schools in England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Current Investment - Cognita )〕 From 2004 Cognita started operating its first school, Quinton House School in Northampton. Later in 2004, Cognita acquired the Asquith Court Group, bringing a further 18 schools into the group. From 2004 until 2007, they continued to buy independent schools within the UK. In 2007 Cognita spread internationally acquiring schools in Spain and Asia. Cognita established its first school from inception in 2009, Stamford American International School in Singapore. Also in this year, a group of three international schools were purchased in Thailand. Schools in Vietnam joined Cognita in 2011, and in 2012, Cognita bought their first school in South America, in Brazil.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cognita History )〕 In August 2012 Cognita questioned the financial viability of its Ffynone House School in Swansea. Following lobbying and negotiation by parents and staff of the school, Cognita agreed to surrender the school to its lessor, Ffynone House School charitable trust, from which Cognita had leased the school. Cognita paid the trust £535,000 as a surrender sum and 10 years rent in advance of £270,000 and the school continues to operate with an operating surplus. On May, 6th, 2013 the formerly majority British-owned company Cognita agreed to be invested in by the American private equity firms KKR Kohlberg Kravis Roberts L.P.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Article: Breaking: Cognita’s backers sell stake to KKR )〕 In June 2013, Cognita expanded its network of Latin American schools through a partnership with Chilean private schools group Desarrollos Educacionales (DDEE). DDEE is a private schools group Chile, operating nine national curricular day schools under the Pumahue and Manquecura brands. In April 2014, Cognita transferred ownership of Ferndale Preparatory School, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, to Ferndale Preparatory School Limited, a parent-led consortium.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cognita History )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ferndale Community Website )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cognita」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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