"We had about an overture a week to partner with someone," he told Reuters.Mancosa is now part of Actis's expanding higher education portfolio in Africa. They didn't want me to sit at home looking for job when I might not even find one," she said. The sector is also relatively resilient to economic ups and downs as parents increasingly prioritise their children's education. TAL's price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio is nearly 130, while New Oriental Education hovers around 50. In contrast, MSCI's emerging equity index trades at a P/E of around 12.

Source: The Star September 25, 2017 00:11 UTC