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WideAcademy Strategic Update
WideAcademy Strategic Update.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 7247H WideCells Group PLC 12 June 2017 \n\n12 June 2017\nWideCells Group PLC ('WideCells Group' or 'the Company')\n \nWideAcademy - Strategic Development Update Following the Recent Appointment of the Former Director of Apple Education as WideAcademy Senior Vice President and Group NED\n \nWideCells Group PLC, the healthcare services company focused on providing stem cell services and ground breaking insurance for stem cell treatment, is pleased to provide a strategic update on WideAcademy, its 100% owned education and training division. These strategic developments follow the recent Board appointment of Alan Greenberg, former Director of Education at Apple, as Non-Executive Director of WideCells Group and Senior Vice President of WideAcademy, and the recent Placing.\n \n· Mandate: To establish WideAcademy as the thought leader on stem cell technologies and innovation for medical professionals and families. The proposition must not only be self-funded but profitable.\n \n· Strategy: WideAcademy will secure and work with strategic partners in the tech and education sectors to produce and deliver trustworthy, authentic and digestible content and courseware focussed on the stem cell industry.\n \n· Global Ambition: WideAcademy will harness technology to drive access to objective educational tools and content worldwide. It will firstly focus on creating resources for English-speaking communities. It plans to develop a number of channels to reach its audiences and establish WideAcademy as the go-to portal for stem cells. \n \n· Target Markets: WideAcademy has identified three core communities which would benefit from a strengthened understanding of stem cell innovation:\n \no Medical professionals - most existing health professionals have not been educated in stem cell technologies. The same is often true for those currently being taught and trained who represent the next generation of medical professionals. Even where stem cell training / teaching has been undertaken, medical professionals are not educated on best-practise and have no obvious channel through which they can access news and stay up-to-date with innovation in the sector. ...