STS Group is a

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

i conglomerate company servicing healthcare and education. Under the Group, two subsidiary companies namely STS Holdings Ltd for Healthcare and STS Capital Limited (former STS Educational Group Ltd) for Education sector was formed. The majority of the shares are owned by

British International Investment British International Investment, (formerly CDC Group plc, Commonwealth Development Corporation, and Colonial Development Corporation) is the development finance institution of the UK government. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office ...

, a United Kingdom government investment fund.

History

STS Group was founded in 1997 by merging Shanta Group, Tropica Group and Sepal Group, the three business houses that were operating independently. The acronym S-T-S came from the first three letters of these three corporate business houses in Bangladesh. The group's goal was to provide healthcare and education with participation of local and foreign entrepreneurs. It established International School Dhaka in 1998 and is located in

Bashundhara Residential Area Bashundhara ( bn, বসুন্ধরা আবাসিক এলাকা) is an upscale residential area in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The area is developed by Bashundhara Group. The project of Basundhara was started in the 1980s. In 2011 porti ...

. It established International Training Centre in 2006. In 2005, it started Apollo Hospital Dhaka which would be rebranded to Evercare Hospital in 2020. STS Group established DPS STS School as a joint venture with the

Delhi Public School Delhi Public School (also known as DPS) is the largest public school institution in India. The classes are from KG I to Class XII (Science, Arts and Commerce). It is affiliated to CBSE. Delhi Public School may refer to: * Delhi Public School Socie ...

in 2009 at Sector 15 of Uttara. The school was inaugurated by

Nurul Islam Nahid Nurul Islam Nahid ( bn, নুরুল ইসলাম নাহিদ; born 5 July 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician and author. He served a member of the Bangladeshi parliament from the Sylhet-6 constituency from 15 years, being elected in 1 ...

, Minister of Education, and

Rashed Khan Menon Rashed Khan Menon (born 18 May 1943) is a Bangladeshi politician. He is the president of Workers Party of Bangladesh and was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dhaka-8 in the 2008 general election. Menon was re-elected at the 2014 gen ...

, member of parliament, in August 2009. STS School Sunvalley was established for Sunvalley Abashon Project, a housing project in eastern Dhaka. Universal College Bangladesh was created as a partner of the Australian

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and awards degrees from Monash. In 2022, it started offering degrees from

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

and the

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. STS Nursing College was established in 2019. In 2020, STS Group sold their majority shares to the CDC Group, which is owned by the United Kingdom government through

. The Minister of Commerce of Bangladesh, Tipu Munshi, is a shareholder of the STS Group. In 2021, the under construction Apollo Hospital Chattogram was renamed to Evercare Hospitals Chattogram.

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Education *

International School Dhaka International School Dhaka (ISD) is an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School in Dhaka, Bangladesh that was established in 1999. The school enrolls students in the age range of 2–18, from Playgroup through to Grade 12, providing an inter ...

DPS STS School DPS may refer to: Schools United States * Dalton Public Schools, the public school district in Dalton, Georgia * Dearborn Public Schools, the public school district in Dearborn, Michigan * Decatur Public Schools District 61, the public school sy ...

* STS School Sunvalley * Universal College Bangladesh (UCB) Healthcare *

Evercare Hospital Dhaka Evercare Hospital Dhaka is a JCI accredited 425-bed multidisciplinary super specialty tertiary care hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh and part of Evercare Group. It was previously called Apollo Hospital Dhaka. History The hospital is located in Ba ...

* Evercare Hospital Chittagong * STS Nursing College

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{{reflist Conglomerate companies of Bangladesh 1997 establishments in Bangladesh Organisations based in Dhaka

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