— In July, Ray Education Group’s “International Schools” project was named to the Top 25 shortlist in the Majors Category of the 2026 Global EdTech Prize, organized by T4 Education — the only Chinese education group to make the list in this category, alongside global names like Kahoot!, Duolingo, and Faria Education Group. The recognition affirms Ray’s work in AI-enhanced teaching, teacher development, school governance, and cross-border education, while also lending external credibility to the launch of Adcote Global Campus 2.0.
On August 2026, Ray Education Group announced the official launch of “World Classroom, Peer Companions: Adcote Global Campus 2.0”. Starting with a century-old British Private school, Ray has since established campuses in Shanghai, Suzhou, Kuala Lumpur, Jinhua, and Wuhan.
The true meaning of Global Campus 2.0 is about building an open and connected learning community, achieving “Enroll at One School, Empowered by Global Campus.”
With AI reshaping the fundamentals of education and families demanding higher quality , Global Campus 2.0 will use a unified AI-powered learning platform to connect resources across campuses and turn them into real learning opportunities for every student. Also, Ray Education aims to create a borderless learning environment where students can learn and grow across cultures, becoming confident, responsible, and capable global citizens.
Global Campus 2.0: Six Core Pillars Supporting the Student Growth
In March 2026, CEO of Ray Education Group – James Hu launched at the group’s 15th anniversary celebration that Adcote Global Campus was officially entering its 2.0 era. Nearly six months later, that vision took a concrete step forward here.
If 1.0 was about “building campuses and connecting the dots,” then 2.0 is about “building systems and weaving the network.” Through a dual-headquarters model in Shanghai and Singapore, the group aims to enable the efficient flow of curriculum development, teacher training, credit transfer, and student exchanges, breaking down information silos and resource barriers between campuses.
From the acquisition of Adcote School UK in 2018, to the official introduction of the “Global Campus” concept in 2020, and the first cohort of “Global Campus Junior Class” students starting cross-campus learning in 2021, the vision has grown increasingly clear. Now, Version 2.0 builds a comprehensive innovation system around six core pillars:
Cross Culture Study Experience
REA Portal Study Hub
“STEMBAI”PBL Course
Leadership Curriculum
Adcote Alumini Network
Adcote Career Platform
*Global Campus Core Value:
“Let the world be your classroom” – Leveraging a global campus network spanning East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, campuses with diverse cultural backgrounds become living classrooms for students. This means the “classroom” is no longer confined to a physical space; through the Ray Education Global Campus network, educational resources flow without borders, realizing the vision that “in the past, the school was the child’s world; now, the world is the child’s school.”
“Let your peers be your companions” – We enable classmates scattered across the globe to become not only close friends on their growth journey but also partners who will collaborate and create together on the global stage in the future. This relationship evolves into a synergistic development grounded in shared cultural identity and international vision, aimed at cultivating “global citizens who can freely navigate the world.”
This core value is an action blueprint for its practice across the global educational landscape. By operating schools worldwide, Ray broadens students’ perspectives from their home country to the world, redefining international education from a broader vantage point.
World Classroom: From Global Exploration to Global Sharing
Cross Culture Study Experience: Understanding Diversity in Authentic Settings
Adcote School Suzhou offers courses in Chinese intangible cultural heritage and equestrianism; Adcote School Shanghai features “Shanghai-style Culture&Contemporary China”; Adcote School UK focuses on British literature, music, and drama; Adcote Matrix International School delivers a “Asia-Europe Bridge” multicultural curriculum; and Adcote School Zhezhong runs a specialized business&innovation program.
REA Portal Study Hub: Learning Without Boundaries
Powered by the REA global resource platform, the hub brings together top teachers and quality courses from all campuses. Students can select courses across campuses and year levels, earn credits, and tailor their learning paths.
“STEMBAI”PBL Course: Building Innovation through Real Challenges
In partnership with global AI leaders such as Unitree Robotics, DeepRobotics, and Brainco, the program offers PBL deep-learning courses. Together with DFROBOT, a global edtech company, Adcote has established AI labs and innovation centers, offering the “STEMBAI” interdisciplinary curriculum.
Leadership Curriculum: Cultivating Responsibility through Action
In partnership with the UN’s Holistic Education Growth Program, the program offers project-based learning centered on the UN SDGs. Students can earn UN certificates upon successful project completion.
Peer Companions: From Classmates to Global Companies
Adcote Alumini Network: Growth Connections across Campuses
Adcote will establish overseas alumni chapters in the UK, Southeast Asia, the US East and West Coasts, and Australia, providing support for academic development, overseas living, and internships.
Adcote Career Platform: Transition from Campus to Career
The program promotes the development of off-campus internship bases. Together with parent, alumni resources and leading industry partners, Adcote will launch an online employment information platform to connect graduates with quality job and internship opportunities.
Global Campus 2.0 Programs: Learning through movement
Global Joint Programs: One Admission, Multiple Campuses
The 3.5/4.5/5-year Global Joint Programs allow students, with a single admissions report, to transfer freely among three flagship schools—Adcote School UK, Adcote School Shanghai, and Adcote Matrix International School.
Summer Schools&Exchange Programs: Learning on the move
Adcote offers short-term cross-campus programs, 3-to-4-week term-embedded exchange programs or 2-week winter/summer study tours.
What Adcote Global Campus 2.0 aims to build is a community of learners that connects students from around the world. “World Classroom, Peer Companions” stands for an answer to the future. We choose connection over distance, shared learning over going it alone, so that every student can understand the world and define themselves through the encounters they make along the way.
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