{"id":985909,"date":"2026-01-16T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985909"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:24:19","slug":"unacademy-to-exit-company-owned-offline-centres-convert-to-franchise-model-by-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/unacademy-to-exit-company-owned-offline-centres-convert-to-franchise-model-by-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Unacademy to exit company-owned offline centres, convert to franchise model by April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank-backed edtech firm Unacademy will shut down all its company-operated offline coaching centres and convert them into franchise partnerships by April, co-founder and chief executive Gaurav Munjal told employees in an internal communication, on Wednesday, reviewed by Financial Express. <\/p>\n<p>The move marks a complete exit from the asset-heavy offline model, as the firm doubles down on its core online test preparation and language learning businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank-backed edtech firm Unacademy will shut down all its company-operated offline coaching centres and convert them into franchise partnerships by April, co-founder and chief executive Gaurav Munjal told employees in an internal communication, on Wednesday, reviewed by Financial Express. The move marks a complete exit from the asset-heavy offline model, as the firm doubles down on its core online test preparation and language learning businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}