The catalyst for the creation of the Nisai Learning Hub was 2012's Improving Alternative Provision report written by Charlie Taylor, the Department for Education's expert adviser on behaviour.
The report criticised pupil referral units and alternative education providers that neglect academic tuition and do little more than keep children "off the streets".
And after reading it, Nisai Learning's managing director Dhruv Patel concluded that he could deliver a fusion of online and offline education that would showcase how alternative provision should be done.
Drawing on more than a decade of experience of delivering online education to students, Patel's company developed the Nisai Learning Hub in December 2013. Based in Nottingham, the hub takes in pupils referred by schools in the city, across Nottinghamshire and from neighbouring Leicestershire who have either been excluded or are at risk of exclusion.
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