Safety
How we keep your child safe
Sending a 12-year-old to live on a campus hundreds of kilometres from home is an act of trust, and trust is built with specifics. Here is the spec sheet — and every item on it is fair game when we call you.
We don't ask you to trust us. We measured.
Twice a day, by name, a residential coach asks every child how they are feeling — and writes it down.
- 1,057
- mood check-ins recorded at GSP'26
- 179
- children across both GSP'26 editions, each asked by name
- 4.34 / 5
- the average answer
On day nine we could tell you how any individual child felt.
Every night
Your child's floor.
- Security at the campus entrance
- Security at every dorm lobby
- Separate hostels for boys and girls, floors used only by this program
- A residential coach on the same floor
- A woman coach on every girls' floor
- Your child
Supervision ratio
~1 : 5
Roughly one residential coach or teaching assistant for every five students, day and night, as actually staffed at GSP'26. Counting every adult on site, instructors, nurses and operations included, it is 1:2.5. Not a marketing ratio: those are the real rosters.
Residential care
24 hours
Boys and girls live in separate MAHE hostels — Manipal in May, Bengaluru in June — with residential coaches on the same floors and a woman coach on the girls' floors. Lights-out checks, morning musters, and a night-duty rota every single day.
Medical
Nurse on site
A nurse is on the roster for the full program at both editions, with doctors on call, and parents are informed of anything beyond a scraped knee. In May, Kasturba Hospital — a full teaching hospital — is minutes from the hostel, so minor issues are seen the same hour.
Staff vetting
100% checked
Every adult on the program — faculty, TAs, residential coaches — is reference-checked and interviewed by the core team before they meet a student.
Parent communication
Daily
A parents' WhatsApp group per batch with daily photo-and-notes updates from the ground, plus a direct escalation line to the program head that actually gets answered.
Movement & outings
Always escorted
Students never leave campus unaccompanied. Excursions run with headcounts on boarding and return, and the same supervision ratio travels with them.
Who owns this
The residential team
Safety, security and counselling do not sit with everyone in general and nobody in particular. They report into one head of residential life, who builds the rosters, the night rota and the escalation line that answers when you call. When a parent has a hard question, that is whose desk it lands on.
What your child gets, day in and day out
- Air-conditioned dorm rooms, two to a room, attached bathroom with 24/7 hot water
- Four meals a day — breakfast, lunch, evening snacks, dinner — with veg and non-veg lines and low spice for young palates
- A medical room on campus and doctors on call at both editions — and in May, MAHE Manipal's full teaching hospital minutes away
- Fully air-conditioned classrooms with high-speed internet and rearrangeable build/lab space
- Private, vetted transport — nobody but students and GenWise staff aboard, always escorted
- Round-the-clock security at the campus entrance and at every dorm lobby
The May edition runs at MAHE Manipal; the June edition runs at MAHE Bengaluru. Both campuses run under the same staffing and safety standards. Take the full campus tour with the photo gallery
Supervised doesn't mean grim
This is what “24-hour care” looks like in practice
The questions parents actually ask
- What about phones?
- Residential coaches hold the phones through the day; students get them back for a phone window each evening to call home, before a 10pm lights-out. For anything urgent, parents have the batch WhatsApp group and a direct line to the program team.
- What if my child gets homesick?
- It happens, mostly in the first two days, and our residential coaches are trained for exactly this. The honest pattern across five GSP summers: the kids who cry on day two are the ones who don't want to leave on day twenty-one.
- Food — my child is picky / vegetarian / has an allergy.
- Veg and non-veg lines at every meal, Jain and Halal on request, and allergies collected in the medical form are flagged to the mess and to your child's coach personally.
Ask us the hard ones
If anything here feels vague, that's a question for a human
Not a web page: a person. Ratios, night duty, medical cover, phones, what happens if your child is homesick at 2am — call us and ask it directly, or apply and we'll call you.
Free · 20 questions · 35 minutes. Pay ₹40,000 to hold a seat. Change your mind until 28 February 2027 and all of it comes back.