Ahlcon International School, Delhi
EducationWorld April 12 | EducationWorld Institution Profile
In the authoritative EducationWorld-C fore India’s Most Respected Schools Survey 2011, Ahlcon International School, Delhi (estb.2001) was ranked among the Top 10 day schools of Delhi and among the Top 20 in north India Within a decade after it was promoted by the Shanti Devi Progressive Education Society — a trust constituted by Dr. Rohini Ahluwalia, chairperson of Ahlcon Parenterals Ltd (revenue: Rs.68 crore in fiscal 2010-11) — Ahlcon International School (estb. 2001) has won golden opinions as a top-ranked CBSE-affiliated K-12 co-educational day school of the national capital. Last year in the authoritative EducationWorld-C fore India’s Most Respected Schools Survey 2011, Ahlcon International (mission statement: “to establish Ahlcon International School as a world class centre of learning, a leader in imparting joyful, relevant and values-based education to each child and ensure complete fulfillment of the aspirations of all stakeholders”) was ranked among the Top 10 day schools of Delhi and among the Top 20 in north India. More pertinently, on the parameter of leadership and management quality, it was ranked first all-India (together with five other day schools), and fourth on the parameter of providing students/parents value for money. Earlier in 2010, the school received the International School Award (ISA) of the British Council making it eligible to participate in international projects with K-12 schools beyond national borders. Ashok Pandey, an alumnus of Allahabad University who began his career as a teacher in Mayo College, Ajmer (1985-91), was founder-principal of DPS, Jammu (1999-2003) and put in teaching and administrative stints with the Indian International School, Dammam, Saudi Arabia (1991-97) and the Amity Group (1997-99), was appointed principal of Ahlcon International (AI) in 2003. Almost a decade after he assumed charge of the school which has 2,300 boys and girls mentored by 140 teachers on its muster rolls, Pandey is “very satisfied” with the speed with which AI has made it to the Top 10 league tables of most schools rating and ranking publications. “Of course the management of this relatively new school is very satisfied with the Top 10 ranking awarded by EducationWorld and Hindustan Times. But this rapid rise in public esteem has imposed a heavy responsibility upon us to move further up the rankings. To achieve this we are sharpening our focus on values education, and capacity building in terms of infrastructure augmentation and teacher training and development,” he says. According to Pandey, the distinguishing features of Ahlcon International School, Delhi include the heavy emphasis the school’s management places on values and culturally-rooted education, child-centricism, parental involvement with children’s broad-based education, and innovations in teaching. Yet he believes that the “truly differentiating characteristic of Ahlcon International is the management’s enthusiastic embrace of new technologies to track the academic progress of every child to realise her full potential”. “To this end we have installed the (managing, scheduling, tracking, analysing and reporting) software of the New York-based new technologies company MGRM Net which tracks, analyses and monitors the academic progress of every student from the time of admission until…