EW India School Rankings- Day Schools 2021-22 (Part 1)

To compile EWISR 2021-22, 11,458 sample respondents — educationists, principals, teachers, SECA (socio-economic category A) parents and senior school students — in 28 cities countrywide were interviewed by 118 C fore field researchers over a period of four months (June-September). The annual EWISR is the world’s largest schools ranking survey – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen Somewhat tentatively launched in 2007, the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR), which rates and ranks primary-secondary schools countrywide which at that time were mainly reputed for academic education, has evolved and matured into the world’s largest schools rating and ranking initiative. We believed — and continue to believe — that education should be a holistic and enjoyable learning experience for children. Therefore every year, EWISR rates over 3,000 of India’s best reputed primary-secondaries on 14 parameters of excellence including teacher welfare and development, teacher competence, infrastructure, co-curricular and sports education, parental involvement, academic reputation, curriculum and pedagogy, internationalism, among several other parameters. For this annual exercise, over 11,000 sample respondents including eminent educators, principals, teachers, parents and senior school students are interviewed by field personnel of our valued partner, the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb.2000), a nationally reputed market research and opinion polls company. They are asked to rate schools in their zonal region under each parameter on a scale of 1-100 with the critical parameter of teacher competence accorded double weightage. The scores awarded to schools under each parameter by the sample respondents are totaled and schools are ranked inter se nationally, in the states and cities. The objective of this annual exercise is to enable parents to choose the most convenient and aptitudinally suitable school for their children. To facilitate choice of this all-important institution, schools are ranked in 14 separate and distinct categories such as co-ed day, day-cum-boarding, all-boys and exclusively girls schools, legacy co-ed, boys and girls boarding schools and international schools. This is to avoid making apples and oranges type comparisons. The annual EWISR has also proved very useful for institutional managements because it provides them with an independent, objective image of their public profile, enabling them to conduct SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analyses and improve under parameters in which they receive low scores. Moreover, high-ranked schools attract the best teachers and brightest students. Nevertheless, despite the annual EWISR having evolved into the world’s largest primary-secondary schools ranking initiative which has beamed a bright searchlight on the vital necessity of delivering globally competitive education, influential academics tend to be skeptical, if not indifferent. “The great infirmity of all education institution ranking surveys conducted by for-profit companies — including the London-based QS and Times Higher Education — is that they give huge weightage to public perception. They are not data and facts-based. For this reason, I believe that the NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework) of the Union education ministry and NITI Aayog which is entirely based on hard data submitted by ranked higher education institutions, is superior to the much[1]celebrated QS…