Hyderabad’s premier preschools 2017-18

With the city’s upwardly mobile new-age industry professionals becoming increasingly aware of the critical importance of ECCE for preparing children for school education, there’s been an upsurge in the promotion of a host of nexgen pre-primaries. Here are Hyderabad’s premier preschools 2017-18.  The early childhood and K-12 education sector is booming in the southern city of Hyderabad (pop. 10.9 million), the joint capital of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This city of nawabs and begums, which in its new avatar rivals Bangalore as a hub of the IT industry, hosts several top-bracket schools such as Indus International, CHIREC, the Aga Khan Academy and International School of Hyderabad — all ranked among the national Top 10 in the EW India School Rankings 2017-18. According to New York-based Mercer’s Quality of Living Rankings 2017, the availability of high-quality schooling is one of the reasons why Mercer’s has ranked Hyderabad the most liveable city in India for the third year in a row.  With the city’s upwardly-mobile new-age industry professionals becoming aware of the critical importance of professionally administered early childhood care and education (ECCE) for preparing children for school education, there’s been a corresponding upsurge in the promotion of a host of nexgen pre-primaries. For the EW Hyderabad Preschool Rankings 2017-18, an informed sample respondents database comprising 566 parents with preschool children and 83 principals plus teachers have ranked 22 of the city’s sufficiently well-known proprietary and 30 franchised preschools. Proprietary/owned  Since 2015, when the EW India Preschool Rankings were sub-divided into proprietary and franchised categories to avoid apples and oranges type comparisons, there’s been a tussle for the top rank between the city’s well-established CHIREC, Jubilee Hills (estb. 1989) and new genre Indus Early Learning Centre (IELC), Jubilee Hills (2011). While in 2015, they were jointly ranked Hyderabad’s #1 proprietary preschool, in 2016 CHIREC bested IELC to claim top ranking. This year, our informed sample respondents have once again voted these premier pre-primaries jointly #1 in Hyderabad. Promoted in 2011 by the Bangalore-based Indus Trust, which owns and manages the premier Indus International schools in Bangalore and Hyderabad (routinely ranked among India’s Top 10 international day-cum-boarding schools in the annual EW India School Rankings), IELC, Jubilee Hills, is top-rated on the parameters of teacher competence and development, individual attention to students, infrastructure provision and innovative teaching. “Since IELC, Jubilee Hills debuted in the EW preschool rankings in 2012, we have been consistently ranked among the Top 3 preschools of Hyderabad. Our #1 rank this year is reassuring proof that our continuous efforts to offer wholly child-centric education are being appreciated by the public. I am especially pleased about our top rating for teacher training as this is a top priority of all Indus preschools. This year, 11 of our faculty visited schools in Finland to learn about their proven play-based learning pedagogies,” says Nuwaira Pasha, an alumna of Bangalore University with a Qualified Teacher Status diploma in primary education from the UK and head of the IELC centres in Hyderabad and Chennai.…