India’s best international day schools 2014

There™s no change at the top in the EW International Day Schools Rankings 2014 which with 32 ranked institutions constitutes the largest segment in the tripartite international schools category India™s new genre international schools affiliated with offshore examination boards constitute the glamour segment of the Indian primary-secondary school system. Offering superior infrastructure, en suite residential accommodation, state-of-the-art IT-enabled classrooms and a wide range of co-curricular and sports and games options, India™s high-end international schools affiliated with the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO), Geneva; Cambridge International Examinations (CIE); Edexcel, UK and Advanced Placement (AP), have captured the imagination of post-liberalisation India™s upper crust, and are attracting the attention of foreign households as well. Delivering high-quality school education benchmarked with the latest innovations in the West where pedagogies and learning outcomes are seriously researched, they have set new standards for primary-secondary learning in India. To facilitate fair comparison and level playing fields, last year India™s capital-intensive international schools were divided into three sub-categories ” day, day-cum-boarding, and wholly residential international schools. Within these sub-categories, sui generis primary-secondaries were assessed and evaluated on 14 parameters of education excellence by 8,263 sample respondents including fees-paying parents, educationists, principals and teachers across the country. There™s no change at the top in the EW International Day Schools Rankings 2014, which with 32 ranked institutions constitutes the largest segment in the tripartite international schools category. Ranked #6, 4 and 2 in the consolidated international schools league tables of 2010-2012, after reclassification of schools last year, the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai (DAIS, estb. 2003) seems to be consolidating its position as the country™s #1 international day school. It is followed by Ecole Mondiale World School, Mumbai ranked #2 again. However, this year the latter is obliged to share this rank with Ahmedabad™s Riverside School, which is fast rising in the public esteem. Ditto the Oberoi International School, Mumbai ranked #3, cf. #6 in 2013. Unsurprisingly, Nita Ambani, founder-chairperson of the CIE and IBO-affiliated DAIS, is œextremely happy with the aggregate score of 1,289 ” the highest among all categories of international schools. Moreover DAIS is top-ranked on the parameters of competence of faculty, academic reputation, and teacher welfare and development. œIt™s very fulfilling to learn that DAIS has been top-ranked on the crucial parameters of faculty competence, academic reputation, and teacher development, which significantly and directly impact children™s learning. In DAIS, our prime objective is to give children an educational experience that they will enjoy and cherish. The school™s academic accomplishments ” our IB Diploma average score of 39.4 points places us among the top five international schools globally, college admissions and scholarship offers from the world™s top universities, top awards and honours in sporting and co-curricular competitions at the state, national and international levels ” speak for themselves. Every accomplishment has inspired us to set new benchmarks of excellence year after year, says Ambani, a commerce graduate of Bombay University who was recently appointed director of Reliance Industries Ltd ” India™s largest private sector company (annual revenue:…