With technology, electronic devices and the Internet becoming ubiquitous and children taking to gizmos and gadgets with manic frenzy, there’s rising panic about children and youth’s growing digital gaming addiction. In its latest International Classification of Diseases, the World Health Organisation has categorised ‘gaming disorder’ as a serious mental health condition – K.P. Malini & […]
To conduct the EWISR 2018-19 survey, field personnel of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 12,214 SEC ‘A’ fees-paying parents, school principals, teachers and senior school students in 27 major cities and education hubs across India –Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
During his 82-minute Independence Day speech delivered from the ramparts of Delhi’s Red Fort last month, […]
The lengthiest league table of the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings is invariably of co-ed day schools. The great majority of the educated middle class has accepted co-ed day schools as normative
Invariably the lengthiest league table of the sui generis annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) survey published every September, is of co-ed day schools. […]
A notable feature of India’s best day-cum-boarding schools 2018-19 national league table is that seven DPS schools promoted/franchised by the Delhi Public Schools Society (estb. 1937) are seated at the Top 10 table
2017-18 was a year of churn for the 70-plus institutions listed in the EducationWorld league table of India’s most admired co-ed day-cum-boarding schools […]
With the country’s cities having transformed into toxic, over-crowded gas chambers, the prospect of sending the children off to boarding schools in the hills to breathe clean air while receiving their unique mix of excellent academic, co-curricular and sports education, has become an increasingly attractive option for SEC ‘A’ households. Here are India’s best co-ed […]
Led by a new generation of highly-qualified and professionally accomplished women leaders and champions of gender rights and equality, girls boarding schools are flourishing. Here are India’s best girls boarding schools 2018-19
With the emancipation of women and gradual — perhaps too gradual — rise in the social phenomenon of gender egalitarianism, sexually segregated (aka single […]
The Doon School, establised 83 years ago as a nationalist riposte to starchy anglicised boarding schools which were reluctant to admit native students, has captured the imagination of post-independence India’s elite classes
Although it maintains an obstinately low public profile and continuously flies below radar, The Doon School, Dehradun (TDS, estb.1935) enjoys a rock-solid reputation […]
International Day-cum-Boarding Schools have become the preferred choice of SEC ‘A’ households aspiring for international K-12 certification and holistic education experiences for their children. Here are India’s Best International Day-cum-Boarding Schools 2018-19.
Within the broad category of international schools (defined as primary-secondaries affiliated with offshore examination boards), international day-cum-boarding schools are highly fancied because they offer […]
The country’s unique budget private schools are facing an existential crisis and are being forced to close down. However, they offer bottom-of-the-pyramid households an acceptable alternative to the country’s dysfunctional government schools
For India’s lower middle class and bottom-of-the-pyramid households shortchanged by the country’s dysfunctional public education system defined by crumbling infrastructure, multi-grade classrooms, English language […]
To acknowledge and celebrate the efforts of the small minority of special needs schools, C fore field researchers interviewed a special sample of 532 respondents including parents of CWSN and special educators in five cities
Despite the promise of universal access to primary education for all children aged 6-14 years under the Right of Children to […]
Disciplining recalcitrant children has emerged as one of the biggest challenges confronting parents in the new age of mass consumerism. Should they spare the traditional rod and spoil the child, or ideate new solutions for disciplining children? -Sruthy Susan Ullas
Arunima Rajeev, a 30-year-old Bangalore-based homemaker, has stopped going to grocery stores for shopping and switched […]
In the new age of instant digital connectivity and globalisation, it is possible — and necessary — for educationists in vastly different geographies to identify and adapt best practices in education. In India we can make a start by implementing 3 stepping stones for school improvement to repair the severely damaged foundations of the countrys […]
With 134 million children countrywide having access to mobile phones and the Internet, there’s high probability that they are viewing inappropriate online content including porn. Decades of research has highlighted that viewing pornography is associated with anti-social outcomes, and that younger the age at which children are exposed to porn, the more deleterious the impact […]
It’s the time of the year when the world’s largest school-going population — 250 million children — is getting ready to start or resume school. Therefore, parents across the country are gearing up to buy school books, uniforms, arrange tuition/co-curricular activities, and set routines. PW presents a detailed guide for parents to help start well […]
In a glamour-obsessed society which places high premium on physical beauty and form and promotes perfect body images through advertising, cinema and all-pervasive social media, there’s increasing pressure on adolescents to conform to improbable physical ideals. This growing body image obsession is prompting millions of teens worldwide to resort to extreme diets and punishing exercise […]
EducationWorld, India’s #1 education magazine (an affiliate of ParentsWorld) in association with the reputed Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company Centre for Forecasting and Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore) conducted its annual EW India Higher Education Rankings 2018-19 to rate and rank the country’s Top 100 private universities, engineering colleges, and multidisciplinary arts, science […]
On the eve of Earth Day (April 22), ParentsWorld interviewed environment experts and parents who have taken the lead in teaching children to Go Green from infancy – K.P. Malini
When Rajesh Shah returned from the US to India in 2007 with his family comprising wife Vallari, a mediator, gardener and dancer, and two children Parthiv and Tarang to […]
Across the country, the great majority of India’s girl children are growing up in the shadow of their brothers with less parental love and care, unequal education opportunities, and lesser socio-economic freedoms. On the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8), we must practice gender equality from early age and examine the phenomenon of widespread […]
Last year The Magic Years — Delhi’s #1 proprietary preschool for several years — was bested by Step by Step, Panchsheel. But this year it has reclaimed its #1 position in the national capital. Here are Delhi’s most preferred preschools 2016-17
No city, town or community nationwide is more aware of the critical importance of professionally-administered […]
Delhi-based market research agency C fore interviewed 639 parents with children in preschool, 70 principals and teachers in Mumbai who have rated and ranked 56 sufficiently well-known preschools in the proprietary and franchised categories on ten parameters of early childhood education excellence. Here are Mumbai’s best preschools 2017.
India’s commercial and entertainment capital, Mumbai (pop.21 million) […]
Although there is little evidence of the long promised poriborton (change) in the state’s education system, spared the regulatory attention of the neta-babu brotherhood, fully autonomous private pre-primaries are thriving in Kolkata. Here are Kolkata’s top-ranked preschools 2017-18:
In 2011 when the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) routed the CPM (Communist Party of India)-led Left Front government […]
The city’s edupreneurs have always been quick to embrace new pedagogies and education philosophies and promote preschool to higher ed institutions for discerning parents who place a premium on high quality education. Here are Chennai’s top preschools 2016-17
The southern port city of Chennai, currently witnessing an ugly power struggle between rival factions of the ruling […]
For ICT and other industry professionals from all over the country, the blooming English-medium preschools of Bangalore have come as manna from heaven. Here are Bangalore’s most loved preschools 2017-18
Always a stronghold of English language learning despite the efforts of frogs-in-a-well Kannada language chauvinists who have ruined the public education system of Karnataka (pop. 61 […]
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 […]
Among Pune’s best preschools 2017-18, a total of 24 sufficiently well-known pre-primaries are ranked and rated by 522 parents with preschool children and 61 teachers/principals polled by field personnel of C fore, Delhi
Maharashtra’s second largest city after Mumbai, Pune (pop. 4 million) has over the years emerged as an education hub and hosts several top-ranked […]
Responding to pressing demand from the middle class for professionally delivered English-medium ECCE, a rising number of edupreneurs have stepped forward to promote model pre-primaries in the textiles city. Here are Ahmedabad’s top-ranked preschools 2017-18
In the western seaboard state of Gujarat which is currently witnessing high voltage campaigning by the Congress and BJP for the […]
A hub of the IT and automobiles manufacturing industries, this steel-n-glass satellite city of Delhi has experienced a rapid mushrooming of early childhood care and education centres demanded by its young workforce
Toxic air pollution levels and a typical jugaad-style pell-mell growth with commensurately climbing crime graphs haven’t prevented the rapid growth of Gurgaon (pop.900,000), a […]
To construct the EW Noida Preschool Rankings 2017-18 league tables, an informed respondents sample comprising 534 parents with preschool-going children and 75 preschool principals/teachers were interviewed by field personnel of Delhi-based market research firm C fore
Although officially the bustling new city of Noida (pop. 650,000) is sited in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous (212 million) […]
There’s pervasive fear and panic within the parents’ community that the country’s 1.08 million government and 328,845 private recognised schools (and an estimated 300,000 unrecognised private budget schools) with 250 million children, are rapidly turning into danger zones lacking the most basic child safety and security measures – Summiya Yasmeen
While in other day school league tables, there have been minor changes in the Top 10, in India’s best day-cum-boarding schools 2017-18 rankings there has been a big churn
While in most of the ten categories into which schools have been sub-divided in the annual EW India School Rankings to create a level playing field for all […]
In India which hosts a population of diverse religions and degrees of conservatism, the country’s top-ranked girls boarding schools continue to serve the very useful purpose of providing egalitarian education to girl children. Here are India’s Top Girls Boarding Schools 2017-18
Although in Western countries, all-girls schools are becoming rare, in developing nations of the third […]
Quite clearly the change of incumbent in the headmaster’s office has not affected the rock-solid reputation of The Doon School which is ranked India’s #1 boys boarding school for the third year in succession.
The boys boarding school league table of the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings is as thoroughly dominated by the Dehradun-based The […]
Defined by world-class infrastructure, IT-enabled classrooms, diverse student body, and wide range of co-curricular options, the country’s small minority of international schools have set new benchmarks in K-12 education in India
India’s new genre international schools affiliated with offshore exam boards such as Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), UK, International Baccalaureate (IB), Geneva, Edexcel (UK) and Advanced […]
Since the annual EW India School Rankings were divided into ten separate categories, India’s Top International Day-cum-Boarding Schools 2017-18 league table has been topped by the Indus International School, Bangalore
Sited on sprawling campuses offering state-of-the-art academic facilities, 5-star student accommodation, elaborate sports and co-curricular education facilities, the country’s small minority of hi-end international day-cum-boarding schools […]
The great Indian middle class seems unmindful that government regulation of fees of private independent schools — the sole bright spot of a crumbling education system — could be the first step towards levelling them down to the pathetic condition of government schools defined by ramshackle buildings, multi-grade classrooms, unusable toilets, and abysmal learning outcomes […]
Since it was established in 1968, the International Baccalaureate Organisation (now known as International Baccalaureate) has established a global reputation as one of the world’s most respected school-leaving examination boards with 4,632 affiliated schools in 146 countries worldwide – Dilip Thakore
Plans and programmes — including workshops, lectures and celebratory functions to honour and award tutors […]
Within the media and the public, there’s little awareness that the country’s 266 private universities, 2,415 B-schools and 2,776 engineering institutes provide good, bad and indifferent education to 65 percent of the country’s 29 million youth in higher education, here are EducationWorld India Private Higher Education Rankings 2017-18 – Dilip Thakore
A sample database of 4,465 knowledgeable respondents — 2,133 higher education faculty, 1,368 final year students of 164 universities and 964 industry representatives — rated and ranked India’s top 100 private universities 2017-18 on ten parameters of education excellence – Dilip Thakore
Top-ranked for the second consecutive year in the EducationWorld India Private University Rankings (EWIPUR) […]
With almost 80 percent of the 3,470 engineering institutions promoted and managed by private entrepreneurs, it makes good sense to evaluate and rank the India’s best private engineering institutes 2017-18 to enable parents and students to choose the most suitable from among them – Summiya Yasmeen
Although India’s 3,470 engineering colleges certify more graduates than any […]
Apart from the Central government’s generously funded and heavily subsidised IIMs, which offer high-quality business management education to a mere 1.4 percent of the 232,000 students who write CAT annually, there are a few dozen private B-schools which offer quality education to MBA aspirants looking for other options – Summiya Yasmeen writes about India’s top […]
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