There’s been a spurt in the number of preschools promoted to cater to the rising demand from IT and new-age industry professionals. C fore field researchers interviewed 609 parents and teachers/principals in Pune to evaluate preschools in three separate categories. Here are Pune’s best preschools for the year 2015:
The second largest academic and industrial hub […]
The 586 informed respondents interviewed by C fore field researchers in Ahmedabad have ranked Olive Green Kids, Navrangpura; EuroKids, Satellite and the Riverside pre-primary the textile city Ahmedabad’s top preschools in 2015 in the three new categories
UNDER THE NEW taxonomy adopted for rating and ranking pre-primaries for the EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2015, 586 sample […]
A classic study of how investment prompts urban growth and employment, the new steel and glass township of Gurgaon has attracted a large population of business and engineering professionals who value high-quality pre-primary education. Here are Gurgaon’s top ranked preschools for the year 2015:
Although technically in Haryana, the new steel and glass township of Gurgaon […]
In the EW Noida’s best preschools 2014-15, 24 preschools have been rated and ranked by 556 parents and 64 teachers/principals polled by field researchers of Delhi-based market research agency C fore
Although the new township of Noida (pop. 600,000) is sited in and falls under the administrative jurisdiction of Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populated (200 […]
For the first time, budget private schools which have mushroomed countrywide as a response to dysfunctional government schools, are rated and ranked in EWISR 2015
One of the greatest injustices that post-independence India’s thoroughly discredited neta-babu network has visited upon India’s estimated 200 million bottom-of-the-pyramid households is denial of the right to quality early childhood and […]
In the glamour category of EWISR 2015, Woodstock School, Mussoorie, last top-ranked in 2011, has staged a comeback. Moreover, Good Shepherd International, Ooty has risen spectacularly in the public esteem to be jointly ranked second with Kodaikanal International School.
The two-year reign of Kodaikanal International School (KIS) as India’s premier wholly residential international school is […]
Ranked India’s premier international day-cum-boarding school for the fourth year in succession, the Indus International School, Bangalore seems to have consolidated its apex position in this category.
In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) 2015, the state-of-the-art Indus International School, Bangalore (IIS-B, estb. 2003) has been voted India’s #1 international day-cum-boarding school by a huge […]
For the third year in a row, Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai has swept the board across almost all parameters to be ranked the country’s #1 international day school
To all intents and purposes, the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai (DAIS) seems to have consolidated its position at the very top of the EW national league […]
Since 2013, the national girls’ legacy boarding schools league table has been dominated by Welham Girls and Mayo College Girls. But in EWISR 2015 this duopoly has been broken.
Although single sex schools are going out of fashion around the world, in India endowed with a multiplicity of religious, caste and cultural minorities, they continue […]
Following several brand projection initiatives The Doon School, Dehradun has risen in the public esteem and stormed back to be ranked #1 on 12 of the 14 parameters of school education excellence.
Perhaps stung by its dethronement from its usual position as India’s #1 all-boys legacy boarding school last year, the leadership and management of The […]
The media shy Rishi Valley School, Madanapalle which had been ranked the country™s #1 co-ed boarding school for four of the past five years has regained its #1 rank
Within India™s legacy boarding schools sector, co-ed primary-secondaries substantially outnumber single sex institutions, undoubtedly a sign of progress towards gender egalitarianism. In this highly competitive segment, […]
The 11,660 sample respondents countrywide interviewed by C fore have once again voted Campion School, Mumbai India™s #1 all-boys day school followed by St. Xavier™s Collegiate, Kolkata, and St. John™s High, Chandigarh
The top 5 order in the EW India Boys Day Schools Rankings 2015 is a mirror image of last year™s national league table. The […]
For the second year consecutively, the girls day schools national league table is topped by two vintage Kolkata-based schools ” La Martiniere for Girls and Loreto House, Middleton.
Even though an overwhelming majority of greenfield K-12 schools being promoted in the new millennium are co-educational institutions, the country™s established all-girls day schools haven™t quite lost their […]
With The Valley School, Bangalore having been moved to the day schools category, there™s been a rearrangement at the Top 5 table with Daly College, Indore retaining its #1 ranking
Co-ed day-cum boarding schools, i.e, day schools which also host a substantial number of boys and girls as boarders, constitute a special category in the annual […]
In the inaugural standalone national league table of India’s best special needs schools 2015, Tamana Autism Centre, Delhi is ranked #1 with top ratings on five of the ten parameters
An estimated 2.5 percent of India’s 480 million children aged below 18 years suffer from physical disabilities, mental retardation and varying degrees of learning difficulties. Yet, […]
A seemingly innocuous Indian Institutes of Management Bill 2015, which severely dilutes the autonomy of the IIMs, has ignited fears that an unfinished BJP/NDA agenda of 2004 to acquire control and command over India’s premier B-schools, has been revived – Dilip Thakore
Beneath a deceptive everyday calm façade, there’s turmoil within the highly-reputed Indian Institutes of Management […]
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The pivotal persona who plays a vital role in shaping the character and brand of a B-school is the Dean of the institute, designated Director in India’s Central government-promoted 13 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). The essential qualifications of Dean/Director in all B-schools worldwide are excellent higher education, experience as faculty with administrative responsibilities in nationally […]
In response to swelling demand, progressive education entrepreneurs (aka edupreneurs) are establishing high-quality, nationally — and in some cases globally — benchmarked schools in India’s haphazardly growing tier-II/III cities – Dilip Thakore
With India’s five largest and chronically misgoverned metros — Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru — each of whom grudgingly hosts populations of 10 million […]
Against the backdrop of a gradual sea change in higher education, privately promoted universities are set to dominate the higher education segment, lamentations of left intellectuals notwithstanding.
Private institutions of higher education are the abused step children of the Indian State and society. In the lexicon of the “socialistic pattern of society” which Jawaharlal Nehru […]
The top management of the Delhi-based market research company C fore constituted a sample database of 5,689 academics, final year university students and industry managers to rate and rank Indias Top 200 universities across seven parameters of academic excellence Dilip Thakore
The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (aka Bangalore) is Indias top-ranked university followed by the […]
22 Extraordinary Education Innovators
In scattered urban and rural habitats across the country, committed educationists in private education and voluntary organisations are ideating pedagogy and process innovations which could revive India’s moribund education system, and enable the nation to reap its much-trumpeted demographic dividend: Summiya Yasmeen
The reality that contemporary India’s early childhood, primary, secondary and higher […]
Educationworld India Preschool Rankings 2014
Since September, 200 C fore field researchers have quizzed 2,332 SECA (socio-economic category A) young parents and 795 principals and teachers to rate 173 unitary pre-primaries in ten cities countrywide across ten parameters of early childhood care and education excellence. Here are the Educationworld India Preschool Rankings for the year 2014:
Astonishing […]
This year to make the EW India School Rankings more inclusive, separate tables rating and ranking the country™s Top 10 government day and boarding schools are presented
The total number of schools promoted and/or managed by the Central, state and local governments across the country aggregate 1.20 million ” constituting the overwhelming majority of India™s […]
India™s small minority of wholly residential co-ed international schools are on a par with the best primary-secondary education institutions globally, and prepare students for entry into the world™s top universities
The streak of conservatism or trend in favour of vintage institutions rooted in traditions and values, discernible in league tables across all ten categories into which […]
Indus International School, Bangalore; Pathways World School, Aravali and The International School Bangalore have been reaffirmed as India™s Top 3 international day-cum-boarding schools in that order
For the second year in a row, the 2,915 sample respondents interviewed by C fore field researchers in the southern and northern regions have voted the Indus International School, […]
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 […]
The Doon School, Dehradun, routinely ranked #1 in this category for the past few years, has been overtaken by the Bishop Cotton School, Shimla for the first time in the esteem of an informed public
Even though sexually segregated schools are fading out ” the overwhelming majority of newly promoted residential schools tend to be […]
Even though single sex boarding schools are being phased out, for cultural reasons many households prefer single sex institutions, especially girls boarding schools which serve a useful purpose
Evidently single sex girls™ boarding schools are being phased out, because only 11 of them are sufficiently well-known to the 8,263 sample respondents interviewed by C fore […]
A good augury for the future of gender relations in Indian society which has acquired a globally notorious reputation for gender atrocities, is that the great majority of post-liberalisation boarding schools are co-educational
A beneficial legacy of almost 200 years of British raj in India which has survived the test of time, are the few […]
The all-boys day schools 2014 league table features a substantial change in the seating arrangements at Top 10 table. But the Campion School, Mumbai seems to be consolidating its position as India’s #1 Boys’ Day School.
In the 2014 league table of all Boys’ Day Schools which features a radical change in seating arrangements at the […]
The long-reign in the annual EW India School Rankings of Modern High School, Kolkata as the country™s #1 all-girls day school has ended. However the top-ranker™s trophy for this sub-category of day schools (which will be awarded in Delhi on September 20) won™t be moving out of Kolkata. Because the 1,189 knowledgeable sample respondents who […]
The vintage and superbly equipped Daly College, Indore has achieved the rare feat of besting one of the increasingly popular alternative education schools inspired by the late seer, savant and educationist J. Krishnamurti, to be ranked #1 this year in the day-cum-boarding category
Ranked second in this category in 2013, the vintage and superbly equipped […]
Unsurprisingly, the great majority of India™s 1.40 million primary-secondary education institutions are day schools. Of them, schools promoted and managed by the Central, state and local governments add up to 1.20 million with composite private schools numbering 80,000 (200,000 according to Union HRD ministry which classifies primary, upper primary, secondary and higher secondary schools as […]
The intent of this education reform route map spanning the entire spectrum from preschool to PhD education, is to provoke debate within the somnolent groves of Indian academia and the intelligentsia to transform the nation’s demographic liability into an asset
IF INDIA’S ACADEMY had a conscience and sense of responsibility, August 15, when the nation celebrates […]
The newly inducted Modi sarkar urgently needs to take the NECCE policy draft approved by the UPA-II government forward. Thanks to a small minority of educators and educationists including pioneers who braving opprobrium, promoted metropolitan preschools several decades ago, the Mumbai-based Early Childhood Association (ECA, estb. 2010) and not least EducationWorld, which has convened four global […]
Under this model, rapidly expanding in the US, government transfers the management of its schools to proven education NGOs and/or private educationists, paying them the per student cost incurred by it
EVERYBODY WHO KNOWS THE first thing about the near-collapsed Indian education system, knows that its deadweight — which has dragged not only post-independence India’s education […]
The small minority of India’s top-rung legacy boarding and new genre international schools are on a par with the best private schools in the West. But the majority of secondaries are under-developed by global standards
THE GLARING qualitative gap which is evident between post-independence India’s private and government preschools and primaries, is unbridged in secondary education, […]
The price the Indian economy has paid for under-investment in VET has been catastrophic. Shopfloor productivity in industry is one-third to one-tenth of China and OECD countries.
PERHAPS BECAUSE of deep-rooted prejudices buried in the pernicious Hindu caste system, hands-on vocational education which would have upskilled the population, didn’t receive any worthwhile attention during the first […]
Although the country boasts 37,000 colleges and 735 universities, the fundamental problem of post-independence India’s higher education system is excessive Central and state government control
UNSURPRISINGLY ALL THE accumulated sins of omission and commission of the past six decades in preschool, primary and secondary education have risen to an ugly froth in India’s higher education system. […]
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