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 […]
For the seventh annual EW India Preschool Rankings 2016 survey, over 100 field researchers of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 7,898 parents, principals and teachers in 16 cities countrywide to rate and rank owned/proprietary and franchised pre-primaries separately -Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Readers of this sui generis publication are familiar with the lament that education […]
The national capital christened Delhi NCR by consumer goods marketers, is arguably better aware of the importance of early childhood care and education than any other city countrywide. Here are Delhi’s top preschools for the 2016.
The national capital of Delhi which includes several newly risen cities spilling across state boundaries, christened Delhi NCR (national capital […]
Although ECCE is a novel concept for government bureaucrats and the public in the subcontinent, it’s relatively old hat in Mumbai, the country’s commercial capital which has always been open to modernisation ideals
As a west coast port city, Mumbai (pop. 21 million) — the country’s commercial capital — has always been open to modernisation ideals […]
Despite political turmoil for over half a century, West Bengal’s famous private schools have managed to maintain their reputation, and Kolkata’s top preschools providing quality education have impacted themselves on the city’s bhadralok
Right until the 1970s, Calcutta (transformed into Kolkata in 2001) was the education (and industry and business) epicentre of newly independent India. But […]
While the 24-strong EW league table of Chennai’s proprietary pre-primaries has experienced considerable churn, the 14-strong franchised preschools table has witnessed few changes from last year. Here are Chennai’s most preferred preschools:
Despite the destructive and unwarranted interference of Tamil Nadu’s film star politicians with the state’s once nationally admired education system which is now a […]
The annual EW Preschool Rankings generate considerable excitement and enthusiasm in the IT city which boasts a large number of double-income households of young parents. Here are Bangalore’s top-ranked pre-primaries:
The ICT capital of the country, the once garden city of Bangalore (renamed Bengaluru in 2014 by language chauvinist politicians with total disregard for the brand […]
This year 52 proprietary and franchised preschools including 13 previously unranked pre-primaries were rated and ranked by 620 parents (with preschool children), teachers and principals in Hyderabad. Here are Hyderabad’s most preferred preschools 2016-17.
Ranked India’s #1 state (jointly with neighbouring Andhra Pradesh) on the Ease of Doing Business Index 2016 of the World Bank, Telangana […]
Pune’s long tradition of academic scholarship has prompted its citizens to readily embrace early childhood care and education. Over the past decade in particular, a substantial number of private preschools have mushroomed citywide. Here are Pune’s top preschools for the year 2016.
The second most important industrial hub of Maharashtra — India’s most industrialised state accounting […]
An egregious misinterpretation of Mahatma Gandhi’s edicts on education discouraged English-medium education in Gujarat’s commercial capital. But after liberalisation in 1991, it’s a different story in pre-primary and school education
The western seaboard state of Gujarat (pop. 62.7 million) — the bailiwick of prime minister Narendra Modi who served as its chief minister for three consecutive […]
With private entrepreneurs having quickly established Gurgaon as a hub of the IT, automobile and BPO industries, globally benchmarked schools and universities, new-age pre-primaries have inevitably mushroomed. Here are Gurgaon’s most admired preschools for the year 2016:
Although sited in the neighbouring state of Haryana (pop. 28 million), the new steel and glass city of Gurgaon […]
An IT and IT-enabled services hotspot with a population of highly-educated and skilled professionals and the highest per capita income of Delhi NCR, Noida is experiencing spiralling demand for high-quality preschool to tertiary education. Here are Noida’s most respected preschools for the year 2016:
Established in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh during the […]
In the face-off between entrenched leftists and ‘invader’ right-wing intellectuals and academics on university campuses countrywide, the detailed and constructive recommendations of the Subramanian Committee have little chance of being incorporated into the New Education Policy 2016:Dilip Thakore
Two years after it was first proposed by former firebrand Union minister for human resource development Smriti Irani, […]
The Committee for Evolution of the New Education Policy aka the TSR Subramanian Committee submitted its National Policy on Education 2016 draft to the Union HRD ministry on May 28, 2016. Highlights of the 49-page ‘Summary of Recommendations’ of the report are given hereunder.
9.4 Challenges for NEP 2016
Despite many gains, the Indian education system faces […]
Confidence levels are high and optimism is palpable in the high security headquarters of Cambridge International Examinations, UK, which is on an affiliations drive to win friends and influence in Indian primary-secondary education:Dilip Thakore
The Cambridge (UK)-based Cambridge Assessment International Examinations board (CAIE, estb.1858), which has 10,000 schools in 160 countries worldwide and 389 primary-secondaries […]
In 1858, the University of Cambridge (estb. 1209) promoted the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) to raise standards of school education in the UK by administering exams for people who were not members of the university. In that year, 370 school students in seven English cities wrote exams set by UCLES. In 1864 […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed Michael O’Sullivan, CEO of Cambridge Assessment International Examinations, in Cambridge, UK. Excerpts:
Although CAIE is the largest provider of international education worldwide, it isn’t Britain’s largest provider of primary and secondary education in terms of the number of affiliated schools and students. How do you explain this seeming paradox?
Best Co-ed Day-cum-Boarding Schools 2016-17, i.e day schools that also host a substantial number of boys and girls as boarders, constitute a special category in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings.
The league table of India’s best co-ed day-cum-boarding schools has experienced a churn this year. After two years at the top, the reign of Daly […]
For the fourth consecutive year, the sample respondents polled by C fore in western India have voted Campion School, Mumbai India’s #1 boys day school followed by St. Xavier’s Collegiate, Kolkata and St. Johns High, Chandigarh
Dislodging the Campion School, Mumbai (estb.1943) from its premier position in the EW national boys day schools league table is […]
Under the capable leadership of its principal Jyotsna Brar, who retired recently, Welham Girls, Dehradun, top-rated on nine of the 14 parameters of education excellence this year, has retained the #1 slot since 2013. Here are India’s Best Girls Boarding Schools 2016-17.
For the fourth year in succession, Welham Girls, Dehradun has been voted India’s #1 […]
Although single gender schools are going out of fashion, they have changed with the times and continue to remain popular with conservative middle class households determined to provide their progeny a good start in life. Here are India’s Top Boys Boarding Schools 2016-17.
Dominated by Dehradun-based The Doon School (TDS, estb. 1935), the league table of […]
Since 2013, when international schools were sub-divided into three categories, the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai has dominated the international day schools league table.
International schools affiliated with foreign boards such as the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges, USA and Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), UK (e.g Woodstock, Mussoorie (estb.1852); Kodaikanal International (1901) and […]
Within this increasingly popular category, Indus International School, Bangalore (estb. 2003) has been voted #1 for the fifth year in succession by a wide margin
Under the umbrella category of international schools (defined as primary-secondaries affiliated with reputable offshore examination boards), international day-cum-boarding schools – half-way houses between day and fully residential primary-secondaries – seem to […]
Instead of focusing their attention on the country’s crumbling dysfunctional 1.2 million government primary-secondaries, politicians and bureaucrats of the Central and state governments are tying up the nation’s private schools in swirls of red tape even as admission queues lengthen outside their gates – Summiya Yasmeen
India’s private schools — some of them of centuries’ vintage which have […]
The vice-like — and tightening — chokehold of the Central and state education bureaucracy over primary and secondary education has made promotion of private greenfield schools a formidable challenge which can only be broken by very determined and persistent edupreneurs.
From the stage of land acquisition, obtaining permissions from civic planners, securing electricity and water supply […]
On the 65th anniversary of promulgation of the Constitution, there’s little awareness within the smug middle class and academia of the extent to which mass illiteracy and sub-standard public primary and secondary education have impacted daily lives and endangered the future of the Republic: Dilip Thakore
For right-thinking citizens who find the time to make an honest […]
It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. While it’s clear that post-independence India’s venal and self-serving political class isn’t interested in according high priority to public education and universal literacy because an educated electorate would never elect the type of politicians who have pushed not only themselves, but their kith and kin […]
For the sixth annual EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2015 survey, over 100 field researchers of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 6,283 parents, principals and teachers in ten selected cities. Moreover in a departure from past practice, this year’s survey segregates preschools into three separate categories — owned/proprietary, franchised and pre-primaries of composite schools – Dilip Thakore […]
The annual winter stampede for admissions into Delhi’s most admired pre-primaries is the most frantic and brutal nationwide in the year 2015, with parents ready and willing to brave near zero temperatures for obtaining admission forms to the premier preschools
No city, town or community nationwide is more aware of the vital importance of professionally administered […]
For this year’s survey conducted under a new taxonomy, Mumbai’s most well-known 20 owned/proprietary, 17 franchised and 15 pre-primaries attached to K-10/12 schools were rated and ranked separately. Here are Mumbai’s top-ranked preschools for the year 2015
Mumbai (aka Bombay), India’s premier seaport and commercial capital (pop.21 million), has always been more receptive to revolutionary technology […]
In Kolkata — still awaiting poriborton (change) promised by the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal’s education system — professionally administered early childhood care and education is highly valued. Here are Kolkata’s premier preschools 2014-15
In the eastern metropolis of Kolkata (pop. 14.5 million) —which is still awaiting poriborton (change) promised by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in […]
In this year’s survey, 42 preschools in Chennai (cf. 21 in 2014) have been rated and ranked across ten parameters by 658 parents and teachers polled by Delhi-based market research agency C fore
Parents in the southern port city of Chennai (pop. 5 million), currently reeling under unprecedented rains and flooding which has forced closure of […]
To rate and rank the garden city’s most reputable proprietary, franchised and pre-primaries of composite schools, 614 parents, principals and teachers were interviewed by C fore field researchers. Here are Bangalore’s top pre-primaries for the year 2015:
In the peninsular garden city of Bangalore/Bengaluru (pop.11 million), fast living up to its ‘garbage city’ image for the inability […]
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