Here are India’s best hotel management institutes for the year 2013.
Promoted way back in 1966 by the Oberoi Group, the Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development, Delhi is top-ranked on all four parameters of excellence
The Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development (OCLD), Delhi is ranked India’s #1 hotel management institute in the inaugural EducationWorld-C fore India’s […]
Over the past 27 years since it was promoted by the Union textiles ministry, NIFT-Delhi has set new benchmarks in fashion education and produced some of the country’s top designers, securing a position among India’s top 20 Fashion Design Institutes 2013.
Given its status as India’s pioneer institution offering professional degree programmes in fashion design, it’s […]
As Indian companies and foreign media conglomerates continue to make massive investments in print, television and online media platforms, job opportunities for professionals are exploding. Here are India’s best Mass Communication Institutes for the year 2013:
With over 500 television channels, 50,000 newspapapers and magazines, hundreds of advertising agencies and public relations firms, the media and […]
With a 30 percent annual growth rate, this new age industry’s revenue is expected to exceed $1,623 million (Rs.9,738 crore) by 2015, provoking leap-frogging demand for trained animators. Here are India’s Top 10 Animation Design Institutes for the year 2013:
Of the several new age professional education vocations featured in this inaugural EW-C fore survey, animation […]
Given the extraordinary exclusivity of IITs which admit a mere 2 percent of aspiring engineering students annually, your editors decided to eliminate them from EducationWorld-C fore’s inaugural rankings of India’s most admired engineering colleges. Dilip Thakore reports
It’s well-known the prosperity of the developed OECD nations of the first world — and latterly of China — has […]
Labouring unsung under the long shadow of the country’s celebrated IITs, India’s next-best engineering institutes have received the overdue attention focused on them by the inaugural EW-C fore Engineering Colleges Rankings 2013 as manna from heaven
Euphoria, joy, relief, gratitude and other positive emotions were the reactions of heads and faculty of engineering colleges and technology […]
For the managements of the great majority of institutes listed in the inaugural EW-C fore league tables of the country’s most admired non-IIT engineering colleges/technology institutes, their ranking within state boundaries may well be more valuable than national rank. India’s 28 states and seven Union territories are linguistically, culturally and even ethnically so diverse that […]
To provide readers, especially aspirant engineers, a comprehensive profile of India’s most highly respected ‘other’ (excluding IITs) engineering colleges, the Top 100 national and state league tables are supplemented with Top 10 national rankings on the basis of parameters of excellence.
To compile the national and state rankings, C fore field researchers interviewed 1,126 faculty and […]
Against the backdrop of insistent demand for medical education and a rash of scandals involving the Medical Council of India raising serious doubts about the quality of education delivered, EducationWorld commissioned the Delhi-based C fore to rate and rank India’s Top 30 medical colleges 2013. Summiya Yasmeen reports
To compile the national and state rankings of India’s most respected medical colleges, C fore field researchers interviewed 217 faculty and 253 final year medical students countrywide, asking them to rate medical colleges on six parameters, viz, competence of faculty, faculty welfare and development, research and innovation, pedagogic systems and processes, placements and infrastructure and […]
Three years since it became law on April 1, 2010, it’s becoming increasingly clear this historic legislation was hastily drafted without proper evaluation of ground realities in primary education criminally neglected for over six decades. A close reading of the RTE Act indicates that several of its ill-conceived provisions have the potential to wreck India’s […]
s.2.(n) “School” means any recognised school imparting elementary education and includes: (iii) school belonging to specified category and (iv) an unaided school not receiving any kind of aid or grants to meet its expenses from the appropriate government or local authority.
s.3.(1) Every child of the age of six to fourteen years shall have a right to free […]
To mark the end of three years since the right to Free & Compulsory Education (aka RTE) Act, 2009 became operational (on April 1, 2010), 22 education NGOs and six respected educationists convened in Delhi on March 28. On the occasion, they made an appeal to the Central and state governments to shift the focus […]
Belatedly as usual, India’s lackadaisical academics and the intelligentsia are beginning to weigh the socio-economic costs of the gender crimes epidemic allowed to spread almost unchecked across the subcontinent. Women are being forced out of academia, corporates and industry resulting in huge economic loss to the nation. Urmila Rao & Summiya Yasmeen report
Age of consent
Lower age of consent for consensual sex to 16 years
Retains age of consent at 18 years
Gang rape
20 years imprisonment and life imprisonment for rape and murder. Refrained from recommending death penalty
20 years imprisonment
and death penalty for repeat offenders
Sexual assault/ rape
Seven years to life imprisonment and compensation […]
Tanima Majumder, second year BA student at Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta University.
“I feel unsafe while commuting to college even during the day. It’s common to be subjected to lewd comments and groping on Kolkata’s roads and in buses. Night commuting is very unsafe. I try to finish all my assignments by working intensively during the […]
In its latest annual survey of the world’s top 6,603 think tanks, the University of Pennsylvania has ranked the Delhi-based Centre for Civil Society India’s No.1 in its Global Go-To Think Tank league table headed by the Brookings Institution (USA), Chatham House (UK), and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (USA). K.V. Priya with Dilip Thakore
Fully persuaded by the logic that social return per dollar invested in early childhood education is higher than equal investment in K-12 and tertiary education, EducationWorld organised major ECE global conferences in 2010 and 2011. On January 19, the 3rd ECE Global Conference 2013 was staged in Bangalore. Dilip Thakore reports
Of late there’s been a wave of global rediscovery of the vital importance of early childhood education (ECE). In countries around the world, there is growing acknowledgement of the critical contribution that education in the early years makes towards the overall development of children. Of greater significance though, is growing research data which suggests that […]
I would like to begin with a true story, an episode of a few decades ago. A young woman had come to her parental home during her first pregnancy. Her father was a reputed doctor in a small temple town called Srivilliputtur. The delivery was normal and the baby was healthy. Baths and diets were […]
Against the backdrop of early childhood education (ECE) being described as an area of darkness in Indian education, at the EducationWorld Early Childhood Education Global Conference 2013, a panel discussion on the subject ‘Is Indian academia/society ignorant about ECE?’, evoked spirited debate.
Chaired by EducationWorld editor Dilip Thakore (DT), the specially constituted panel comprised Dr. Venita Kaul (VK), director of […]
At the EducationWorld ECE Global Conference 2013, a panel discussion convened to discuss the dangers of age-inappropriate ECE, drew a packed house. The panel chaired by Summiya Yasmeen (SY), managing editor of EducationWorld, included Dr. K.R. Maalathi (KRM), a Chennai-based education consultant and advisor to the Ashok Piramal Group, Mumbai, and Children Welfare Society, Dubai; Dr. Shekhar Seshadri (SS), professor, department […]
A slew of big-ticket domestic and overseas projects launched under the banner of its for-profit subsidiary Manipal Global Education Services, are set to dramatically transform the Manipal Education & Medical Group from a competent provider of professional education in peninsular India into Asia’s premier higher ed multinational. Dilip Thakore reports
The Manipal (Karnataka) and Bangalore headquarters of […]
Manipal University. This is the successor institution of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (estb. 1942) and the Kasturba Medical College and teaching hospital founded in 1953 by the legendary educationist-entrepreneur Dr. T.M.A Pai (1898-1979), and developed by his successor Dr. Ramdas Pai into India’s first private deemed university, recognised by the Delhi-based University Grants Commission […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed Dr. Ranjan Pai, managing director and chief executive of the Manipal Education and Medical Group Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2000) — the holding company of 43 education institutions with an aggregate enrolment of 300,000 students and 47 healthcare institutions including 16 hospitals in India and abroad, in his office in Bangalore. Excerpts from the 90-minute […]
For the EW India Preschool Rankings 2012, 2,284 respondents comprising SECA parents, principals and teachers in six major cities where there’s sufficient awareness of the vital importance of quality preschool education, were polled by the well-known market research firm C fore. Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen report
For a rising number of young middle class parents in […]
A specially selected sample of 325 parents of preschool-going children and 54 knowledgeable principals and teachers in Delhi rated and ranked the national capital’s Top 20 preschools. Here are Delhi’s top ranked preschools for the year 2012:
Awareness of the vital importance of early childhood education (ECE) is arguably higher in Delhi than in any urban […]
A representative sample of 360 SEC A preschool parents and teachers/principals has voted Kangaroo Kids, Bandra the city’s No.1 preschool for the third year. But the Top 20 league table has been rearranged. Here are Mumbai’s top ranked preschools for the year 2012:
This year the preschool league tables of the south-eastern port city of Chennai […]
In this survivor city which has unfortunately had to suffer a succession of levelling-down administrations, Kolkata’s privately promoted preschools have emerged as islands of excellence in a sea of academic mediocrity. Here are Kolkata’s premier preschools for the year 2012:
Spared the rod of heavy-handed government regulation even during 34 years of uninterrupted rule in West […]
Although this southern sea port city’s 361 sample respondents comprising preschool parents and teachers/principals again awarded prime position to Vael’s Billabong High-Kangaroo Kids, Neelankarai, all other seats in the Top 20 league table have been rearranged. Here are Chennai’s most preferred preschools for the year 2012.
Whereas last year the EducationWorld preschools master league table for […]
A large phalanx of shiny new preschools have debuted in Bengaluru’s Top 20 league table indicating growing demand from well-informed professionals in this IT city. Here are Bengaluru’s best preschools 2012.
Although the once green and pleasant Bengaluru (pop.8 million) aka the garden city, is slowly but inexorably being asphyxiated by automotive vehicular pollution, and is […]
A civic representative sample comprising 460 SEC A preschool parents, principals and teachers have voted the previously unranked Indus Early Learning Centre, Jubilee Hills the city’s most admired preschool generating shock waves
The southern city of Hyderabad (pop 6.8 million), whose accelerating emergence as a premier academic and IT (information technology) hub has been slowed by […]
There’s rising anxiety within middle-class India whether the country’s top-ranked preschools, schools and best colleges and universities are preparing students adequately to compete in the dawning age of global hyper-competition. Dilip Thakore reports
The high interest aroused by the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2012 (see EW September) nationwide, quickly followed by publication and dissemination of the Quacquarelli Symonds […]
Promoted as a one-room test prep venture in 1995, through a strategy of backward integration, career launcher has metamorphosed into cl educate ltd, a multi-divisional corporate spanning the education spectrum and vying for market leadership. Dilip Thakore reports
With the forecast for Educomp Solutions and Everonn — hitherto India’s most high-profile and fancied listed private education ICT […]
On August 14, the Greater Noida-based CL Educate Ltd (estimated revenue: Rs.200 crore in 2011-12) completed 17 years of operations and attained adulthood. Started in 1995 by a St. Stephen’s, Delhi and IIM-Bangalore alumnus Satya Narayanan R. as Career Launcher, the enterprise has since grown from a one-room test prep school into a multi-divisional company […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed Satya Narayanan R. (popularly known as Satya), founder-chairman of CL Educate Ltd in the company’s head office in Greater Noida. Excerpts.
What were the motivations and objectives which prompted you to promote Career Launcher as a one-man tutorials firm in 1995?
After landing what everyone considered a dream job in Ranbaxy after graduating from IIM-Bangalore, I […]
Conducted by the premier market research and polling company C fore, Delhi, the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2012 ranks over 400 of the country’s most well-known primary-secondaries on the basis of perceptual ratings awarded by a carefully constituted sample respondents base of 3,070 parents, principals, teachers and educationists across 14 parameters of excellence. Dilip Thakore reports
Given the vast diversity of language, culture and ethnicity within each region, the regional tables of yesteryear have been replaced by state and city tables
On the basis of feedback received from field researchers of the Delhi-based market research and intelligence agency Centre for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb. 2000) which has been […]
The status quo has been maintained at the top table with Rishi Valley School, Chittoor and Doon School, Dehradun ranked the country’s top legacy boarding schools this year as well
The great churn witnessed in the Top 10 rankings of India’s most admired day schools is not replicated in the league table of the country’s most […]
This year the newly promoted (2003) Indus International, Bangalore and Dhirubhai Ambani International, Mumbai have ended the four-year duopoly of the vintage Woodstock, Mussoorie and Kodaikanal International. Summiya Yasmeen reports
In sharp contrast with the largely undisturbed Top 10 pecking order of British-inspired legacy boarding schools, in the league table of India’s most admired new genre […]
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