For state government schools, subject to relentless criticism by educationists, academia and media, a separate league table has been introduced this year to encourage them to upgrade and improve, writes Paromita Sengupta & Reshma Ravishanker
RPVV, Dwarka’s Dr. Atul Kumar (centre left)
The overwhelming majority of the country’s 1.30 million government schools which have earned […]
For EWISR 2022-23, a specially constituted sample respondent database was interviewed by the Delhi-based C fore to rate Central government day schools on 14 parameters of school education excellence, writes Paromita Sengupta & Reshma Ravishanker
Navy Children School, Vizag’s Dr. Parul Kumar
The condition of the overwhelming majority of India’s 1.20 million government schools is […]
In international day-cum-boarding schools, day scholars benefit from the excellent infrastructure and facilities built for boarders and the latter benefit by way of student body diversity. Against 28 schools ranked in this category in 2017, the number has risen to 41 in EWISR 2022-23
The league table of international day schools in the annual EWISR is lengthening every year with new institutions springing up in metros, state capitals and even tier III and IV cities across the country. This year’s league table of India’s best international day schools is 123-strong
With several hitherto highly ranked boys boarding schools including Mayo College, Ajmer, Scindia School, Gwalior, Bishop Cotton, Shimla and St. Paul’s, Darjeeling among others transferred to the new vintage legacy category, there’s been a major rearrangement of seating in this league table
TDS headmaster Dr. Jagpreet Singh
The history of modern primary-secondary education has been […]
Girls boarding schools are valuable national assets because they provide access to a wide range of co-curricular and sports education and greater personality development opportunities, than to girl children in day schools
Top-ranked SKV principal Nishi Misra
Although gender-segregated schools are fading out of fashion as testified by the explosion of co-ed schools in all […]
Somewhat surprisingly in a reportedly conservative society, even under the boarding schools category the lengthiest league table is of co-ed institutions with numbers listed in the gender-segregated boys and girls schools shrinking year by year
Chinmaya Mission director Shanti Krishnamurthy (centre)
Societal preference of mixed gender co-ed schools is evidenced by the rapidly multiplying co-ed […]
In this issue, we present national, state, and parameter league tables of boarding schools (co-ed, boys and girls), international (co-ed day, day-cum-boarding, residential), vintage legacy, government, special needs, budget private and philanthropy schools, writes Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Since the EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) were somewhat tentatively and experimentally launched in 2007, they have […]
Rising awareness of the importance of formal SEL (social emotional learning) is timely in post-pandemic India where social tensions and religions, caste, class and gender fault lines are manifesting in a slowing economy experiencing rising unemployment and inflation
One of the most promising developments in early childhood and K-12 education worldwide is rising awareness among educationists, […]
With the overwhelming majority of new day schools being mixed gender, the boys-only league table has been shrinking every year. This year with legacy vintage boys schools ranked separately, the number has reduced to 26
With a large number of conservative households insistent upon gender-segregated education, high-ranked girls schools provide a window of opportunity for a large number of girl children to acquire quality K-12 education
Sacred Heart, Chandigarh’s Sr. Arti along with students
Tragic but true. Even in this 21st century day and age, there are not a few conservative […]
It’s a brilliant idea to rank India’s vintage schools over a century-old which are a valuable legacy of the country, separately. It’s logical that schools with ancient traditions and value systems are compared with each other rather than with new late 20th and early 21st century institutions. Over the past 130 years, Daly College has […]
Day-cum-boarding schools are highly valued because they offer parents and children the advantages of living at home plus access to superior infrastructure that boarding schools invariably provide. Little wonder their number is rising every year
Emerald Heights International School, Indore (EHIS) with its founder Siddharth Singh
In the pioneer annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) […]
The scale and depth of EWISR 2022-23 is unprecedented in India and worldwide. Over a period of four months, 122 C fore field researchers conducted interviews in 28 cities across the country. They persuaded 14,221 parents, teachers, principals, educationists and students to rate 4,000 primary-secondaries under 14 parameters of school excellence, writes Dilip Thakore & […]
In this special 75th Independence Day cover feature, we present suggestions to parents on simple but effective ways to educate children about India’s unique freedom movement and the democratic and secular ideals that Mahatma Gandhi and other great visionaries gifted free India, writes Ramya Sakthivel & Cynthia John
Sentient educators and intellectuals are unanimous that educating […]
Fifty years after its initiatives in rural education, healthcare, solar energy, water conservation, handicrafts, waste management and wasteland development have transformed the lives of millions in the neglected outbacks of hinterland India, the overwhelming majority of citizens are unaware of this unique institution, writes Dilip Thakore
Early this year as the country was recovering from the […]
The mind-boggling array of career pathways available to 21st century youth has made career and vocation planning a more complex endeavour than in the past. Confronted with a diverse multiliplicity of choices, parents and youth have to match aptitudes with career preferences, writes Poornima Dilip, Cynthia John & Ramya Sakthivel
On the second anniversary of the presentation of NEP 2020 to Parliament and the nation, grave doubts have arisen about bona fide implementation of this policy formulated after an interregnum of 34 years, writes Dilip Thakore
Launched with great expectations and considerable fanfare on July 29, 2020 after an interregnum of 34 years, […]
Around the world, child development professionals are warning that even high-information parents can become susceptible to child health and nutrition myths recklessly viraled on the internet, WhatsApp groups and social media platforms, write Poornima Dilip, Cynthia John & Mini P.
In the new age of the worldwide web and ubiquitous social media, young parents have free […]
As the country’s education institutions begin to regain post-pandemic momentum in a fractious era of religious and communal discord while suffering ravages of climate change, government and private educators would do well to revisit the education philosophy and teachings of this extraordinary visionary sage J. Krishnamurti, writes Dilip Thakore
Child psychologists and psychiatrists are warning that with children having switched to learning, playing and socialising online, there’s real danger of digital addiction with serious consequences for their physical and emotional growth. PW suggests three activities — cycling, cooking and gardening — for parents to detox and wean children away from digital devices
The annual EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings provide comprehensive league tables ranking the country’s Top 500 arts, science and commerce colleges, Top 100 private engineering colleges, Top 300 government and private universities in 15 discrete categories, and Top 100 private B-schools. However, these are all-inclusive rankings rating the country’s most well-reputed higher ed institutions across […]
Since the vast majority of aspirants for business management education have to choose from among 6,000 B-schools, the majority of them privately promoted, the annual EWIHER solely ranks the country’s Top 100 private B-schools, writes Dilip Thakore
ISB’s Prof. R.S. Thirumalai (centre)
Since 2013, the annual EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings designed to facilitate the […]
India’s agriculture universities receive scant media coverage depite 60 percent of the country’s population engaged in agriculture and allied vocations and industries
ICAR-NDRI’s Dr. M.S. Chauhan (centre)
The National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal (NDRI, estb.1923) and Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (PAU, estb.1963) are jointly ranked India’s #1 agriculture varsities in EWIHER 2022-23. NDRI (ranked #19 […]
Ranked #7 in the composite EWIHER 2021-22, National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru is India’s #1 public law and humanities university in 2022-23 with top scores in a record nine of ten parameters
NLSUI, Bangalore campus.
The carving out of a separate law and humanities league table has given a huge boost to […]
Surprisingly, Anna University, Chennai is awarded top score under the all-important parameter of research and innovation, rather than Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Anna University’s G. Ravikumar (centre right)
The second most populous league table in the rationalised EW government universities rankings 2022-23 is of varsities offering engineering & technology programmes. Unsurprisingly, this 20-strong […]
In EWIHER 2022-23, government universities are ranked in nine separate categories — multidisciplinary, law and humanities, natural and life sciences (including medical), engineering and technology, all-women, agriculture etc. This segregation eliminates apples with oranges type comparisons, writes Summiya Yasmeen
India’s public higher education system comprises 16 deemed-to-be, 54 Central and 444 state government universities. Among them, […]
Privately promoted liberal arts universities are a relatively new phenomenon in Indian education. For several decades after independence, liberal arts and humanities education was out of fashion in middle-class India
JGU’s Dr. C. Raj Kumar
Rationalisation and restructuring of the EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings which were hitherto grouped under the heads of private and […]
According to the National Medical Commission, the number of medical colleges countrywide aggregates a mere 562, of which 276 are privately promoted institutions, nowhere near enough for a country with a population of 1.35 billion
SRIHER’s Dr. Vijay Raghavan
One of the conspicuous failures of post-independence India’s centrally planned Soviet-inspired socialist economy in which private […]
Of the total number of 4,500 engineering colleges in India, 3,415 are privately promoted. And among them, a large number have been awarded the status of universities because of their high NAAC ratings and good industry reputation
BITS-Pilani’s Dr. Souvik Bhattacharyya (centre left)
Engineering and technology institutions of higher education hold a special place […]
To rationalise evaluation under the broad heads of private and government, universities are rated and ranked in 15 separate categories including multi-disciplinary, liberal arts, engineering and technology, social sciences, and medical and life sciences among other discrete league tables, writes Dilip Thakore and Summiya Yasmeen
Even if it sounds somewhat immodest, a unique feature of the […]
Currently, 403 private universities and 126 deemed (private) universities licensed by the Central government are on the 1,027-strong list of Indian universities approved by the Delhi-based University Grants Commission. According to some estimates, more than 70 percent of India’s youth in higher education are in private HEIs, writes Dilip Thakore
Although there’s an urgent need to liberalise and rationalise child adoption rules and regulations, with an increasing number of enlightened couples braving the long, arduous and expensive process of child adoption, the focus of this feature is to prepare couples to successfully nurture adopted children after they have received official approval, writes Aruna Raghuram, Cynthia […]
The annual EW rankings deliberately exclude IITs and NITs from our league tables to enable 98 percent of students who don’t make it into these routinely top-ranked government institutes to choose the most suitable among India’s 3,415 private engineering colleges, writes Summiya Yasmeen
Introduced in 2013, the annual EducationWorld pan-India engineering college rankings league tables are […]
Although several colleges affiliated with Delhi University are the most popular and preferred countrywide and eminently eligible, they haven’t been conferred autonomous status and are tied to the apron strings of DU
St. Stephen’s, Delhi principal John Varghese
It’s a measure of the bewilderingly complex and irrational higher education regulatory system devised by post-independence India’s […]
There’s no change in the top echelons of India’s best autonomous ASC colleges promoted by state governments. Although they are sufficiently qualified to be awarded autonomous status, they are totally ignored by media
GSC, Bengaluru’s Chandragi (centre left)
A major reform proposed in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is a mandate to India’s 45,000 […]
To inspire, aid and enable class XII students to select the most suitable undergrad colleges, since 2018 EducationWorld has been rating India’s Top 500 Arts, Science and Commerce, and Engineering colleges on several critical parameters of education excellence and ranking them in separate categories, writes Dilip Thakore
Now that the novel Coronavirus pandemic which forced the […]
Teachers are reporting that children returning to classes after almost 700 days of remote online learning and all too often no learning at all, have suffered great emotional and mental damage. This is manifesting by way of deficient socialisation skills, irritability, anxiety, fear, depression and digital addiction
-Poornima Dilip, Johanna Preeti Shama, Nishiha David, Mini P. […]
Following the most prolonged education lockdown of any major country worldwide, the world’s largest cohort of children and youth estimated at 500 million has suffered huge learning loss and has a steep mountain to climb to make good the lost lessons of the pandemic era, writes Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Urban upper middle-class parents under domestic stress are increasingly flocking to a new genre of advisory professionals: parenting coaches. These new-age gurus with professional qualifications in child and adolescence development, education, psychology and counseling are providing advice to parents to navigate the challenges of raising children in the disruptive pandemic era – Smiti J.N.
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