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.
In 2004, when this publication was a mere five years of age, we featured a cover story titled ‘Dirty Dozen Corrupt Practices Destroying Indian Education’. Almost two decades later, not only are the dirty dozen corrupt practices of the early millennium omnipresent, several new ones have been added to the list. – Dilip Thakore
In the first cover story of 2022, PW brings actionable goals-setting advice from a panel of reputed psychologists, nutritionists, parenting and lifestyle coaches to improve overall family health and well-being, writes Aurelin Ruth, Cynthia John & Mini P.
The recently concluded year 2021 was transformed into an annus horribilis by the devastating Covid-19 pandemic which has […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed Dr. B.S. Rao in the Sri Chaitanya Group of Institutions (SCGI) head office in Hyderabad. Excerpts from the 60-minutes interview:
In 1986 after practising medicine in the UK and Iran for 16 years, you and your wife Dr. Jhansi Lakshmi Bai Boppana returned to India to start the first Sri Chaitanya school in […]
After three decades of under-the-radar growth in Andhra Pradesh and peninsular India, during which it has imperceptibly evolved into the largest chain of proprietorial K-12 private schools in India, and perhaps Asia, the Sri Chaitanya Group’s second-generation management has ventured forth to establish it as a national brand in English-medium K-12 […]
During the prolonged Covid pandemic lockdown of India’s education institutions — the longest worldwide — the nurturing and supportive role that grandparents play in developing children into happy and confident adults has come into sharp focus, writes R. Poornima Dilip & Cynthia John
During the on-and-off Covid-19 lockdowns of the past two years, India’s child daycare […]
International residential schools affiliated with offshore school-leaving examination boards are the most glamourous and exclusive schools countrywide. This explains why the league table of these schools is the smallest in EWISR
Woodstock’s Craig Cook: India’s best international residential schools
Although many — perhaps thousands — of K-12 schools across the country incorporate the descriptive ‘international’ […]
Normatively sited on sprawling campuses on the outskirts of metros and big cities, international day-cum-boarding schools offer globally benchmarked curriculums, new-tech enabled pedagogies, state-of-the-art academic, sports and co-curricular education facilities and high-quality teachers, including expatriate faculty
IIS-Bangalore’s Lt. Gen. Arjun Ray and Sarojini Rao: best international day-cum-boarding schools 2021-22
India’s international day-cum-boarding schools affiliated with […]
In this edition, we present Part II of EWISR 2021-22 featuring league tables rating and ranking the country’s most reputed Boarding Schools (co-ed, girls and boys), International Schools (day, day-cum-boarding and fully residential) and also the most respected Budget Private Schools – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Conceptualised and launched in 2007, the annual EducationWorld India […]
International day schools are popular with upper middle class households, because they provide globally benchmarked K-12 education at relatively affordable prices compared with international day-cum-boarding and wholly residential schools
Rising middle class prosperity in post-liberalisation India — by 2025 the middle class will aggregate 583 million citizens — has fuelled a demand surge for schools providing […]
Contrary to public opinion the number of budget private schools — an entrepreneurial response to 1.20 million state government schools defined by rock-bottom learning outcomes — is not small. 400,000 BPS countrywide have a staggering enrolment of 60 million children.
With pre-primary education hit hardest by the pandemic lockdown for the second year in succession, we are obliged to publish a truncated survey. C fore personnel interviewed 3,205 sample respondents to rate preschools in six cities on ten parameters of early childhood excellence
One of the conspicuous successes of EducationWorld, ambitiously launched in November 1999 with […]
Since the unlamented departure of Brits from Indian shores 74 years ago, India’s legacy boys boarding schools have thrived and developed their own unique personalities, notably distinct from the indelible snobbery of their British counterparts
Although the almost 200 years (1757-1947) of British rule over India divided the subcontinent into two mutually hostile nations, and ruined […]
Arguably, boarding schools are additionally nurturing for girl children because they offer more liberal and modern environments than conservative households in which girl children routinely suffer overt and covert gender discrimination
Although gender-segregated education is going out of fashion worldwide, in India, a uniquely heterogeneous nation with citizens practicing almost all major religions, speaking 121 […]
The incremental promotion of co-ed schools is a socially positive development because as boys and girl children learn together in inclusive classrooms, they develop mutually respectful relationships and male children in particular, learn to respect girls
Surely it is a marker of positive socio-economic progress that the number of sufficiently well-reputed co-ed boarding schools included in […]
There’s an emerging consensus that most packaged drinks are as harmful as junk food, with the potential to provoke a wide range of ailments including high blood pressure, cholesterol, juvenile diabetes, obesity, and heart disease – Nikhil Jayadevan, Mini P. & Cynthia John
India’s prolonged 60-weeks Covid-19 induced lockdown of schools and education institutions — the […]
In recent years in response to relentless criticism from this publication, several state governments have promoted high-quality primary-secondaries which are threatening the dominance of Central government Kendriya Vidyalayas. Here are India’s best government day schools 2021-22.
Sad but true. The country’s 1.20 million government schools are neglected poor relations of private schools. According to State of […]
To compile the 2021-22 league table of dedicated special needs schools, C fore field personnel interviewed 494 parents of children with disabilities and special needs educators in six cities. They were asked to rate special needs schools on ten parameters of education excellence, writes Paromita Sengupta
One of post-independence India’s greatest acts of omission according to […]
To compile EWISR 2021-22, 11,458 sample respondents — educationists, principals, teachers, SECA (socio-economic category A) parents and senior school students — in 28 cities countrywide were interviewed by 118 C fore field researchers over a period of four months (June-September). The annual EWISR is the world’s largest schools ranking survey – Dilip Thakore & Summiya […]
Promoters and managements of day-cum-boarding schools deserve special appreciation for making the additional investment to accommodate out-of-town students who but for this consideration would be denied high quality primary-secondary education
Dr. Silpi Sahoo (right centre) with the late Dr. Bijaya Sahoo: valuable legacy
Among the various categories of primary-secondaries ranked in the annual EducationWorld India […]
With many conservative households still preferring gender segregated education institutions for cultural and religious reasons, all-girls’ day schools are flourishing countrywide with many of them having built big size reputations
Even though all-girls schools are going out of fashion around the world, in India they continue to remain relevant and serve an important public purpose. With […]
The Central government promoted Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas — free-of-charge boarding schools for meritorious rural children — continue to dominate the EW league table of government boarding schools, writes Paromita Sengupta
Conceptualised in 1984 by late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi (1944-91) as free-of-charge boarding schools for meritorious rural children, the Central government-promoted and managed Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas […]
This year the co-ed day schools league table rates 1,928 primary-secondaries — the largest of any category. It augurs well for better gender relations and greater social respect for girls and women in future
It is surely an indicator of social progress and emancipation that the largest league table in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings […]
Even though gender-segregated schools are steadily going out of fashion, competition within the category of boys day schools for best seats at top table is intense. Dislodged last year, Campion School, Mumbai has reclaimed its pre-eminent position
Campion, Mumbai’s Fr. Swamy (centre right): no learning loss
With gender-segregated schools rapidly becoming obsolete, the number of […]
Against the backdrop of children trickling back to campuses and classrooms after prolonged socialisation restrictions and isolation, ParentsWorld interviewed several education experts and counsellors to suggest ways and means for parents and teachers to develop students’ life skills even as they focus on remedial academic education in the post-pandemic era, writes Nikhil Jayadevan, Mini P. […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed Dr. (Prof.) C. Raj Kumar, an alum of Madras, Delhi, Oxford, Harvard, and Hong Kong universities and founding vice chancellor of the top-ranked O.P. Jindal Global University (estb.2009). Excerpts:
Although the wholly residential JGU’s campus has been under lockdown for over 60 weeks, the word is that you have been able to […]
Within 12 years since it admitted its first batch of 112 students, the Sonipat (Haryana)-based O.P. Jindal Global University (estb.2009) is ranked India’s #1 private varsity and among the global Top 750 in the QS World University Rankings 2022. Credit for the unprecedented evolution of this higher education institution is mainly due to its indefatigable […]
ParentsWorld interviewed some of the country’s most knowledgeable educationists and healthcare professionals to advise how best parents can prepare and support children to resume in-person schooling at a time when education institutions and society are obliged to live with the Coronavirus until herd immunity is attained, writes Aurelin Ruth, Mini P. & Cynthia John
Newly-appointed education minister Dharmendra Pradhan is confronted with the challenge of scaling two mountains simultaneously — repairing huge damage suffered by the education system during 60 weeks of pandemic lockdown, and implementing NEP 2020, writes Dilip Thakore
With General Election 2024 looming on the distant horizon and the legislative assembly election of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most […]
For the 21st century parent, the apps world – accessible 24×7 – offers a flood of parenting information and advice starting from coping with pregnancy to expert guidance on child development, learning resources and tracking children’s progress in school, writes Zahid H. Javali
No animal species on Planet Earth nurtures its young for a longer duration […]
The world’s longest lockdown of schools is likely to prove disastrous for the learning outcomes of over 100 million children. However the silver lining of the grim pandemic storm is that a small minority of education leaders have succeeded in devising creative responses, writes Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Out-of-school children: most prolonged education […]
ParentsWorld presents expert advice on ways and means parents can build four important character traits of children — respect, integrity, resilience and responsibility — virtues which have corroded in the pandemic era, writes Aurelin Ruth, Cynthia John, Mini P.
Jaspreet Singh, a Bengaluru-based IT consultant and father of a four-year-old, smiles unapologetically, after helping his son […]
The balance between children’s safety against the Covid-19 pandemic and their right to protect their future livelihoods needs to be restored. The national interest demands no more time is lost in restarting India’s long shuttered schools with adequate safety protocols, writes Dilip Thakore
Loss of lives and livelihoods has been the focus of official and media […]
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