When separation and/or divorce become inevitable, child counsellors, psychologists, and mental health professionals stress that there is a moral and ethical obligation upon estranged parents to ensure that the process is as smooth as possible and doesn’t totally disrupt the lives of children – Aurelin Ruth, Cynthia John, Mini P.
For the first time since independence a substantial number of the country’s 10 million higher secondary school-leavers annually have the option to access high-quality, globally comparable undergrad education in well-funded, well-administered private universities.
Manipal Academy of Higher Education #1 sixth consecutive year
The separate private and public universities league tables will aid and enable school and college leavers to select higher education institutions best in sync with their budgets, aptitudes and aspirations-Dilip Thakore
Post-Independence India’s higher education system tightly regulated by the Central and state governments has proved to be a big disappointment. Although some of the country’s […]
Given good leadership India’s best private B-schools, promoted, constructed and commissioned at great expense, have the potential to re-imagine and conceptualise innovative, organic syllabuses and curriculums to stimulate a massive productivity leap in India Inc and other sectors of the economy, says Dilip Thakore
The best of India’s estimated 6,000 business management schools, aka B-schools, represent […]
Since government universities offer highly subsidised higher education they are more affordable for the great majority of the country’s 260 million households. Hence they are preferred by the majority of school and college leavers – Summiya Yasmeen
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, and Top 100 private B-schools. However, these are all-inclusive rankings rating the country’s most well-reputed higher-ed institutions across all subject study programmes.
The unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic in the new age of 24×7 television and social media is causing huge emotional stress and anxiety within children and adolescents struggling to cope with parental job losses, deaths of family members, education disruption and forced home confinement
To compile the EW India’s top 100 private engineering colleges 2021-22, market researchers of the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd interviewed 1,018 engineering college faculty, 1,126 final year students and 379 industry representatives countrywide – Summiya Yasmeen
It’s more than a year since all education institutions countrywide, including preschools, schools, colleges and universities were […]
With admission into highly subsidised top tier Centrally funded universities and elite IITs, IIMs, NITs, likely to become more difficult because of loss of learning in the pandemic year, the next option is best private colleges and universities which provide near equivalent higher education – Dilip Thakore writes about EW India Higher Education Rankings 2021-22.
Within the category of government-promoted higher ed institutions, government autonomous colleges enjoy special standing by virtue of their autonomous status for which a minimum NAAC ‘A’ Grade rating is a condition precedent. Here are India’s best government autonomous colleges 2021-22.
GSC-NR, Bengaluru students: top-ranked this year. Inset. Dr. Krishnappa
In the India’s top-ranked private autonomous colleges 2021-22 survey sample respondents included – 1,823 academics and 2,133 final year college students in 21 states — have awarded six seats at the Top 10 table of private autonomous colleges to Christian minority promoted institutions.
SXM’s Rajendra Shinde (centre): dedicated faculty & top-ranked students advantage
A large number of privately promoted undergraduate colleges with excellent reputation have not been granted autonomy and are tied to the apron strings of their affiliating university. The reluctance of government to cede full governance of excellent colleges to professional academics is typified by the anomalous status of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. Here are India’s […]
Though the halcyon days of carefree holidays are gone — perhaps forever — as in everything else, human ingenuity has reinvented vacationing. New pandemic-safe holiday options such as staycations, workations, camping trips, among other alternatives have emerged as safe options – Dainty Wellington, Cynthia John & Mini P.
With the country grappling with a deadly second […]
With the Central government denying them MSME status, state governments slashing tuition and other fees and parent communities unwilling to pay contracted fees, India’s 450,000 high-performance private schools are under siege – Dilip Thakore
The incubation of the Coronavirus aka Covid-19 virus in the exotic wet meat markets of neighbouring China in November 2019, and its […]
During the past year of the Covid-19 pandemic national lockdown, a growing number of adolescents tuned into podcasts for information and opinions and/or to speak their hearts out on a number of issues including the new normal of online schooling, utility of lockdown and social distancing – Dainty Wellington, Aurelin Ruth J. & Mini P.
The major understated casualty of the massive damage caused by the globally rampaging Coronavirus pandemic are India’s 500 million youngest citizens in 0-24 age group. But the recently presented Budget 2021-22 has provided no relief for the world’s largest and most high-potential child and youth population – Dilip Thakore
Unsurprisingly, the prime objective and focus of […]
PW editors interviewed a cross-section of health, nutrition and lifestyle gurus who advise a ‘holistic approach’ to build robust immune systems especially of children and adolescents – Archana N, Mini P. & Cynthia John
Even as the US, UK and Europe are fighting a deadly second/third wave of the Coronavirus, aka Covid-19 pandemic, fortuitously in India […]
When the cost of the pandemic damage inflicted upon the country’s education sector is assessed after the polity limps back to normalcy, it’s certain to be very heavy. Especially in the nascent early childhood care and education sector – Dilip Thakore
Pre-primary school children: massive learning loss prospect
As the world welcomes 2021, your editors interviewed several lifestyle gurus who advise a reset of minds and attitudes to practice FRESH — Fitness, Return to minimalist living, Education, Slowing Down and Home Life — to restore the physical, social, emotional and educational well-being of parents and children in the post-pandemic era – Archana N, […]
The malignant winds that have blown the Coronavirus over the Indian polity devastating industry and business, have also blown some good. They have thrust adoption and adaptation of new digitally-enabled techonologies into the country’s reluctant classrooms – Dilip Thakore
Two facets of Indian education: Covid-19 pandemic exposes deep digital learning inequality
A growing number of youth are opting to take a gap year after school/college to explore career options, travel, take a stab at a fantasy project, learn a new skill and/or just contemplate future directions – Mini P & Cynthia John
A decade ago, the idea of school-leavers and young adults taking a gap year — […]
Because of Covid-19 complications, this year’s survey of the best preschools is restricted to six cities where there is greater awareness and appreciation of high-quality early childhood education, viz Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Over a decade ago in 2010 when there was minimal awareness of the vital […]
Last year, your editors introduced the EW Global School Rankings 2019-20 under our ‘Education Unites World’ initiative to rate and rank the most respected schools of neighbouring countries. The objective of including the best neighbour countries schools is to encourage student-teacher exchanges with India and inter se. Last year, juries comprising education leaders and experts […]
Affordable BPS occupy a special and controversial space in India’s complex multi-layered K-12 system. Politicians, bureaucrats and leftists love to hate them because they are for-profit and pride themselves as English-medium schools
Within India’s complex, multi-layered K-12 school system, budget private schools — essentially affordable primaries (with a sprinkling of secondary schools) — occupy a special […]
Affiliated with offshore school-leaving examination boards, international residential schools are the country’s most prestigious (and expensive) primary-secondaries sprawled across expansive campuses in scenic hill stations. Here are India’s best international residential schools 2020-21.
Ranked separately in an exclusive category since 2013, international residential schools are the country’s most prestigious (and expensive) primary-secondaries. Sprawled across expansive campuses […]
Apart from high-quality globally benchmarked academic education, international day-cum-boarding schools provide day scholars access to excellent co-curricular and sports education infrastructure that residential schools build for boarders. Therefore they are becoming increasingly popular
Within the upscale, elite category of international schools affiliated with offshore school-leaving examination boards, day-cum-boarding schools offer students the best of both worlds. […]
For upper class households that prefer their children to grow up at home and then move to residential colleges and universities, a new genre of international day schools, which offer academic education on a par with the very best boarding schools, has mushroomed in post-liberalisation India
Unlike haute bourgeoisie households in the UK and increasingly in […]
The biggest upset of EWISR 2020-21 is the toppling of The Doon School, Dehradun, ranked #1 since 2007, from its premier podium position in the boys boarding schools category
Although gender segregated schools are increasingly going out of fashion in the new age of women’s lib and equality, some of India’s vintage all-boys boarding schools sited […]
Although in the new millennium the majority of greenfield primary-secondary schools tend to be co-ed, there is no shortage of children applying for admission into the country’s all-girls boarding schools offering thoroughly contemporary all-round education. Here are India’s best girls boarding schools 2020-21
Worldwide, and 21st century India is no exception, gender segregated primary-secondary schools are […]
Suddenly gender segregated schools have fallen out of fashion. Co-ed boarding schools have become cooler and more stylish, not least because they implicitly teach boys good drawing room manners and gender egalitarianism. Here are India’s top-ranked co-ed boarding schools 2020-21.
Once upon a time gender-segregated boarding schools — especially boys boarding schools such as St. Paul’s, […]
In this edition, we present Part II of EWISR 2020-21 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
The ill-wind of the Coronavirus global pandemic which has […]
In progressive schools and households across the country, teens are being encouraged to find the time, drive and energy to turn their ideas into business plans and real-life businesses. This new tribe of ‘kidpreneurs’ are promoting innovative start-ups and simultaneously learning valuable business and life skills that will enable them to succeed in evolving workplaces […]
To compile the 2020-21 league table of dedicated special needs schools, C fore field personnel interviewed 485 parents of children with disabilities and special needs educators in six cities. They were asked to rate dedicated schools on ten parameters of education excellence
According to Unesco’s State of the Education Report for India 2019 — Children with […]
Although the best among the Central government’s 636 JNVs dominate the government boarding schools league table, some state governments have replicated the Centre’s JNVs initiative to establish excellent boarding schools – Paromita Sengupta
Although the country’s 1.20 million government schools defined by crumbling buildings, primitive infrastructure, AWOL (absent without official leave) teachers and abysmal learning outcomes, […]
In EWISR 2020-21, the two-year reign of the Delhi state government’s Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya, Sector 10, Dwarka, which sensationally ended the dominance of Central government-run Kendriya Vidyalayas, has ended – Paromita Sengupta
The Covid-19 outbreak and isolation which has forced closure of 1.4 million anganwadis (government-run child nutrition and early childhood education centres), 60,000 private […]
The seven-year reign of Campion School, Mumbai in the all-boys category has ended. This year the 11,368 sample respondents have voted St. John’s High School, Chandigarh #1 by a three points margin
One of the few success stories of post-independence India is gender egalitarianism — at least within the 200 million-strong great Indian middle class. Although […]
This year’s 11,368 sample respondents have voted Carmel Convent, Chandigarh India’s premier girls day school with top scores under the parameters of co-curricular education, infrastructure, value for money and community service
The 2020-21 league table of India’s top-ranked girls day schools has experienced a sweeping makeover. The vintage JB Petit High School for Girls, Mumbai […]
The country’s steadily multiplying older day-cum-boarding schools are being given stiff competition by newly promoted capital intensive globally benchmarked institutions which offer children in the country’s fast growing cities day and boarding options at attractive price points.
When day schools acquire good reputation for providing excellent education or boarding schools in fast-growth tier-II and tier-III towns […]
That the largest league table in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) is always of co-ed day schools is socially positive testimony that despite the daily horror stories of sexual violence visited upon women and girl citizens, Indian society is determinedly moving forward towards the constitutional goal of gender parity. This year the co-ed […]
Disruption of the academic calendar by the global Covid-19 pandemic necessitated deferment of the much-awaited EducationWorld India School Rankings 2020-21 to November. Nevertheless this year’s EWISR — for which 11,368 sample respondents were interviewed in 28 cities — is as robust and uncompromising as previous C fore-EW surveys – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
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