With India emerging as one of the major hotspots of illegal narcotics trade, the number of drug users in the country has spiralled, particularly over the past decade. And given India’s demographic profile, the most damaged are children and youth – Archana N, Mini P & Cynthia John
The mega Rs.20.97 lakh crore Covid-19 economic aid package announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 12, provided tax breaks for small businesses, incentives for domestic manufacturing and free foodgrains for the poor. However, it totally ignored the pandemic-battered education sector – Summiya Yasmeen
The raging Covid-19 pandemic has pushed Indian education into a state […]
With pandemic-related anxiety having become pervasive, people of all ages are developing diverse coping strategies to beat prolonged stay-athome blues. In this specially curated cover story, the PW editorial team presents enjoyable DIY activity options for children and parents – Archana N, Mini P & Cynthia John
Against the backdrop of pervasive confusion about the character and role of private schools in the national development effort, this detailed unprecedented report demolishes widely disseminated myths of Left liberal academics and shallow media about private K-12 education – Dilip Thakore
The new National Education Policy 2020, presented to the nation by Union education minister Dr. […]
Emotional meltdowns, mood swings, and anger outbursts are becoming more frequent within cloistered households, coterminously with rising incidence of domestic violence, child abuse, murder and suicides – Cynthia John, Archana N. & Mini P.
Ludhiana. Seven people have been murdered in Ludhiana district by family members including husbands, wives and children in home isolation since the […]
Formulated after an interregnum of 34 years and crafted over four years following recommendations of two high-powered committees, the new education policy aroused great expectations. But NEP 2020 is an amalgam of high rhetoric clouded by implementation uncertainty because of its conspicuous failure to make a clean break from bureaucratic control-and-command – Dilip Thakore
Impassioned debates about the efficacy of the online learning model, online pedagogies, cyber safety, adequacy of screen time and effects of excessive digital gadgets usage on children’s physical and emotional well-being are raging in the media especially social media, WhatsApp groups and Zoom meeting rooms – Jayalakshmi Vaidyanathan, Mini P. & Cynthia John
With the Covid-19 pandemic and national lockdown forcing mass closure of education institutions, several state governments have issued circulars directing private school managements to defer/ waive tuition and other fees during the lockdown period. Moreover, some state governments such as Karnataka, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh have issued notifications prohibiting private schools from conducting online classes […]
In the thick of the unprecedented economic disruption following the ongoing national lockdown prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic, India’s powerful 20 million strong politician-bureaucrat brotherhood steeped in socialist dogma, seems to have discerned an opportunity to deliver a hammer blow to private education – Dilip Thakore
The country’s 375,000 private unaided schools, an estimated 400,000 budget […]
Parenting in lockdown era – PW presents advice gathered from psychologists and parenting experts on ways and means parents can empower children to cope with the rigours of the Covid-19 national lockdown and the summer holidays which will prolong the at-home period of children to early June and July, if not longer – Cynthia John, […]
Indian education system has been devastated by the national lockdown prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The onus of reviving KG-Ph D education has devolved upon tried and tested institutional leaders – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
On March 25 when a national lockdown was decreed by prime minister Narendra Modi following outbreak of the novel coronavirus […]
Although India’s top-ranked private B-schools can’t be blamed entirely given the tight policy framework within which they ave had to operate, the country has paid a heavy price for poor quality business management education – Dilip Thakore
If one takes post-independence India’s unimpressive national development record — for over 40 years until India’s notorious neta-babu controlled licence-permit-quota […]
With an estimated 32 percent of the country’s students in higher education enrolled in government universities, the annual EW India Higher Education Rankings 2020-21 has introduced separate league tables rating the country’s 150 most reputed government universities – Summiya Yasmeen
Although since the dawn of the new millennium when several state governments began liberally legislating promotion […]
Ab initio, your editors have accorded special importance to private institutions of higher learning. We believe private universities with investment and reputations to lose, are more likely to provide rigorous, globally benchmarked academic, research and life skills education
In recent years privately promoted universities, particularly new genre, globally benchmarked liberal arts and sciences undergrad colleges modelled […]
Against the backdrop of none of India’s 935 universities ranked among the Top 200 of the authoritative Times Higher Education World University Rankings, we present league tables ranking the country’s best private and government universities separately – Dilip Thakore
Notwithstanding incrementally futile protests and grumbling of left leaning academics busily engaged in dispensing obsolete pedagogies and fixed […]
To compile the EW India Private Engineering Colleges Rankings 2020-21, 150 field representatives of the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting and Research Pvt. Ltd interviewed 1,063 faculty, 1,368 final year engineering students and 423 industry representatives countrywide – Summiya Yasmeen
Engineering education in India is facing an unprecedented over-supply and graduate unemployability crisis. During the past five […]
The paradox of India’s multi-layered structure governing higher education is that some of the country’s most admired undergrad colleges, which should have been awarded academic autonomy decades ago, are tied to the apron strings of their affiliating universities. These colleges are ranked separately in EWIHER 2020-21
Even in the 21st century, India’s higher education system is […]
It’s a sobering reminder to a nation being swayed by antiminority rhetoric that four of the Top 5 private autonomous colleges are institutions promoted by various orders of India’s minuscule Christian community
In these troubled times when the damage inflicted upon the economy and society by the rampaging coronavirus aka Covid-19 is being compounded by […]
It’s important to note that among (state) government promoted colleges countrywide, autonomous institutions enjoy special standing and privilege by virtue of their UGC conferred autonomous status.
Since 2018 when EducationWorld introduced its inaugural EW India Arts, Science & Commerce (ASC) Colleges Rankings, we focused on rating and ranking private colleges. However this year, on the advice […]
To create level playing fields, in this issue we present EW India Higher Education Rankings 2020-21 ranking private autonomous, government autonomous and Top 100 non-autonomous colleges separately on five common parameters of collegiate excellence – Dilip Thakore
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of post-independence India’s failed national development effort is that even the brightest and best of […]
Psychologists the world over are warning that chronic parental stress can lead to burnout with disastrous consequences for children – Jayalakshmi Vaidyanathan & Mini P.
“Parental stress is a distinct type of stress that arises when a parent’s perception of the demands of parenting outstrip his or her resources.” — Carina Coulacoglou & Donald H. Saklofske (Psychometrics […]
Against the backdrop of gathering clouds of gloom and despair that have blanketed the economy, the best option of the finance minister was to batten down the hatches, cut unproductive expenditure and invest in developing the country’s abundant and high-potential human capital. Unfortunately, this option wasn’t availed – Dilip Thakore
On February 1, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman […]
Around the world and specially in deeply patriarchal countries such as India, single — divorced, widowed, unmarried or single by choice — parents, especially women, are judged harshly and stigmatised for their personal, marital and parenting choices – Shreya Iyer
For Mumbai-based Nandini Chakravarty (45), brand strategist at a local start-up, ending an abusive marriage and starting […]
To compile the league tables of India’s Top 300 budget private schools, C fore field researchers interviewed 2,458 BPS teachers and SEC (socio-economic category) C, D and E parents with children enrolled in budget schools countrywide. They perceptually rated BPS in their states and cities on 11 parameters of school education excellence.
Despite the country’s 400,000 BPS schooling a staggering number of 60 million children, they are anathema to the establishment including the academy. However, your editors believe BPS provide poor households a preferable alternative to dysfunctional government schools and should be celebrated. Here are the EW India Budget Private School Rankings 2020 – Dilip Thakore
In the first issue of 2020, ParentsWorld presents A-Z model resolutions 21st century parents should make — it’s still not too late — to nurture cheerful, healthy and confident children and improve quality of family life – Mini P. & Cynthia John
The start of a new year is a time of hope and new beginnings. It’s […]
Four months after it admitted its first batch of undergrad students, the wholly residential private Krea University in Sri City (Andhra Pradesh), with its unique School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences and IFMR-Graduate School of Business, is poised to reshape the contours of the country’s higher education landscape – Dilip Thakore
Inevitably, although all citizens suffer the ill-effects of poisonous air cover over urban India, the most vulnerable are children. According to a damning State of India’s Environment Report, released earlier this year by the highly-reputed Centre for Science and Environment, Delhi, air pollution kills more than 100,000 children aged below five every year – Mini P, […]
To compile the 2019-20 league table of model anganwadis, C fore field researchers interviewed 455 sample respondents including anganwadi teachers and SEC (socio-economic category) ‘C’, ‘D’ and ‘E’ parents in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.
Last year, in the cause of supporting the Central government’s ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) programme (estb. 1976), EducationWorld introduced the first-ever […]
Noida’s transformation into a major IT/ITES hub has prompted several go-getting edupreneurs to promote proprietary and franchised preschools for the young children of thousands of skilled professionals working and living in this new satellite city of Delhi.
Although it falls within the administrative jurisdiction of the socio-economically backward state of Uttar Pradesh, Noida has emerged as […]
Field researchers of the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore) interviewed 582 parents and 65 preschool principals/teachers of this buzzing city to rank 34 pre-primaries in two categories — owned/proprietary and franchised.
Technically within the administrative jurisdiction of the state government of Haryana (pop.25.4 million) but popularly included in Delhi NCR (National […]
The number of preschools — proprietary and franchised — ranked in the EW Ahmedabad league table has risen from 26 in 2017-18 to 34 in 2019-20 with ten new pre-primaries debuting this year. Here are Ahmedabad’s best preschools 2019-20.
The early childhood care and education (ECCE) sector in Ahmedabad (pop. 5.7 million) is humming with activity. With […]
In the ninth EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2019-20, 19 sufficiently reputed proprietary and 11 franchised preschools in Pune are rated and ranked by 551 parents of preschool children and 61 ECCE teachers and principals. Here are Pune’s best preschools 2019-20
Maharashtra’s second most industrialised city after Mumbai, Pune (pop. 3.1 million) — seat of the once mighty […]
Hosting large offices of IT multinationals, this business-friendly city has attracted a swarm of edupreneurs who have quickly established dozens of new-genre proprietary and franchised pre-primaries to meet growing demand from well-educated young professionals for high-quality ECCE for their progeny.
The ancient city of Hyderabad (pop. 6.8 million), admin capital of India’s newest state Telangana (estb.2014) […]
The number of preschools included in the proprietary and franchised league tables of the garden city, Bangalore — fast transforming into garbage city — is 113, highest of the 16 urban habitats covered by the EW India Preschool Rankings 2019-20.
Awareness of the value and importance of professionally administered early childhood care and education (ECCE) is […]
In the EW Chennai preschools 2019-20 league tables, 44 proprietary and 22 franchised pre-primaries are rated on 10 parameters of ECCE excellence by 662 parents with children in preschool and 72 principals/teachers based in Chennai.
The port city of Chennai (pop. 9.8 million), the admin capital of the southern seaboard state of Tamil Nadu (pop. 72 […]
While the subject of early childhood care and education (ECCE) was unfamiliar within the rest of the country, pre-primary schools such as West Wind, Breach Candy (estb.1947) and Besant Montessori (1948) had already started providing professionally administered ECCE to infants in the 2-5 age group. Here are Mumbai’s best preschools 2019-20.
In the 2019-20 Kolkata league tables of proprietary and franchised preschools, there’s only one new entrant in each category, perhaps indicative that the ruling TMC has not yet reversed the toxic legacy of 34 years of Marxist rule.
Political volatility supplemented by capital flight, corruption scams and varsity campus violence — the legacy of 34 years […]
Although the preference in the national capital is for composite K-12 schools, standalone proprietary and franchised pre-primaries which often admit less than two-year-olds are a godsend for young double-income parents in nuclear households. Here are Delhi’s top-ranked preschools 2019-20.
Perhaps no urban habitat in India is more appreciative of the importance of giving children an early start […]
Against the backdrop of early childhood care and education about to be — even if belatedly — accorded high importance in the imminent National Education Policy 2019, the ninth consecutive EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2019-20 survey highlighting the country’s most admired pre-primaries and their best practices, assumes special importance – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
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