In the YouTube and new confrontational television news era, the ancient Socratic art of debate is making a big comeback, particularly in India. For millennial parents who value the skills of communication and leadership, encouraging children to polish their debating skills has become one of the 21st century skillset tick boxes – Jayalakshmi Vaidyanathan
Against the backdrop of leaders in all walks of life inexplicably unable to absorb the self-evident proposition that rigorous education and human capital development is the essential precondition of national progress, on the 20th anniversary of EducationWorld we do some crystal ball gazing to forecast the shape, form and efficacy of Indian education circa 2030 […]
Defined as a genre of sports which test the mental strength and mettle of participants, mind sports are becoming popular in upwardly mobile households where parents are becoming aware of the dangers of their children becoming addicted to digital screens and devices – K P Malini, Mini P. & Cynthia John
Gandhi implicitly understood that to attain his social reform objectives and abate Hindu-Muslim antagonism aroused by the Partition of the subcontinent on religious lines, education of the population was a necessary precondition. Therefore he expended long years in ideating and developing his prescription of basic education – Dilip Thakore
In grand-scale national celebrations orchestrated by the BJP-NDA […]
In post-liberalisation India and the new millennium in particular, with newly affluent and indulgent parents giving in to their children’s every whim and demand, there is rising awareness that we are raising a generation of self-centred, narcissistic children with an overweening sense of entitlement
– Jayalakshmi Vaidyanathan & Mini P
• Model the art and etiquette of accepting and giving compliments.
• Use informal discussions, dinner-time conversations to help children learn how to accept other people’s opinions and judgements.
Since 1999 when the first issue of EducationWorld was launched with minimal fanfare but maximum determination to “build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda,” this objective has not yet been attained. However, there’s no doubt that awareness of the critical importance of QEFA […]
Affiliated with offshore examination boards such as Cambridge International (UK) and IB (Geneva), India’s best international day-cum-boarding schools 2019-20 offer the benefits of high-end day and boarding school education have attracted the attention of the upper-middle class.
Though within the broad category of international schools affiliated with foreign examination boards such as Cambridge International, Edxcel […]
It’s an indicator of the mindset change in favour of new genre, culturally rooted co-ed boarding schools that upper middle SEC ‘A’ sample respondents have voted vegetarian fare guruji institutions the Top 3 countrywide.
Although post-independence India’s K-12 education system — especially the country’s 1.20 million government schools — has been run into the ground, fortunately, […]
Although in Western countries, girls-only schools are becoming increasingly rare, in 21st century India some women’s rights champions argue that girls-only boarding schools enable girls to uninhibitedly develop into confident young women. Here are India’s best girls boarding schools 2019-20
Although around the world and in Western countries in particular, girls-only day and boarding schools are […]
India’s globally famous vintage boys boarding schools such as Doon, Mayo, Bishop Cotton, Shimla, St. Paul’s Darjeeling are popular as ever with the country’s aspirational new middle class.
According to some education savants, single-sex boarding schools are going out of fashion as they’re not quite in keeping with the gender-egalitarian temper of the new millennium. But […]
In the co-ed day-cum-boarding schools 2019-20 EW league table, there is a constant churn with schools from new, better planned cities giving vintage, established schools in metros stiff competition.
When day schools become popular with parents and students in any city, they experience public pressure to transform into day-cum-boarding institutions to enable access to children in far-flung […]
To encourage and motivate managements and teachers of government schools to raise teaching-learning standards, EW has ranked the country’s Top 10 best government day & boarding schools inter 2019-20 se in separate league tables.
It’s common knowledge that despite most of India’s 1.30 million schools promoted/managed by the Central, state and local governments providing free-of-charge primary […]
To conduct the EW India School Rankings 2019-20 survey, 122 field personnel of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 12,213 fees-paying parents, school principals, teachers and senior school students in 28 major cities and education hubs across India. This is the world’s most detailed schools rankings survey – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
In this special Independence Day cover story, we present useful suggestions to parents on best ways to educate children about India’s freedom movement and the uniquely liberal and secular ideals that Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders of the freedom struggle endowed upon free India – Mini P, Cynthia John & K.P. Malini
Against the depressing backdrop of privately promoted schools overwhelmingly preferred by the middle class including low income households, being persecuted countrywide, a positive development is the growth of private chain schools – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Despite the overwhelming majority of post-independence India’s 300 million-strong middle class availing privately provided English-medium school education, its attitude towards […]
Driven by pushy parents, millions of children and teenagers across the country are sacrificing sleep at the altar of academics, co-curricular and sports education, and technology obsession. The consequences are disastrous — poor academic performance, lethargy, irritation, incremental stress and infection-prone children – K.P. Malini, Cynthia John & Mini P.
Sleep deprivation is a new millennium lifestyle […]
The incapability of the Kasturirangan Committee members to shed naive belief that flogging the dead horse of government control and command of the education system will rejuvenate it, is likely to reduce the voluminous NEP draft report to yet another elaborate exercise in futility – Dilip Thakore
The long-awaited New National Education Policy (NEP) draft submitted […]
With the inexorable disintegration of the traditional Indian joint family, especially in urban India, and rapid multiplication of nuclear households in which both parents go to work, male parents are increasingly beginning — American style — to share parenting duties and household chores – Mini P. & Cynthia John
Against the depressing backdrop of indifference to education and human resource development of all political parties across the ideological spectrum, the Aam Aadmi Party, which currently rules Delhi state with a massive majority in the legislative assembly, is an exception – Autar Nehru
This feature is being written in mid-May. Within a week hereof, the
With science teaching-learning in schools stuck in a time warp, science educators and evangelists advise parents to take the lead in providing children opportunities to discover the wonders of science outside of school. ParentsWorld suggests ways and means to enable parents to provide children access to enjoyable, experiential science education – K.P. Malini, Mini P. & […]
To compile the second EW India Top 100 Private College Rankings 2019-20, C fore constituted a sample respondents database of 1,770 knowledgeable individuals comprising 932 college faculty and 838 final year students to rate and rank the country’s most well-known arts, science and commerce colleges on six parameters of undergrad education excellence – Summiya Yasmeen
Despite being relative late starters and obliged to compete on an unequal playing field, private B-schools have been able to carve out their spaces in the public imagination. C fore representatives interviewed 1,216 B-school faculty and industry representatives to rate and rank India’s India’s top 100 private B-Schools 2019-20 – Dilip Thakore
Against the backdrop of plummeting standards of engineering education, EducationWorld presents India’s Top 100 private engineering education institutions league table based on the assessments of 2,876 knowledgeable sample respondents countrywide – Summiya Yasmeen
Engineering education in India is facing an unprecedented quality crisis. Surveys conducted by national and international organisations have laid bare the poor quality […]
Against the backdrop of the rising popularity of private universities which are beginning to establish themselves as formidable competitors not only to public universities in India but also to foreign varsities, for the past five years EducationWorld has been publishing league tables rating and ranking private universities on several parameters of higher education excellence – Dilip […]
To compile the EWIPHER league tables this year, C fore field representatives interviewed 9,914 academic faculty, industry representatives and final year students to rank the country’s Top 100 private universities, engineering institutions, arts, science and commerce colleges and Top 100 private B-schools – Dilip Thakore
As usual, publication of the annual EducationWorld India Private Higher Education Rankings […]
To provide millennial parents options beyond signing up their progeny for normative summer activities, ParentsWorld presents some enjoyable, creative, off-the-beaten track indoor and outdoor activities for children in the summer holidays – K. P. Mailini, Mini. P & Cynthia John
The eight-week summer holidays, which begin this month in India for most schools, evoke contrasting emotions […]
Universalisation of primary-secondary education would establish the rule of reason over emotion and empower citizens of the world’s most populous democracy to appreciate the profound logic of the Gandhian prescription of religious harmony, caste and gender equality and development of self-respect in all Indians, to reap the country’s much-awaited demographic dividend – Dilip Thakore
Homeschooling has gained popularity in the new millennium with a small minority of households abandoning the rote learning and exam-obsessed mainstream school system to provide their children individualised primary-secondary education at home to develop their creative, critical thinking and problem solving cognitive capabilities – Arundhati Nath & Summiya Yasmeen
With India’s metros fast reaching saturation point, the expansion of small town India’s neo middle class has fuelled demand for high-quality globally benchmarked K-12 English-medium schools, especially in tier II-IV cities – Summiya Yasmeen
With the Indian economy growing at 7 percent-plus annually — the highest annual growth rate of all large economies worldwide, according to […]
The burden of parental expectations, unwieldy syllabuses, rote learning-rewarding examinations, and surging admission cut-offs in India’s too few best colleges and universities are pushing children and adolescents into irrational dread of examinations. The onus is on parents to provide cheerful support and encourage children to be in good physical and mental shape to give their […]
Although India’s school education system is severely criticised in national and international surveys, these indictments are not applicable to the country’s estimated 310,000 licensed private unaided schools. Leaders of India’s top-ranked day, boarding and international schools offer valuable advice on good management and best practices – Dilip Thakore
A social response to helicopter parents who micro-manage children’s lives by organising a host of structured activities including academic tuitions and after-school music/sports classes, slow parenting encourages children to learn, live and grow at their own pace in non-stressful environments. Aka simplicity parenting, it is increasingly finding favour with educationists, psychologists and parents worldwide – Jayalakshmi […]
Since it admitted its first batch of 100 students a decade ago, the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat (Haryana) has established itself as one of India’s most promising humanities and liberal arts universities. In the QS BRICS University Rankings 2019, JGU is ranked among the Top 3 percent and among the Top 450 in the […]
As digital devices — smart phones, computer tabs, laptops, gaming consoles, etc — become ubiquitous, children, especially adolescents, are increasingly becoming tech addicted with disastrous consequences. New research indicates that excessive on-screen time adversely impacts attention spans and creativity, limits social interaction and perhaps slows down the neural growth and development of children – Christobelle Joseph
Over the past three months, more than 100 field personnel of the Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company C fore interviewed 8,245 sample respondents including SEC (socio-economic category) ‘A’ parents, preschool principals and teachers to rate and rank proprietary and franchised pre-primaries separately in 16 cities countrywide – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
In this booming metro which retains some of its charm in several wards and suburbs, a multiplying number of new genre internationally benchmarked preschools have sprung up to meet the demand of its expanding middle class population. Here are Bangalore’s best preschools 2018-19
Widely known as the Silicon Valley of India for the several large multinational IT […]
Given its historical error of neglecting English language learning, there’s rising clamour within middle class households in Gujarat for privately provided early childhood care and education. Here are Ahmedabad’s best preschools 2018-19.
The western seaboard state of Gujarat (pop. 60.4 million), where prime minister Narendra Modi served as chief minister for three consecutive terms before leading […]
India is facing a teen suicide crisis with an increasing number of vulnerable adolescents and young adults finding it difficult to cope with the burden of parental expectations, peer pressure, demands of an exam-focused education system and breakdown of traditional family structures – Arundhati Nath
On September 12 an 18-year-old student of IIT-Guwahati hanged herself in […]
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