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EW India School Rankings 2024-25 Awards

Staged over three days on October 17-19, EWISRA 2024-25 featured stimulating keynote addresses, enriching panel discussions and awards presentation ceremonies during which high-ranked primary-secondary schools in four main categories were awarded certificates and display plaques, writes Summiya Yasmeen.

The three-day EducationWorld India School Rankings 2024-25 Awards (EWISRA) conclave — the largest gathering of K-12 leaders countrywide […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2024-25: Sindhu Mendke

Sindhu Mendke receives award from EW’s Dilip Thakore (left) & Summiya Yasmeen (right)

Dedicated educator and champion of underprivileged citizens for over four decades, Indore-based Sindhu Mendke is incumbent chairperson of the Tirthanjali Educational Society (estb.1978) which manages the co-educational CBSE-affiliated K-12 New Digambar Public School, Indore (NDPS, estb.1995). Currently, NDPS has 2,387 […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2024-25: Brijmohan Chiripal

Brijmohan Chiripal receives awards from actors Charu Sharma & Rakesh Kumar

A chemical engineering graduate of Gujarat University, Brijmohan Chiripal started his career in 1972 as an entrepreneur in the textiles processing industry by promoting a small-scale unit with a workforce of 200 employees. Since then, Brijmohan and his three elder brothers have […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2023-24: Smt. Meena S. Divatia

Meena Divatia receives award and citation from Dr. Larry Arnn (right), President, Hillsdale College & Sheila Bauer, CEO, Access-MCA — A Better Way to College & EW’s Dilip Thakore (left)

Dedicated educator, women’s empowerment champion and perennially eager-to-learn scholar for over six decades, Mumbai-based Meena Sunandan Divatia is the incumbent President and Managing Trustee […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2023-24: Damodar Prasad Goyal

Damodar Prasad Goyal receives award & citation from EW’s Dilip Thakore (left) & Dr. C. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, OP Jindal Global University

A tireless crusader for the institutional autonomy of private schools, Damodar Prasad Goyal has been enlightening, empowering and litigating for the rights of self-financed education institutions for the past 40 years.

A […]

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2023-24: Dr. Arup Mukhopadhyay

Dr. Arup Mukhopadhyay (second from left) receives award & citation

An alumnus of the University of Calcutta, a chartered biologist, environmentalist and educationist trained under the leadership of Dr. Eleanor Duckworth of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dr. Arup Mukhopadhyay is the Imphal-based Director of the Unacco Group of Schools, Manipur. Unacco […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2023-24: Dr. Larry Arnn

Dr. Larry Arnn receives award & citation from EducationWorld’s Dilip Thakore, Summiya Yasmeen & Bhavin Shah

Scholar, author, educator and political activist, graduate of Arkansas State University, Claremont Graduate School, USA, London School of Economics and Oxford University, Dr. Larry P. Arnn is the President of Hillsdale College, Michigan, USA (estb.1844). During a […]

EW India School Rankings 2023-24 Awards

Staged over two days on October 13-14, EWISRA 2023-24 attracted participation of over 2,000 education leaders including institution promoters, trustees, principals and senior teachers from every corner of the country, writes Summiya Yasmeen

The EducationWorld India School Rankings 2023-24 Awards (EWISRA) conclave — the largest gathering of K-12 educators countrywide — concluded amid great jubilation on […]

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2023-24: Dr. Naresh Chandra

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Dr. Chandra receives award from EducationWorld Publisher/Editor Dilip Thakore

Dr. Naresh Chandra is Director (Education) of the B.K. Birla College of Arts, Science & Commerce (Autonomous), Kalyan, Mumbai (BKBCK, estb. in 1972 under the patronage of Shri B.K. Birla and Smt. Sarala Birla). An alumnus of Meerut University, Dr. Chandra is a veteran educationist […]

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2023-24: Dr. Kavita R. Laghate

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Dr. Laghate receives award from EducationWorld Publisher/Editor Dilip Thakore

Director of the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) — an autonomous unit of the University of Mumbai — for two terms and currently Senior Professor, JBIMS, and Dean, Faculty of Commerce and Management, University of Mumbai (UoM), Prof. (Dr.) Kavita Ramchandra Laghate is […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2022-23: Dr. Bijaya Kumar Sahoo (1963-2021)

A chartered accountant for whom provision of high-quality K-12 education was his life’s mission, Dr. Bijaya Kumar Sahoo is widely credited for placing the educationally underserved eastern state of Odisha (pop.46 million) on the education map of India. In 2008, he forsook a successful accountancy practice to follow his dream of establishing an internationally benchmarked […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2022-23: Dr. Gita Karan

An alumna of Osmania and Agra universities, Dr. Gita Karan is the Hyderabad-based founder-principal and director of the Gitanjali Group of five K-12 schools in the city of pearls. These schools have an aggregate 7,000 children and 500 teachers on their muster rolls.

After a short stint as a teacher, she discerned a paucity of schools […]

Liftetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2022-23: Kiran Patel

A commerce graduate of M.S. University, Baroda (Vadodara) with an MBA awarded by the blue-chip University of California at Berkeley (USA), Kiran Patel is joint managing director of the Mumbai-based American Spring & Pressing Works Pvt. Ltd (Aspee, estb.1946). The closely held Aspee is one of India’s top agri-business companies engaged in manufacturing pesticides, spraying […]

Liftetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2022-23: Shishir Jaipuria

Grandson of the late Padma Bhushan Mungturam Jaipuria (1904-1978), a nationalist industrialist-educationist who promoted the Seth Anandram Jaipuria College in Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1945, Delhi-based Shishir Jaipuria is Chairman and Managing Director of Ginni Filaments Ltd. Simultaneously, Shishir Jaipuria is also Chairman of the Seth Anandram Jaipuria Group of Educational Institutions (SAJGEI), an umbrella organisation […]

EW India School Rankings 2022-23 Awards

Enthusiastic response of school promoters, trustees, principals and teachers to the 12th EWISRA conclave is proof that the educators’ community has accepted that progressive schools accord attention to several parameters of institutional excellence, not mere academic outcomes, writes Summiya Yasmeen

The EducationWorld India School Rankings 2022-23 Awards (EWISRA) conclave staged in Delhi NCR on October 11-12 […]

Dr. Ajay Bhamare receives award from EducationWorld editor Dilip Thakore & GrayQuest founder-CEO Rishab Mehta (right)

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2022-23: Dr. Ajay M. Bhamare

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Dr. Ajay Bhamare receives award from EducationWorld editor Dilip Thakore & GrayQuest founder-CEO Rishab Mehta (right)

A widely respected higher education leader with a distinguished track record in academics, administration, policy formulation, faculty development and management of higher education institutions, Dr. Ajay M. Bhamare is Principal of the Ramanand Arya DAV College (Autonomous), Mumbai […]

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2022-23: Dr. Prakash Mani Tripathi

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2022-23: Prakash Mani Tripathi

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Prakash Mani Tripathi receives award from EducationWorld editor Dilip Thakore and GrayQuest founder-CEO Rishab Mehta (right)

A well-known educationist, political scientist, writer and orator, Prof. Shri Prakash Mani Tripathi is a higher education veteran with over 40 years’ teaching, administrative and leadership experience. In his long and distinguished career in Indian higher education, Prof. […]

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2021-22: K. Tulasi Vishnu Prasad

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An alumnus of the top-ranked NIT-Warangal, K. Tulasi Vishnu Prasad is President of the Sri Rama Rural Academy (SRRA), a model rural co-ed day-cum-boarding budget private school sited in Chilmuru village (pop.1,200) in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Promoted in 1949 as undivided Andhra Pradesh’s first rural boarding school by his grandfather, the late Sri […]

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2021-22: Dr. Dilip Modi

Dr. Dilip Modi (right) & Mrs. Modi receives award from Prof. John Varghese (centre right) & Rajiv Desai (centre)

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Dr. Dilip Modi is promoter-chairman of the Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan)-based JIVEM Education Pvt. Ltd, a K-12 schools management and consultancy company. During the past 39 years since Dr. Modi, a commerce postgraduate of Mumbai University, began […]

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2021-22: Dr. Ashok Pandey

EW india school rankings 2021-22 awards (contd.)

Birla Balika Vidyapeeth, Pilani’s principal Dr. M. Kasturi (centre) receives awards from Arun Rajamani, managing director, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, South Asia (left) & Rishabh Mehta, CEO, GrayQuest (right)

Seth Anandram Jaipuria School, Kanpur’s principal Shikha Banerjee receives awards from Dr. Kannan Gireesh, founder of LiveLife Education Pvt. Ltd

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Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award: Dr. Ashok Pandey

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Sanjeev Bolia (2019) Ashok Pandey with Dr. Kannan Gireesh (left) & Sumer Singh (right)

Director of the Delhi-based Ahlcon Group of two CBSE affiliated K-12 schools with an aggregate enrolment of 6,200 students mentored by 320 teachers, Ashok Pandey has acquired over three decades experience in primary-secondary education in India and abroad as […]

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2021-22: G.S. Madhav Rao

Extraordinary Achievement in Education Leadership Award: G.S. Madhav Rao

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GS Madhav Rao with Dr. Kannan Gireesh (left) & Sumer Singh (right)

G.S Madhav Rao (GSMR) is an unsung hero of Indian education who is a friend, philosopher and guide of K-12 educators in India and abroad for over half a century. During his long and continuing association with primary-secondary and early childhood education, […]

EW India School Rankings 2021-22 Awards

Summiya Yasmeen

With Covid-19 infection cases on the decline this year, the EducationWorld India School Rankings Awards 2021-22 (EWISRA) made a big comeback. Staged over two days on December 17-18 at the Leela Ambience Hotel, Delhi NCR, EWISRA 2021-22 attracted participation of over 700 K-12 education leaders including promoters, trustees, principals and senior teachers of India’s […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2020: Neelam Malik

Neelam Malik is the founder-chairperson of St. Mary’s High School, Kalyan, Mumbai (estb.1989), routinely ranked among the Top 3 Budget Private Schools (BPS) of India in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings. Moreover, in the inaugural EW India Budget Private School Rankings 2020, St. Mary’s is ranked #3 in India and #1 in Maharashtra, India’s […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2020: Dr. Kulbhushan Sharma

President of the National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA), Dr. Kulbhushan Sharma is India’s foremost and most committed champion of budget private schools (BPS). These are low-fees primary-secondaries that provide affordable education – including English language learning – to children of low-income households. Currently, there are an estimated 400,000 BPS with a massive aggregate enrolment of […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2020: Bernadette Pimenta

A sociology graduate of the top-ranked St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai with a postgrad degree in education, Bernadette Pimenta is principal of the Garden School, Mumbai (estb.1983), an informal child enrichment school. After providing children and youth supplementary curriculum enrichment programmes in the Garden School for over two decades, Ms. Pimenta scaled down the school and […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2020: Indraman Sahadeo Singh

A determined self-educated edupreneur with a diploma in electronics engineering awarded by the Chopra Radio and Electronics Institute, Mumbai, Indraman Sahadeo Singh, the founder and chairperson of the Pune-based Priyadarshani Group of schools and colleges, firmly believes in the philosophy of author Khalil Gibran who wrote: “The teacher who walks in the shadow of the […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2020: Subhash Chandra Kedia

The Mumbai-based honorary secretary of the Unaided Schools Forum (USF) of Maharashtra for the past 18 years, Subhash Chandra Kedia is nationally respected for his relentless advocacy and campaigns to free the state’s unaided private schools from the heavy hand of government regulation. As honorary secretary of USF Shri Kedia has led and won many […]

EW India Budget Private School Rankings 2019-20: Special Merit Awards

The EducationWorld India Budget Private School Special Merit Awards 2020 have been introduced to acknowledge and celebrate low-profile budget private schools (BPS) that have implemented contemporary best practises in K-12 education. There are an estimated 400,000 BPS nationwide. In the inaugural EW India Budget Private School Rankings 2020, we were able to rank only the […]

EW Preschool Grand Jury Awards 2019-20

The EducationWorld India Preschool Grand Jury Awards were introduced in 2018 to encourage and felicitate pre-primaries which have introduced contemporary pedagogies and practices in early childhood care and education (ECCE), especially in smaller non-metro towns and cities. To shortlist progressive preschools countrywide for the EW Preschool Grand Jury Awards 2019-20, we invited nominations from educationists, individuals […]

EW India Preschool Rankings 2019-20 Awards

EducationWorld felicitated and celebrated India’s top-ranked preschools in 16 cities — as per the outcome of the EW India Preschool Rankings 2019-20 conducted by well-known Delhi-based market research company Centre for Forecasting and Research (C fore) — at an awards ceremony at the Sahara Star Hotel, Mumbai. Staged coterminously with EW Early Childhood Education National […]

Lifteime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2019: Dr. Saroj Suman Gulati

Within the new steel-n-glass city of Gurgaon (Haryana) which has emerged as a 21st-century hub of the IT (information technology), ITES (IT-enabled services) and automobile manufacturing industries, the Blue Bells Group of three CBSE-affiliated primary-secondary schools founded by Dr. Saroj Suman Gulati, has acquired an excellent reputation for providing high-quality K-12 education to the progeny […]

Lifteime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2019: Paul Machado

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Born in Udyavar, a small village of Karnataka’s Udupi district into an eight-member family of a farmer, and a graduate of St. Philomena’s College, Mysore and Bangalore University, Paul Machado has been serving the South Mumbai community as principal of the all-boys Campion School (estb.1943) since 2003. Under his dedicated leadership, Campion has evolved into […]

Lifteime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2019: Dr. Gunmeet Bindra

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One of India’s most respected K-12 educationists, women’s empowerment champion and exemplary role model, Dr. Gunmeet Bindra is the first woman principal of a routinely top-ranked all-boys legacy boarding school — Welham Boys, Dehradun (estb.1937).

A commerce and education postgrad of the Delhi School of Economics and Calcutta University, Bindra was conferred an honorary doctorate by […]

Lifteime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2019: Sanjeev Bolia

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Sanjeev Bolia is the promoter-managing director of the Kolkata-based Afairs Exhibitions & Media Pvt. Ltd (AEM, estb.1994), India’s premier education expositions company. During the past 25 years, he has curated 700-plus education expositions in India and over 150 abroad, to showcase India’s top-ranked vintage boarding, international day-cum-boarding and wholly residential schools in 27 metros and […]

Lifteime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2019: Nissar Ahmed

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Nissar Ahmed, chairman of the Bangalore-based Presidency Group of Institutions (PGI) which comprises seven K-12 schools, two pre-university colleges, one undergraduate arts, science and commerce college and Presidency University with an aggregate enrollment of 30,000 students mentored by 1,000 faculty members, has emerged as one of the most respected education entrepreneurs of the southern seaboard […]

EW India school rankings 2019-20 awards

Over 1,500 education leaders including promoters, trustees, principals and senior teachers of India’s top-ranked day, boarding and international schools congregated in Delhi on September 28-29 to celebrate the country’s most admired primary-secondary schools – and for the first time — in nine neighbouring countries – Summiya Yasmeen

The EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) 2019-20 Awards festival […]

EducationWorld Grand Jury Awards 2019

The annual EducationWorld Grand Jury Awards were introduced in 2016 to acknowledge and felicitate schools — especially newly-promoted, low-profile primary-secondaries — which excel under parameters other than the 14 under which schools are rated and ranked in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings which are based on field-based countrywide interviews. In June-July advertisements in EducationWorld, […]