Over two energetic days, CHIREC International School transformed into a vibrant hub of innovation and imagination as it hosted the SPARKZ Mega Art, Design & Science Festival, drawing more than 5,000 attendees. The event brought together students, educators, artists, parents, and science enthusiasts in a unique celebration that seamlessly blended creativity and critical thinking.
Despite the country’s establishment — politicians, bureaucrats, academics — paying loud lip service to India’s demographic dividend i.e, the world’s largest child and youth population whose number is estimated at 500 million, there’s no evidence of their taking the extra step to encash this dividend. Annual national expenditure […]
The recently published world Happiness Report (WHR) 2025 in which India is ranked #118 below countries like Pakistan (#109), Iran (99), Saudi Arabia (32),Turkiye (94), Nepal (92), Gabon, Kenya, Mozambique and even war-devastated Palestine (108) and Ukraine (111), is a resounding slap on the establishment.
Unsurprisingly, politicos and the media have reacted indignantly to WHR 2025 […]
The financial burden of fulfilling its five 2023 legislative assembly election guarantees — 200 units of free power for every applicant household, 10 kg rice per person in below poverty line (BPL) households, free-of-charge travel for women in government buses, Rs.2,000 per month for women heads of family […]
Kota test prep students: suicides factory reputation
Another attempt to regulate India’s Rs.60,000 crore per year test prep aka coaching industry is likely to run aground. The Rajasthan Coaching Centres (Control and Regulation) Bill, 2025 — the first comprehensive legislation countrywide to regulate test prep institutions, some of whom have attained […]
Awake dormant power
Your cover story ‘25 million gifted children: Urgent! Enable India’s real demographic dividend now’ (EW March) is insightful and thought-provoking. It provides a fresh perspective and solutions for India to unlock the dormant power of its large number of gifted children.
You are right in stressing the urgency of overhauling the current education […]
Tamil Nadu’s 24 state government universities are experiencing a deepening financial crisis adversely impacting academic standards and institutional stability. Years of underfunding, financial mismanagement, and bureaucratic interference have made it difficult for them to “sustain even basic operations”.
On the eve of Republic Day on January 25, R.N. Ravi, Tamil Nadu’s Governor and […]
Sustained animosity between the BJP/NDA government at the Centre and the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government of West Bengal (pop.91 million), now in its third term in office, is taking a toll on 10 million children enrolled in […]
The accidental discovery on march 14 of a huge cash stash variously estimated as Rs.5-50 crore in the outhouse of a government-allotted bungalow of Justice Yashwant Varma, an incumbent judge of the Delhi high court, has resurrected the question of judicial accountability. Also the hastily-buried issue of how judges of the Supreme and high courts […]
“The Committee notes that in recent years, there has been a notable trend of foreign universities establishing campuses in India which is driven by India’s vast student market … However, India is yet to secure a campus from any of the leading global universities (the Ivy Leagues, New York University, Carnegie Mellon University, etc). The […]
Rajiv Desai is president of Comma Consulting and a well-known Delhi-based columnist. Views are personal
The BJP/NDA government’s survival is now dependent on two of India’s most opportunistic politicians, Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu — leaders with transactional mindsets
Almost everyone knows that what Union home minister Amit Shah says is usually a prelude […]
Delhi
JMI fees hike
New Delhi, March 19. Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI, estb.1920) announced a 16-41 percent increase in tuition fees for postgrad studies for the academic year 2025-26.
The Department of Persian Studies has raised the tuition fees by 41 percent to Rs.9,475; the Department of Arabic Studies by 37.15 percent to Rs.9,875; foreign […]
“It’s fantastic news that this year we are ranked India’s #1 healthcare management varsity after being misclassified for several years. This is encouraging endorsement of our commitment to developing a world-class university dedicated to setting healthcare education standards. This promotion is well-deserved. IIHMR has innovated and developed excellent experiential curriculums aligned with best global practices. […]
KL-Wayne State agreement
Guntur, March 20. The Guntur (Andhra Pradesh)-based KL Deemed University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Wayne State University, Detroit (USA), covering academic collaboration, joint research and faculty exchange programs.
“The collaboration is designed to enhance the academic experience of students at both universities and foster a strong relationship between the institutions. […]
Air India — India’s first transnational company — was promoted by the private business house of Tata and J.R.D. Tata in particular, in 1932. After independence, because Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s love of socialism mandated that all important companies should be in the public sector and government managed, Air India was nationalised in 1953. However […]
— Rahul Mehra is National Representative of India, UNESCO Chair for Global Health & Education and Chairman, Tarang Health Alliance
We need comprehensive health education because it infuses lifelong health habits. Children’s poor physical and mental health is a major roadblock to achieving the vision of Viksit Bharat
A citizens’ voluntary organisation that fearlessly exercises its fundamental right of free speech and expression in the public interest is the Delhi-based Association for Democratic Reforms. ADR researches the affidavits all candidates contesting elections to Parliament at the Centre and legislative assemblies are obliged — under Supreme Court directives of 2002-03 — to file disclosing […]
Arvind Panagariya, professor of economics at Columbia University, and Chairman of India’s 15th Finance Commission, has written a brilliant book titled The Nehru Development Model: History and Its Lasting Impact (2024) in which he laments the inorganic Nehruvian public sector-led economy development model imposed upon the country soon after independence. Over 345-pages, Prof. Panagariya proves […]
Traditional university rankings based on factors such as admissions selectivity, faculty research citations and endowment corpus, are of minimal utility for undergraduate education. Early this year EducationWorld tied up with the US-based Launcpad Rankings LLC to rate and rank America’s top colleges/ universities providing best undergrad education
Twelve years after EducationWorld published its inaugural EW India […]
It’s a positive development in the national interest that the EW league table of private multidisciplinary universities is lenghtening every year. They are valuable national assets more likely to produce inventors and innovators urgently required by the Indian economy
Amity Chancellor Dr. Atul Chauhan (centre): hard work outcome
In 2020, EducationWorld took the lead to rate and rank the country’s best government agricultural universities introducing and implementing best agriculture education practices
With the Trump administration in the US determined to export American farm produce to India or else, the uncompetitiveness of India’s 195 million farmers is […]
With the majority of graduates of the country’s 4,500 engineering colleges and universities continuing to teach decades-old curriculums, pain is in the offing for their 1.5 million graduates per year. However top-ranked private engineering universites offer hope
BITS-Pilani VC Prof. Ramgopal Rao: #1 four years consecutively
Although contemporary India often boasts about having established an […]
The dawn of the new era of Artificial Intelligence heralds a technology evolution inflection point for India’s academy. The country’s higher education institutions, especially the professoriate has to not only quickly master AI technologies but harness them to engineer technology breakthroughs and innovations urgently required to power massive productivity leaps in the Indian economy — […]
India’s higher ed system comprises 685 government universities — 240 Central and 445 state government institutions. Together they teach 74 percent of the 43.3 million youth enrolled in the country’s higher education system
MU’s Dr. Ravindra Kulkarni (centre): industry knowledge & academics integration
Ashoka University students: curriculum & pedagogy #1
To compile the EW India Private University Rankings 2025-26, AZ Research field researchers interviewed 2,100 higher education faculty, students and industry managers countrywide, asking them to rate institutions on ten parameters, viz, competence of faculty, faculty welfare and development, research and innovation, curriculum and pedagogy, industry interface, […]
“It’s good news that ICT has improved its ranking to India #3 among government engineering and technology universities. Since it was founded almost a century ago ICT has transformed from a chemical technology institute into a multidisciplinary university offering degree programmes in mathematics, chemistry, physics, biological sciences, green technology, among others. It’s fitting that we […]
Despite the reputation of the country’s judiciary having hit its nadir, the number of government legal education institutions are proliferating countrywide.
Although the reputation of the country’s judiciary is at an all-time low with the judicial system reduced to a snail’s pace under the burden of 50 million pending cases, […]
“We are delighted that SRIHER is ranked India’s #1 private medical university for the fourth consecutive year. This is an acknowledgement of our commitment to excellence in medical and health sciences education and research. Over the past 40 years, SRIHER has evolved into a multidisciplinary deemed-to-be university with 15 distinct faculties, offering 37 undergraduate, 123 […]
For EWIHER 2025-26, 2,100 sample respondents including students, faculty and leaders/senior managers in Indian industry in 22 states countrywide were interviewed to rate and rank India’s best universities on ten parameters of higher education excellence Dilip Thakore and Summiya Yasmeen.
After EducationWorld was launched in 1999 a new energy and spirit of dynamism has become manifest […]
Following liberalisation and deregulation of the Indian economy in 1991 and especially in the new millennium, a large number of private liberal arts universities have captured the imagination of India’s fast-expanding middle class
Jindal Global University’s Dr. Raj Kumar (left): valuable endorsement
A historic mistake of post-independence India’s national development effort was continuous neglect of […]
Girls outshone boys yet again in the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) class 10 and 12 exam results declared on Wednesday. In the class 10 .....Read More
- Mita Mukherjee The NCERT has come under criticism as its Class IV mathematics text book contains several inaccurate information, the most glaring being an .....Read More
Can India afford bazaar politics?
Rajiv Desai
Rajiv Desai is president of Comma Consulting and a well-known Delhi-based columnist. Views are personal
The BJP/NDA government’s survival is now dependent on two of India’s most opportunistic politicians, Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu — leaders with transactional mindsets
Almost everyone knows that what Union home minister Amit Shah says is usually a prelude […]