Even as an Indian manned mission to the Moon remains a distant dream, a small town in Maharashtra has already entered the space age. Shreya Singh (12), a pre-teen resident of Nagothane — a tiny village 100 km from Mumbai, the country’s commercial capital — was awarded top honours in the International Space Settlement Contest […]
For the EW India Preschool Rankings 2012, 2,284 respondents comprising SECA parents, principals and teachers in six major cities where there’s sufficient awareness of the vital importance of quality preschool education, were polled by the well-known market research firm C fore. Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen report
For a rising number of young middle class parents in […]
In the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2012 conducted by the Delhi-based market research agency C fore, Smt Sulochanadevi Singhania School, Thane is ranked the No.6 day school all-India and No.2 in Maharashtra
Sited on a tranquil 13.6-acre campus in Thane (pop. 2.4 million) — one of the fastest growing suburbs of Mumbai — […]
The US News and World Report ranks Washington University in St. Louis 14th in its America’s Best Colleges 2011 rankings with 19 of the university’s graduate and professional programmes rated in the top 10
Established in 1853, Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) is nationally and internationally reputed for excellence […]
A specially selected sample of 325 parents of preschool-going children and 54 knowledgeable principals and teachers in Delhi rated and ranked the national capital’s Top 20 preschools. Here are Delhi’s top ranked preschools for the year 2012:
Awareness of the vital importance of early childhood education (ECE) is arguably higher in Delhi than in any urban […]
A representative sample of 360 SEC A preschool parents and teachers/principals has voted Kangaroo Kids, Bandra the city’s No.1 preschool for the third year. But the Top 20 league table has been rearranged. Here are Mumbai’s top ranked preschools for the year 2012:
This year the preschool league tables of the south-eastern port city of Chennai […]
In this survivor city which has unfortunately had to suffer a succession of levelling-down administrations, Kolkata’s privately promoted preschools have emerged as islands of excellence in a sea of academic mediocrity. Here are Kolkata’s premier preschools for the year 2012:
Spared the rod of heavy-handed government regulation even during 34 years of uninterrupted rule in West […]
Although this southern sea port city’s 361 sample respondents comprising preschool parents and teachers/principals again awarded prime position to Vael’s Billabong High-Kangaroo Kids, Neelankarai, all other seats in the Top 20 league table have been rearranged. Here are Chennai’s most preferred preschools for the year 2012.
Whereas last year the EducationWorld preschools master league table for […]
A large phalanx of shiny new preschools have debuted in Bengaluru’s Top 20 league table indicating growing demand from well-informed professionals in this IT city. Here are Bengaluru’s best preschools 2012.
Although the once green and pleasant Bengaluru (pop.8 million) aka the garden city, is slowly but inexorably being asphyxiated by automotive vehicular pollution, and is […]
A civic representative sample comprising 460 SEC A preschool parents, principals and teachers have voted the previously unranked Indus Early Learning Centre, Jubilee Hills the city’s most admired preschool generating shock waves
The southern city of Hyderabad (pop 6.8 million), whose accelerating emergence as a premier academic and IT (information technology) hub has been slowed by […]
The rising garbage mountains of the once green and pleasant city that is Bangalore aka Bengaluru (pop. 8 million), which are all set to collapse in a deluge of plague and pestilence upon this city — paradoxically the country’s premier science and technology hub — is a grim precursor of things to come for 21st […]
Congratulations on your 13th anniversary issue (EW November)! The EducationWorld team must be commended for throwing a much-needed spotlight on education trends, issues, and policies. I have been a regular reader of the magazine and compliment you for continuous improvement in content, design and overall quality.
The comprehensive cover story ‘India’s top-ranked versus Best in West’ is […]
That public education is a low priority of the Congress party is hardly a national secret. Although the global average outlay for education is 5 percent of GDP and the Kothari Commission recommended 6 percent way back in 1966, post-independence India’s (Centre plus states) annual allocation for education has never exceeded 4 percent of GDP […]
Five months after a devastating fire in Mantralaya — headquarters of the Maharashtra state government — which destroyed the offices of the chief minister and the deputy chief minister on June 21, and took a toll of two dead and 16 injured, a survey made public on October 29, reveals that an estimated 1.64 million […]
A century ago the eastern seaboard state of West Bengal (pop. 91 million) was the epicentre of India’s intellectual and cultural renaissance under great scholars such as Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Dwarkanath and Rabindranath Tagore. But since then, the state’s intellectual tradition has been reduced to a sorry condition following the 34 years (1977-2011) rule […]
A spate of media reports highlighting that the 83-year-old unitary Annamalai University (AU, estb. 1929) sited in Chidambaram, is reeling under a severe financial crisis has taken the academic community in the southern seaboard state of Tamil Nadu — and Chennai in particular — by shock and surprise. There is bewilderment within academia and […]
Right until the late 1970s, one of India’s most respected universities — especially for graduating highly skilled and industry-ready engineers — Bangalore University (BU, estb. 1964), which has 600 colleges with an aggregate enrolment of 700,000 students affiliated with it, has suffered a precipitous decline in norms and standards during the past quarter century. Industry […]
“Arvind Kejriwal has no answer for how they’ll find honest candidates.”
Social activist Anna Hazare (India Today, November 5)
“The success of the 16th President teaches that hard times are precisely when political dexterity is needed most. Politics is the machinery by which we meet tough challenges. Lincoln drilled this idea into his closest aides…”
David Von Drehle on […]
Tripura
ICRE outpost inauguration
The Dehradun-based Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) announced detailed plans to inaugurate a branch office in Tripura at a media conference in Agartala on November 28.
The office will be sited in the Shantirbazar forest division of South Tripura district. According to Dr. V.K. Bahuguna, director-general of ICFRE, the branch office […]
Winners of the second edition of Best Chemistry Teachers Awards organised by Tata Chemicals Ltd in association with the Association of Chemistry Teachers and Confederation of Indian Industry were felicitated in Delhi on November 15 by Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Union minister of state for higher education and Bharat Wakhlu, resident director, Tata Sons.
Instituted last year […]
Bangalore-based Aditi Ashok (14) is a natural of the golfing greens. Having started to swing the club at age six, she has since become the youngest player in the garden city with a scratch handicap, and last year this early teen has crowned the national amateur champion at the 95th All India Ladies Amateur Championship […]
There is a declining world market for words…. The only thing the world believes anymore is behaviour — Lech Walesa, Polish politician
I once asked legendary basketball coach John Wooden if he thought sports builds character. He replied: “It can. . . or it can tear it down. It all depends on leadership.” Does that mean your […]
The immense potential of the IT, life sciences and biotech industries in India and the West has encouraged promotion of corporates which are allying with academia to conduct path-breaking research
The 21st century’s most promising industry, bioinformatics — a marriage of IT (information technology) with life sciences — offers a multiplicity of high-potential and rewarding career […]
I wish to do a course in fashion studies in the US. Could you suggest some reputed and affordable institutes?
Reena Mascarenhas, Panjim
The New York-based Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and Parsons are the most well-known fashion schools. FIT is a state-funded institution and hence levies affordable tuition charges. To qualify for admission, you need to […]
Media reports and comments on the rising incidence of cybercrime make me very uneasy. As principal of a school, I believe it’s my moral responsibility to ensure our students are empowered by professionals to challenge and combat cybercrime, writes Jayshree Venkatraman
A welcome recent development was a multi-school cyber crime awareness programme conducted by Quick Heal, […]
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In October 2002, a then little-known Illinois senator denounced the White House’s plan to invade Iraq, saying: “I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars… You want a fight, President Bush? Let’s finish the fight […]
Samik Ghosh, Principal, The Scindia School, Fort, Gwalior
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
The immediate need is for the nation to reduce hunger and malnutrition. Education at the moment will be second on my list but will rise to the top in future.
How best to upgrade government […]
The death due to natural causes in Mumbai of Shiv Sena founder-supremo Bal Thackeray (86) brings closure to an inglorious chapter in the political history of India and Bombay — India’s commercial capital — which he perhaps more than any other individual, transformed into Mumbai, the crime capital of India.
Despite all encomiums and veneration including […]
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Strong case for school vouchers
Sandeep Banerjee is the Delhi-based managing director and CEO of Edenred India
After decades of neglect of a directive principle (erstwhile Article 45) of the Constitution of India to provide free and compulsory education to all children until the age of 14 years “within ten years of the commencement of this Constitution”, Parliament passed the Right […]