Kruti shah (21) hit the headlines in the Mumbai media by topping the All-India Chartered Accountancy (CA) final exams 2013, held in May. A commerce graduate of Narsee Monjee College, Kruti also top-scored in the first and second level CA exams — CPT (Common Proficiency Test) and IPCC (Intermediate Professional Competency Course). Over 27,556 […]
The forthcoming season of peace and goodwill is also a period of considerable anxiety for legions of young parents aware of the critical value of high quality and professionally administered early childhood education, for orderly growth and development of their children into successful and socially beneficial adults. This is the time when the country’s top […]
Set in the idyllic newly developed Lavasa Hill City, LEH offers the academic certification of the Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (Ecole H), Switzerland — a world-class hospitality institute
Spread over four sylvan acres at a height of 3,000 ft above sea-level, in the idyllic newly developed hill station of Lavasa, Maharashtra, sited 200 […]
Sited in the Historic Gown-Town of Oxford, globally renowned for its top-ranked eponymous varsity, Oxford Brookes University (OBU, estb. 1992) has also quickly established its reputation as one of the UK’s most promising new universities. The Times University Guide 2012 ranks Oxford Brookes as Britain’s “best modern university” while the Guardian University Guide 2013 ranks […]
For the fourth year in succession, a carefully selected sample base of young parents and principals/teachers have ranked The Magic Years, Vasant Vihar, Delhi’s #1 followed by Step by Step, Panchsheel. Here are Delhi’s best preschools 2013:
Judged by the Quantum of Media coverage that the annual scramble for admissions of precious infants into the capital’s […]
A representative sample of 303 SECA preschool parents and teachers/principals has voted Podar Jumbo Kids, Santacruz the city’s #1 preschool ending the three-year reign of Kangaroo Kids, Bandra. Here are Mumbai’s top ranked preschools 2013:
Until the Advent of the New Millennium, awareness of the vital foundational importance of professionally administered early childhood care and education […]
The carefully selected 251 sample respondents comprising preschool parents and teachers/educationists of the EW Kolkata Preschool Rankings 2013 table have engineered radical proportion to last year’s Top 20 league table. Here are Kolkata’s top ranked preschools 2013:
This Year the EW League Table of Kolkata’s Top 20 preschools has experienced a major make-over. The carefully selected […]
In the league table of Chennai’s top ranked preschools 2013, Vruksha Montessori, Alwarpet has ended the three-year reign of Vaels Billabong High-Kangaroo Kids, Neelankarai
The Three-Year (2010-12) Reign of Vael’s Billabong High-Kangaroo Kids, Neelankarai (KKN) as Chennai’s #1 pre-primary school has ended. This year’s sample respondents comprising 276 parents with preschool of children and 62 principals/teachers […]
Despite its youthful demographic profile, the garden city’s citizenry is as appreciative of vintage pre-primaries as it is of new genre, new millennium early childhood care and education institutions. Here are Bengaluru’s top ranked preschools for the year 2013:
With its Large and Growing population of young professionals in the IT, biotech and science and technology […]
While coping with continuous agitations, protests and strikes, a mix of parents of preschool children and teachers/principals have voted for stability in the EW Hyderabad Preschool Rankings 2013. Here are the best preschools of Hyderabad 2013-14
The 292 Sample Respondents comprising a mix of parents of preschool children, and teachers/principals interviewed by Delhi-based market research company […]
In the first-ever rating and ranking of Pune’s Top 10 pre-primary schools 2013, Leapbridge International, Kalyani Nagar, is ranked #1 closely followed by Serra International Preschool, Aundh
In the fast-growth city of Pune (pop. 5.5 million), which has emerged as the second largest academic and industrial hub (after Mumbai) of Maharashtra, over the past decade, a […]
Acknowledgement of the importance of English-medium preschool education is rising rapidly within Gujarat, a laggard state in English language education. Here are Ahmedabad’s top ranked preschools for the year 2013:
A laggard state in English language education, acknowledgement of the importance of English-medium preschool education is rising rapidly within Gujarat, whose economic development model has aroused […]
In the inaugural EducationWorld league table of Gurgaon’s Top 10 preschools 2013, a representative sample of 230 parents and teachers voted Pallavan, Sohna Road #1 in the new steel and glass city.
Situated on the periphery of Delhi, the new steel and glass city of Gurgaon (pop.876,824) — India headquarters of several multi-nationals including GE, […]
A representative sample of 197 SEC A preschool parents and teachers rated and ranked Noida’s Top 10 pre-primaries 2013 for the first time.
A satellite township of Delhi NCR (National Capital Region), Noida (pop. 642,381) — an IT and industrial hub — is one of four new cities (in addition to Pune, Gurgaon and Ahmedabad) included […]
Although universal primary education is received wisdom in all countries worldwide including India which passed its Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 four years ago, over the past two decades a new awareness has dawned upon nations and communities across the world that pre-primary early childhood care and education (ECCE) which prepares […]
A Drowsy Numbness perhaps rooted in Oriental Fatalism seems to have afflicted youth of the nation. According to news reports based on census data and the electoral rolls of Delhi state (national capital region) which will have elected a new government by the time this issue of EducationWorld reaches newsstands, a mere 56 percent of […]
Congratulations for your 14th anniversary. The EducationWorld team must be commended for relentlessly highlighting the challenges and problems confronting India’s education system.
I enjoyed reading your anniversary cover story ‘51 New Millennium Edupreneurs’ (EW November). The selection of education entrepreneurs and their brief profiles was well done. Their passion for education and struggles they overcame to […]
A Report Prepared by EY India — a subsidiary of the former Ernst & Young, UK, the world’s third largest professional services (auditing, consultancy, tax advisory) firm (revenue: $25.3 billion or Rs.154,330 crore) — for the 9th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2013 convened in Delhi on November 12-14, predicts that India’s higher education system will emerge as […]
Through a low-profile official resolution dated October 18, the Maharashtra state government has created a new office of Commissioner of Education (EC) to oversee the work of eight educational direct-orates, four of which are autonomous. S. Chockalingam (IAS), Inspector General of Registration & Controller of Stamps, took additional charge as EC on October 22. In effect the […]
The great expectations of educationists, academics and parents in West Bengal, aroused by the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress which ended 34 years of rule of the CPM-led Left Front government in 2011, have since been dashed by the ad hoc changes decreed by several committees and commissions. Dominated by the state’s mercurial chief minister who […]
With admission deadlines fast approaching, and young middle class parents across Tamil Nadu preparing to line up in serpentine queues for application forms to admit their wards into the lower kindergarten (LKG) classes of the state’s 5,934 matriculation schools, a November 11 circular issued by the Directorate of Matriculation Schools has created consternation and added […]
The glory days of the 90-year-old Lucknow University (LU, estb. 1920), the alma mater of some of the big success stories of post-independence India — former President Shankar Dayal Sharma, journalist Vinod Mehta, cardiologist Dr. Naresh Trehan and scientist Birbal Sahni — seem to be over. Plagued by continuous and incremental government interference, surly student […]
The already tardy implementation of the right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (aka RTE) Act, 2009, in Karnataka has hit yet another roadblock with the Central government slashing funds for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA, ‘Education for All’) programme. The Congress-led UPA-II government at the Centre has cut the state’s RTE-SSA grant for 2013-14 to […]
Himachal Pradesh
HPU-UFV collaboration agreement
Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) has concluded an academic cooperation and student exchange agreement with the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV), Canada. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Prof. A.D.N. Bajpai and Mark D. Evered, vice chancellors of HPU and UFV in Shimla on November 6.
The MoU details articulations/transfer agreements, […]
Eight students of the top-ranked Gyan Ganga International School, Jabalpur — Isha Goyal, Umeed Chandel, Nitik Jain, Amartya Tiwari, Swapnil Gupta, Sakshi Patel, Raja Kaurav and Soudamini Tiwari — were invited to Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi by President Pranab Mukherjee on the occasion of Children’s Day (November 14). The students were accompanied by principal Dr. Rajesh […]
Budding Bangalore-based badminton ace Shikha Gautam (15) is set to go places. In 2012 she was ranked #1 in the Under-15 doubles (with partner Mahima Aggarwal) and #2 in singles. Since the start of this year, she’s won four titles in the U-17 and U-19 singles and doubles categories at the Li Ning 5-star state […]
Apart from offering multi-dimensional scope for English language development, this vocation enables professionals to keep abreast with their specialisations
Following liberalisation and deregulation of the Indian economy in 1991 and its gradual integration with the global marketplace, previously unknown job opportunities have emerged as promising career paths. One such is English academic and language editing, which […]
I’m in class X and excel in maths. But I’m also good in art. I’m confused whether to pursue engineering or art as a career. Please advise.
Rahul Kelkar, Pune
To excel in engineering you need to be strong in physics and chemistry besides mathematics. To qualify for admission into an engineering college, you need to opt […]
One of the major drawbacks of India’s school education system is its over-emphasis on classroom learning. Excessive focus on formal instruction persists despite widespread awareness within parent and teacher communities that what we learn in school is soon forgotten, while a great deal of significant learning takes place outside structured classrooms. For instance perspectives, attitudes, […]
The Descent of Air India by Jitender Bhargava; Bloomsbury India; Price: Rs.499; 243 pp
Right until the mid-1980s, Air India was universally acknowledged as one of the world’s top 10 airlines and unquestionably the best national carrier of the developing nations of the post-colonial order. Today it is a byword for unreliability, unpunctuality, indifferent if not rude […]
Dr. Boppana Satyanarayana Rao
Founder & Chairman, Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
I left the medical profession to become an educator. Obviously it is #1 on my list.
How best to upgrade government schools?
Make teachers and administrators totally accountable to an external rating agency. There has to be […]
Although the vast majority of the nation’s citizenry which includes captains of industry eagerly awaiting President Pranab Mukherjee’s invitation to Narendra Modi to form the next government in New Delhi, has missed its implications, the sensational exposé of the Modi-led Gujarat government’s stalking of a Bangalore-based woman architect is a chilling preview of things to […]
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JBCN Education Group: Nurturing future-ready students for a dynamic world Founded in 1984 by eminent educationist Pinky Dalal, the Mumbai-based JBCN Education Group boasts three Children’s Nook pre-primary and four ... 
Shimla: Four students injured during practical exam in chemistry lab Four class 12 students of a government school in Shimla were injured on Monday when an explosion occurred while they ... 
Andhra Pradesh: Govt cancels annual exams, classes 6 to 9 students promoted The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday decided to cancel the annual examinations for classes 6 to 9 and promote all ... 
New NEP urgently required
– JS Rajput is former director of National Council of Educational Research & Training and National Council for Teacher Education
Ex facie, India’s education system has grown impressively in the post-independence period in terms of expansion in the number of schools, colleges and universities, teachers, enrollments, budget allocations, literacy etc. Add to this India’s contributions and […]