A second year civil engineering student of the School of Engineering and Technology of Sharda University (Greater Noida), Jinnat Sebarin (20) made her debut as a novelist in early February with Not Very Far published by Delhi-based Authors Ink Publications. This novel is now in its fourth edition since its release six months ago. Not […]
For the seventh annual EW India Preschool Rankings 2016 survey, over 100 field researchers of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 7,898 parents, principals and teachers in 16 cities countrywide to rate and rank owned/proprietary and franchised pre-primaries separately -Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Readers of this sui generis publication are familiar with the lament that education […]
Delhi to Roorkee is almost a five-hour drive passing through Meerut and Muzaffarnagar, cities classified as tier 2 and 3 by soaps and shampoo marketers. The striking feature of the landscape as one crosses Delhi’s outer limits is shiny, glass buildings at regular intervals. A closer look reveals these buildings are colleges and universities. Hundreds […]
Affiliated with the Delhi-based CBSE, SPSEC has come a long way since it admitted its first batch in 1982. In the latest EW India School Rankings 2016, it is ranked #8 in Uttar Pradesh and #2 in Kanpur in the category of co-ed day schools – Swati Roy
Promoted in memory of legendary industrialist Sir […]
NU’s defining feature is its experiential learning and cooperative education programme integrating classroom study with professional work experience. Most undergrads complete at least one professional co-op programme Summiya Yasmeen
Sited on a green, 73-acre campus in the heart of Boston, Northeastern University (NU, estb.1898) is ranked among America’s Top 40 universities by US News and World […]
The national capital christened Delhi NCR by consumer goods marketers, is arguably better aware of the importance of early childhood care and education than any other city countrywide. Here are Delhi’s top preschools for the 2016.
The national capital of Delhi which includes several newly risen cities spilling across state boundaries, christened Delhi NCR (national capital […]
Although ECCE is a novel concept for government bureaucrats and the public in the subcontinent, it’s relatively old hat in Mumbai, the country’s commercial capital which has always been open to modernisation ideals
As a west coast port city, Mumbai (pop. 21 million) — the country’s commercial capital — has always been open to modernisation ideals […]
Despite political turmoil for over half a century, West Bengal’s famous private schools have managed to maintain their reputation, and Kolkata’s top preschools providing quality education have impacted themselves on the city’s bhadralok
Right until the 1970s, Calcutta (transformed into Kolkata in 2001) was the education (and industry and business) epicentre of newly independent India. But […]
While the 24-strong EW league table of Chennai’s proprietary pre-primaries has experienced considerable churn, the 14-strong franchised preschools table has witnessed few changes from last year. Here are Chennai’s most preferred preschools:
Despite the destructive and unwarranted interference of Tamil Nadu’s film star politicians with the state’s once nationally admired education system which is now a […]
The annual EW Preschool Rankings generate considerable excitement and enthusiasm in the IT city which boasts a large number of double-income households of young parents. Here are Bangalore’s top-ranked pre-primaries:
The ICT capital of the country, the once garden city of Bangalore (renamed Bengaluru in 2014 by language chauvinist politicians with total disregard for the brand […]
This year 52 proprietary and franchised preschools including 13 previously unranked pre-primaries were rated and ranked by 620 parents (with preschool children), teachers and principals in Hyderabad. Here are Hyderabad’s most preferred preschools 2016-17.
Ranked India’s #1 state (jointly with neighbouring Andhra Pradesh) on the Ease of Doing Business Index 2016 of the World Bank, Telangana […]
Pune’s long tradition of academic scholarship has prompted its citizens to readily embrace early childhood care and education. Over the past decade in particular, a substantial number of private preschools have mushroomed citywide. Here are Pune’s top preschools for the year 2016.
The second most important industrial hub of Maharashtra — India’s most industrialised state accounting […]
An egregious misinterpretation of Mahatma Gandhi’s edicts on education discouraged English-medium education in Gujarat’s commercial capital. But after liberalisation in 1991, it’s a different story in pre-primary and school education
The western seaboard state of Gujarat (pop. 62.7 million) — the bailiwick of prime minister Narendra Modi who served as its chief minister for three consecutive […]
With private entrepreneurs having quickly established Gurgaon as a hub of the IT, automobile and BPO industries, globally benchmarked schools and universities, new-age pre-primaries have inevitably mushroomed. Here are Gurgaon’s most admired preschools for the year 2016:
Although sited in the neighbouring state of Haryana (pop. 28 million), the new steel and glass city of Gurgaon […]
An IT and IT-enabled services hotspot with a population of highly-educated and skilled professionals and the highest per capita income of Delhi NCR, Noida is experiencing spiralling demand for high-quality preschool to tertiary education. Here are Noida’s most respected preschools for the year 2016:
Established in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh during the […]
Techtronics Education India Ltd, an affiliate of the Denmark-based Lego A/S (annual sales: Rs.36,720 crore), and the Gurgaon-based NGO Indian STEM Foundation inaugurated a Robo Shiksha Kendra (robotics lab) at the Kendriya Vidyalaya-1, Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) on November 24.
“The Robo Shiksha Kendra lab will facilitate the learning of science and maths on a robotic platform. […]
Proof that Indian bureaucrats live in ivory towers or a make-believe world was provided by Rita Teaotia, secretary of the Union commerce and industry ministry, at the 12th FICCI Higher Education Summit held in Delhi on November 10-12. Addressing the inaugural plenary session of the ‘Learn in India, Learn for the World’ three-day conference and […]
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Although he wrote over half a dozen books in the 1990s and early noughties, warning the nation about the ecological and environmental disasters which have since enveloped the country, Ramachandra Guha burst upon the national scene as a popular historian with the publication of […]
The reportedly continuous abuse and rape of tribal children in the 10-14 age group by teachers and staff of ashramshalas — 1,000 class I-X boarding schools established by the state government of Maharashtra and private trusts for the education of socio-economically underprivileged tribal and forest communities — has provoked national outrage.
Opposition parties and social activists […]
There’s curious — indeed deafening — silence in the media and society about the abrupt exit from prime-time news television of Times Now anchor Arnab Goswami, the Oxford-educated, iconoclastic and uniquely argumentative news anchor who until mid November dominated the English language 9 p.m news like a colossus. According to a persuasive market research survey […]
Even as West Bengal’s fiery chief minister Mamata Banerjee has emerged as the prime spokesperson of the opposition parties on the issue of demonetisation of the country’s entire stock of Rs.1,000 and Rs.500 currency notes, she is simultaneously shoring up her base in West Bengal by taking initiatives to win over the state’s influential middle […]
The Uttarakhand high court has passed strictures against the state government for the pitiable condition of its public schools. Admitting a public interest litigation (PIL) writ petition (No. 201 of 2014, Deepak Rana vs. State of Uttarakhand & Ors), the court directed the government to initiate action and report to it within three months. “The […]
The Madras high court has struck down the Tamil Nadu Establishment of Private Law Colleges (Prohibition) Act, 2014 which had banned the promotion of new private law colleges in the state. A division bench which heard a batch of three writ petitions on October 26 ruled: “There is a difference between restriction or regulation and […]
“Trump intuited and revealed the worst traits of worried Americans — their search for scapegoats, their desire to prostrate themselves before an autocratic savior, their bigotry. If Trump governs as he has campaigned, America and the world face real and present danger.”
Roger Cohen on Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States (New York Times, […]
Nobel laureate Prof. Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo called for continuous collaboration between Japanese and Indian scientists in his keynote address at the 64th annual convocation of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on November 1, when he was conferred an honoris causa degree by the university. “I am confident Tokyo University’s collaboration with AMU […]
Sneha Sankar, a final year graphic design undergrad of India’s top-ranked National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, is the 2016 South Asia winner of the Helen Lansdowne Resor Scholarship (HLRS) version 2.0. The scholarship, which commemorates the first woman copywriter of the transnational advertising company J. Walter Thompson (JWT), includes a purse of $10,000 […]
As the US presidential election results rolled in on November 9, it became apparent that America — and the world — would never be the same again. The American people overlooked all faults of Republican nominee Donald Trump and elected him to the Oval Office in the belief that he will fix the nation’s deep-rooted […]
Despite a mountain of evidence proving that the socio-economic benefits of investing in education of youngest children by far exceeds social returns on investment in school and higher learning, early childhood care and education (ECCE) is cruelly neglected in 21st century India.
Although the Central government’s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme to provide nutrition […]
According to Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), better known as the Duke of Wellington, “the Battle of Waterloo (1815) was won on the playing fields of Eton,” the famous British public school (estb.1440).
The achievements of badminton star P.V. Sindhu, wrestler Sakshi Malik and gymnast Dipa Karmakar in the XXXI Olympic Games staged in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) […]
A river of words has flowed on the intent and impact of the BJP/NDA government’s November 8 decision to demonetise Rs.1,000 and Rs.500 currency notes with effect from the end of that day. With this executive fiat, 86 percent of liquid cash was sucked out of the Indian economy. However given that these currency notes […]
Enhancing the physical well-being and emotional growth of their children is the best gift parents can confer upon them. There’s great wisdom in the old adage that ‘all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’. It rightly highlights the significance of sports and games during a child’s growing years. In this context, it’s […]
Thank you for the excellent and detailed cover story on the Subramanian Committee Report’s recommendations for the New Education Policy 2016 (EW November). Evidently, the committee headed by TSR Subramanian, a highly-respected former Union cabinet secretary, has gone to great lengths to submit comprehensive and detailed recommendations for reviving every sector of Indian education — […]
Excerpts from an interview with Mitchell E. Daniels, president of Purdue University, Indiana (USA). Daniels was in India in October.
What are the top priorities and objectives of your visit to India?
India is a country of strategic importance to Purdue. The Purdue-India relationship is deep and broad. Approximately 1,900 Indian students are currently enrolled in Purdue […]
Tara story-teller: Gita Wolf Chennai-based Gita Wolf is the founder-editor of Tara Books Pvt. Ltd (estb. 1994), which began as a children’s book publishing house but ... 
Oxford Univ Press launches English-English-Kannada Dictionary Oxford University Press (OUP), the world’s largest university press, recently announced the launch of the Oxford English-English-Kannada Dictionary at an ... 
St. Xavier’s College Kolkata to start 3 new PG courses in bio-sciences Mita Mukherjee St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata has decided to introduce three new postgraduate courses in biological sciences from this year ... 
Top 10 Child YouTubers who are rocking the cyberspace -Shreyosi Chakraborty Unlike the 90's when "viral" meant fever and "trending" was used if one wore a fashionable dress, today ... 
