LEAD School’s English programme, ELGA, is breaking the traditional norms of teaching the English language by applying a unique level-based technique that teaches English as a skill and not as a subject.
When I heard Harini read out an article that she wrote on the pros and cons of technology, I was pleasantly surprised at her […]
Indus Schools’ vision is ‘To create global citizens and leaders of tomorrow through the traditional values of love, empathy, discipline and respect – 21st-century citizens who think globally and act locally’
We fortify this vision in our students by encouraging them to constantly identify and take up projects to address issues in our local community and […]
BenQ India Pvt. Ltd. (estb2001) is a national subsidiary of BenQ Corporation, a lifestyle technology and solutions company providing an array of people-driven products spanning digital projectors, monitors, large-format interactive displays, audio among other lifestyle products. BenQ India already holds 26 percent of the market share in India’s growing technology and solutions market, however, […]
A school where the child explores, discovers and grows…
The school has been set up under the aegis of Child Education Society (Regd.) which has been dedicated to the cause of education for 75 glorious years and presently caters to more than 65,000 students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds in its 27 educational institutions across the […]
“Education is the movement from darkness to light……Tamsoma Jyotirgamaya.”
The management and staff at NLDHS take pride in providing an exciting atmosphere for learning at the preprimary level. We believe each child is capable of experiencing the highest possible level of success. This is possible through the dedication and commitment of the faculty, parents and students […]
Preschools come in as effective learning platforms, imparting and creating the environment in shaping the child to be a promising individual. They provide an opportunity for the child to gain knowledge and skills that will help them for the rest of their life.
According to Nobel Laureate and Professor James J, Heckman, Ph.D., “Early childhood interventions […]
Rakesh Gupta is Managing Partner of LoEstro Advisors which advises clients on strategy, fund-raising and M&A. An alumnus of IIT KGP and ISB, Hyderabad, Gupta was former head of finance and strategy, People Combine Educational Initiatives and management consultant with McKinsey & Co.
What’s your outlook on India’s K-12 sector?
India has the largest enrolments in […]
Ashish Jhalani is the global chief technology officer and managing director of the Mumbai-based Square Panda (India) Pvt. Ltd (SPI, estb. 2018), the India subsidiary of Square Panda Inc, USA (estb. 2014). The California-based company designs auditory, visual and tactile learning systems to enable children in the 2-8 age group to develop reading readiness […]
To compile the 2019-20 league table of model anganwadis, C fore field researchers interviewed 455 sample respondents including anganwadi teachers and SEC (socio-economic category) ‘C’, ‘D’ and ‘E’ parents in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore.
Last year, in the cause of supporting the Central government’s ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) programme (estb. 1976), EducationWorld introduced the first-ever […]
Noida’s transformation into a major IT/ITES hub has prompted several go-getting edupreneurs to promote proprietary and franchised preschools for the young children of thousands of skilled professionals working and living in this new satellite city of Delhi.
Although it falls within the administrative jurisdiction of the socio-economically backward state of Uttar Pradesh, Noida has emerged as […]
Field researchers of the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore) interviewed 582 parents and 65 preschool principals/teachers of this buzzing city to rank 34 pre-primaries in two categories — owned/proprietary and franchised.
Technically within the administrative jurisdiction of the state government of Haryana (pop.25.4 million) but popularly included in Delhi NCR (National […]
The number of preschools — proprietary and franchised — ranked in the EW Ahmedabad league table has risen from 26 in 2017-18 to 34 in 2019-20 with ten new pre-primaries debuting this year. Here are Ahmedabad’s best preschools 2019-20.
The early childhood care and education (ECCE) sector in Ahmedabad (pop. 5.7 million) is humming with activity. With […]
In the ninth EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2019-20, 19 sufficiently reputed proprietary and 11 franchised preschools in Pune are rated and ranked by 551 parents of preschool children and 61 ECCE teachers and principals. Here are Pune’s best preschools 2019-20
Maharashtra’s second most industrialised city after Mumbai, Pune (pop. 3.1 million) — seat of the once mighty […]
No matter how old you are, if you are Indian, you can probably recall the first time you heard the story of Rama. The memory could be your grandmother’s voice in a room lit only by an oil lamp, or a book such as Rajagopalachari’s rendition, or pictures in the Amar Chitra Katha or the […]
Professor of world history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, the globally acclaimed author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2104), an international phenomenon which was on the Sunday Times (UK) bestseller list for over 25 weeks and has been translated into 40 languages worldwide, is one of the foremost […]
There is something surreal about the anti-tuition and other fees agitation of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) which has let loose mayhem and rioting on the streets of Delhi. It’s instructive to learn that for most study programmes of this 50-year-old postgrad varsity, its 8,500 students pay tuition fees of Rs.200-300 per year, […]
The widely reported decision of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre to privatise Bharat Petroleum (BPCL), Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) and Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) is like a whiff of oxygen to the stagnating Indian economy in which all indicators — GDP growth rate, employment generation, aggregate demand, exports, agriculture productivity — […]
The audio-visual media and entertainment industry is experiencing severe disruption worldwide. Despite this, Barkha Dutt — once India’s answer to Oprah Winfrey — persuaded former Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal, the country’s most successful Supreme Court counsel who reportedly files an annual income tax return of Rs.50 crore-plus earned from the country’s dysfunctional legal system, […]
Vijay Krishnamurthy, Bangalore-based corporate coach and also a sports research scholar at Mysore University
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics is less than a year away. Already there’s a buzz: How many medals will India win this time? These discussions will increase in intensity as the date of the quadrennial Olympics draws closer. As the event begins, media […]
Hosting large offices of IT multinationals, this business-friendly city has attracted a swarm of edupreneurs who have quickly established dozens of new-genre proprietary and franchised pre-primaries to meet growing demand from well-educated young professionals for high-quality ECCE for their progeny.
The ancient city of Hyderabad (pop. 6.8 million), admin capital of India’s newest state Telangana (estb.2014) […]
The number of preschools included in the proprietary and franchised league tables of the garden city, Bangalore — fast transforming into garbage city — is 113, highest of the 16 urban habitats covered by the EW India Preschool Rankings 2019-20.
Awareness of the value and importance of professionally administered early childhood care and education (ECCE) is […]
In the EW Chennai preschools 2019-20 league tables, 44 proprietary and 22 franchised pre-primaries are rated on 10 parameters of ECCE excellence by 662 parents with children in preschool and 72 principals/teachers based in Chennai.
The port city of Chennai (pop. 9.8 million), the admin capital of the southern seaboard state of Tamil Nadu (pop. 72 […]
While the subject of early childhood care and education (ECCE) was unfamiliar within the rest of the country, pre-primary schools such as West Wind, Breach Candy (estb.1947) and Besant Montessori (1948) had already started providing professionally administered ECCE to infants in the 2-5 age group. Here are Mumbai’s best preschools 2019-20.
Until the mid 19th century the […]
In the 2019-20 Kolkata league tables of proprietary and franchised preschools, there’s only one new entrant in each category, perhaps indicative that the ruling TMC has not yet reversed the toxic legacy of 34 years of Marxist rule.
Political volatility supplemented by capital flight, corruption scams and varsity campus violence — the legacy of 34 years […]
Although the preference in the national capital is for composite K-12 schools, standalone proprietary and franchised pre-primaries which often admit less than two-year-olds are a godsend for young double-income parents in nuclear households. Here are Delhi’s top-ranked preschools 2019-20.
Perhaps no urban habitat in India is more appreciative of the importance of giving children an early start […]
Against the backdrop of early childhood care and education about to be — even if belatedly — accorded high importance in the imminent National Education Policy 2019, the ninth consecutive EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2019-20 survey highlighting the country’s most admired pre-primaries and their best practices, assumes special importance – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
In the […]
Mississauga (Canada)-based UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) evangelist Ayush Chopra (17) has every reason to feel elated. In July this year, this teen was conferred the prestigious Diana Award 2019, established by the UK government in 1999 in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, to acknowledge outstanding young leaders for selflessly creating and sustaining positive […]
Coimbatore-based social entrepreneur Padmanabhan Gopalan (26), founder of an NGO christened No Food Waste (NFW, estb.2014), is winner of the National Youth Award 2019 of the Union ministry of youth affairs and sports. NFW collects leftover food from weddings and other festivals and distributes it to the poor and needy in 16 cities and towns […]
Bangalore, November 7. Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) announced winners of the Infosys Prize 2019 in six categories — engineering and computer sciences, humanities, life sciences, mathematical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. The prize for each category awardee is a pure gold medal, a citation and a prize purse of US$100,000 (Rs.72 lakh) this year.
A […]
Noida (UP), November 7. India Inc tycoons Ratan Tata and G.M. Rao were conferred honorary doctorates by Amity University at its annual convocation which awarded degrees to 6,900 graduates and 42 doctorate scholars. Union human resource development minister, Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal was the chief guest.
While Tata was honoured in absentia, Rao, chairman of the Delhi-based […]
“Recently, we’ve launched a report, which says 54 percent of the young people within the South Asian region do not have the skills they need for employability in 2030. It means these countries cannot contribute to the growth of the world economy.”
Henrietta H Fore, executive director of UNICEF (Forbes India, November 6)
“Public education gives you […]
The Karnataka government is confronted with a formidable challenge of finding teachers for 1,000 newly decreed English medium schools (‘sections’) established within Kannada medium government schools.
In July 2018, a Congress-JDS coalition government led by chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy which ruled the state for 14 months (May 2018-July 2019) introduced this initiative with effect from June […]
Ever since general election 2019 in which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 18 of the 42 seats allotted to West Bengal (pop. 91 million) in the Lok Sabha, and the number of seats of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) party dropped from 34 to 22, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has been on the back […]
-Hemalatha Raghupathi (Chennai)
The tragic suicide of Fathima Latheef (19), a first-year student of the five-year integrated humanities and development studies postgraduate programme, on the campus of the top-ranked Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M, estb.1959) on November 9 — the fifth student suicide in this institute during the past 12 months — has deeply embarrassed the […]
Three years after its accreditation status expired in April 2017, Maharashtra’s oldest varsity, University of Mumbai (estb.1857) has applied for National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) ranking.
The university, funded by the state government, which has 810 affiliated colleges statewide with an aggregate enrolment of 700,000 students, was awarded grade ‘A’ status for the period 2012-17. […]
Formulation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2019 is now in its final phase even as a 55-page leaked draft is ubiquitous on social media. All indications are that the final NEP will be formally released by the end of the year.
The official NEP 2019 is likely to accept 80 percent of the recommendations made […]
I have been a regular reader of EducationWorld for over a decade. With every issue, you set higher standards of education journalism. In the November anniversary issue, you have outdone yourself by featuring an insightful and informative cover story ‘2030: Will India recover its lost education momentum?’ This story is a balanced assessment of the […]
The continuous smog pollution which has enveloped Delhi — India’s showpiece national capital — for the past month since Diwali (October 27) and several cities of north India, is the natural outcome of post-independence India’s ill-advised adoption of the Soviet-inspired Centrally planned economic development model over half a century ago.
At the time of independence, agriculture […]
The unanimous judgement of the Supreme Court in the Ram Janmabhoomi Case (RJC) delivered by the apex court on November 9, brings a religious dispute followed by formal litigation in courts of law which began over a century ago, to closure. This historic judgement should be welcomed by all — as mandated by post-independence India’s […]
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Deconstructing disdain for for-profit education
Drawing from the draft prepared by the K. Kasturirangan Committee, the leaked final National Education Policy 2019 document posted on social media sites, laments “rampant commercialisation and economic exploitation of parents by many for-profit private schools”.
There are several problems with this presumption. First, commercialisation which implies managing or running an enterprise for financial gain is […]