Although it is the nation’s proud boast that India is the world’s most populous (not largest) democracy, evidence is mounting that the idealistically heroic decision to introduce universal adult franchise when a mere 12 percent of the population was literate, was an error. Since 1951 when post-independence India’s first General Election was held, gullible, uneducated […]
A series of heavy fines decreed by state governments for minor civic offences such as not wearing face masks or jumping a traffic light, which far from deterring offenders, has had the adverse effect of increasing retail police corruption manifold.
In the garden city of Bangalore — the state’s rustic politicians have senselessly surrendered the global […]
By any metric of man measurement, new technologies industry leader Faqir Chand Kohli (FCK) who passed away on November 26 was an extraordinary individual who made a huge, insufficiently appreciated, contribution to the national development effort. An alumnus of Punjab University and MIT, Boston where he studied engineering, unlike many of his generation in the […]
– Ravi Menon (The Book Review)
This novel has several interwoven themes — communities turning against each other, exploitation of women and the concept of nationhood. Three women bring them alive
The radiance of a thousand suns; Manreet Sodhi Someshwar; Harper Collins
Rs.499; Pages 499
In July 1947 an accomplished lawyer from England made his first, and […]
– Dilip Thakore
Right until 1980 the economies of China and India were on a par. This brilliant book details and explains the explosive growth of China and why India is an also ran
India’s China challenge; Ananth Krishnan; Harper Colllins
Rs.417; Pages 420
Every true nationalist with genuine interest in enabling the greater good of the greatest […]
Students are the leaders of tomorrow. They need to be empowered by new technologies-enabled learning systems that will shape them into competent, confident and proactive adults.
Rajiv Bansal, Director-Operations, Global Indian International School (GIIS) India
Rapid technological advancement stimulated by the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred the evolution of education faster than ever before. With […]
Because of Covid-19 complications, this year’s survey of the best preschools is restricted to six cities where there is greater awareness and appreciation of high-quality early childhood education, viz Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Over a decade ago in 2010 when there was minimal awareness of the vital […]
Last year, your editors introduced the EW Global School Rankings 2019-20 under our ‘Education Unites World’ initiative to rate and rank the most respected schools of neighbouring countries. The objective of including the best neighbour countries schools is to encourage student-teacher exchanges with India and inter se. Last year, juries comprising education leaders and experts […]
Affordable BPS occupy a special and controversial space in India’s complex multi-layered K-12 system. Politicians, bureaucrats and leftists love to hate them because they are for-profit and pride themselves as English-medium schools
Within India’s complex, multi-layered K-12 school system, budget private schools — essentially affordable primaries (with a sprinkling of secondary schools) — occupy a special […]
Affiliated with offshore school-leaving examination boards, international residential schools are the country’s most prestigious (and expensive) primary-secondaries sprawled across expansive campuses in scenic hill stations. Here are India’s best international residential schools 2020-21.
Ranked separately in an exclusive category since 2013, international residential schools are the country’s most prestigious (and expensive) primary-secondaries. Sprawled across expansive campuses […]
Apart from high-quality globally benchmarked academic education, international day-cum-boarding schools provide day scholars access to excellent co-curricular and sports education infrastructure that residential schools build for boarders. Therefore they are becoming increasingly popular
Within the upscale, elite category of international schools affiliated with offshore school-leaving examination boards, day-cum-boarding schools offer students the best of both worlds. […]
For upper class households that prefer their children to grow up at home and then move to residential colleges and universities, a new genre of international day schools, which offer academic education on a par with the very best boarding schools, has mushroomed in post-liberalisation India
Unlike haute bourgeoisie households in the UK and increasingly in […]
The biggest upset of EWISR 2020-21 is the toppling of The Doon School, Dehradun, ranked #1 since 2007, from its premier podium position in the boys boarding schools category
Although gender segregated schools are increasingly going out of fashion in the new age of women’s lib and equality, some of India’s vintage all-boys boarding schools sited […]
Although in the new millennium the majority of greenfield primary-secondary schools tend to be co-ed, there is no shortage of children applying for admission into the country’s all-girls boarding schools offering thoroughly contemporary all-round education. Here are India’s best girls boarding schools 2020-21
Worldwide, and 21st century India is no exception, gender segregated primary-secondary schools are […]
Suddenly gender segregated schools have fallen out of fashion. Co-ed boarding schools have become cooler and more stylish, not least because they implicitly teach boys good drawing room manners and gender egalitarianism. Here are India’s top-ranked co-ed boarding schools 2020-21.
Once upon a time gender-segregated boarding schools — especially boys boarding schools such as St. Paul’s, […]
In this edition, we present Part II of EWISR 2020-21 featuring league tables rating and ranking the country’s most reputed Boarding Schools (co-ed, girls and boys), International Schools (day, day-cum-boarding and fully residential) and also the most respected Budget Private Schools – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
The ill-wind of the Coronavirus global pandemic which has […]
Bengaluru, November 17. Kara4Kids, a group of premium preschools and daycares in Bengaluru, signed an academic collaboration agreement with The Pennsylvania Global and Education Hub (Penn Hub), a joint initiative of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education, a consortium of independent universities and public community colleges. This agreement for early education will equip Kara4Kids teachers […]
Amaravati, November 5. A total 262 students and 160 teachers tested Covid-19 positive during the past three days after schools were reopened statewide for classes IX-X students on November 2, said the commissioner of school education V. Chinna Veerabhadrudu, addressing a press conference.
According to data provided by the state government’s department of school education, 9.75 […]
“I may be the first woman in this office but won’t be the last… Every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities. And to the children of our country, regardless of your gender, our country has sent you a clear message: Dream with ambition, lead with conviction and see yourself […]
– Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
With only six months to go before the legislative assembly election is held in West Bengal next summer, chief minister Mamata Banerjee is seeking a third five-year term in office for the Trinamool Congress government. But it’s up against a resurgent BJP which bagged an unprecedented 18 seats (out of 42) […]
– Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)
The AIADMK-led state government has bit the bullet and reopened in-campus classes in higher education institutions (HEIs) on December 7. The reopening order issued under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, is restricted to final-year undergraduate students of arts and science, engineering, agriculture, fisheries and veterinary colleges and universities statewide. It’s also […]
– Bandana Brahmin (Bengaluru)
There is mounting exasperation among educationists in the state over the BJP government’s repeated postponement of the date for reopening education institutions for fear of children and students contracting the Covid-19 virus. On November 23, primary and secondary education minister S. Suresh Kumar announced yet another reopening date postponement of preschools, […]
– Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
The state government has been forced to resume online admissions for 210,482 first-year junior college (FYJC) students after the Bombay high court (November 24) reprimanded it for the inordinate delay in concluding online admissions for the academic year 2020-21. Earlier, following a Supreme Court stay order (September 9) of a Maharashtra […]
– Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Almost every private school and education minister at the Centre and in the states have been proclaiming great success in smoothly switching over to online teaching-learning following prolonged closure of all education institutions since mid-March in the wake of the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
But surveys/studies conducted by reputable NGOs […]
We are elated that DPS, Greater Faridabad is ranked #48 nationally, #27 in Haryana and #1 in Greater Faridabad in the co-ed day schools category in the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2020-21 (EW November).
We are thankful to EducationWorld for recognising our verve and grit as an ambitious and student-centric school. This is the first […]
Discovery of an entirely new village sited 2 km on the Bhutanese side of the Sino-Bhutan border, a mere 9 km from the China-India standoff in the Doklam area in 2017, is proof that the Sino-India border dispute is by no means over.
Under a treaty signed in 1949, Bhutan is an Indian protectorate with India […]
With education institutions, especially pre-primaries and K-12 schools, shuttered for over nine months since mid-March because of fear of infection from the Coronavirus, aka Covid-19 pandemic, pitiful tragedies are being played out in millions of households across the country. The majority of India’s 480 million children are not only suffering loss of learning, but also […]
Initiated in 2007, the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) survey which rates and ranks the country’s most reputed primary-secondary schools segregated into three main categories — day, boarding and international and ten sub-categories: Day (boys, girls, day-cum-boarding and co-ed); Boarding (boys, girls and co-ed), and International (day, day-cum-boarding and residential) — to ensure level […]
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Remembrance of an ideal teacher
Among the great teachers I have trained I remember many who knew how to scold without losing their students’ love and trust. Predictability in a teacher’s behaviour is important, advised the late American educator John Holt
Dr. Krishna Kumar is former director of NCERT and former professor of education at Delhi University
One of the four […]