Learning becomes more meaningful and purposeful when students own this process. At Garodia International, learning is all about students owning their journey and making it exciting. We use the International Primary Curriculum to improve student. Learning.
One great example of this is the Unit on Chocolate. It’s a fantastic way to bring different subjects together while […]
Oxford, Harvard University, London School of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University……are just some of the Ivy League placements at CHIREC International school. While these names sound great on paper, they have been achieved through a vision and a customised college plan specifically crafted for each student. Whilst many international schools focus on placements […]
Foreign students in Malaysia: high-income nations preference
Malaysia is maintaining a toe-in-the-water approach to post-study work rights, despite indications that it could help achieve a longstanding goal of 250,000 international student enrolments by 2025.
The South-east Asian nation’s flirtation with post-study work rights has so far been restricted to citizens of high-income nations with […]
– Richa Joshi, Special Educator, Ecole Globale International Girls’ School
Everyone thinks differently. Some people think in a more linear way; others in a more creative way. Some people think in words; others in pictures. Our brains all work in their own unique ways. Which means differences in how the brain processes information; differences that […]
Introduced in 2018, the EducationWorld Grand Jury India Preschool Rankings felicitate pre-primaries that have introduced contemporary pedagogies and practices in early childhood care and education (ECCE).
To shortlist and select progressive preschools countrywide, we invited nominations from educationists, individuals and schools themselves, supported by evidence of best practices in 12 categories — teacher-parent-student engagement, campus design, […]
The smart and the dumb: The politics of education in India
Vishal Vasanthakumar
Penguin Random House
Rs.599 Pages 179
Through seven broad stories, the author provides a vivid portrait of cultural and political processes that shape formal education and demonstrates how education affects these processes
What is, or should be, the purpose of formal education? What […]
An alum of Delhi University, Tina Vachani is Co-founder, Routes2Roots, a NGO focused on “spreading peace through cultural awareness”. R2R is the first cultural NGO to be listed on the National Stock Exchange’s SSE (Social Stock Exchange) platform. Excerpts from an email interview:
Routes2Roots is described as a NGO dedicated to promoting Indian art, culture […]
Following the demise of former prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on December 26 last year, there’s been an outpouring of national grief. The country’s most eminent political leaders and celebrated economists, including Nobel laureate Dr. Amartya Sen have paid handsome tributes to him as the great liberator who as Union finance minister in the Congress […]
Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech promising to crack down and repatriate illegal immigrants in the US to their countries of origin has instilled the fear of God in the Indian establishment which has long turned a blind eye and fudged the issue of why millions of Indians climb every mountain and ford every […]
In India, the demise of automobiles manufacturing tycoon Osamu Suzuki in Hamamatsu, Japan on December 25, didn’t receive the media attention that it should have. With typical ingratitude, the Indian public has forgotten the massive contribution made by him towards revolutionising the country’s moribund motor cars manufacturing industry dominated for half a century by the […]
— Ashwini Chandrashekhar, Manager, computational thinking at Educational Initiatives, Bengaluru
When taught mere coding students are trained to write basic instructions but not develop the thinking of good engineers and mathematicians that sparks innovation
In classrooms worldwide, teaching-learning coding, aka programming — the process of writing instructions for computers to follow — has become […]
Desai (centre): wellbeing through self-awareness and self-empowerment
Sanjay Desai is founder-CEO of ConsciousLeap Insights Pvt. Ltd (estb.2013), a Mumbai-based company that offers holistic, mental well-being and life skills programmes to schools.
Its flagship programmes are the Make YOU Happen Program and WellSpire for students as also its Teacher Wellbeing Program. Thus far the company’s […]
An Australian university hopes to inaugurate a new campus on the outskirts of New Delhi as part of a partnership with the state government, subject to approval from regulators. Western Sydney University (WSU) announced its intention to establish a branch campus in Greater Noida, a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, around an […]
Private school children: diminishing inflow forecast
In mid-December Tim Jonas’ daughter said goodbye to friends and teachers at her private school in Wakefield, in Yorkshire. Jonas, a web developer, says his family can no longer afford the nine-year-old’s fees, now that Britain’s Labour government is adding 20 percent in value-added tax (VAT).
Yonsei University, Seoul: country’s most expensive
Tuition fee increases at South Korea’s universities are “unavoidable”, according to academics, despite last-ditch negotiation attempts by a government already grappling with a constitutional crisis.
Deputy prime minister and education minister Lee Ju-ho reportedly sent a letter to all universities end December urging them to freeze tuition fees […]
As director of a first-year writing course at a midsize public university, Melanie Gagich doesn’t know a lot about computer science. But when her institution invited faculty to propose new programmes combining two existing majors, she and another writing instructor felt that English and computer science would be a perfect fit. “A lot of students […]
Mohammad Javed is the founder-CEO of Skoodle Learning Pvt. Ltd, a Bengaluru-based company that offers a range of edtech solutions — ERP, student assessment, live classes, e-learning, school bus tracking and campus security — to education institutions under the brand name Entrar. Over the past decade, Entrar has […]
Amit Goyal is the Delhi-based Managing Director (South Asia) of Project Management Institute (PMI, estb.1969), a globally reputed not-for-profit that prescribes standards, certification, and resources for project management professionals. The US-based PMI has over 300 chapters worldwide, including nine in India, providing paid-up members (Rs.9,020 per year) opportunities […]
America’s higher education institutions are at risk of being caught in the crossfire as divisions are revealed in the Trump administration over visas. Opposition to the H-1B work visa has come from influential right-wing commentator Steve Bannon and left-wing Democratic senator Bernie Sanders, who have criticised […]
– Vivek Yadav, HOD Mathematics, Ecole Globale International Girls’ School
Being a fundamental subject, mathematics is used effectively in Ecole Globale International School to develop practical knowledge, problem solving skills, and critical thinking in students. It has been integrated into daily learning and is having lasting impact on students ‘personal and academic lives. Following are […]
Your cover story ‘Artificial Intelligence: Leapfrog opportunity for Indian education’ (EW January) was timely and welcome. World over, schools have started leveraging the power of AI to improve teaching-learning practices, and engineering colleges are offering courses in AI and machine learning which are in great demand.
AI is gradually becoming an indispensable part of […]
The dip in India’s GDP growth rate in the third quarter (October-December) to 6.2 percent came as a great disappointment to monitors of the Indian economy and citizenry. This disappointing performance against earlier forecast of 7.5-8 percent has prompted the World Bank and IMF to revise their forecast for fiscal 2024-25 to 6.2-6.5 percent.
By the time readers of this sui generis publication which recently crossed the milestone of 25 years of uninterrupted publishing read this editorial, the Union Budget 2025-26 will have already been presented to Parliament and the public by long-tenured Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
With the annual rate of GDP growth unlikely to exceed 6.5 percent […]
Like the Bourbon kings of ancient France who learned nothing from history, India’s top 10 percent establishment and middle class who command 55-60 percent of national wealth and income, seem oblivious to the mass deprivation and misery of majority citizens eking out miserable lives at the bottom of professedly socialist India’s socio-economic pyramid. Incontrovertibly, 75 […]
Widely believed to be the go-to academic of the RSS, BJP leadership at the Centre, Mamadala Jagdish Kumar, Chairman of the University Grants Committee (UGC), invested with all-important recognition and grants dispensing powers to colleges and universities countrywide, has a penchant for stirring the proverbial hornet’s nest. An alumnus of IIT-Madras […]
The 14th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2024 published by the highly-respected Pratham Education Foundation and released on January 28 in New Delhi, has bad tidings for the southern state of Karnataka (pop.69 million).
This annual survey of primary education assesses the learning outcomes of three-16-year-old rural children in basic reading and […]
With Maharashtra (pop. 127 million) experiencing continuous political turmoil — the state has been ruled by multiple governments, including the Maha Vikas Aghadi, the BJP-backed Shiv Sena faction, and the current coalition, in the past five years — its 65,639 public/government schools are going from bad to worse.
Tamil Nadu has reaffirmed its commitment to the no-detention policy, ensuring that children in classes I-VIII in primary/elementary schools statewide are promoted to the next grade regardless of academic performance. This decision of the state government refutes the Central government’s recent amendment of the Right of Children […]
Primary children in Kolkata school: modest progress
The annual status of education report (ASER)2024, a comprehensive school education survey pertaining to 2023 conducted annually by the well-known Pratham Education Foundation, was released on January 28 in New Delhi. For the survey, a representative sample of 649,491 children aged 5-16 […]
“We have a public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster, yet more money is spent on it than any country anywhere in the world. And we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves — in many cases, to hate our country despite the love that […]
Patna, january 25. 21,581 candidates have passed the 70th Integrated Combined Competitive Examination (CCE) 2024 conducted by the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC). These results were declared recently following weeks of statewide protests over alleged irregularities.
Held on December 13, the BPSC exam ignited protests due to allegations of a question paper leak. A […]
New Delhi, January 21. In the inaugural summit of Amazon’s India’s ‘Careers of the Future’ program held in Delhi, the e-commerce company announced that its Amazon Future Engineers program, launched in 2021, has successfully trained 3 million government school students and over 20,000 teachers in 272 districts of eight states countrywide. The […]
Turiya Uma Kalyan (17), a Chennai-based fisherfolk evangelist, recently launched an informal cooperative christened Nambikkai Alai (“Tide of Trust” in Tamil) — comprising a group of 30 fishermen and women — to address the socio-economic challenges of the fisherfolk community.
A socially aware class XII student of the city’s APL Global School, […]
Kolkata-based chess prodigy Anish Sarkar (4) who earned the distinction of becoming the youngest FIDE rated (1555) player in history last October (2024), is the latest to join the elite league of celebrated Indian chess players.
Anish made his debut at age three years and eight months at the first All Bengal Rapid […]
Promoted over eight decades ago in pre-independence India, BBPS-GRH is ranked among the national capital’s Top 10 co-ed day schools in the EW India School Rankings 2024-25.
Spread across two contemporary campuses aggregating 6.37 green acres, the Bal Bharati Public School, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, Delhi (BBPS-GRH, estb.1944) has established a good reputation in […]
Reshma Ravishanker
Established in 2010 as the “world’s first Design AI university”, SUTD has acquired an international reputation for its tertiary education and research in artificial intelligence, design and technology.
The new genre Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD, estb.2010), which bills itself as the “world’s first Design AI university,” has acquired an international reputation […]
The Unified District Information System Plus Report 2023-24 provides a vast volume of data relating to primary, secondary and higher secondary schools. Yet infrastructure deficiency, child drop-out and retention data project a disturbing picture – Dilip Thakore
India’s eager-to-learn school children: disturbing drop-out and retention data
The Unified District Information System for Education Plus […]
Dr. Somak Raychaudhury is Vice-Chancellor and professor of physics at Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana
Higher education institutions have a social obligation to communicate scientific knowledge to the broader public. Universities need to actively engage with schools and local communities
Scientific temper requires a mindset that leads to people making rational choices, […]
– Tanuja Bhatt, TGT, Department of Humanities, Ecole Globale International Girls’ School
In today’s dynamic world, education isn’t just about academics – it’s also about equipping students with the skills they need to understand and manage their emotions, build strong relationships, and make responsible decisions. This is where Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) comes in.
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) [caption id="attachment_122753" align="aligncenter" width="723"] Mamata Banerjee (centre) at BGBS 2025[/caption] After 34 years of industrial stagnation under communist rule (1977-2011) and during .....Read More
Developing national scientific temper
Somak Raychaudhury
Dr. Somak Raychaudhury is Vice-Chancellor and professor of physics at Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana
Higher education institutions have a social obligation to communicate scientific knowledge to the broader public. Universities need to actively engage with schools and local communities
Scientific temper requires a mindset that leads to people making rational choices, […]