When students come up with innovative solutions to real-world problems around them, educators can breathe easy, knowing that they have done something right! Nurturing scientific temper as an integral component of the school culture is key to achieving this goal.
Scientific temper, or scientific attitude is characterised by traits such as a healthy scepticism, universalism, freedom […]
– Saurabh Modi, Founder-Chairman, Neerja Modi School, Jaipur
As educators, we want children in our classrooms to be happy, of course. But, how do we rationalise that their contentment truly matters when it comes to learning and absorbing the knowledge being imparted? According to a new study by HGSE lecturer Christina Hinton, the answer to […]
– Aadya Sharma, Kunal Jaluka and Suresh C Joshi, Jindal School of Psychology and Counselling, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana.
Graduating from high school is the first step into adult life for a student, and choosing a career path is never easy for teenagers confronted with multitudes of possibilities and opportunities. This essay focuses on […]
Learn From Digital Pioneer Eric Sheninger in STTAR Session
– Vinod Malhotra, Chairman, Academic Council, Saamarthya Teachers Training Academy of Research (STTAR), Ghaziabad
The inexorable power of digital technology is transforming our world and our lives for the better. In the education landscape, particularly, rapid digitalization of pedagogy, learning processes, and operations is empowering teachers and preparing […]
Prof. Kathleen A. Modrowski Professor and Dean, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University
The Covid 19 pandemic has changed the way we perceive and act in this world. Since March 2020 when the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic, the world has ground to a halt several […]
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Sanjeev Bolia (2019) Ashok Pandey with Dr. Kannan Gireesh (left) & Sumer Singh (right)
Director of the Delhi-based Ahlcon Group of two CBSE affiliated K-12 schools with an aggregate enrolment of 6,200 students mentored by 320 teachers, Ashok Pandey has acquired over three decades experience in primary-secondary education in India and abroad as […]
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GS Madhav Rao with Dr. Kannan Gireesh (left) & Sumer Singh (right)
G.S Madhav Rao (GSMR) is an unsung hero of Indian education who is a friend, philosopher and guide of K-12 educators in India and abroad for over half a century. During his long and continuing association with primary-secondary and early childhood education, […]
Summiya Yasmeen
With Covid-19 infection cases on the decline this year, the EducationWorld India School Rankings Awards 2021-22 (EWISRA) made a big comeback. Staged over two days on December 17-18 at the Leela Ambience Hotel, Delhi NCR, EWISRA 2021-22 attracted participation of over 700 K-12 education leaders including promoters, trustees, principals and senior teachers of India’s […]
Hi! I am Danish, cofounder of SchoolPad. In the past eight years since inception, I have been majorly involved with schools in helping build their fee management processes and systems to make fee collections more consistent and error-free.
During this journey, I came across many common problems. Among them: school fee records don’t match with bank […]
Promoted by renowned psychiatrist Dr. Kannan Gireesh in 2011, the Chennai-based LiveLife Education Private Ltd is one of India’s leading organisations in the development and delivery of life transforming training programmes designed for the student community. The company is committed to teaching students to discover life’s direction, understand the overall purpose of life, believe in […]
Cracks are beginning to show on the impressive facade of the Bangalore-based Think & Learn Pvt. Ltd, better known as the proprietor company of Byju’s, the heavily advertised online tutorials app which can be accessed through all Internet connected digital devices, including India’s 870 million cell phones.
The rapid transformation of Byju’s into one of India’s […]
The World Inequality Report 2022 of the Paris-based World Inequality Lab, of which bestseller French economist Thomas Piketty (Capital in the 21st Century) is a prime mover, highlights that India’s richest 1 percent elite own 22 percent of national income/ wealth, and the richest 10 percent owns 57 percent.
The obvious conclusion one would derive from […]
Latest proof that the country’s parasitical public sector enterprises (PSEs) are dragging the economy down is provided by a recent report of the comptroller and attorney general of India (CAG ) on Indian Railways which boasts the world’s largest number of employees (1.6 million). According to the CAG report published last month, to conceal its […]
Club you to death
Anuja Chauhan
Harper collins india
Rs.399
Pages 432
Anuja Chauhan’s new novel is set around a seemingly simple murder perpetrated in the Delhi Turf Club, a space for a privileged set who believe that they are the glamourous last standing people who will protect Delhi from falling at the hands of what […]
The Nutmeg’s Curse
Amitav Ghosh
Penguin
Rs.599
Pages 352
To describe this seminal work of exhaustive research and deductive logic as the most insightful and illuminating explanation of the environmental crises threatening Planet Earth suffering floods, famine, pandemics, typhoons, forest wildfires, shrinking polar icecaps — all at the same time — written in the past century, […]
EducationWorld felicitated and celebrated India’s top-ranked preschools in six cities — as per the outcome of the EW India Preschool Rankings 2021-22 conducted by well-known Delhi-based market research company Centre for Forecasting and Research (C fore) — at an awards ceremony at the Leela Ambience, Delhi NCR on December 17. Staged coterminously with EW India […]
The annual EducationWorld Grand Jury India School Rankings were introduced in 2016 to acknowledge and felicitate schools — especially newly-promoted, low-profile primary-secondaries — that excel under parameters other than the 14 under which schools are rated and ranked in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings which are based on field-based countrywide interviews.
In August-September advertisements on […]
In March 2020, schools in India and worldwide came to an abrupt halt because of the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Surprisingly despite the massive disruption, quite a number of schools managed to cope well, taking teachers, students and parents on an online adventure! As with most adventures, there were teething troubles but eventually things […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed Dr. B.S. Rao in the Sri Chaitanya Group of Institutions (SCGI) head office in Hyderabad. Excerpts from the 60-minutes interview:
In 1986 after practising medicine in the UK and Iran for 16 years, you and your wife Dr. Jhansi Lakshmi Bai Boppana returned to India to start the first Sri Chaitanya school in […]
Sri Chaitanya Group of Institutions
After three decades of under-the-radar growth in Andhra Pradesh and peninsular India, during which it has imperceptibly evolved into the largest chain of proprietorial K-12 private schools in India, and perhaps Asia, the Sri Chaitanya Group’s second-generation management has ventured forth to establish it as a national brand in English-medium K-12 […]
Fliplearn contest awards
Gurugram, December 29.
Gurugram-based Fliplearn Education Pvt. Ltd, the highly reputed e-learning platform which offers supplementary K-12 education to 550 schools and 500,000 students countrywide, announced winners of its FlipAheadWithFliplearn contest.
Response was overwhelming and more than 50,000 students and around 2,500 teachers participated in the online contest. Winners were selected on the basis […]
Paromita Sengupta with bureau inputs
Odisha: 5T initiative
Bhubaneswar, December 16. The state government inducted 6,131 newlyappointed secondary teachers into an ongoing schools transformation programme under its 5T (team work, technology, transparency, timely completion leading to transformation) initiative.
These teachers have received their appointment letters in the past 47 days. Of them, 2,236 are arts stream teachers, […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Within six weeks of reopening senior schools (class IX-XII), colleges and universities after a prolonged 65-70 weeks lockdown because of exaggerated fear of the Covid-19 pandemic, West Bengal’s 92,000 government and 1,500 private schools, 372 colleges and 32 universities have been ordered to shut down again from January 3. A mere two citizens […]
Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
In line with other states such as West Bengal, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, following a sudden spurt in Covid-19 infections triggered by the Omicron variant, Karnataka’s BJP government has ordered an immediate shutdown of primary-secondary schools and switch to online instruction with effect from January 6. Optional on-campus classes are permitted for […]
Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
On December 16, the pune police investigating allegations of malpractice in the recruitment exam of the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) held between December 12-20, stumbled upon large scale tampering in the state’s annual teacher recruitment exam.
Investigations into the state’s teacher eligibility test (TET) — a compulsory qualification for college/university graduates […]
Following a prolonged and sustained campaign by EducationWorld, which staged its first international conference on early childhood care and education (ECCE) in 2010 and has been since rating, ranking and awarding the best private pre-primary schools and government-run anganwadi centres in major cities countrywide, the critical importance of ECCE was acknowledged by the high powered […]
Impressive evolution
My heartiest compliments to Team EW for the comprehensive EducationWorld India School Rankings Part I and II (EW November and December)! As an avid reader of EducationWorld — especially the school rankings edition — I am impressed with the way EWISR has evolved and matured over the years to match the needs of changing […]
The inevitable arrival in india of the new highly transmissible Omicron variant of the novel Coronavirus, aka Covid-19, which since it mysteriously originated in Wuhan, China back in November 2019 and surfaced in the subcontinent in early 2020 forcing an unprecedented sealing of industry, business and commerce for over six months, has set alarm bells […]
With the highly contagious Omicron variant of the novel Coronavirus which made its India debut last month forecast to peak in early February, Republic Day celebrations are again likely to be subdued this year.
Although initial indications are that Omicron is less lethal than the Delta variant which peaked last summer, its high transmissibility may require […]
When after several years of invitation, the top management of the low-profile Hyderabad/Vijayawada-based Sri Chaitanya Group of Institutions (SCGI) agreed to tell its story, there was considerable excitement in the offices of EducationWorld. Because over the past 36 years since foreign-returned medical practitioners Dr. B.S. Rao and Dr. Lakshmibai Jhansi Boppana established a higher secondary […]
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MU student bags National Award for Excellence in Architectural Thesis Shivangini Singh, a ninth semester B. Arch student of Faculty of Architecture, Manipal University bagged the National Award for Excellence ... 
International Day of Democracy: Bringing Democracy To Indian Classrooms September 15, every year, is celebrated worldwide as the International Day of Democracy. The United Nation promotes it as the ... 
Pradhan launches National Credit Framework draft for public consultation Union minister of education and minister of skill development & entrepreneurship Dharmendra Pradhan launched the draft of National Credit Framework ... 
Agenda for Republic at 72
Sustained growth of 8 percentplus requires substantially greater investment in Indian youth and the education sector. Forty percent of the population is below 18 years and half below 24 years of age, writes Neeraj Kaushal
The Republic of India will turn 72 this year. In 1950 when newly independent India transformed into the first republic of […]