The inaugural EducationWorld Higher Education Grand Jury Awards have been introduced to acknowledge and recognise low-profile and newly established private higher education institutions (HEIs). Juries of knowledgeable educationists were specially constituted to recommend conferment of the EW Grand Jury Awards especially upon newly promoted or low-profile HEIs implementing best practices.
To select newly promoted progressive private […]
The incapability of the Kasturirangan Committee members to shed naive belief that flogging the dead horse of government control and command of the education system will rejuvenate it, is likely to reduce the voluminous NEP draft report to yet another elaborate exercise in futility – Dilip Thakore
The long-awaited New National Education Policy (NEP) draft submitted […]
The recent notice issued by the Securities and Exchange Board (SEBI) banning Prannoy and Radhika Roy, Lutyens Delhi’s original power couple and founders of New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) — India’s pioneer English language television news channel — from functioning as directors of the publicly listed NDTV Ltd, and also from all key managerial positions […]
Undoubtedly Azim Premji, promoter-chairman of the Bangalore-based computer software and IT enabled services giant Wipro Ltd (annual revenue: Rs.50,692 crore; headcount: 171,425), is India’s most exemplary philanthropist and a role model for the country’s multiplying tribe of weight challenged billionaire businessmen engaged in an orgy of conspicuous consumption. Premji has irrevocably transferred 67 percent of […]
The rating and ranking of education institutions by media publications has become quite the fashion these days. Yet the league tables of media publications and HRD ministry vary widely because of divergent methodologies employed in ranking HEIs (higher education institutions).
We believe that the institution evaluation methodology used by EducationWorld is the best because it is […]
The Great Indian School Bazaar, Dev Lahiri, Rupa publications; Rs.195, Pages 147
This slim book – The Great Indian School Bazaar, authored by the late Dev Lahiri (1951-2018) is an easy read on the complex and multi-layered topic of school education in India. The author draws from his vast experience of over four decades as principal and educator of […]
Searching for a King — Muslim Non-Violence & the Future of Islam, Jeffry R. Halverson, Potomac Books; Rs.1,622; 172 pp
Whether one likes it or not, and irrespective of the origins and causes, it is a fact that Islam is increasingly being associated with violence worldwide. In this timely book – Searching for a King, Jeffry […]
The country’s Top 100 private universities, engineering institutes, B-schools and arts, science and commerce colleges, which topped the EducationWorld India Private Higher Education Rankings 2019-20 league tables, were acclaimed by a distinguished assembly of over 200 leaders of academia – Summiya Yasmeen
The country’s Top 100 private universities, engineering institutions, B-schools and multi-disciplinary arts, science and commerce […]
I am a class XI humanities student interested in qualifying as a commercial pilot. Please advise.
— Aman Joshi, Bareilly
The minimum eligibility criterion to qualify for training as a commercial pilot in India is a 50 percent average in class XII with physics and mathematics. For humanities students, the usually preferred option is writing […]
With the global adventure tourism industry recording double digit growth rates annually, ballooning has re-emerged as a new and highly rewarding 21st century career – Paromita Sengupta
The hot air balloon has flown a long way since its maiden flight manned by two Frenchmen soared 3,000 ft over Paris in the 18th century. Three centuries later it […]
As the world grapples with the complex problem of providing access to quality, equitable education in every classroom, experiments with digital technology are showing the way to address the multiple dimensions of this challenge. From providing access to content libraries and subject-specific plug and play modules, enabling teacher support and training to facilitating assessments and […]
”Our aim is to develop the potential of every child in a safe and secure environment, and nurture lifelong learners with the ability to lead their careers and professions with integrity and courage.” – Dr. B. Chandra Sekhar, Administrator, Johnson Grammar School
Promoted in 1979 by S.R.N. Mudiraj (1930-2003), an unassuming school teacher who believed education […]
“CHIREC is fully committed to preparing children for success in the tech-driven global economy. Yet we also strongly believe in providing a rich personal school experience — classrooms of peers, teachers who provide individual attention, sports and games facilities, and a safe environment which nurtures children’s emotional, physical, social and mental well-being.’’ – Ratna Reddy, Founder-director
Spread […]
“Our objective is to nurture lifelong learners by focusing on students’ spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional and mental development. We also provide leadership opportunities for students, preparing them to excel in multi-cultural environments.”- Vinod Gandhi, Managing director, The Geekay World School
Sited on a picturesque 16-acre campus in Ranipet, a leather and textiles hub of Tamil Nadu […]
“KRM Matric. School provides a child-centric curriculum, excellent scholastic and co-scholastic programmes, leadership and life skills education to enable students to develop into intelligent, creative, and contributing members of society.” – R. Janardhanan, Founder-Chairman, Kaligi Ranganathan Montford Matric. Hr. Sec. School
Within walking distance of the busy Perambur railway station and bus terminus in the southern […]
“Good Shepherd International School endeavours to prepare each student for academic social and personal success by creating a community of empowered and diverse learners striving to be globally-minded citizens in an atmosphere of mutual respect, understanding and trust.” – Dr. P. C. Thomas, Founder-Principal
Promoted in 1977 by educationists Dr. P.C. Thomas and Elsamma Thomas, the […]
“We provide a purposeful and supportive learning environment to enable development of students’ critical thinking and knowledge application skills. Our goal is to nurture competent and confident 21st century learners who can successfully face life” and its challenges.” – Salman Ahmed, Management representative, Presidency Group of Institutions, Presidency School
Sited within the flourishing suburb of Yelahanka […]
“Our objective is to prepare youth to become active, free-thinking, and socially responsible citizens in a democratic society, by unlocking their intellectual, aesthetic, moral, physical, and emotional potential.” – Niru Agarwal, Managing Trustee
Spread over a meticulously landscaped, pollution-free 37-acre campus in the IT city of Bangalore, Greenwood High International School (GWHIS) is a new-genre coeducational K-12 school […]
“Inventure Academy is committed to instilling in students the ability and conviction to realise their full potential and excel anywhere in the world. We believe in empowering students to make independent choices and achieve their goals while contributing to building a better world.” – Nooraine Fazal, Founding CEO and Managing Trustee
Co-promoted in 2005 by Nooraine […]
“We provide a progressive international education in a diverse learner-centred community. Our children are encouraged to develop the knowledge, skills, values and dispositions that will enable them to evolve into successful leaders who will create and sustain meaningful change in society.” – Priti Sait, Co-founder and Managing Trustee, Legacy School
Legacy School, Bangalore (LSB) is a […]
Established by Royal Charter in 1784, Royal College of Surgeons has pioneered numerous medical breakthroughs including Ireland’s first anaesthesia surgery and Britain’s first women graduates in medicine and surgery
Sited in the heart of Dublin’s fair city, the Royal College of Surgeons, Eire/Ireland (RCSI, estb.1784) is one of the world’s oldest and most-respected medical and health […]
Over the past 36 years since this CBSE-affiliated K-12 co-ed day school was promoted, it has risen high in the estimation of the public and is ranked #1 in Kanpur in EWISR 2018-19 – Paromita Sengupta
Occupying pride of place in the Kamla Nagar township of the bustling city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh — purpose-built for […]
Kolkata-based math whiz Supravat Sarkar (20) is on a roll. For the third consecutive year, this third year student of the city’s vintage Indian Statistical Institute (ISI, estb.1931) was crowned champion of the national Madhava Maths Competition 2019 held on January 6 in 24 centres countrywide. The results of the competition were declared on March […]
A seven-member team of the Jalandhar (Punjab)-based Lovely Professional University (LPU, estb.2005) — ranked #3 in Punjab in the latest EW India Private University Rankings 2019-20 — was adjudged winner of the prestigious STEM Engagement Award 2019 of the Human Exploration Rover Challenge sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Huntsville, Alabama (USA) […]
The youngest state of the Indian Union, Telangana (pop.40 million) was carved out of Andhra Pradesh in 2014 with Hyderabad as its capital. This bustling city of nawabs and pearls (pop.10.9 million) rivals Bangalore as a nucleus of the information technology (IT), biotech and pharma industries and companies. With IT majors Facebook, Google, IBM […]
Tamil Nadu (pop.72 million) is the country’s second largest state economy with a gross domestic product (GDP) of Rs.17.26 lakh crore, growing at 11.46 percent per year. This state hosts the country’s largest number of industrial factories (over 37,000) engaged in the manufacture of engineering, pharmaceuticals, garments, textile, leather, chemicals, and plastic goods and products. […]
The annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR), which rates and ranks the country’s Top 1,000 primary-secondary schools, is the world’s largest school rankings survey. To compile the 13-plus league tables of the EW India School Rankings 2018-19, 120 field personnel of the Delhi-based market research company Centre for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore) […]
Bangalore, June 25. The Institution of Engineering and Technology India (IET) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Saraswati Seva Foundation (SSF), a non-profit organisation committed to serve underprivileged communities to use new knowledge, tools and technologies.
The MoU aims to deliver STEM-C (science, technology, engineering, maths-computer) programmes to upskill teachers of schools that specifically cater […]
New Delhi, June 4. The University Grants Commission (UGC) recently issued guidelines for recruitment of faculty in higher education institutions (HEIs) to address rising staff shortages.
“Shortage of quality teaching faculty in HEIs is one among many issues presently confronting the higher education system in the country. This is also affecting the quality of higher education. […]
“The government doesn’t really require a policy. It requires a clear cut defined action plan because what’s missing in education is the action on the ground.”
Anil Swarup, former secretary for school education and literacy (Times of India, June 12)
“Many of the boards don’t have adequate staff, enough academic faculty to monitor their own procedures. […]
The draft national education Policy (NEP) 2019 released by the Union ministry of human resource development in New Delhi on May 30 — a week after the BJP-led NDA coalition was returned to power at the Centre with a thumping majority — has stirred up a major controversy in Tamil Nadu (pop.72 million) for recommending […]
The decision taken by the shaky JD (S)-Congress coalition government last July (2018) to promote 1,000 English-medium government primary schools across Karnataka (pop.67 million) after decades of hostility to English of successive state governments — and complete bar on teaching English in classes I-V in government primaries — has proved to be one of the […]
The fallout of general election 2019 in West Bengal in which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged an unprecedented 18 of 42 Lok Sabha seats reducing the 2014 tally of the ruling Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) from 34 to 23, is that the state has become a battleground in the run-up to the state legislative […]
The decision taken by Maharashtra’s BJP-Shiv Sena-led government to scrap in-school assessment for languages and social science subjects in the class X secondary school certificate (SSC) board exams held in March, has delayed first year junior college (FYJC) admissions. Moreover, there is a 12.31 percent decrease in the number of students who passed this school-leaving […]
One of the highlights of the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2019 draft prepared by a high-powered committee chaired by Dr. K. Kasturirangan, eminent space scientist and former chairman of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), and released for national debate and discussion on May 30, is the centrality of teachers in school education. “Teachers truly […]
Thanks for the brilliant cover story ‘Many hurdles of India’s most public education-friendly party’ (EW June). The Aam Aadmi Party under the leadership of Arvind Kejriwal deserves credit for rejuvenating Delhi’s public education system.
As you have correctly stated, Delhi state ruled by AAP is the first in the country to allocate 26 percent of its […]
The lonely death due to heat-stroke in the Arizona desert on the US-Mexico border of seven-year-old Gurpreet Kaur in early June, which attracted banner headlines in the US media, seems to be business as usual for India’s politicians and callous establishment. The little girl was in a group of migrants from India and several South […]
The full-fledged union budget of 2019-20 to be presented to Parliament and the public on July 5 by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, offers the new BJP/NDA government, which was returned to power at the Centre with an overwhelming majority in May, a great opportunity to inject new momentum into the stop-start liberalisation and deregulation initiative […]
Two years in the making, the 477-page draft National Education Policy 2019 report produced by a committee of nine academics chaired by Dr. K. Kasturirangan, an accomplished space scientist and former chairman of the Bangalore-based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) — one of the few public sector enterprises to give a good account of […]
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Home visits, positive reinforcement helped Udupi push up its rank in Karnataka SSLC Exams - Reshma Ravishanker Positive reinforcements to students and a leadership who kept their cool helped Udupi district in Karnataka catapult ... 
26 NGOs Enabling Indian Education If India's K-12 education system hasn't collapsed completely, its due to the efforts of the country's private schools and estimated ... 
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Environment education for Google-savvy children
Dr. Krishna Kumar is former director of NCERT and former professor of education at Delhi University
Every now and then, we hear about the release of a doomsday report detailing the dire state of the environment. The latest is a UN report which warns that more than a million animal and plant species will be lost […]