A 13-year-old with 55 tennis titles to her credit, Ahmedabad-based Zeel Desai walks, talks and slogs tennis. Zeel is just back from Mumbai after winning the Under-14 singles on May 18 which comes on the back of a grand double in the previous week — bagging the singles and doubles titles in the ATF Asian […]
Given the extraordinary exclusivity of IITs which admit a mere 2 percent of aspiring engineering students annually, your editors decided to eliminate them from EducationWorld-C fore’s inaugural rankings of India’s most admired engineering colleges. Dilip Thakore reports
It’s well-known the prosperity of the developed OECD nations of the first world — and latterly of China — has […]
Ranked among India’s top 20 day schools, an outward-looking K-12 school, CHIREC School, Hyderabad offers best global pedagogies rooted in Indian values, has much cause to celebrate its silver jubilee next year
Sited on a compact six-acre campus in Kondapur, a stone’s throw from Hyderabad’s Hi-tech City — the city’s IT and financial […]
Among the few public universities bracketed with America’s top-ranked Ivy league higher education institutions, University of California, Los Angeles has also acquired an awesome reputation for sports education
Founded in 1919, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is among the few public universities bracketed with America’s top-ranked Ivy League higher education institutions […]
Labouring unsung under the long shadow of the country’s celebrated IITs, India’s next-best engineering institutes have received the overdue attention focused on them by the inaugural EW-C fore Engineering Colleges Rankings 2013 as manna from heaven
Euphoria, joy, relief, gratitude and other positive emotions were the reactions of heads and faculty of engineering colleges and technology […]
For the managements of the great majority of institutes listed in the inaugural EW-C fore league tables of the country’s most admired non-IIT engineering colleges/technology institutes, their ranking within state boundaries may well be more valuable than national rank. India’s 28 states and seven Union territories are linguistically, culturally and even ethnically so diverse that […]
To provide readers, especially aspirant engineers, a comprehensive profile of India’s most highly respected ‘other’ (excluding IITs) engineering colleges, the Top 100 national and state league tables are supplemented with Top 10 national rankings on the basis of parameters of excellence.
To compile the national and state rankings, C fore field researchers interviewed 1,126 faculty and […]
Against the backdrop of insistent demand for medical education and a rash of scandals involving the Medical Council of India raising serious doubts about the quality of education delivered, EducationWorld commissioned the Delhi-based C fore to rate and rank India’s Top 30 medical colleges 2013. Summiya Yasmeen reports
The two years past have been the worst […]
To compile the national and state rankings of India’s most respected medical colleges, C fore field researchers interviewed 217 faculty and 253 final year medical students countrywide, asking them to rate medical colleges on six parameters, viz, competence of faculty, faculty welfare and development, research and innovation, pedagogic systems and processes, placements and infrastructure and […]
According to feedback received from our marketing personnel, the general perception is that EducationWorld is a K-12 education focused publication. This perception is inaccurate because over the past 13 years since this monthly sailed into the stagnant waters of Indian education, we have been providing comprehensive coverage of India’s rapidly obsolescing education system from KG-Ph D.
Contrary to […]
The election of a new government in Pakistan and the recent visit of newly elected Chinese prime minister Li Keqiang to India — the first country he has visited since his appointment — offers the scams-tainted Congress-led UPA-II government an opportunity to redeem itself in its last year in office, by resolving India’s long-pending territorial […]
Thanks for your insightful cover story ‘RTE Act, 2009: Confusion confounded’ (EW May). Three years on, there’s no doubt the well-intentioned RTE Act will do more harm than good to Indian education.
It’s quite obvious the main targets of the RTE Act are the country’s private budget schools which have sprung up as alternatives to underperforming government […]
The Congress party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA-II) government at the Centre modestly celebrated completion of four years of its second consecutive five-year term in office on May 22. But the shocked citizenry punch drunk by the unprecedented scams and scandals which have marked its second term, has been in no mood to join the celebrations. […]
Egregious errors and howlers including wrongly delineated national boundaries in class X history and geography textbooks prescribed for students of 21,000 schools affiliated with the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE), has attracted major headlines in the media and provoked a storm of protests from parents and academics across Maharashtra. Better […]
The education sector — the pride of West Bengal (pop. 91 million) in the 19th and 20th centuries — hit rock bottom during the 34 years of uninterrupted reign (1977-2011) of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-led Left Front government in the state when quasi-literate CPM fellow travellers and apparatchiks captured the state’s institutions of […]
The near absolute majority won by the Congress party in the Karnataka state legislative election of May 5 has been cautiously welcomed by the state’s citizens thoroughly disillusioned with its predecessor scams-tainted BJP government which (mis)ruled the state for five years (2009-2013). K. Siddaramaiah, a political veteran known for his ‘clean image’, was sworn in […]
The statehood-for-Telangana movement in Andhra Pradesh — an on-off agitation which has persisted for over four decades — received a fresh boost following a decision of the newly re-constituted Medical Council of India (MCI) to deny three government medical colleges in the Telangana region an intake increase. For the second year in a row, the […]
Vidya sahayaks (teaching assistants) earn less than donkeys, ran a headline in the Ahmedabad edition of the Times of India on May 24.
Three days earlier, on May 21 a Supreme Court bench comprising JJ B.S. Chauhan and Dipak Misra had expressed concern about the quality of primary teachers being recruited by the state government while hearing an appeal of […]
“China’s boom created 130 million net jobs in services and industry between 2002 and 2012. But India is no China. The most recent survey shows no net new jobs were created between 2004-05 and 2009-10, a dramatic slowdown on the previous years when 60 million jobs were created.”
The Economist on India’s demographic challenge (May 11)
“He […]
Delhi
Standing Committee rejects NCHER
A parliamentary panel has advocated continuance of UGC (University Grants Commission) and AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education), rejecting a government proposal for establishing an over-arching National Commission of Higher Education & Research (NCHER) which would subsume the two regulators of higher and technical education.
“The committee has strongly recommended continuance of […]
Six students aged 15-17 of the Lawrence School, Sanawar — Prithvi Singh Chahal, Fateh Singh Brar, Guribadat Singh Somal, Ajay Sohal, Shubham Kaushik and Raghav Joneja — scaled the summit of Mt. Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, on May 21.
The team reached camp 4 on the southern face of the massif on the evening of […]
Despite universal awareness that education — especially quality primary-secondary education — is the foundation block of national development, the tragedy of post-independence India’s national development effort is that in the actual allocation of resources, education never got the priority it deserves. The official mantra has always been that more pressing problems — widespread hunger, poverty […]
A class XI student of Manav Rachna International School (MRIS), Gurgaon, Emaad Muzaffar (17) was conferred a Global Youth Award at the International Lakes & Rivers Conclave and Education Exhibition held in Frankfurt (Germany) between March 24-28. The first Indian student to participate in this biannual event, Emaad has been adjudged the best speaker among […]
India’s post-liberalisation state-of-the-art hospitals, well-qualified doctors and low medical costs are attracting a rising number of patients from developed countries with ageing populations
With the costs of medical care particularly surgical procedures, having soared beyond middle class affordability, and waiting lists in public hospitals in developed OECD countries becoming longer, medical tourism has emerged as a […]
After graduating in biotechnology in 2014, I want to pursue a postgraduate degree in environmental law in the US. Meanwhile I want to sign up for a part-time correspondence course. Please advise.
Navin Kelkar, Pune
Admission into a graduate law programme in the US will depend on your scores in the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), TOEFL, […]
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has— anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-78)
-Dr. Neeraja Raghavan
In two days I met a host of people. in my mind’s eye, I saw the railway guard blow his whistle and wave the green flag: and wondered how […]
So gruesome was the injury to Kevin Ware’s leg that most media outlets declined to show it. Not often does a young man’s tibia break clean through his skin in the course of a college basketball game. Yet Ware urged his University of Louisville team-mates to carry on without him, which they did, winning the college […]
When Stephen Schwarzman, the chairman of Blackstone Group, a private-equity firm, announced in Beijing on April 21 the establishment of a $300 million (Rs.1,650 crore) scholarship programme in his name for study in China, it was further testament to the nation’s place as a new centre of gravity in the world. China’s pull on corporate […]
Cricket, boarding-house names reminiscent of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts and ancient and peculiar customs are among the hallmarks of Britain’s leading private schools. Now they can be found in Singapore and Kazakhstan. As the domestic market softens, some of the most famous names in British education are building far-flung outposts.
Harrow led the way in 1998 by […]
Francois Hollande’s embattled administration faces a major test this summer as it attempts to push sweeping changes to higher education through the French parliament. With the Socialist government rocked by financial scandal and its leader’s approval ratings at a record low of 29 percent, opposition from university leaders to key parts of the draft bill […]
Universities, colleges and schools in the UK may take a leaf out of Australia’s book and lobby the government as one body over international education issues. That’s the view of Colin Riordan, chair of the UK Higher Education International Unit, who made the remarks during a debate on whether British institutions which educate international students […]
An Asian country has for the first time broken into the top 10 of national higher education systems, according to the second annual Universitas 21 rankings. Singapore jumped two places to ninth in the overall table, which ranks 50 countries on measures including investment, gender balance, international connectivity and research output. The UK remains in […]
In true competition, no person stands defeated. Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value of winning is only as great as the value of the goal itself. Reaching the goal itself may not be as valuable as the experience that can come in making a supreme effort to overcome the obstacles […]
Durbar by Tavleen Singh; Hachette India; Price: Rs.599; 312 pp
The Delhi Gymkhana, perhaps the most elitist and pretentious club in the country, invariably presided over by defence service chiefs, and top retired civil servants, has an intellectual facade in the form of a book club. Every month the club management selects a recently published book and […]
Mahesh Shetty, Chairman, MT Educare Pvt. Ltd
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
#1. Because education creates thought leaders, stimulates innovations and their commercial applications.
How important is the supplementary education industry?
Supplementary education is critically important in this age of nuclear families and working […]
In your editor’s not unlimited experience of seminars and intellectual fests, the three-day Milken Institute Global Conference 2013 spread over April 29-May 1 in Los Angeles, was arguably the greatest accumulation of the choice and master spirits of our age. The more than 3,000 attendees (most of whom paid $7,500 (Rs.4.13 lakh) delegates’ fee for […]
A template for government-funded education Kendriya Vidyalaya Schools In a society where government managed schools are synonymous with ramshackle infrastructure, truant teachers and poor learning ... 
Maharashtra: New upper and lower limits for pre-primary to class I admissions The Maharashtra government has set new age criteria for children seeking admissions to nursery, junior and senior kindergarten and class I ... 
Andhra Pradesh: Only 67 percent students pass Class 10 examinations The Board of Secondary Education Andhra Pradesh (BSEAP) released the SSC or Class 10 board exam results 2022 on Monday, June ... 
Uttar Pradesh: Teacher booked for assaulting student over refusal to touch feet Police reported on Monday that a primary school teacher has been charged for allegedly assaulting a Class 6 student and ... 
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Despite universal awareness that education — especially quality primary-secondary education — is the foundation block of national development, the tragedy of post-independence India’s national development effort is that in the actual allocation of resources, education never got the priority it deserves. The official mantra has always been that more pressing problems — widespread hunger, poverty […]