Shishir Jaipuria, Chairman, Jaipuria Group of Educational Institutions
The Jaipuria family has made its presence felt in the education sector for the past 75 years in India. The Seth Anandram Jaipuria Group has been expanding and now has established multiple K-12 schools in states like Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. We also […]
Sonipat, May 16. The 2019 graduating class of Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) has broken a new record with employment offers from over 57 corporate law and 24 litigation firms and 30 world-class universities for higher study. The top recruiter of JGLS’ graduating class of 2019 is corporate law firm Trilegal (10 offers) followed […]
Against the depressing backdrop of indifference to education and human resource development of all political parties across the ideological spectrum, the Aam Aadmi Party, which currently rules Delhi state with a massive majority in the legislative assembly, is an exception – Autar Nehru
This feature is being written in mid-May. Within a week hereof, the
Belatedly, the destructive fallout of haphazard, irresponsible evaluation of the academic capabilities of high school-leavers has prompted soul-searching within the small but growing minority of bona fide educationists about India’s outdated examination system which rewards rote learning – Summiya Yasmeen writes about grades inflation destroying k-12 education
In recent months as the start of the new academic year approaches, several privately-promoted primary-secondary schools ranked respectably in the authoritative annual EducationWorld India School Rankings league tables, have complained that the Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) and its long-serving secretary-general Gerry Arathoon in particular, are rejecting affiliation applications of high-potential, capital-intensive schools […]
The death of Yogi Deveshwar in Gurgaon on May 11 after serving as chairman of the Kolkata-based cigarettes, hotels, agri-products multinational ITC Ltd (annual revenue: Rs.51,500 crore) for several decades, attracted considerable media comment and well-deserved encomiums for him.
Yet the plain truth which everybody seems to have forgotten is that the foundations of ITC’s prosperity […]
With over 65 percent of the country’s population engaged in farming and related occupations, India should have been the world’s largest agriculture and processed foods economy. Seven decades later, 40 percent of the horticulture produce of rural India rots before it can get to urban markets, inflicting an annual loss of Rs.60,000 crore on India’s […]
Reconciliation: Karwan e Mohabbat’s journey of solidarity through a wounded India, Edited by Harsh Mander, Natasha Badhwar & John Dayal; Westland, Rs.339; 192 pp
This volume is a rushed attempt at investigating the lynchings, hate crimes and rise of cow vigilantes that have stormed the media in India over the past few years. It details the violence that […]
The Queen’s Last Ssalute: The Story of the Rani of Jhansee & the 1857 Mutiny, Moupia Basu, Juggernaut Books; Rs.399, Pages 359
History lends itself to exciting ways in which it can be shaped, sensationalised and manipulated to create fiction. Certain iconic figures, the Rani of Jhansee for example, are generally identified as good material. In Indian Writing in […]
A student rebel, Emmanuel Macron has turned into a presidential revolutionary. On April 25, in response to the gilets jaunes (yellow jackets) protesters and their rage against an out-of-touch elite, Macron announced dissolution of France’s famous Ecole National d’Administration (ENA).
“Makeshift repairs”, the president declared, won’t do: “If you keep the same structures, habits are just […]
Universities should change their approach to disseminating research and operate more like think tanks if they want to get into the minds of government leaders and influence policy, according to a former UK senior civil servant.
Addressing academic leaders at an event organised by the Higher Education Policy Institute, a panel of experts called on educators […]
Debates over the legacy of colonialism on South African campuses have been reignited by recent publication of a report examining the impact of anti-fees and anti-racism protests that rocked the University of Cape Town (UCT).
The Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission, which produced the report, was created in the wake of the Rhodes Must Fall […]
While China’s higher education strategy is often characterised by its focus on competition, with a range of excellence initiatives pouring additional funding into a select number of institutions over the past two decades, one of the most interesting recent developments in the nation is an initiative that is ostensibly about collaboration.
The Belt and Road Initiative […]
My uncle Jack was a ‘great teacher’, and when he died, that was what I had inscribed on his gravestone. He was born in a Lancashire cotton town to a mill worker’s family, and spent all six years of World War II in the army — bravely too, though it was something he would never […]
Sasha Ramani, head of corporate strategy at the Washington D.C-based Mpowerfinancing.com
Despite universities abroad levying differential (higher) tuition fees on foreign students, the annual flow of scholars from India heading abroad for higher education shows no sign of abating. In 2018-19, a record 368,000 Indian school and college-leavers from India enrolled in higher education institutions in […]
K. Mythili is headmistress of the Coimbatore Corporation Middle School, Masakalipalayam (CCMSM), established in 1956 as a primary and upgraded into an upper primary (class I-VIII) school in 1966. Since she took charge as headmistress in November 2017, she has pulled out all the stops to transform CCMSM, which currently has 140 students instructed by […]
Sikar (Rajasthan)-based serial entrepreneur Shiv Ram Choudhary is the founder of Codevidhya India Pvt. Ltd (estb.2016), his latest venture that offers K-X schools a comprehensive and well-designed computer science coding learning programme comprising specially written textbooks, teacher training, assessments, project mentorship, skill certification and compatible online resources developed by the company. Committed to the cause […]
Mumbai-based Rakhee Chhabria is the founder of Teachers Help Teachers (THT, estb.2017), a social enterprise to empower educators. THT is an online Facebook support group and website where teachers can interact, avail guidance on pedagogies, share information, upload and download resources, become aware of employment opportunities and upgrade their knowledge. Membership of this FB group […]
Singapore-based chartered accountant and investment analyst Thomas (Tom) Robinson is president and CEO of the US-based Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International (estb.1916). This is a globally respected association that accredits and certifies member business management education institutes (aka B-schools) round the world.
Currently, AACSB has a membership of 1,700 B-schools worldwide of […]
Wendy Kopp is the iconic co-founder and CEO of Teach For All (TFA, estb.2007), a New York-based global network of 50 independent voluntary organisations soldiering to end education inequality by recruiting talented college graduates/professionals to teach for two years in underperforming government and private budget schools worldwide. Over the past 12 years, TFA and its […]
A distinguishing feature of CityU is its international outlook and outreach. 41 percent of its 20,000 enrolled students are from 30 countries and 60 percent of faculty is from abroad
City University of Hong Kong (aka CityU, estb. 1994) is a publicly-funded teaching and research varsity steadily rising in the annual World University Rankings (WUR) of […]
In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2018-19, 12,214 sample respondents ranked Learning Paths School (estb. 2008) #1 in Mohali and #7 in Punjab in the co-ed day schools category – Paromita Sengupta
Sited on a compact 2.75-acre modern campus in Mohali’s Sector 67, next door to the Mohali campus of the top-ranked Indian School of […]
For swiftly twisting and turning 26 Rubik’s Cubes while blindfolded to consecutively display all alphabets of the English language in 6 minutes and 14 seconds, Mumbai-based Afaan Kutty (13) has entered the Limca Book of Records, India Book of Records and the Asia Book of Records.
Named after Erno Rubik, a professor who invented it in […]
Crowned U-13, U-15 and U-17 badminton (singles and doubles) champion of Karnataka state within ten years, Bangalore-based Trisha Hegde (17) has emerged Indian badminton’s hottest new prospect, set to follow in the footsteps of world women champions P.V. Sindhu and Saina Nehwal.
In January (2019), this promising shuttler teamed up with Aditi Bhatt (Delhi) to bag […]
New Delhi, May 25. CBI sleuths arrested six people in connection with alleged involvement in the manipulation of the online entrance examination of the top-ranked Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Search operations conducted at several addresses in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Mumbai resulted in the arrest of the managing director of Delhi-based Pathway […]
“In the failure to generate a comprehensive policy for a common schooling system or to support processes that would enable a diversity of schools but with similar standards, schools in India have become the key institutions by which inequities are being reproduced.”
A R Vasavi, social anthropologist, writing in The India Forum (May 9)
“They (liberals) […]
Over 1,500 school teachers of 8,403 government-aided schools in Tamil Nadu, who were on the verge of being sacked by the state government, have been given a last minute reprieve. Their transgression was that they had not passed the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) mandated by s.23 (1) of the Right of Children to Free and […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had bagged a mere two of West Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats in General Election 2014, increasing its haul to 18 in the recently concluded general election and the ruling Trinamool Congress Party’s dropping from 34 to 23, the star of the state’s feisty chief minister […]
A second student suicide within two years at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU, estb.1987) — routinely ranked the country’s #1 law school by all media publications — has provoked much anguish and a day-long protest vigil on this premier law school’s green 23-acre campus in suburban Bangalore.
On March 16, Kanish K. […]
A 2018 decision of the Maharashtra State Board of Higher Secondary Education (MSBHSE) to scrap internal school-based exams for language and social science subjects will impact 1.7 million students who wrote its secondary school certificate (SSC) class X board exams in March. Until last year, oral communication capability and project assignments with weightage of 20 […]
Autar Nehru (Delhi)
The top priorities of the new Union minister of human resource development (aka education) — the betting is that incumbent HRD minister Prakash Javadekar will retain this portfolio — are likely to be release of the New Education Policy (NEP) promised in the 2014 election manifesto of the BJP (which has been returned […]
“Taurian World School’s vision is to become a globally respected scholastic institution by providing holistic education and focusing on Overall Development. We wish to bequeath two things to our children; the first one is roots, the other one is wings.” – Amith Bajla, Founder-Chairman
Carved out of the state of Bihar in 2000, Jharkhand (‘land of forests’) is slowly shedding its economic, social and education backwardness. In 2017-18, this eastern state recorded an economic growth rate of 10.22 percent (cf. 6.7 percent national average). Also endowed with rich mineral resources, Jharkhand (pop. 32 million) hosts several factories of […]
“The Scindia School aims not just to nurture the student through his formative years, but also to place him on a path of life-long learning, always with roots firmly entrenched in the soil.”- Dr. Madhav Deo Saraswat, Principal
Sited atop a 300 ft. high hill fort in Gwalior, the all-boys Scindia School was established in 1897 as the […]
“At Shishukunj, children are considered sparks of divinity, and teaching as dedicated service towards divinity. Synthesis of spiritual values and modern technology defines our educational philosophy.” – Dhirendra Davey, Executive director
Established in 2005 by the late Shri Indubhai Davey under the aegis of the Shishukunj International Foundation, The Shishukunj International School, Indore has quickly established a nationwide […]
“Intelligence plus character is the goal of true education. Our objective is to ensure that our students understand and act upon the premise that the world needs not only well-educated people but people who are morally upright and virtuous.” – Tina Olyai, Founder-director
Founded in 1990 by educationists Tina and Sunil Olyai to fill the lacuna of a […]
“The Emerald Heights strives to provide its students state-of-the-art infrastructure and numerous platforms for global exposure. The aim of the school through these programmes is to create responsible global citizens.” – Siddharth Singh, Principal
Promoted in 1982 by the late Suneeta Singh, an alumna of Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, The Emerald Heights International School (EHIS) has set new benchmarks […]
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 (C fore) interviewed 12,000 […]
Thanks for publishing the comprehensive EW India Private Higher Education Rankings 2019-20 league tables (EW May). It’s an excellent guide for students planning their university admission.
However, it’s unfair to compare NIRF and EW rankings in your cover story as you’re making an apples and oranges kind of comparison. For example, you question the Union HRD […]
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Bleak future of Indian education
Shiv Visvanathan is director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge Systems at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat
General Election 2019 has been over-analysed to explain the future of Indian politics. But a clear-cut analysis of what the massive majority awarded to the BJP by the electorate means for Indian education hasn’t been made. Simply […]