– Murli Krishna, Founder & Chairman, Vikash Group of Institutions
Education across the globe has evolved along with civilisations. Over time, we have transitioned from gurukuls to traditional schools to online schools. It has not been easy adapting to all the major upgrades that came along the way.
Overcoming all hurdles, Vikash Group – now a brand […]
Navrachana School, Sama is committed to promote the rich legacy of India’s culture and heritage. This is demonstrated by the Activity Centre of the school designed by the renowned architect Lauri Baker, the rigorous yoga regimen, and the mega-event of Yoga Day hosted at the Laxmi Vilas Palace, Vadodara.
The positive impact of a consistent yoga […]
– Saurabh Modi, Founder-Chairman, Neerja Modi School, Jaipur
Traditionally, teaching meant imparting knowledge and inculcating habits in children to enable smooth functioning of life and creation of a uniform society. Success through education meant that a child would excel consistently by achieving the uniform standards set for all. While this approach was effective and widely […]
Vellanki Rao, Founder-Chairman, Vista International School
The importance of education and the impact it has on a person’s life has been explored for over thousands of years. Towards that end, those involved in the process and pursuit of education have always been held in high regard. But the joy and fulfilment that can be experienced as […]
– Swoyan Satyendu, COO, ODM Educational Group
We all have fond memories of at least one of our favourite teachers. Whether it is a teacher who helped you feel a sense of belonging in the classroom, sparked your interest in a new subject, or supported you through your entire school journey with special mentorship, we all […]
With the schools reopening, many children, referred to as ‘lockdown babies’ will be going to school for the very first time. These children, born between 2018 and 19 have heard words like sanitization and social distancing from the time they started learning to speak.
While separation anxiety is hard for children of this age, this time […]
-Bhupinder Gogia, Principal, Sat Paul Mittal School, Ludhiana
The only reason Indian education managed to survive the unimaginable disruption of the pandemic years is because it adapted and changed. With in-person schooling starting in April 2022, we can safely assume that the worst is behind us. There’s no denying that the pandemic left a deep impact […]
Dr. Hina Shah, founder-director, shares the aim and objective of entrepreneurship education in Satyameva Jayate International School (SJIS)
What inspired you to start Entrepreneurship Education way back in 2000?
With over three decades of experience in entrepreneurship at the state, national and international levels, I realised there are more job seekers than job creators in our country, […]
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Dr. Ajay Bhamare receives award from EducationWorld editor Dilip Thakore & GrayQuest founder-CEO Rishab Mehta (right)
A widely respected higher education leader with a distinguished track record in academics, administration, policy formulation, faculty development and management of higher education institutions, Dr. Ajay M. Bhamare is Principal of the Ramanand Arya DAV College (Autonomous), Mumbai […]
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Prakash Mani Tripathi receives award from EducationWorld editor Dilip Thakore and GrayQuest founder-CEO Rishab Mehta (right)
A well-known educationist, political scientist, writer and orator, Prof. Shri Prakash Mani Tripathi is a higher education veteran with over 40 years’ teaching, administrative and leadership experience. In his long and distinguished career in Indian higher education, Prof. […]
So, is Covid-19 over? No, it’s most certainly not over. I know that’s not the message you want to hear, and it’s definitely not the message I want to deliver. This virus has surprised us at every turn – a storm that has torn through communities… and we still can’t predict its path, or its […]
Punjab: Textbooks ban
Chandigarh, May 1.
Three class XII history textbooks have been proscribed for distorting facts related to Sikh history, said Yograj Singh, chairman of the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB), addressing the media. The decision to ban the texts was taken following a report by an inquiry committee constituted after a complaint was filed […]
Better rankings survey
I have been following the annual EW India Higher Education Rankings for the past three years. Well deserved congratulations to EducationWorld and C fore for a comprehensive higher education institutions rankings survey (EW May) under the new subject-wise categories of multidisciplinary, engineering & technology, liberal arts and humanities, medical & life sciences and […]
Jindal law school scholarships
Sonipat, June 3.
The Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) of O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), Sonipat will award 500 scholarships to students joining the school in the new academic year 2022-23. “JGLS has decided to award 500 scholarships to meritorious students who join JGLS with high merit in the entrance exam and […]
The annual EducationWorld Grand Jury India Higher Education Rankings were introduced in 2019 to acknowledge and felicitate higher education institutions (HEIs) — especially newly-promoted, low-profile HEIs. Special juries of knowledgeable educationists are constituted to recommend conferment of the EW Grand Jury Awards upon higher ed institutions implementing best practices.
To select progressive higher education institutions across […]
Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Social justice warrior Anoushka Jolly (13) was the youngest contestant to pitch her entrepreneurial idea Kavach (‘shield’ in Hindi), an anti-bullying app with a pre-revenue valuation of Rs.50 lakh, to investors on the popular business reality show Shark Tank India — the India edition of the eponymous American show — and win funding […]
Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Bengaluru-based Avani Prashanth (15) recently bested India’s top professional and amateur women golfers to qualify for the 19th Asian Games 2022 scheduled to be held in Hangzhou (China) later this year.
A natural on the greens who started to swing the club at age four, Avani is the highest ranked (#116) Indian among amateur […]
Set to celebrate its silver jubilee next year, this K-12 school for children of armed forces officers has earned an excellent reputation for providing holistic, values-based education to its 3,700 students including 1,489 girl children, writes Baishali mukherjee
Sited on a ten-acre eco-friendly campus on the banks of River Hooghly in the British East India Company’s […]
UoM (estb. 1853) has nurtured four Australian prime ministers, five governors general and eight Nobel laureates. Times Higher Education ranks it Australia #1 and #33 worldwide, writes Reshma Ravishanker
Melbourne University
The sixth continent’s second-oldest public higher education institution, University of Melbourne (UoM, estb.1853) has nurtured four Australian prime ministers, five governors-general and eight Nobel […]
Under India’s ambitious overhaul of higher education, the country aims to internationalise universities, taking advantage of strong domestic offerings. But its elite institutions continue to struggle to attract overseas students to their Indian campuses. At the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) — arguably the country’s most prestigious universities and its best known higher education brand […]
A rise in the number of international students from Europe going to Canada seems to be the “product” of Brexit, according to an analysis of latest trends in immigration data. Figures from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on the number of study permit holders in 2021 from various countries show there is an increase of […]
South Korea’s incoming education minister may struggle to make the sweeping reforms necessary to address critical problems in the country’s higher education sector.
Kim In-Chul, who is likely to assume the post after president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol takes office in June, served two consecutive terms as president of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, where he was a […]
Afghanistan: Grim future
Academics in Afghanistan fear that the past semester could be their last before the Taliban closes universities ahead of major reforms.
The country’s fundamentalist regime, which took over nine months ago, has already put its stamp on higher education. It has forced out female faculty members and segregated students by gender, establishing […]
Oz Chinese graduates
Chinese graduates of Australian universities are ill-suited to their country’s workforce needs, often applying at the wrong time, in the wrong way and with wrong credentials for the most promising job openings. Research by Beijing-based recruitment platform Lockin has identified a “mismatch” between the career aspirations of Chinese returnees from Australian […]
Incidents of cheating in online examinations have hit a record high, according to proctoring data that shows that one in 14 students was caught breaking the rules last year. Analysis of data on 3 million tests globally that used the ProctorU invigilation platform found that “confirmed breaches” of test regulations — incidents where there is […]
Russia: Student protests crackdown
Russian institutions are leading the charge in cracking down on student opposition to the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine, with hundreds of students estimated to have been expelled already. With Russian academia increasingly cut off from the outside world, student dissidents are finding themselves targeted by the very institutions tasked with […]
In this age of rudderless drift towards liberalism fuelled by mobile phones and social media apps, educators need to confront new threats posed by the internet and dangerous apps, writes Lawrence Fray
During the past two decades, progressive schools have successfully moved from the treadmill of lecture-based instruction to more personalised forms of learning where students […]
As the country’s education institutions begin to regain post-pandemic momentum in a fractious era of religious and communal discord while suffering ravages of climate change, government and private educators would do well to revisit the education philosophy and teachings of this extraordinary visionary sage J. Krishnamurti, writes Dilip Thakore
JK addressing a congregation in […]
-R. Kasturi (Bhubaneswar)
A confrontation between the odisha government and Delhi-based University Grants Commission (UGC) has prompted the Supreme Court to issue a stay order against the state government and Odisha Public Service Commission from proceeding with recruitment of professors and lecturers for the state’s 11 universities and affiliated colleges.
This confrontation dates back to last year […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Fifteen long-pending writ petitions dating back to 2016 challenging the process of recruiting 10,000 teachers for West Bengal’s 92,000 government schools are experiencing some traction. On April 7, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the Calcutta high court ordered a CBI enquiry into the allegedly fraudulent teacher recruitment process.
This order was challenged by the state’s […]
-Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
Following 82 weeks of lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic, 74,000 schools affiliated with the Karnataka state board reopened for on-campus offline learning on May 16 — three weeks earlier than scheduled. But right at the start of the new academic year 2022-23 while children are yet to receive new textbooks, a massive […]
-Dipta Joshi
A prolonged feud between Maharashtra’s tripartite (Shiv Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party) MVA government and BJP-appointed state governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari has thrown a spanner in the works of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU, estb.1949).
Following the retirement of vice-chancellor Nitin Karmalkar on May 18, the VC’s office of the 73-year-old university (ranked #2 […]
Indian students in the US
-Autar Nehru
A long-pending proposition endorsed by the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 to internationalise isolationist Indian higher education has received some traction. On May 2, the Delhi-based University Grants Commission (UGC) — the apex body for higher education regulation — notified the University Grants Commission (Academic Collaboration between Indian […]
The spate of lawsuits being filed in courts countrywide by Hindu zealots and sangh parivar outfits questioning the titles of Muslim wakf properties on which religious mosques — some of them several centuries old — have been built, has the potential of inflaming religious passions and igniting rioting and mayhem which will destabilise the social […]
The once clean, green and well-governed state of Karnataka is fast-transforming into a Broken Windows society. Researched and developed by American academics James Q. Wilson and George Kelling in 1982, Broken Windows theory posits that if civic neglect and petty crimes are unpunished, there will be an outbreak of serious crimes and criminality in society.
In […]
The Indian badminton squad’s maiden victory in the Thomas Cup final staged in Bangkok last month marked a landmark in the history of Indian sport. In the final, the Indian men’s squad led by Kidambi Srikanth recorded a 3-0 triumph over Indonesia, whose players have won the international Thomas Cup tourney introduced in 1949, a […]
Opium Inc, written by Thomas Manuel, published by Harper Collins piblications is priced at Rs.599. The book is an The Crown, Indian farmers, merchants, ship-builders and sepoys were heavily involved in the opium trade forcibly imposed on imperial China
It’s a matter of speculation whether the intractable issue of demarcation of the 484-km Sino-Indian border which […]
The Three Khans, written by Kaveree Bamzai, published by Westland books publications is priced at Rs.599. A compelling narrative of the careers of Bollywood’s three Khans — major figures of the Hindi film industry
Ramachandra Guha is one of few historians to have considered with any degree of seriousness the role of Hindi cinema in keeping […]
From Left: Dilip Thakore, editor, EducationWorld; Dr Ravindra Dattatraya Kulkarni, pro-VC, University of Mumbai; Prof Rajesh Khanna, president, NIIT University, Neemrana; Dr Madhu Chitkara, pro-chancellor, Chitkara University; Professor C. Raj Kumar, VC, OP Jindal Global University; Dr Parth J Shah, founder president, Centre for Civil Society at the panel discussion on “NEP 2020: […]
Karnataka: Poor SSLC results put students at disadvantage in PUC admissions - Reshma Ravishanker The results of Karnataka’s SSLC exams will be disadvantageous for state syllabus students seeking admissions into Pre-University ... 
The need of scholarships in India As a matter of fact, the students in India are extremely talented when compared to students from other parts of ... 
Canadian International School students raise 60 lakh funds, distribute to two NGOs Students of Canadian International School in Bengaluru put a smile on the faces of students from the Government Higher Primary ... 
Decline in demand for private tuition in Kolkata this year: Private tutors Mita Mukherjee Demand for private tuitions in Kolkata has decreased in the current academic session 2021-22 and many private tutors ... 
Overdue recognition of liberal arts & humanities
NEP 2020 acknowledges that liberal arts education is necessary foundation for applying a humanistic (moral and ethical) lens to all science, commerce and professional education, writes Kathleen Modrowski
Somewhat belatedly liberal arts education has experienced a renaissance during the past decade through promotion of several well-funded private universities in India. According to the latest Union education […]