EducationWorld June 2025

Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya: Quality Circle Program

With immense pride and joy, SKV Quality Circle shares the inspiring journey of the Quality Circle initiative at Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya (SKV), Gwalior.

Introduced in 2019, this dynamic Human Resource Development technique encourages students to work in teams to identify, analyse, and resolve real-life challenges through innovation and collaboration. Since its launch, the program has […]

Emerald Heights debaters shine at Oldham Cup 2025

Emerald Heights International School (EHIS) proudly announces the achievement of its talented debaters, Avni Kaur Chadha of class XII and Manveer Pratap Rathore of class X, who have made the nation proud by securing the runners-up position at the 11th Oldham Cup, held in Singapore.

Representing Team India, Avni and Manveer were part of the […]

Breaking the myths about IBDP and unlocking future success

– Stephen James Tumpane, JBCN International School, Oshiwara

In today’s fast-paced, globally connected world, education is no longer solely about grades; it’s about cultivating the right mindset for lifelong learning and adaptability. The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP), a globally respected pre-university qualification, stands out as a programme designed not just to educate, but to […]

Blending Ancient Wisdom with Modern Education through Vedic Maths

Blending Ancient Wisdom and Modern Education through Vedic Maths

– Bhawna Gupta, Principal, Sir Padampat Singhania Education Centre

In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, defined by technological advancement and an increased focus on analytical thinking, the integration of traditional knowledge systems into mainstream pedagogy is vital for holistic student development. Shri Govind Hari Singhania Centre for Advanced Learning, the Skill School of Sir Padampat […]

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Arya Gurukul, Kalyan: Students secure cent per cent results in CBSE 2025

Kalyan: Arya Gurukul, Kalyan, a proud Chinmaya Mission School, is delighted to announce the exemplary results of its Grade 10 & 12 students in the CBSE Board Examinations for the academic year 2024–2025. The school has achieved a 100% pass rate, a testament to the commitment, discipline, and hard work of the students, teachers, and […]

Anant National University: Keeping Hope Alive for Humanity in Fight Against Climate Change 2025

The accelerating climate crisis poses serious threats to humanity’s future on Earth. Recent reports published by various agencies worldwide, including the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, reported 2024 as the hottest, and the global average temperature has crossed the end-of-the-century target of 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-industrial era. At Anant National University, […]

Belated critique

Something not right with India’s intellectuals, especially dons, deans and faculty of the country’s 1,168 universities. Almost all of them have lavished praise on the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 without meaningfully debating this important 66-page document.

EducationWorld raised some red flags by highlighting a contradiction in the policy which decrees establishment of almost a dozen […]

Unsung new sportstars

In 2007 when EducationWorld introduced India’s first ever school rankings league tables, sports education was accorded equal weightage with almost all 14 parameters of primary-secondary education excellence. This message has been absorbed by educationists and school managements and leaders, especially of India’s 5,000 (out of 1.5 million) most well-reputed schools rated and ranked in the […]

Why Irani lost

The sharp reduction of BJP seats in the Lok Sabha in General Election 2024 aside, arguably the most dramatic result of that election was the shock defeat of Smriti Irani, incumbent BJP candidate from Amethi, Uttar Pradesh. Contesting in General Election 2019 from this constituency — the safe pocket borough of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty for […]

Extraordinary immersive experience

orbital
Samantha Harvey
Penguin random house
Rs.299 Pages 136

This 2024 Booker Prize winner novella offers readers a unique perspective of Mother Earth who provides homo sapiens life and nurturance

Samantha Harvey’s acclaimed 2024 Booker-winning novel Orbital is timely. This speculative fiction foretold the suspension in outer space of America’s astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore for […]

Devastating legacy

The nehru development model: history & its lasting impact
Arvind Panagariya
Penguin viking
Rs.838 Pages 544

The author laments that seven decades after Nehruvian socialism devastated free India’s high-potential economy, there’s no shortage of champions of the Nehru model

In this new and overdue book, Dr. Arvind Panagariya, professor of economics at Columbia University (USA) and incumbent […]

EW Grand Jury India Higher Education Rankings 2025-26

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 […]

Constitution Museum & The Rights & Freedoms Academy: monumental enduring tribute

Ephemeral celebrations and tributes to mark the platinum jubilee of adoption of the Constitution of India on November 26, 1949, will soon fade from public memory. However the Constitution Museum, a monumental tribute set in bricks-n-mortar, established on the campus of the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, is likely to endure – Summiya Yasmeen

After India […]

Enduring centrality of teachers in new AI age

Snorre Westgaard

— (Snorre Westgaard is the Delhi-based Chairman of Humana People To People)

Although tech advancement facilitates innovative teaching-learning, it’s critically important to remember that teachers remain central to children’s lives and in the overall education experience

This year on International Education Day (January 24), global focus was on the role of technology […]

Australia: Foreign students clampdown

Foreign students in Australia: MD111 cap

Australian universities are saddled with de facto international enrolment caps, after Canberra signalled its intention to maintain a visa processing regime that imposes nebulous limits on overseas student recruitment. University of Technology Sydney (UTS) vice chancellor Andrew Parfitt says the new regime, known as ministerial direction 111 (MD111), […]

India: Illinois Tech Mumbai

Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) is set to establish a campus in Mumbai, making it the first US higher ed institution to receive approval to operate in India. The Chicago-based institute announced plans to inaugurate its new campus in autumn 2026 to offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science, engineering and business. […]

Japan: Damaging subconscious prejudice

Over-representation of images of white people on Japanese university websites suggests these institutions favour European and North American students — a trend that could damage the country’s attempts to attract more foreign students.

In a new study published in Innovative Higher Education, academics used AI to identify the ethnicity of people in 670,000 images scraped from […]

The Asia University Rankings: China varsities riding high

The strength of Chinese universities continues to grow, with 25 of the country’s institutions achieving their best ever position in this year’s Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings. Their stellar performance is undeniable: Tsinghua University retained its place as Asia’s best university, followed by Peking University. In total, mainland Chinese institutions accounted for five of […]

United kingdom: Stricter admission scrutiny

UK universities might have to stop recruiting students from “riskier” countries under new proposed visa compliance thresholds — with 20 percent of enrolments potentially under threat — although some have welcomed the changes as a way of weeding out “bad actors”. Currently, to sponsor visas for international students, higher ed institutions must achieve a visa […]

United States: Self-correction at Harvard

Harvard University: substantive self scrutiny

A programme at Harvard Divinity School aspired to “deZionize Jewish consciousness”. During “privilege trainings”, working-class Harvard students were instructed that, by being Jewish, they were oppressing wealthier, better prepared classmates. A course in Harvard’s graduate school of public health, ‘The Settler Colonial Determinants of Health’, sought to “interrogate relationships […]

Industry-focused educator: Varun Satia

Satia: bridging academy-industry divide

Varun Satia is co-founder of Kraftshala Pvt. Ltd (estb.2016), an online ed-tech platform designed to bridge the gap between education and employability. It bills itself as “India’s largest marketing and sales-focused higher-ed institution” and provides online sales, marketing and business leadership study programmes. Over the past decade, it has mentored […]

Innovator by example: Nidhi Thapar

Thapar: pedagogy innovation focus

Nidhi Thapar is Vice President (academics) of the Bengaluru-based Ryan Edunation Services Pvt. Ltd (REN), a company that manages 16 K-12 “premium academies” of the Mumbai-based Ryan International Group of Institutions (RIGI), India’s largest chain of proprietary K-12 schools. The parent RIGI owns and manages 150 K-12 schools in India […]

ERP evangelist: Naveen Goya

Goyal: new horizons overseas

Naveen Goyal is the founder-CEO of NoPaperForms Solutions Pvt. Ltd (NPS, estb.2017), a Delhi-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company (no. of employees 400). Under its Meritto and Collexo ERP brands, NPS facilitates admissions automation and e-payment services for over 1,200 educational institutions globally.

Newspeg. In January, the company launched Collexo Pixi, a smart, […]

Language barrier breaker: Arun Prakash

Prakash: vernaculars champion

Arun Prakash is founder-CEO of Chennai-based GUVI (Grab Ur Vernacular Imprint) EdTech Pvt. Ltd (estb.2014), an online education company incubated at IIT-Madras. Supported by Google Launchpad and Jio Gennext, GUVI offers a wide range of short-term, job-oriented online courses ranging from Python with IIT certification and robotic process automation to game […]

New technologies edupreneur: Siddharth Maheshwari

Maheshwari (centre left): success despite education system

The latest initiative of Bengaluru-based serial entrepreneur Siddharth Maheshwari, co-founder of digital upskilling platform Newton School (NS, estb.2019), is the Newton School of Technology (NST, estb.2023). NST hosts 900 students spread across two campuses in Rishihood University, Sonipat and DY Patil University, Pune.

NS provides graduates and working […]

Private School Fees: Beware government regulation trojan horse

Collective bargaining by school-specific parents associations is a better option than inviting government fees regulation. India’s weak national development experience proves that inviting government intervention is to invite a sea of troubles – Dilip Thakore

Parents protesting private school fee increases countrywide: continuous agitation & litigation

Education of India’s 260 million child population simultaneously represents […]

19th Anniversary Essay

AI-driven learning an urgent imperative

Yogi Kochhar

– (A former Microsoft (India) director, Yogi Yogi Kochhar is the author of the two-volume The Road Ahead 2.0 (2025))

The traditional model of education is slow, linear and unable to cope with quantum technology leap. It is useful as heritage but not as a future skill. Metacognition is the new […]

Young Achiever: Aarav Sureka

Go kart prodigy Aarav Sureka (9) is blazing a trail on national and international motor racing circuits. Last January (2024), Aarav won the FMSCI IndiKarting Pro Season Championship 2024 held in Mumbai and Ahmedabad. Nine months later, this Mumbai-based go-karter finished #5 in the Final of Round 5 (Chennai) of the Rotax Max Challenge […]

Young Achiever: Kenisha Bathia

Kenisha Bathia (10), a class V student of Children’s Academy School, Mumbai is captivating friends and audiences with her extraordinary grasp of ancient Indian mind and memory techniques. She can recall and accurately rattle off up to 100 names in any prescribed order — with a single glance. Coincidentally, Kenisha’s father, Dhaval, was also […]

Education Briefs

SWAYAM AI courses

Chennai, may 5. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-Madras) has launched five courses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the SWAYAM Plus online portal. These 25-45 hour courses can be accessed free-of-charge by students, academics and working professionals. The prime intent of these courses is to make AI learning accessible, as no prior AI […]

Education Notes

Andhra Pradesh

Bifurcation quota ended

Anantapur, may 15. The state government has amended rules for admission into higher education institutions statewide, by abolishing the 15 percent non-local reservation appropriating this quota for students domiciled in the state. Starting from the academic year 2025-26, students from other states, including Telangana, cannot avail admission under the non-local quota.

With this […]

They said it

“Wishing Exam Warriors great success in all the opportunities that lie ahead!To those who feel slightly dejected at their scores, I want to tell them: one exam can never define you. Your journey is much bigger and your strengths go far beyond the mark sheet. Stay confident, stay curious because great things await!”

PM Narendra Modi […]

West Bengal: Scandals & ineptitude

Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)

Mamata Banerjee

As campaigning for west Bengal’s legislative assembly election scheduled for early 2026 heats up, prime minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah extensively toured the state in May severely criticising the ruling Trinamool Congress and chief minister Mamata Banerjee now in her third consecutive term in office. […]

Tamil Nadu: Stalin’s NEP war

Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)

Chief minister Stalin: favourable pendulum?

The stand-off between tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin and the BJP government at the Centre on the issue of the latter withholding a sum of Rs.2,150 crore due to the state under the Samagra Shiksha Scheme (SSS) will have to be resolved by the Supreme […]

Karnataka: Pre-primaries target

Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)

Agarwal: interference apprehension

Pre-primary education is the only sector not subject to government controls and regulation. Although the country’s 1.34 million pre-primary Anganwadi Centres (AWCs), promoted by the Central government under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS, 1975) to provide nutrition to new borns and lactating mothers and also provide basic education, […]

Delhi: CBSE image makeover

Autar Nehru (Delhi)

CBSE secretary Himanshu Gupta (centre): slew of initiatives

Since himanshu gupta (ias), an alum of IIT-Delhi and former director of education of Delhi state under the Aam Aadmi Party government which had made school education a top priority during its two terms in office (2014-2024), was appointed Secretary of the Central […]

Maharashtra: Democractic imposition

Megha Chowdhury (Mumbai)

Marathi medium students: steadily declining number

In all states of the indian union ill-advisedly reorganised on the basis of linguistic majoritarianism in 1956, imposition of the dominant language as the medium of instruction in schools is high on the agenda of political parties, with none of them bothering about developing and contemporising […]

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Important innovation

Congratulations to EducationWorld and AZ Research Partners for the well-researched and curated EW India Higher Education Rankings 2025-26 cover feature (EW May) ranking India’s Best Arts, Science and Commerce colleges nationally and in the states.

In particular, the newly introduced rankings of Top 100 undergrad institutions on the parameter of internships is an important […]

Retest collapsing cities’ managers

Every year for the past five years Bangalore/Bengaluru (pop.14 million), globally recognized as India’s digital technologies epicentre and ICT (information communication technologies) hub, has experienced severe eve-of-monsoon and monsoon rain and flooding. This year is no different. At time of writing, pre-monsoon showers have severely disrupted road traffic, damaged residential and office property and prompted […]

New Era High School: Students Strive For Excellence

L-R Suniti Jha, chief guest Colonel Sachin Randale (retd), topper Adhiraj Agarwal(receiving the school award for Overall Academic Excellence), Shivaji Shinde, Adhiraj’s brother and parents.

How does it feel to be a school topper in the board examinations? Who do you want to attribute this achievement to?
I feel content as well as […]

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