Against the backdrop of the Union government publishing its slipshod National Institutional Ranking Framework 2018 league tables in early April, we present the EWHE Rankings 2018 rating and ranking the country’s Top 1oo private universities, engineering institutes, multi-disciplinary colleges and B-schools – Dilip Thakore
ALTHOUGH ITS ACTS OF OMISSION and commission in early childhood and primary education […]
Against the backdrop of a March 20 decree of the conferring substantial autonomy on 52 institutions of higher education including 24 deemed and two private universities, the Delhi-based market research firm C fore constituted a 4,249-strong sample respondents database for the EW India’s top 100 Private Universities 2018-19 – Summiya Yasmeen
THE 4,249 SAMPLE RESPONDENTS polled […]
With almost 90 percent of the 3,415 engineering colleges countrywide promoted and managed by private edupreneurs, it makes eminent good sense to separate the sheep from goats among India’s private engineering institutes, to enable parents and students to assess and evaluate them inter se – Summiya Yasmeen
ADDRESSING A PRESS conference in New Delhi on April […]
With the number of Central government-promoted Indian Institutes of Management having multiplied to 20, there is considerable interest within the public to ascertain the extent to which brand rub-off of the pioneer ABC IIMs has boosted the rankings of new IIMs. Therefore government B-schools have been included in this years EW league table – Dilip […]
Accepting the validity of the argument that the overwhelming majority of the country’s estimated 39 million school-leavers enter arts, science and commerce undergrad colleges annually, C fore field personnel interviewed 946 college faculty and 824 final year students to rate and rank India’s Top 100 Arts, Science & Commerce Colleges on six parameters of education […]
While education is the greatest lever for social change, education systems around the world are falling short. Unacceptable gaps in academic attainments, poor social mobility, rising mental health issues and failure to equip young people with the skills they need for 21st century jobs are some of the consequences of education systems rooted in a […]
Promoted by the well-known spiritual leader and guru Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (aka ‘hugging mother’), AV has swiftly established an excellent reputation for delivering values-based holistic education in a non-stressful environment – Hemalatha Raghupathi
Sited on a verdant 5.5-acre campus in Nallampalayam suburb of the textiles city of Coimbatore, Amrita Vidyalayam school (AV, estb.2010) has swiftly established […]
Established in 1954 as a modest vocational school, Les Roches has evolved into arguably the world’s premier provider of high-quality hospitality education
Promoted 64 years ago as a modest vocational school, Les Roches (estb. 1954) has evolved into arguably the world’s premier provider of high-quality hospitality education with campuses in Switzerland, Spain, the US and China. The […]
That post-independence India’s education system is becoming messier and worse instead of simpler and better, is a routine lament of EducationWorld. Patchwork legislation rushed through a dysfunctional Parliament and raucous state legislative assemblies routinely adjourned without discussion and debate, excessive regulation by government ministries and supervisory boards such as UGC and AICTE which tend to […]
THE ABHORRENT RAPE AND MURDER of eight-year-old shepherd girl Asifa in Kathua, Jammu, the gang rape of a teenage girl in Unnao (Uttar Pradesh) by a BJP politician and his henchmen, followed by her father being beaten to death inside a police station, as also the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Surat […]
THE MOVING OF AN IMPEACHMENT MOTION in the Rajya Sabha against Dipak Mishra, chief justice of the Supreme Court, and its rejection by the vice president of India, ex officio chairman of the upper house of Parliament, is yet another manifestation of the rot slowly but inexorably destroying the country’s judicial system. It’s pertinent to […]
I READ THE latest edition of EducationWorld with great interest. In particular, I enjoyed reading your impressive cover story ‘Why the RTE Act should be scrapped’ (EW April) which offered rich food for thought.
I am hoping the issues of university autonomy and lightening children’s school bags are covered in your future editions. Well done!
Prof. M.R. […]
THE THIRD EDITION OF the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry which rates and ranks India’s Top 100 higher education institutions ‘overall’ and Top 100 universities, engineering institutes, undergrad colleges, B-schools, pharmacy schools, medical colleges and law schools separately, was released on April 3 in New Delhi with […]
WHILE NATIONWIDE PROTESTS by doctors forced the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre to drop the controversial s.49 (4) of the National Medical Commission Bill, 2017, which permitted practitioners of alternative medicine (ayurveda, unani etc) to prescribe basic allopathic medicines after completion of a ‘bridge course’, Maharashtra’s BJP government continues to back ‘cross-practice’ by alternative medicine […]
FRENZIED CAMPAIGNING HAS gripped the southern state of Karnataka (pop. 67 million) where the legislative assembly election for 224 constituencies is scheduled to be held on May 12. For the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which swept to power at the Centre in General Election 2014 and has since won assembly elections in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh […]
THE HIGH HOPES GENERATED WITHIN West Bengal’s intelligentsia and academics in the bright summer of 2011 after the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress routed the CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist)-led Left Front government which uninterruptedly (mis)ruled this benighted state for 34 years (1977-2011), levelling down the state’s once envied education system, have evaporated.
The disappointment of West […]
AN AMERICAN-STYLE SEX for marks scandal in a sleepy town in the hinterland of Tamil Nadu (pop.72 million) has triggered widespread outrage among educationists, activists and political parties in the state. The scandal became public after a 20-minute audio clip of Nirmala Devi, an assistant maths professor at the Devanga College of Arts (DCA) in Aruppukottai […]
“We have known for years that our education system is failing. Yet, there has been no big bang policy shift, very little sustained media scrutiny and indeed no parent uprising. Why does the bleak future of our young people not stoke our collective outrage? Politicians do not win elections, or bureaucrats get promotions on an […]
Noida, April 27. Learning outcomes of government school students in the state’s Gautam Buddha Nagar district are better than of private government-aided school students, according to a National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) survey.
The survey found the average environment studies score of class III students in government and aided schools last year was 65.59 […]
MUMBAI, APRIL 19. Cambridge Assessment English, a department of the University of Cambridge (UK), has partnered with TCS iON, a strategic unit of IT behemoth Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, to offer Cambridge’s Business English qualifications in India.
Cambridge English Business Certificates (BEC) is a suite of three English language qualifications for international business. They enable students to use […]
A woman biotech research scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kharagpur has made a promising start with her invention of a unique microbial fuel cell battery.
Eco-evangelist Ramya Veerubhotla (27), an alumna of the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, bested 1,500 individuals and teams to be adjudged winner of a Rs.10 lakh Platinum prize for […]
Ghaziabad (Delhi NCR)-based green crusader Krishi Bhat (14) triumphed over ten finalists to be crowned winner of the inaugural ‘Seven-day Challenge of Innovative Ideas for Sustainable Living’ organised by the Delhi-based TERI School of Advanced Studies (aka TERI University). The results of this seven-day competition (January 17-23) were announced on March 6. At an awards […]
Children born after the year 1996 don’t know of a time before smartphones and the Internet. The ubiquity of smartphones is so apparent with this generation of children (sometimes called Generation Z, iGen or post-millennials) that they consider owning a phone to be a pre-adolescent rite of passage and social norm.
The advent of the Internet, […]
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Social justice through inclusion: the consequences of electoral quotas in India, Francesca R. Jensenius, Oxford University Press; Rs.408 Pages 228
Caste-based quotas, whether in education, jobs, or electoral positions, are routinely vilified for lowering the quality of the space they are applied to, because of the belief that those chosen through quotas are inherently inferior to […]
Managing director of the NSS Hill Spring International School, Mumbai and honorary superintendent of the Nagrik Shikshan Sanstha
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
Its rightful place is at the top of the national agenda of priorities.
How best to upgrade government schools?
Activities such as sharing academic and non-academic resources […]
Sometimes the neta-babu brotherhood, which by imposing the ubiquitous licence-permit-quota regimen upon this unfortunate country’s populace has transformed post-independence India into a Republic of Rackets, regrets the consequences. Recently, the Congress party’s long-serving Union finance minister P.C. Chidambaram was reportedly shocked that a cup of coffee in the country’s airports under the jurisdiction of the […]
With the neta-babu brotherhood running amok in all institutions of governance and learning, the judiciary — the last bulwark against the runaway philistinism of this acquisitive class wrecking the nation — is also crumbling. Not that the judiciary was ever a shining example of efficiency and equity. With the laws agonising delay, obsolete civil and […]
Theres a pathetic quality of helplessness within the Indian establishment in ideating ways and means to combat the rash of ghastly sex crimes against women and children — especially the latter — which has erupted across the country.
In 2013, with the aspiration to lift the country’s 550 million children and youth out of poverty, illiteracy […]
The chaos surrounding the US government’s spending bill raises questions about how effectively research agencies and universities can spend their allocations, experts have warned.
In March, US President Donald Trump signed into law a $1.3 trillion (Rs.83.35 lakh crore) spending bill, which outlines the budget for all federal departments and agencies for the remainder of the […]
Ash Grove Academy, a state primary which sits in Moss Roe, a poor suburb on the outskirts of Macclesfield, is an excellent school. Recently, its team won a local debating tournament, besting fancier rivals; its pupils are exposed to William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde; lessons are demanding and there are catch-up sessions for those who […]
A new private university in China aspiring to be among the world’s best within 15 years, is seen by experts as a huge step in the nation’s higher education development, if it is allowed greater autonomy than state institutions. Westlake University in Hangzhou, which has just been given approval by the Chinese ministry of education, […]
With continued debate surrounding university tuition fees in the US and the UK, campaigners often turn to free higher education systems deployed in countries such as Germany for comparison. But, as many point to the existence of fees as a barrier to access for lower-income pupils, policymakers should take heed of the recent experiences of […]
Saudi Arabia could emulate China’s higher education success if it follows through with plans to invest heavily in its education system, a leading university president has suggested. Michael Arthur, president and provost of UCL (University College, London), was speaking about the country’s new Vision 2030, which includes plans for Saudi Arabia to reduce its dependence […]
Every year in Singapore, one percent of pupils in the third year of primary school bring home an envelope headed ‘On government service’. Inside is an invitation to the city-states Gifted Education Programme. To receive the overture, pupils must ace tests in maths, English and general ability. If their parents accept the offer, the children […]
Andhra Pradesh: Govt cancels annual exams, classes 6 to 9 students promoted The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday decided to cancel the annual examinations for classes 6 to 9 and promote all ... 
Chhattisgarh High Court grants bail to professor accused by JK Shah Classes -Dipta Joshi The Mumbai-headquartered private coaching institute, JK Shah Classes (JKSC) has received a setback in its case against rival ... 
Child anger management issues My seven-year-old son has anger management issues. Sometimes when he is very angry, he bangs his head against walls. Please ... 
Trivandrum International School In a state which has earned a global reputation for development through education, Trivandrum International School (TIS) has been promoted ... 
