To compile the second EW India Top 100 Private College Rankings 2019-20, C fore constituted a sample respondents database of 1,770 knowledgeable individuals comprising 932 college faculty and 838 final year students to rate and rank the country’s most well-known arts, science and commerce colleges on six parameters of undergrad education excellence – Summiya Yasmeen
In […]
Despite being relative late starters and obliged to compete on an unequal playing field, private B-schools have been able to carve out their spaces in the public imagination. C fore representatives interviewed 1,216 B-school faculty and industry representatives to rate and rank India’s India’s top 100 private B-Schools 2019-20 – Dilip Thakore
Over half a century […]
Against the backdrop of plummeting standards of engineering education, EducationWorld presents India’s Top 100 private engineering education institutions league table based on the assessments of 2,876 knowledgeable sample respondents countrywide – Summiya Yasmeen
Engineering education in India is facing an unprecedented quality crisis. Surveys conducted by national and international organisations have laid bare the poor quality […]
Against the backdrop of the rising popularity of private universities which are beginning to establish themselves as formidable competitors not only to public universities in India but also to foreign varsities, for the past five years EducationWorld has been publishing league tables rating and ranking private universities on several parameters of higher education excellence – Dilip […]
To compile the EWIPHER league tables this year, C fore field representatives interviewed 9,914 academic faculty, industry representatives and final year students to rank the country’s Top 100 private universities, engineering institutions, arts, science and commerce colleges and Top 100 private B-schools – Dilip Thakore
As usual, publication of the annual EducationWorld India Private Higher Education Rankings […]
The collapse of Jet Airways Ltd (estb. 1994) is a latter day morality tale of the rise and fall of Naresh Goyal, founder-chairman of this crashed airline. Right from the start there was considerable speculation about how Goyal, given his modest background as travel agent, was able to pay for his 60 percent equity stake […]
Not surprisingly, an event of landmark significance in Indian politics has escaped adequate interpretation by academics and media pundits. On April 18, Mukesh Ambani, chairman and CEO of Reliance Industries Ltd, India’s largest private company (revenue: Rs.6.23 lakh crore in 2018-19; payroll: 255,000) publicly endorsed Milind Deora, Congress party candidate from the prestigious Bombay South […]
On April 12, TCS and Infosys Ltd (estb.1981), the latter promoted by N.R. Narayana Murthy and several others including Nandan Nilekani, architect of the Big Brother Aadhar ID card, declared their annual 2018-19 results. TCS with a sales revenue of Rs.146,463 crore and net profit of Rs.31,472 crore beat Infosys with Rs.82,675 crore and Rs.15,410 […]
Mukhtarul Amin, Chairman, Superhouse Education Foundation, Kanpur, which manages the Allenhouse Group of six schools, two colleges, eight DPS schools and three Allen Kids preschools in Uttar Pradesh
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
Education and health at the top. Everything else is secondary.
How best to upgrade government […]
Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s reflections on Kashmir – Nyla Ali Khan
Palgrave Macmillan; Rs.9,000; Pages 215
Nyla Ali Khan’s Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s Reflections on Kashmir seeks to restore the centrality of Sheikh Abdullah in Kashmiri identity politics. This at a time when politics in Jammu & Kashmir has been radicalised much beyond his ideology and political values. […]
Ikigai — The japanese secret to a long and happy life, Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles,
Penguin Random House; Rs.1,176 Pages 185
Okinawa, the largest of a group of islands south of the main Japanese archipelago, was the theatre of the bloodiest land combat between American Allied troops and soldiers of imperial Japan in World War […]
A drive to legislate against research misconduct and student cheating across Europe is under way, with the Balkans in the lead. In March, tiny Montenegro (pop.629,355) became one of the first countries to pass stringent legislation outlawing not only plagiarism, but also the donation of authorship, the fabrication of research results and a variety of […]
Chinese university presidents describe themselves as “dancers with chains on our legs,” warning that the influence of government-appointed party secretaries leaves them with little real autonomy. Fifteen presidents who offered rare interviews for a new study say that much-heralded reforms ostensibly designed to loosen Beijing’s grip on higher education institutions are “largely symbolic” and have […]
New bespoke immigration assistance for academics considering a move to Canada will help to continue the steady influx of research talent into the country which began after the election of Donald Trump, says the head of Universities Canada.
Speaking to Times Higher Education, Paul Davidson, president of Universities Canada, which represents 96 higher education institutions, said […]
The University of Auckland has topped a pioneering new ranking that assesses the social and economic impact of universities based on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings is the world’s first global attempt to document evidence of universities’ impact on society, rather than just research and teaching […]
As total student debt in the US reaches $1.5 trillion (Rs.104 lakh crore), policymakers and private lenders — as well as universities — are increasingly turning to income-based repayment as a potential solution. The model ties repayments to salaries for a fixed term and is seen as a way of preventing borrowers from owing more […]
Home education is becoming a hot button topic in the UK just as it is in India, as reported in the brilliant cover story ‘India’s nascent homeschooling revolution’ of EW’s affiliate publication ParentsWorld (March 15). How I wish we had a similar pair of excellent complementary journals for education and parenting in Britain! This informative […]
Across the world, there’s high awareness that chalk and talk teaching for standardised testing is obsolete. There’s a global search for new pedagogies and processes to enable school children to acquire better conceptual understanding and deeper engagement with ideas to confront complex 21st century challenges.
One way to achieve this is by venturing outside classrooms and […]
As one of seven national strategies for building a prosperous China, the Central government has been strongly supporting general education. For several decades, annual expenditure on education averaged a modest 2.5 percent of GDP. But in the new millennium it has steadily increased and in 2018-19, has risen to 4.4 percent of GDP which itself […]
Within two months of being adjudged India champion of the Asia Young Designer Award (AYDA) contest in January, Pune-based architect Tanay Bothara (23) has been crowned Young Designer 2019 (architecture) of Asia in the transnational competition organised by Osaka (Japan)-based Nippon Paint Holdings Co.
In the Asia final round staged at the Grand […]
Four times national champion, Rohtak (Haryana)-based Sonia Chahal (21) returned home to a hero’s welcome last November after winning a silver medal in her debut performance at the Women’s World Boxing Championship organised by the Amateur International Boxing Association in New Delhi.
The younger of two children of Jai Bhagwan, a farmer, and homemaker mother […]
Bangalore, April 12. British Council is set to introduce its annual Summer Programme for children in nine cities countrywide between April 30 and May 25. Programme fees are Rs.4,000 for library members and Rs.5,500 for non-members. The programme offers children opportunity to learn contemporary life skills such as creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving and improve […]
Chandigarh, April 29. Two women hostel wardens and two security guards of the privately-run co-educational Akal University in Punjab’s Bathinda district have been suspended on charges of ‘dereliction of duty’ for strip searching several women students after a soiled sanitary napkin blocked the hostel toilet. Suspension orders were issued in response to a public protest […]
“Students educated in government schools evolve into better citizens compared to their counterparts from elite schools.”
Uday Holla, advocate general of Karnataka, defending the state’s RTE Rules amendment that allows RTE quota admissions in private schools only if no government schools are sited in their neighbourhood (April 3)
“Private investment in education makes government uncomfortable because […]
A long-standing proposal of the incumbent E.K. Palaniswamy-led All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government to introduce the Aadhar-enabled biometric attendance system (AEBAS) for over 390,000 teachers and administrative staff of Tamil Nadu’s 57,000 government and aided schools has been stymied for nearly two years because of stiff opposition from teachers. This despite an […]
At the time of writing, the electorates of 18 of West Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha constituencies — the largest representation in Parliament at the Centre after Uttar Pradesh’s 80 and Maharashtra’s 48 seats — have already voted in the ongoing General Election 2019. The principal players in the state’s political arena are chief minister Mamata […]
A department of public instruction (DPI) circular of March 30 mandating all 20,581 private unaided schools in Karnataka (pop. 60 million) to pay government prescribed salaries to teachers and administrative staff, has caused much hand-wringing and despair within their managements. According to the circular, all private schools — including the state’s estimated 14,000 private budget […]
Reportedly continuous sexual abuse of minor girls at a private tribal students’ hostel run by a former Congress MLA has rocked Maharashtra. Even as citizens geared up to vote for 48 members of Parliament who will represent the state in the Lok Sabha, Delhi, widespread rallies have been staged by women’s groups and tribal organisations […]
Despite damning start-of-the-year Annual Status of Education Report 2018, QS and Times Higher Education World University Rankings highlighting the pathetic condition of India’s education system from pre-primary to Ph D — and continuous whistle-blowing by EducationWorld for almost two decades — education reform is a peripheral issue in General Election 2019.
Although as usual, all political […]
Your cover story ‘Education agenda for new government 2019’ (EW April) is inspiring. It’s a shame that the election manifestos released by major political parties don’t have half the vision or passion of your story. The Congress manifesto merely ticks multiple checkboxes including increasing allocation for education to 6 percent of GDP. But the BJP […]
The sinister conspiracy of the neta-babu brotherhood to destroy private education — and primary-secondary private schools in particular — is becoming painfully obvious.
On March 30, the education ministry of the Karnataka state government issued a notification directing all 20,581 private schools statewide to pay government prescribed minimum wages to their teachers and administrative staff. According […]
The refusal of the uk government, even 100 years after the event, to unconditionally apologise for the official mass murder of an estimated 400-1,000 Indians, mainly Sikhs, who had peacefully assembled at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar (Punjab) on April 13, 1919, requires thorough reappraisal of almost two centuries of British rule over India.
The back […]
Although the demand for education — especially good quality education — at all levels from pre-primary to Ph D is almost limitless, there’s been a long-standing, overt official prejudice against private initiatives in education. Right from the dawn of independence, public education has been priced so low that all privately provided education seems outrageously expensive. […]
Delhi man helps children overcome communication disorders -Shreyosi Chakraborty Delhi-based change-maker & visionary Puneet Singh Singhal has been trying to vanquish the fear among children who are ... 
Kerala SSLC results 2020 announced The Secondary School Leaving Certificate - SSLC 2020 examination, which concluded on May 30, saw almost 4.22 lakh students appear ... 
Jamnabai Narsee School, Mumbai Its focus on holistic education — Jamnabai Narsee School is ranked among the country’s Top 10 co-ed day schools and ... 
India’s most respected special needs schools 2022-2023 Prior to enactment of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, EducationWorld started rating and ranking the country’s most ... 
Time to focus on heart education
Lijian Zhao is a dynamic young Chinese diplomat posted in Islamabad. China’s close friendship with Pakistan is well known. Also widely known are India’s not-so-close ties with China, and our hostile relations with Pakistan.
Therefore, whenever I try to explain to people that the objective of my Forum for a New South Asia is to promote […]