– Swoyan Satyendu, COO, ODM Educational Group
We have all experienced the consequences of poor money management at some point in our life, and definitely don’t want our kids to fall into the same pitfalls. Teaching investment, saving, budgeting and paying bills on time are a few essential skills that children need to be taught sooner […]
The students and teachers of St. Mary’s High School, Kalyan create history as they recreate the concept of Dashavatar in a visually captivating movie with special effects, excellent dramatisation and captivating soundtracks
On the auspicious occasion of Akshaya Tritiya and Eid on May 3, 2022, the St. Mary’s High School, Kalyan team launched its in-house production […]
Santosh Kumar, Co-founder & CEO and Yeshwanth Raj Parasmal, Co-founder & Director share the aims and objectives of 21K School, India’s #1 online school.
Tell us about the launch of your ‘Future of Education’ initiative.
Santosh Kumar: The education system is changing, with new teachers and programs that will change the face of teachinglearning forever. Imagine […]
Dr. Archana Mantri
VC, Chitkara University
Chitkara University has been established and managed by passionate academicians with the sole mission of nurturing “industry-ready” students. With over 900 faculty members and enrolment of 17,000 students from […]
-Dr. (Mrs.) Amita Chauhan
Chairperson, Amity Group of Schools
Until a few decades ago, summer vacations meant a mandatory trip to our grandparent’s house, or the annual family vacation to the closest hill station. Children, who for some reason could do neither, would find their own ways to entertain themselves, whether it was by wandering around […]
Technology, design, and social sciences. Completely different areas, are they?
In 2015, the United Nations declared sustainable transformation as the most critical global agenda till 2030. While developing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals—or SDGs as they are usually referred to—it was acutely felt by the experts that converging technology, design and social sciences was essential to […]
Uttar Pradesh: Facelift for govt schools
Lucknow, April 3.
To ensure 100 percent enrolment in primary and upper primary schools in Uttar Pradesh, chief minister Yogi Adityanath launched a statewide ‘School Chalo Abhiyan’ (attend school campaign) from Shravasti district, which has UP’s lowest literacy rate.
“Government schools must achieve all the goals of Operation Kayakalp which aims […]
“Our states have been formed on linguistic basis. So, the concerned state language or mother tongue is supreme. Everyone should understand and respect that.”
Basavaraj Bommai, Karnataka chief minister on the controversy about making Hindi the national language (April 23, Times of India)
“The party line across the secular universe, is, you can’t afford to be […]
-Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)
Swept to power in the legislative assembly election held in April 2021 with a comfortable majority of 159 seats in the 234-member assembly, Tamil Nadu’s Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government has declared war against the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 approved by the BJP/NDA government at the Centre.
The DMK government finds NEP 2020’s […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Somewhat surprisingly, the sixth edition of the Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) 2022, hosted by the state’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) government on April 20-21, attracted participation of 4,300 delegates from 42 countries, including businessmen, politicians and academics from the US, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Netherlands, Finland, Morocco, Bangladesh and Bhutan. During […]
-Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
With state legislative assembly elections less than a year away, rank and file activists of the BJP — even if not the top brass of the party — are targeting Muslim and Christian minorities in Karnataka (pop.65 million), widely acknowledged as the BJP’s gateway into peninsular India. Plainly the objective of the BJP […]
Kasturi Ray (Bhubaneshwar)
Among india’s 28 states, the eastern seaboard state of Odisha, formerly Orissa (pop.46.3 million), is an outlier. Unlike other states of the Indian Union in which political action is fast and furious, Odisha has enjoyed political stability and orderly governance under the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) headed by Doon School and St. […]
-Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
More than 1,200 english-medium schools have closed down in Maharashtra during the past two years due to financial hardship. The majority of them are financially independent budget private schools (BPS) levying tuition fees of Rs.30,000 per year or less. They became unviable during the prolonged government mandated pandemic lockdown of all education institutions […]
-Debasish Roy (Noida)
Although students in india experienced the world’s highest learning loss because of the most prolonged shutdown of education institutions from pre-primaries to universities during the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of enrolments and awards for Ph D degrees rose significantly.
Even in higher education institutions where the number of Ph D admissions took a minor […]
AU-SoME venture
Bengaluru, April 28.
Ahmedabad University and the School of Meaningful Experiences (SoME, estb. 2018), Bengaluru, signed a collaboration agreement to provide management development programmes (MDPs) to corporate professionals, middle managers, and senior executives countrywide. The content of MDPs will be designed and delivered jointly by SoME and Ahmedabad University faculty.
“These courses have been designed […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
A long-standing demand of serious scholars intent upon acquiring multidisciplinary qualifications and skills has finally been conceded. On April 13, the University Grants Commission (UGC), the apex-level regulator of Indian higher education, issued a circular to universities permitting pursuance of two degrees simultaneously in undergraduate as well as postgraduate education (barring Ph D) […]
Overdue recognition
I was delighted to discover that my alma mater — Government Science College, Bengaluru — has been awarded recognition and ranked India’s #1 government autonomous arts, science and commerce college for two years consecutively in the EW India Higher Education Rankings 2022-23 (EW April).
I recall the college has an impressive campus in the heart […]
Alhough some self-styled educators and educationists may be unaware, EducationWorld which has a record of 22 years of uninterrupted publishing, come floods, famine or pandemic, has been ranking education institutions across the spectrum from preschools to universities since 2007, perhaps the only news magazine worldwide with this record. But given the pathetic condition of the […]
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An alumnus of the top-ranked NIT-Warangal, K. Tulasi Vishnu Prasad is President of the Sri Rama Rural Academy (SRRA), a model rural co-ed day-cum-boarding budget private school sited in Chilmuru village (pop.1,200) in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Promoted in 1949 as undivided Andhra Pradesh’s first rural boarding school by his grandfather, the late Sri […]
Dr. Dilip Modi (right) & Mrs. Modi receives award from Prof. John Varghese (centre right) & Rajiv Desai (centre)
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Dr. Dilip Modi is promoter-chairman of the Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan)-based JIVEM Education Pvt. Ltd, a K-12 schools management and consultancy company. During the past 39 years since Dr. Modi, a commerce postgraduate of Mumbai University, began […]
Keeping in Touch, written by Anjali Joseph, published by Westland piblications is priced at Rs.599. The book is an expertly written novel that transports the reader into myriad cultural scenarios of north-east India and London.
Keeping in Touch by award-winning novelist Anjali Joseph is a love story centering around Keteki Sharma and Ved Ved in their […]
Arzu written by Riva Razdan, published by Hachette India, is priced at Rs.399, addresses complex issues that concern young girls — marriage and relationships, education, family and sex, writes Ilika Trivedi
Arzu is essentially a coming-of-age story but the charm of the book is that it beautifully captures the process of growth, change and hard work, […]
Over the past 75 years since independence, an amoral lumpen bourgeoisie with rural/small-town origins has risen to the very top of the establishment and entrenched itself in the national and state administrative capitals.
How else can one explain the conduct of Karnataka’s rural development & panchayat raj minister K.S. Eshwarappa and his heartless reaction to death […]
Like the French Bourbon dynasty (1589-1793) which forgot nothing and learned nothing, at its 23rd party congress convened in Kannur (Kerala) on April 6-10, leaders and delegates of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) indulged in familiar anti-business and privatisation rhetoric reminiscent of the 1960-70s when the comrades were a force to reckon with in […]
The Bridgerton dream of upper-middle class and elite Indians enamoured with this OTT serial broadcast on the streaming platform Netflix, is over. The Peter principle has caught up with Rishi Sunak, the Winchester and Oxford educated son of Indian emigres from East Africa and husband of India-born heiress Akshata Murthy, daughter of Infosys Technologies Ltd […]
The annual EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings provide comprehensive league tables ranking the country’s Top 500 arts, science and commerce colleges, Top 100 private engineering colleges, Top 300 government and private universities in 15 discrete categories, and Top 100 private B-schools. However, these are all-inclusive rankings rating the country’s most well-reputed higher ed institutions across […]
Since the vast majority of aspirants for business management education have to choose from among 6,000 B-schools, the majority of them privately promoted, the annual EWIHER solely ranks the country’s Top 100 private B-schools, writes Dilip Thakore
ISB’s Prof. R.S. Thirumalai (centre)
Since 2013, the annual EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings designed to facilitate the […]
India’s agriculture universities receive scant media coverage depite 60 percent of the country’s population engaged in agriculture and allied vocations and industries
ICAR-NDRI’s Dr. M.S. Chauhan (centre)
The National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal (NDRI, estb.1923) and Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (PAU, estb.1963) are jointly ranked India’s #1 agriculture varsities in EWIHER 2022-23. NDRI (ranked #19 […]
Ranked #7 in the composite EWIHER 2021-22, National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru is India’s #1 public law and humanities university in 2022-23 with top scores in a record nine of ten parameters
NLSUI, Bangalore campus.
The carving out of a separate law and humanities league table has given a huge boost to […]
Surprisingly, Anna University, Chennai is awarded top score under the all-important parameter of research and innovation, rather than Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Anna University’s G. Ravikumar (centre right)
The second most populous league table in the rationalised EW government universities rankings 2022-23 is of varsities offering engineering & technology programmes. Unsurprisingly, this 20-strong […]
In EWIHER 2022-23, government universities are ranked in nine separate categories — multidisciplinary, law and humanities, natural and life sciences (including medical), engineering and technology, all-women, agriculture etc. This segregation eliminates apples with oranges type comparisons, writes Summiya Yasmeen
India’s public higher education system comprises 16 deemed-to-be, 54 Central and 444 state government universities. Among them, […]
Privately promoted liberal arts universities are a relatively new phenomenon in Indian education. For several decades after independence, liberal arts and humanities education was out of fashion in middle-class India
JGU’s Dr. C. Raj Kumar
Rationalisation and restructuring of the EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings which were hitherto grouped under the heads of private and […]
According to the National Medical Commission, the number of medical colleges countrywide aggregates a mere 562, of which 276 are privately promoted institutions, nowhere near enough for a country with a population of 1.35 billion
SRIHER’s Dr. Vijay Raghavan
One of the conspicuous failures of post-independence India’s centrally planned Soviet-inspired socialist economy in which private […]
Of the total number of 4,500 engineering colleges in India, 3,415 are privately promoted. And among them, a large number have been awarded the status of universities because of their high NAAC ratings and good industry reputation
BITS-Pilani’s Dr. Souvik Bhattacharyya (centre left)
Engineering and technology institutions of higher education hold a special place […]
– Sanjay Viswanathan, an alum of University of Strathclyde and Harvard Business School and founder-chairman of the London-based Adi Group and Ed4All
In the 21st century India will overtake the US and China to become the most prosperous nation in the world again. To attain this objective we need a National Doctrine starting with mindset change
In […]
To rationalise evaluation under the broad heads of private and government, universities are rated and ranked in 15 separate categories including multi-disciplinary, liberal arts, engineering and technology, social sciences, and medical and life sciences among other discrete league tables, writes Dilip Thakore and Summiya Yasmeen
Even if it sounds somewhat immodest, a unique feature of the […]
Evidently, union home minister Amit Shah is not a student of history. If he was, he wouldn’t have advised chief ministers of India’s 28 states and eight union territories to adopt Hindi as the medium of inter-state communication, as he did while addressing the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee on April 7. […]
It’s surprising that the prime minister and top BJP leadership seem unaware that the rising tide of hate speeches and demonitisation of the country’s 220 million-strong Muslim minority by BJP’s affiliated sangh parivar and hindutva fringe groups could derail the economy limping back to normalcy after two years of serious pandemic disruption. They need to […]
Currently, 403 private universities and 126 deemed (private) universities licensed by the Central government are on the 1,027-strong list of Indian universities approved by the Delhi-based University Grants Commission. According to some estimates, more than 70 percent of India’s youth in higher education are in private HEIs, writes Dilip Thakore
Amity University’s Dr. Atul […]
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Bigotry is bad for business & economy
The stark truth is that violence and minority bashing is bad for business and the economy. It damages the fabric of society, interrupts commerce and breaks down law and order – Neeraj Kaushal
What deep sense of insecurity compels BJP karyakartas (rank and file) to fear that the existence of other cultures in society threatens […]