An april 3 supreme court judgement scrapping the appointment of 25,735 secondary and higher-secondary teachers appointed by the state government in 2016, has inflicted a massive blow to the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government of West Bengal (pop.109 million). An apex court bench comprising Chief Justice […]
The best among India’s 3,280 B-schools listed in the EW league table have the potential to improve and upgrade into excellent providers of business management education , writes Dilip Thakore
ISB campus vista: Financial Times #27 global rank
It’s a typically Indian paradox. Although India hosts 3,280 business management education institutes including a few dozen […]
The sudden demise on April 25 of Dr. K. Kasturirangan, author of the 484-page draft National Education Policy which transformed into the 66-page National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, has thrown a cloud of uncertainty over the future direction of Indian education. Like the proverbial curate’s egg, NEP 2020, based almost entirely on the recommendations of […]
The recent (March 25) outing of pervasive prejudice against dark complexioned citizens by Kerala’s Chief Secretary Sreeladdha Murleedharan has resurrected the issue of obstinate colour prejudice in Indian society. The ready adoption by citizens of free India of the mindset and irrational superiority of our erstwhile loot-and-scoot imperial masters on this issue, is clear demonstration […]
In his latest book, The Nehru Development Model: History and its Lasting Impact (2024), Arvind Panagriya, professor of Indian political economy at Columbia University and currently Chairman of the 16th Finance Commission, makes a convincing case that half century after the pathetic failure of the control-and-command Nehruvian socialist national development model, the spirit of neta-babu […]
— (Dr. K.V. Nagaraja is Professor, Department of Mathematics, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru Campus)
Robust maths education enables systematic problem-solving, strategic decision-making, and critical thinking — all of which accelerate national development
Mathematics is an unpopular subject. Indeed many students — and parents — question its relevance to […]
Under India’s complex control-and-command higher education system, only 1,222 of India’s 47,000 colleges have been awarded autonomous status. Nevertheless, several non-autonomous colleges continue to be highly ranked and respected
St. Stephen’s John Varghese (centre left): positive factors combination
Ab initio since the annual EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings were introduced in 2013 to enable parents/school-leavers […]
Government autonomous colleges which have met the stringent conditions set by UGC for award of autonomous status serve an important national purpose by providing heavily subsidised undergrad education to youth from low-income households. Therefore, the best among them deserve to be celebrated
At just 14, Diya Loka from Hyderabad has already made a significant mark on the global stage by winning the prestigious Diana Award—one of the highest international accolades a young person can receive for social action and humanitarian work.
Her journey began during a summer break, as she walked through the streets of Hyderabad and noticed […]
Private colleges awarded autonomous status by UGC have a large number of academic and administrative freedoms denied to non-autonomous colleges which are tied to the apron strings of their affiliating university. Consequently their graduates tend to be a cut above.
SXM’s Dr. Rajendra Shinde (centre left): wings to soar
In the Part II edition of EWIHER 2025-26 we present league tables rating and ranking India’s 500 most respected Arts, Science and Commerce colleges carefully categorised into private and government autonomous and non-autonomous institutions – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Contemporary India’s high graduate unemployability data — an estimated 45.19 percent graduates of the country’s 47,000 […]
Team G2 — a quintet comprising Aryan Rahul Yadav, Mushfiq Mohd Ghous Farooqui, Shreyansh Shridhar Kasturi, Falak Mallebari and Krishika Amit Kambli, all class VI-VIII students of Mumbai Public School Hariyali Village CBSE School, Vikhroli, Mumbai — has designed the prototype of a Smart Hygienic Toilet which bagged first prize at the RoboRise Innovation […]
Currently a final year undergrad student at the Florida University (USA), Ahmedabad-born Aryan Nehra (21) is a promising swimming champion with over 100 state, national and international aquatic championship medals and trophies displayed on his mantelpiece at home. In February at the 38th National Games of India staged in Uttarakhand, this Gujarat merman who […]
– Nirmal Singh is CEO of the Gurugram-based Wheebox ETS and author of Leadership Style: World’s Top 8 Leaders (2023)
Can India match the skilling success of nations like China? The answer lies in honest assessment of our training ecosystem, academy-industry collaboration, and changing the cultural mindset toward vocational education
Hyderabad, May 2. At a two-day Bharat Higher Education Summit 2025 hosted by Mahindra University (Internal Quality Assurance Cell) and organised by the Confederation of Indian Private Universities (CIPU), education leaders highlighted that India’s education system must aim to be ranked among the world’s best by creating a research-based interdisciplinary academic ecosystem.
Congratulations to EducationWorld for publishing yet another enriching rankings of India’s best universities (EW April).
In this momentous issue I also noticed the inclusion of league tables ranking America’s best colleges and universities. Unlike earlier, given President Donald Trump stridently anti-immigration prejudice, these are challenging times for Indian students. With threats of […]
Rising apprehension in the southern states of India — especially in Tamil Nadu — that Hindi, the dominant language of the BIMARU (Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) states, is overtly and covertly being imposed as the national language, is justified. The mandate of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is that all in-school […]
After completing 100 days of his second term in office as President of the United States (POTUS) of America, the world’s most economically, academically and militarily powerful nation, it’s now quite clear to all except the most intellectually arid elements of American society (their number alas, is not insignificant), that it’s the beginning of the […]
“Has the pervasive control of universities helped the cause of higher education? No Indian university ranks in the top 100 universities of the world (prepared by QS). The highest ranked Indian university is IIT, Bombay that took the 118th rank. In a reply in Parliament, the government disclosed that as on October 21, 2024, the […]
In a not unexpected setback to the state government, on April 4, President Draupadi Murmu ( on advice of the Union government) declined to give her assent to the Tamil Nadu Admission to Undergraduate Medical Degree Courses Bill, 2022. The Bill sought to exempt higher secondary school […]
Every April, it has become an annual ritual for parents and child rights organisations to protest tuition fee hikes of independent (‘unaided’) private schools for the academic year beginning June. On April 18, responding to a complaint of the Samruddha Bharat Foundation (SBF), a Bengaluru-based sociopolitical […]
Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta & education minister Ashish Sood (centre right)
Within India’s rapidly expanding and influential middle class — whose number is estimated by PRICE Report at 432 million — which shuns the country’s 1 million (state) government primary-secondary schools defined by ramshackle infrastructure, chronic teacher absenteeism and abysmal […]
Because of excessive commercialisation, institutional rankings — corporate or education — tend to evoke wry smiles and cynicism. With almost all media publications and television news channels having clambered aboard the rankings and awards bandwagon, some skepticism is inevitable and justified. However, it would be a mistake to tar all institutional ranking initiatives with the […]
The Class of 2025 at Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, one of India’s premier residential schools for girls, has made an exceptional global impact through prestigious university placements and scholarships. With each student receiving multiple offers, SKV girls have been accepted into world-renowned universities across the USA, UK, Europe, Ireland, Singapore, Australia, and China, with scholarships […]
In a compelling move towards climate action and sustainable urban living, JBCN International School, Mulund, successfully hosted its inaugural Cyclothon 1.0. This community-driven initiative brought together over 150 participants—including learners, parents, and staff—with nearly 100 families cycling together to advocate for cleaner air and eco-friendly mobility in Mumbai.
The journey began in December with an inspiring […]
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Vocational education & skilling imperative
NIRMAL SINGH
– Nirmal Singh is CEO of the Gurugram-based Wheebox ETS and author of Leadership Style: World’s Top 8 Leaders (2023)
Can India match the skilling success of nations like China? The answer lies in honest assessment of our training ecosystem, academy-industry collaboration, and changing the cultural mindset toward vocational education
India stands at […]