‘Every child has the right to a happy childhood. We must ensure that education for them is a joyful and meaningful experience!’ – Billabong High International School
In today’s world, teaching is not just limited to reading aloud a text book in a class. It is more of providing a real learning to pupils. The heterogeneity […]
Mr C. R Shivakumar founded Kumar And Swamy Architects in the year 1969. As a firm, they have always been in the area of institutional architecture. In more recent times, from 1990 onward the focus has been on educational, health and sporting infrastructure.
From the early nineties, the firm was headed and run by Mr C. […]
Dr. Ashish Bharadwaj is professor & dean, Jindal School of Banking & Finance (JSBF), at the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat (Haryana). Excerpts from an interview.
How is the programme curriculum and pedagogy distinct from other conventional programmes?
The undergraduate commerce curriculum for honours students at JSBF is designed keeping in mind students’ aspirations and competencies. The […]
Established in 1864 by members of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), a Roman Catholic order dating back to the 16th century, the CISCE-affiliated all-boys St. Mary’s School, Mazgaon, Mumbai has established an excellent national reputation for providing holistic and values-based education to its 1,422 students mentored by 68 highly qualified teachers on […]
Promoted in 2010 under the aegis of the Mumbai-based JBCN Education – which runs 14 educational institutions including a group of Children’s Nook preschools and international high schools with an aggregate enrolment of 4,000 students — led by well-known educator and Founder-Chairperson Pinky Dalal, JBCN International School, Borivali (JBCNIS-B) is a contemporary co-educational K-12 […]
Sited on a compact 1.21-acre campus in Thane’s Mira Road suburb, the CISCE-affiliated N.L. Dalmia High School (NLDHS, estb. 1991) has built an excellent reputation for providing holistic values-based education supported by state-of-the-art infrastructure to its 2,349 students mentored by 135 teachers. In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2019-20, NLDHS is ranked among the […]
In the short span of eight years, the coeducational K-10 (classes XI-XII to begin in 2020) Ascend International School has quickly won the patronage of Mumbai’s cognoscenti for its high quality internationally benchmarked education. Established in 2011 under the Kasegaon Education Society (KES, estb.1945 by Rajarambapu Patil), which runs 46 educational institutes in Maharashtra with […]
Founded in 1998, Ramniranjan Podar School (RNPS), Santacruz is the CBSE-affiliated school of the Mumbai-based Podar Education Network (estb. 1927), administered by the Anandilal Podar Trust whose first president was Mahatma Gandhi. Currently, the Podar group comprises 124 education institutions concentrated in western (Maharashtra, Gujarat), central (Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh) and southern (Karnataka) India.
Clustered in Mumbai’s […]
Sited in Mumbai’s Kandivali suburb, Children’s Academy, Thakur Complex (estb. 2002), the latest addition of the Children’s Academy Group of Schools, has in less than two decades built a formidable reputation within the city’s parents community for providing well balanced holistic education to its 2,750 students mentored by 147 teachers.
The CISCE-affiliated K-10 school was […]
Promoted in 1996, the CISCE (Delhi)-affiliated K-10 Children’s Academy, Kandivali, Mumbai has over the past two decades set excellent benchmarks in IT-enabled education practices and mentorship by providing rigorous academic, co-curricular, sports and life skills education to its 2620 students mentored by 142 well-qualified teachers. Unsurprisingly, in the latest EW India School Rankings 2019-20, […]
Sited in the bustling Mumbai suburb of Malad, Children’s Academy (CAM, estb.1970), a K-X Co-Ed day school affiliated with the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education and the Delhi-based Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), is the flagship school of the Children’s Academy Group which comprises two more schools of […]
The Fazlani L’Academie Globale (FLAG) is a new-era international school sited in Mazgaon, a former Portuguese enclave in Mumbai Central. Its contemporary, child-friendly campus is designed by celebrity architect Hafeez Contractor. A wholly international K-12 school, FLAG is affiliated with the Cambridge Assessment International Examinations (CAIE), UK and International Baccalaureate (IB), Geneva exam boards. […]
Situated over 76971 sq. ft. in Mumbai’s northern suburbs of Malad and Kandivali the Children’s Academy Group of Schools (CAGS) represents 50 years of value-driven holistic education. Established in 1970 under the capable guidance of its founder and lifelong educationist, the Late V. V. Bhat, the group expanded from being a single school institution- Children’s […]
The annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR), which rates and ranks the country’s Top 1,000 primary-secondary schools, is the world’s largest school rankings survey. To compile the 13-plus league tables of the EW India School Rankings 2019-20, 120 field personnel of the Delhi-based market research company Centre for Forecasting & Research (C fore) interviewed 12,213 […]
Tales from the history of mathematics – Archana Sarat
Readomania publishing, Rs.225, Pages 192
If there is one subject that evokes strong feelings in most students, it is mathematics. Simply uttering the word ‘maths’ is enough for someone to claim that they love the subject or more often, how much they hated it in school. But irrespective of […]
Nine Luminaries of Science – Joseph Mani
Notion Press, Rs.200, Pages 188
There’s fascinating history in all men’s lives. One can draw valuable lessons even from histories of unremarkable and ordinary people. But it has to be accepted that reading about the lives and accomplishments of people who have made outstanding contributions in the cause of bettering […]
For most cricket aficionados of this complex game in this cricket-crazy country, the recently concluded India-South Africa three-test series which ended in a complete 3-0 rout of the visitors, was disappointing. It was almost no contest as the South Africans were thrashed by a huge margin in the first test and suffered innings defeats in […]
The sheer bad manners and exalted self-opinion babus of the Union HRD ministry entertain about themselves in spite of learning outcomes in government schools, colleges and universities across the country plumbing new lows, boggle the mind. To keep these worthies, cut-off from all reality in Indian education even as they formulate impractical policies in the […]
A follow-up of the EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) 2019-20 — the world’s largest and most extensive field survey of 12,213 sample respondents (educationists, principals, teachers, fees-paying parents and senior school students) across the country — the glittering EWISR 2019-20 Awards function in Gurgaon (Delhi NCR) was a great success. It was attended by over […]
In challenge-based learning, students don’t study discrete disciplines such as sociology/mathematics. They study them through the lens of global challenges such as climate change and clean energy.
A raft of companies in the UK has declared they no longer have faith in university degree classifications. Hitherto, graduates with a 2:1 (upper second or 60 percent plus […]
Following the launch of EducationWorld in 1999 with the objective of “building the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”, even if belatedly, private sector education providers, NGOs and idealistic citizens countrywide are exhibiting enthusiasm for promoting progressive education institutions, improving teaching-learning standards and measuring learning outcomes – Summiya […]
At first glance, Germany might seem an unlikely place for a boom in private, fee-charging universities. Famously, the nation’s public universities are almost free to attend, even for foreign students, and are regarded as consistently decent in quality.
But despite this, an ever greater number of students, German and foreign, are choosing to pay to go […]
To the disappointment of Molly, a 19-year-old at the University of Portsmouth, the Waterhole Bar is no more. “I enjoyed pre-ing in there with friends,” she sighs. “We’d get together, have a few snakebites, get hyped.” Access was restricted to students, meaning it felt safe. Karaoke Fridays were fun. But students were recently told the […]
Bringing large numbers of older graduates back into classrooms under a radical lifelong learning programme will test the teaching abilities of staff, a university president has admitted.
All undergraduates and postgraduates of the National University of Singapore remain enrolled for 20 years from the point of admission, making all current and future students automatically eligible for […]
Denmark’s new Social Democrat government has ended a five-year budget squeeze on universities, but academics fear that proposed cuts to humanities and social science funding could lead to course closures. The new government, which set out its budget on October 2, will scrap annual 2 percent cuts to university allocations.
Birgit Bangskjær, chief executive of the […]
Hong Kong’s status as an academic hub could be undermined by the protests that have gripped the territory, fear scholars. Cancellations of a conference and several student exchange programmes have been seen as early signs of the potential impact of the demonstrations and the increasingly authoritarian response of the Hong Kong government.
And although many academics […]
Seek “harmony but not sameness”, advised the Chinese philosopher Confucius 2,500 years ago. Neither quality was on display when Chinese nationalists violently disrupted a rally in support of anti-government demonstrators in Hong Kong at the University of Queensland in July.
Since then Drew Pavlou, one of the organisers of the sympathy rally, says he has received […]
The world’s most prestigious universities are primarily in two countries: America and Britain. Strangely, though, the more aristocratic, less meritocratic system of admissions is found not in the country with a House of Lords and a hereditary monarchy, but in the land of rugged individualism. Unsurprisingly, the American system is under attack.
In a closely […]
Against the backdrop of leaders in all walks of life inexplicably unable to absorb the self-evident proposition that rigorous education and human capital development is the essential precondition of national progress, on the 20th anniversary of EducationWorld we do some crystal ball gazing to forecast the shape, form and efficacy of Indian education circa 2030 […]
Since 2014 when the BJP-NDA coalition was elected to power in New Delhi and re-elected in 2019, the BJP leadership and saffron polemicists have plunged the public discourse to new depths.
It’s a matter of deep regret — and all right-thinking citizens should protest — that since 2014 when the BJP/NDA coalition was elected to power […]
While the rest of the world has been experimenting with sweeping reform ideas such as school vouchers and direct benefit transfer, the NEP draft doesn’t mention them.
The general expectation is that the National Education Policy (NEP) 2019 will be finalised in December, based on the recommendations of the nine-member Kasturirangan Committee which submitted its comprehensive […]
Kolkata-based Achin Bhattacharyya is the founder and CEO of notebook.school (promoted by ABJ Eduventures Pvt. Ltd in 2018), a digital content portal that enables children to learn subjects in their syllabus subjects through engaging videos and text notes. Since its launch a year ago, the portal has attracted more than 600,000 views, and its app […]
Gurgaon-based Ayush Jaiswal (23) is the youthful co-founder of Pesto Tech (India) Pvt. Ltd (estb.2017), which owns pesto.tech, a career accelerator online platform. The company offers a 12-week intensive training programme to upskill and prepare Indian software professionals for international tech careers. Following completion of the online programme, diploma awardees work for […]
American born Daniel Graves is the founder-director of the Florence Academy of Art (FAA, estb.1991), Italy, a globally reputed school of classical aesthetics and art education. An alumnus of the Maryland Institute of Art and Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine Art, Florence, Daniel Graves, who moved to Florence in the late 1970s, has […]
Dr. Akhil Shahani is managing director of the Mumbai-based Shahani Group of education institutions which over the past 60 years has promoted 24 institutions including Mumbai’s iconic Thadomal Shahani Engineering, HR, KC, and National colleges. Although these are minority institutions promoted under Article 30 (1) of the Constitution and can reserve 49.5 percent of seats […]
Sumeet Mehta is the co-founder and CEO of LEAD School, a comprehensive K-10 school academic system designed by researchers of Leadership Boulevard Pvt. Ltd, a “double impact bottom line” — social impact and for-profit — Mumbai-based company. It provides whole-school academic solutions including textbooks, curriculum-mapped ready-to-use lesson plans, on-demand teacher development and student assessment services […]
Authoritarian leaders combine charisma and bureaucratic organisation, making instant, seemingly effective decisions. India is a soft state while authoritarian China is a global heavyweight.
One of the more fascinating phenomena expressed in recent times, especially among the elite and the Indian middle class, is ‘authoritarian envy’. As a stratum, these groups feel that while democracy gets […]
Indian education needs enabling environments where edupreneurs, school principals and teachers have wide autonomy to deliver consistently better learning outcomes.
All parents want their children to develop into good and productive human beings. The nine-member Kasturirangan (KR) Committee that submitted the Draft National Education Policy (DNEP) to the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry on May […]
An authoritative research study of the University of North Carolina indicates that the key to developing children’s learning skills is quality interactive communication with adults from birth.
Regrettably, there’s insufficient awareness in Indian society that the period before a child enters formal education is critical for success in school and beyond. These are the most formative […]
Conferred university status in 1992, UoP is ranked among UK’s Top 50 universities by the Times Higher Education and is highly reputed for study programmes in democratic citizenship; sustainability and the environment- Shraddha Goled
Set within a 52-acre campus in the eponymous port city, the University of Portsmouth (UoP, estb.1908) is a publicly-funded higher education institution widely […]
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