In this edition, we present Part II of EWISR 2021-22 featuring league tables rating and ranking the country’s most reputed Boarding Schools (co-ed, girls and boys), International Schools (day, day-cum-boarding and fully residential) and also the most respected Budget Private Schools – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Conceptualised and launched in 2007, the annual EducationWorld India […]
A dismaying national character flaw that has manifested itself with painful impact during the crushing Covid-19 pandemic is that post-independence India — a country of free men and women expected to hold the moral high ground envisioned by Mahatma Gandhi and leaders of the freedom movement — has degenerated into a nation of price gougers. […]
“Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself” – John Dewey
Driven by the thought of providing the best in the domains of education and holistic development, Prometheus School, Noida which began amidst the pandemic in 2019-20, acquired its MYP accreditation this month making it an IB Continuum School, a remarkable milestone for a new […]
Boarding schools are trending as they are the solution to many of parents’ concerns, providing them space to continue their multiple other chores without having to stress on the innumerable issues raising children bring. Each stage of a child’s development brings its own sets of challenges with parents doing a balancing act between work and […]
IBCP is a popular and accepted qualification across the world. In September 2021, the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) issued a letter recognising and accepting the International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme (IBCP) and accorded equivalence with +2 stage (Grade 12) of an Indian School Board i.e, CBSE and other recognised/approved state school boards accepting it as […]
by Armin Rosencranz, Siddhanth Prasad and Abhiroop Chowdhury
(Authors are, respectively, Dean, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor at Jindal School of Environment and Sustainability, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana)
We must make deep efforts to decarbonize, both to make headway against the climate crisis and avoid irreparable harm to our economy, society, and civilisation. In […]
Founder & Chairperson (Dr. Lilly George) with Winners at Yale
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence
—Rabindra Nath Tagore
We at Shalom manifest in every thought, word and action our philosophy and mindset for a new age education. The educational […]
Priya Pandit
School Success Manager at SchoolPad
The new age teaching methodologies, updating curriculum to be in sync with the changing times and curating events that can engage and stimulate students are the backbone of every school. But equally important and of strategic importance is the admission process. The more simplified it is, the easier it […]
Mrs. Madhvi Chandra
M.Phil., M.A., B.Ed., Associate director Gitanjali Group of Schools and Principal, Gitanjali Devshala, comes with an experience of over 25 years. She has been an educationist as well as a teacher trainer. She has been a dynamic leader not only in the school arena but also at various social forums.
The covid 19 […]
Every problem has a solution and every setback can become a comeback
Dr. (Mrs.) Amita Chauhan
Chairperson, Amity Group of Schools
The best way to lead a happy and successful existence is to humbly accept every challenge that the universe throws at us, instead of considering it as a threat. If we treat a difficult time like […]
L V Sehgal
Principal, Bal Bharati Public School, GRH Marg
EducationWorld in conversation with LV Sehgal, principal of the top-ranked coeducational K-12 Bal Bharati Public School, GRH Marg, New Delhi.
What initiatives did your school take to cope with the Covid-prompted shift to online education?
Our school made a comfortable switch to online teaching within a week of […]
The Punjab Public School was started in 1960 with a view to provide quality public school education to the deserving children of the ex-servicemen, serving personnel of the defence forces and civilians. The guiding force in the opening of this school was Sardar Partap Singh Kairon, who was the Chief Minister of Punjab. The school […]
Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
After 19 months of continuous lockdown and dithering over reopening of schools because of fear of Covid-19 contagion, on October 25 the state’s BJP government greenlighted commencement of in-person classes in all 73,238 government, aided and private schools of Karnataka with free mid-day meals for classes I-V children in government schools, beginning November […]
In recent years in response to relentless criticism from this publication, several state governments have promoted high-quality primary-secondaries which are threatening the dominance of Central government Kendriya Vidyalayas. Here are India’s best government day schools 2021-22.
Sad but true. The country’s 1.20 million government schools are neglected poor relations of private schools. According to State of […]
To compile the 2021-22 league table of dedicated special needs schools, C fore field personnel interviewed 494 parents of children with disabilities and special needs educators in six cities. They were asked to rate special needs schools on ten parameters of education excellence, writes Paromita Sengupta
One of post-independence India’s greatest acts of omission according to […]
To compile EWISR 2021-22, 11,458 sample respondents — educationists, principals, teachers, SECA (socio-economic category A) parents and senior school students — in 28 cities countrywide were interviewed by 118 C fore field researchers over a period of four months (June-September). The annual EWISR is the world’s largest schools ranking survey – Dilip Thakore & Summiya […]
Promoters and managements of day-cum-boarding schools deserve special appreciation for making the additional investment to accommodate out-of-town students who but for this consideration would be denied high quality primary-secondary education
Dr. Silpi Sahoo (right centre) with the late Dr. Bijaya Sahoo: valuable legacy
Among the various categories of primary-secondaries ranked in the annual EducationWorld India […]
With many conservative households still preferring gender segregated education institutions for cultural and religious reasons, all-girls’ day schools are flourishing countrywide with many of them having built big size reputations
Even though all-girls schools are going out of fashion around the world, in India they continue to remain relevant and serve an important public purpose. With […]
The annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR), introduced in 2007 and continued ever since without a break-even in the pandemic year, has evolved into the world’s largest and most sophisticated schools ranking survey. Sophisticated because unlike other surveys that rank education institutions in India and abroad, the EWISR evaluates the country’s 2,500-3,000 most reputed primary-secondaries […]
Political masters of the education system never tire of inventing new bits they believe are worthy of being glued into the school routine. These bits are wrapped in politically correct labels, writes Krishna Kumar
The tendency to fragment the curriculum has become endemic to our system of education. New bits and slices keep getting added to […]
IIT-K-JKCL partnership
Kanpur, october 26. IIT-Kanpur and JK Cement Ltd (JKCL, estb.1975), signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) to collaborate in the construction of a super specialty hospital on the IIT-K campus. JKCL has consented to support the initiative with CSR (corporate social responsibility) funding of Rs.60 crore.
The MoU is part of the IIT-K’s […]
The Central government promoted Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas — free-of-charge boarding schools for meritorious rural children — continue to dominate the EW league table of government boarding schools, writes Paromita Sengupta
Conceptualised in 1984 by late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi (1944-91) as free-of-charge boarding schools for meritorious rural children, the Central government-promoted and managed Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
West Bengal’s 92,000 government and 2,000 private schools, 372 colleges and 32 universities will reopen for on-campus classes on November 16. Following chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s declaration to this effect on October 25, an official gazette notification was issued by the state government on October 28 re-starting the massive education system of West […]
Ten lessons for a post-pandemic world
Fareed Zakaria
W.W. Norton & Company
Rs.473 Pages 224
It’s India’s loss and America’s gain that Mumbai-born, Yale and Harvard grad Fareed Zakaria has made his career in the US rather than in India. Over the past two decades, he has emerged as one of America’s most respected public intellectuals […]
In turning their backs on a language that’s not only recognised by the Constitution but is the language of global business, India’s myopic politicians are doing the electorate a great disservice, writes Rajiv Desai
English is the language introduced by the British colonisers of India. It evokes mixed emotions. In some middle-class families and schools, you […]
Dipta Joshi
Kalbande: extortion charge
The Maharashtra state government’s ill-advised initiative to slash the reimbursement amount payable to private unaided schools admitting students under s.12 (1) (c) of the Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education (aka RTE) Act, 2009, has boomeranged.
Dattatray Jagtap, director of the school education department, who recommended that the amount […]
Autar Nehru (Delhi)
CBSE HQ in Delhi: two exams solution
Following heavy criticism from Supreme Court for not having devised an alternative examination system for the pandemic academic year 2020-21 after board examinations were cancelled in the wake of the second wave (March-June 2021) of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) […]
The total priivatisation on October 8 of Air India, the public sector national airline, which during the past 68 years since it was nationalised in 1953 has recorded a cumulative loss of Rs.70,000 crore, is a milestone in the half-hearted national development history of post-independent India. That this perpetually bleeding airline has been re-purchased by […]
Confucius (551-479 BCE) was a master teacher, a gurudev. He had extraordinary love of learning and deep respect for the laws of ancient China, writes Sudheendra Kulkarni
Whenever I visit Beijing, I make it a point to visit Wangfujing Street for English language books. There I always find illuminating books on Chinese philosophy, culture, arts and even […]
There’s something disquieting about the increasing number of US-based NRI academics, taking leave of absence from tenured professorships in American universities to play advisory roles in the Central government, enjoy public adulation and exaggerated respect for a few years in India before they scarper back to tolerance and condescension abroad.
These musings are the outcome of […]
For sheer hypocrisy and two-facedness, the English are hard to beat. And to all intents and purposes, compradors vending their goods in this country seem to have learned their lessons well.
Take for example, the latest ad campaign for Dove soap manufactured and marketed by Hindustan Unilever, the India subsidiary of the London/Amsterdam FMCG (fast moving […]
There’s considerable merit in the simile that official corruption is like an ice-berg. Only one-tenth of it above the surface of water is visible to the naked eye. The massive dangerous body of corruption is invisible underwater. In the circumstances, one wonders about the sheer scale of official corruption in Maharashtra, India’s second most populous […]
This year the co-ed day schools league table rates 1,928 primary-secondaries — the largest of any category. It augurs well for better gender relations and greater social respect for girls and women in future
It is surely an indicator of social progress and emancipation that the largest league table in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings […]
Even though gender-segregated schools are steadily going out of fashion, competition within the category of boys day schools for best seats at top table is intense. Dislodged last year, Campion School, Mumbai has reclaimed its pre-eminent position
Campion, Mumbai’s Fr. Swamy (centre right): no learning loss
With gender-segregated schools rapidly becoming obsolete, the number of […]
The new knowledge economy is driven by information, data and computing power. Developing human resources requires critical analysis, lateral thinking and inter-disciplinary applications, writes Mohandas Pai and Nisha Holla
Mohandas Pai
Today information is available at our fingertips. The agricultural and industrial economies of yore where information was a scarce resource, have been replaced by […]
Andhra Pradesh
NIT-AP initiatives
Tadepalligudem, october 30. The National Institute of Technology, Andhra Pradesh (NIT-AP), has revised its B.Tech curriculum and added new features in conformity with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
The institute recently conducted a ‘National Conclave on Strategies for Implementation of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020’ symposium to apprise administrative staff, […]
Extraordinary Dr. Kumar
Congratulations for the inspirational success story ‘The very extraordinary Prof. Raj Kumar’ (EW October), a welcome departure from routine EW cover features. This visionary educator dared to dream of establishing India’s first global university, and how! I applaud his grit, determination and extraordinary project conceptualisation and management capabilities.
It’s amazing to read […]
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