EducationWorld November 2024

United States: Students’ vote decisive?

American varsity students: “target on their backs”

There are high stakes for universities in the upcoming US presidential election, even if neither candidate has set out an extensive higher education policy agenda — and students’ votes could play a key role in the result.

In the run-up to the November 5 poll, Kamala Harris […]

The future of education: A personalised learning approach

Education is the foundation of human progress. It shapes minds, promotes self-discovery and growth and helps build a civilised society. However, every child is unique, and the traditional “one-size-fits-all” model often overlooks the diversity of students’ interests, abilities, and aspirations. This is where personalised learning steps in, which is a necessity in an increasingly complex […]

THE RANKINGS: Oxford’s long reign

Oxford University has retained the number one spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for a ninth year in a row. But the reputation of the wider UK sector is rapidly eroding, with a similar trend seen in the US.

Oxford’s reign is now the longest in the history of the league table, beating […]

Case for classic capitalism

What went wrong with capitalism
Ruchir Sharma
Allen Lane
Rs.999
Pages 368

An enlightening narrative of how far USA has strayed from the basic principles of capitalism. It also highlights capitalism success stories abroad

New York-based Ruchir Sharma, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management for 25 years until 2022 when he founded Breakout […]

Design-led education primer

Every child can: Riverside School’s design-led approach to empower children
Kiran Bir Sethi, Mohanram Gudipati and Apoorva Bhandari
Harper Design
Rs.599
Pages 208

Design thinking-led learning offers a user-centric model for whole school improvement

Founded by Kiran Bir Sethi in 2001 and situated on the banks of the River Sabarmati offering a direct view of […]

EW India School Rankings 2024-25 Awards

Staged over three days on October 17-19, EWISRA 2024-25 featured stimulating keynote addresses, enriching panel discussions and awards presentation ceremonies during which high-ranked primary-secondary schools in four main categories were awarded certificates and display plaques, writes Summiya Yasmeen.

The three-day EducationWorld India School Rankings 2024-25 Awards (EWISRA) conclave — the largest gathering of K-12 leaders countrywide […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2024-25: Sindhu Mendke

Sindhu Mendke receives award from EW’s Dilip Thakore (left) & Summiya Yasmeen (right)

Dedicated educator and champion of underprivileged citizens for over four decades, Indore-based Sindhu Mendke is incumbent chairperson of the Tirthanjali Educational Society (estb.1978) which manages the co-educational CBSE-affiliated K-12 New Digambar Public School, Indore (NDPS, estb.1995). Currently, NDPS has 2,387 […]

Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2024-25: Brijmohan Chiripal

Brijmohan Chiripal receives awards from actors Charu Sharma & Rakesh Kumar

A chemical engineering graduate of Gujarat University, Brijmohan Chiripal started his career in 1972 as an entrepreneur in the textiles processing industry by promoting a small-scale unit with a workforce of 200 employees. Since then, Brijmohan and his three elder brothers have […]

Gyanshree skill hub

Gyanshree School, Noida – ranked among Delhi NCR’s Top 10 co-ed day schools in the latest EW India School Rankings 2024-25 – was one of the first institutions to act on a CBSE directive and establish a state-of-the-art Gyanshree Skill Hub to provide vocational education & training to children and youth in the age group […]

United States: Students’ vote decisive?

American varsity students: “target on their backs”

There are high stakes for universities in the upcoming US presidential election, even if neither candidate has set out an extensive higher education policy agenda — and students’ votes could play a key role in the result.

In the run-up to the November 5 poll, Kamala Harris […]

Critical importance of the humanities

— Himmat Singh Dhillon is Headmaster of The Lawrence School, Sanawar

Infusion of humanities into all subjects is of critical importance. Study of humanities develops questioning minds, resourcefulness, curiosity, self-reliance, metacognition, and reflection.

Very often one comes across industry leaders bemoaning that students who have done reasonably well at school and gone onto university […]

THE RANKINGS: Oxford’s long reign

Oxford University has retained the number one spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for a ninth year in a row. But the reputation of the wider UK sector is rapidly eroding, with a similar trend seen in the US.

Oxford’s reign is now the longest in the history of the league table, beating […]

LETTER FROM AMERICA: Election implications for education

(Dr. Larry Arnn is President, Hillsdale College, USA. [email protected])

I write this a few days before an important election in America. It has implications for education and for every area of American policy. Should government continue to become more centralised, more controlled by complex bureaucratic rules in the hundreds of thousands?

This has been the trend in […]

EW Grand Jury India School Rankings 2024-2025

The annual EducationWorld Grand Jury India School Rankings (estb. 2016) acknowledge and felicitate schools that excel under parameters other than the 14 under which schools are rated and ranked in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings based on field interviews countrywide.
In June-July advertisements on our website (www.educationworld.in) and social media invited nominations — including […]

People

Apprenticeships Missionary: Sumit Kumar

Sumit Kumar: employability boost

Sumit Kumar is the New Delhi-based Chief Strategy Officer of TeamLease Degree Apprenticeship (TLDA, estb.2014; headcount: 1,000), a constituent firm of TeamLease Services Ltd, the country’s premier personnel placements company which places skilled technicians including accountants, data entry/back office, BPO/customer care, front office/receptionists, hospitality managers, chefs, chauffeurs etc in […]

People

Rural children’s Guardian: Brinda Poornapragna

eVidyaloka TTT programme: mission-aspiration match. Inset: Brinda Poornapragna

Brinda Poornapragna is the CEO of Bengaluru-based not-for-profit eVidyaloka, promoted under the aegis of eVidyaloka Trust and co-founded by former Microsoft India professionals Satish Vaidyanathan and Venkat Sriraman in 2011. Entirely funded by individual and CSR (corporate social responsibility) donations, eVidyaloka connects volunteering and digital […]

People

NTA 2024 Awardees: Pankaj Kumar Goyal and Rajinder Singh

Goyal: gender equality imperative

Government teachers from rural Punjab — Pankaj Kumar Goyal and Rajinder Singh — are recipients of the National Teachers Awards 2024 of the Union education ministry.

Newspeg. On the occasion of Teachers Day (September 5), President Droupadi Murmu conferred certificates and Rs.50,000 cash prizes on Goyal of the […]

People

Shrewsbury International Headmaster: Dominic Tomalin

Tomalin (left) with founder Abhishek Gupta (right): whole person education promise

Dominic Tomalin is the founding headmaster of Shrewsbury International School India (SISI), assuming shape and form on a sprawling 150-acre campus in Bhopal, the admin capital of Madhya Pradesh (pop.80 million).

SISI is the outcome of an ambitious collaboration agreement between two education […]

St Karen’s School, Patna: Building resilience in students

Shefali Srivastava, Supervisor of Schools, St. Karen’s Group of Schools, Patna, Bihar

Resilience is one of the most essential skills that schools strive to cultivate in students during their academic journey. It is the ability to recover quickly from challenges, setbacks, or difficulties, enabling individuals to adapt, bounce back, and persevere in the face of adversity. […]

Milestones of Indian Education (1999-2024)

1999

PROBE Report. In early January 1999, a team of eminent educationists including Anita Rampal, Anuradha De, Jean Dreze and Shiva Kumar, released the Public Report on Basic Education 1999 focused on rural primary education. For the first time, it exposed the deep rot in public primary education in the populous Hindi heartland states (Bihar, Madhya […]

25 Years (1999-2024) Monitoring. Influencing. Shaping Indian education

For the past 25 years your editors have persevered to track, record and constructively criticise lackadaisical initiatives of the Union and state governments to raise teaching-learning standards in pre-primary, primary, secondary and higher education which were — and are — lagging far behind global norms – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen

When 25 years ago […]

19th Anniversary Essay

Viksit Bharat dependent on skilling success

Dr. Neeraj Kaushal is professor of social policy at Columbia University, USA

Skill levels below a thin top layer plummet. India needs a second, third and fourth layer of well-educated and skilled youth to keep the economic growth momentum going

Neeraj Kaushal

India aspires to become a developed nation by 2047, to mark a century […]

19th Anniversary Essay

Educational delusions endangering Viksit Bharat goal

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta is former President, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi and a renowned public intellectual

India’s only saving grace is that despite institutional dysfunction, Indians are self-learning and have got us to the point where human capital deficiencies are less pronounced

It is a tragic fact about India that […]

Young Achievers

Young Achiever: Tanvi Patri

Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)

Tanvi Patri

Even as the star of former badminton world champion P.V. Sindhu is dimming, another star is rising in Bengaluru’s world-class Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy (PPBA). Early teen Tanvi Patri is earning encomiums in the international and national badminton circuits. In late August, 13-year-old Tanvi recorded a stunning victory over […]

Tamil Nadu: Parents power initiative

Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)

John Arokia Prabhu

One of the mandates (s.21) of the landmark right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education Act, 2009, was that every school countrywide (other than private unaided schools) shall constitute School Management Committees (SMCs) comprising “elected representatives of the local authority, parents or guardians of children admitted […]

They said it

“…the truth is crystal clear. In 2014, during the Congress UPA government, there were 16,217 sanctioned posts in Central universities out of which 6,042 posts, i.e. 37% posts, were vacant. The Modi government is rapidly filling all these posts by taking every section along. This is the reason that despite the increase in the number […]

Young Achievers

Young Achiever: Swapnil Kusile

Nasrin Modak Siddiqui (Mumbai)

Swapnil Kusile

Back in Pune from the Paris Olympics 2024 (July 26-August 11), Swapnil Kusale, bronze medalist in the men’s 50 metre rifle three-position event, was given a red carpet hero’s welcome.

The 29-year-old gives credit for his exemplary achievement to supportive parents — Suresh Kusale, a Zilla Parishad school teacher, […]

West Bengal: Emerging reforms consensus

Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)

RG Kar trainees: expanded movement

Seventy-one days after the angry Post Graduate Trainee (PGT) doctors’ movement which started on August 10 as a protest against official negligence that resulted in the horrific rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor at the government-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in […]

Karnataka: Speech freedom row

Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)

IIM Bangalore. Inset: Prof. Deepak Malghan

For the past year, the premier Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru (IIM-B, estb.1973) — one of the original ABC (Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta) IIMs promoted by the Central government and routinely ranked among the global Top 50 B-schools by The Financial Times, London — has […]

19th Anniversary Essay

Liberty, equality & fraternity must begin in common preschools

Sudheendra Kulkarni is a former aide of prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1999-2004) and currently founder, Forum for a New South Asia

Only a fraction of the 180 million in the age group of 0-5 years have access to good quality, well-equipped pre-schools. If this divide continues how can India remain faithful to the ideals of […]

19th Anniversary Essay

How India’s schools compare with best in the West

Dr. Raymond Ravaglia is former dean of pre-collegiate studies at Stanford University and currently co-founder of AccessUSA

While the best Western schools may not always match the academic rigour of India’s best schools, they outpace them in stimulating creativity, critical thinking and well-rounded student profiles.

Raymond Ravaglia

When comparing schools across international borders, the […]

19th Anniversary Essay

Inevitable exposure of the mediocracy

Rajiv Desai

Rajiv Desai is president of Comma Consulting and a well-known Delhi-based columnist

Since 2014, leaders who hold the reins of power are singularly bereft of expertise. They don’t understand the demands of a country that is poor but has unconcealed ambition to become a great power

Mediocracy is a legitimate word. It […]

Bhutan: New happiness curriculum

Special correspondent (Thimpu, Bhutan)

GMC blueprint: India-friendly global financial hub

For introducing the metric of Gross National Happiness (GNH) as a counter to individually stressful and environmentally destructive national development metrics such as GNP (gross national product) and GDP (gross domestic product), […]

Delhi: Belated awakening

Autar Nehru (Delhi)

UGC headquarters, Delhi: hands-on learning directive

Somewhat belatedly, the importance of hands-on experiential education has dawned upon educationists and education policy wonks. In April the Delhi-based All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) which supervises all engineering and technology education countrywide, issued Draft Guidelines of its Apprenticeship Embedded Degree/Diploma Programme […]

Education Briefs

TLDA statement
Delhi, October 15. On World Students’ Day, spokespersons of TeamLease Degree Apprenticeship (TLDA), a subsidiary of TeamLease Ltd, India’s largest blue collar employees staffing company, issued a clarion call for “bridging the gap between education and employability”.
“Education’s purpose extends beyond imparting knowledge — it is about shaping individuals with the skills, expertise, […]

25th Anniv call for common cause

Twenty-five years of uninterrupted publication is a major mile-stone for any news and views publication. Therefore, a measure of congratulations to EducationWorld editors and marketing personnel who have laboured beyond call of duty to keep this publication alive is justified.

When EW was launched on the eve of the new millennium with the mission “to build […]

Poor rich billionaire

The passing of Ratan Tata last month aroused bitter-sweet memories of this industry tycoon who I interviewed on several occasions in my previous avatars as editor of Business India and BusinessWorld. In the 1980s the Tata empire ruled by JRD Tata from Bombay House was run by powerful warlords such as Russi Modi (Tata Steel); […]

General MIA

On every metric the three-day EW India School Rankings Awards 2024-25 conclave staged in the 7-star Leela Ambience Hotel, Gurgaon, Delhi NCR, which concluded on October 19, was a resounding success. This conclave was the follow-up of the EducationWorld India School Rankings Survey 2024-25 — the world’s largest and most comprehensive schools ranking survey which […]

Indigestible banquet

Lutyen’s Delhi is a world apart. Its celebrated bureaucrats and policy formulators with the power to shape the destinies of entire generations — and compliant academics — have little awareness of the grassroots infirmities of the Indian economy. The third Kautilya Conclave was organised by the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), a Delhi-based think-tank established […]

Education Notes

Delhi
AI CoEs initiative
New Delhi, October 15. Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced three AI Centres of Excellence (CoEs) focused on healthcare, agriculture and sustainable cities in pursuance of the ministry’s “Make AI in India and Make AI work for India” mission.
The CoE on healthcare will be led by IIT-Delhi and AIIMS, CoE […]

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