– Kunal Dalal, managing director, JBCN Education Group
What is the importance of extracurricular activities in a child’s formative years, and how can our children thrive best in today’s constantly changing world?? This is a thought-provoking question; today, the focus has shifted beyond academic excellence to a much broader spectrum. The change is necessary given that […]
At Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya (SKV), education is not limited to the classroom or a teacher. There is always a balance maintained between classroom activities and their relevance in real life. We have seen a direct correlation between participation in sports and co-curricular activities and academic excellence among students.
With an enviable teacher-student ratio of 1:10, SKV […]
It is a widely held belief that ‘morning shows the day’. And although we have the power to change the course of the day despite what the morning unfurls, this saying, more often than not, rings true. For Anirudh A, a grade 9 student of Vista International School, Hyderabad – the morning was spot on […]
DPS International School, Gurgaon is committed to creating leaders of tomorrow and the Student Senate is one such platform that enables the school to achieve this goal. Following a rigorous selection process, the worthiest candidates for the student senate were elected and invested with their new roles on September 30, 2022, during the Investiture Ceremony. […]
– Prof. R Prasad, Director (Academic Wing), ICFAI Group
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” Aristotle
The Center for Creative Leadership finds that 70% of learning comes from challenging experiences and assignments, 20% from developmental relationships and 10% from coursework and training. The finding is based […]
– Col B. Shyam Vijaya Simha, SM, Director, Administration, Indus Altum International school, Belagavi
“I want you to capture Kondana Fort”, said Chatrapati Shivaji to Tanaji, fully aware that it was an impossible task to accomplish. “So be it”, said Tanaji. No questions asked. Rest is history. Tanaji’s handpicked 300 Mavle infantry scaled the toughest rock […]
It isn’t easy for parents to watch their children struggle with things that most children learn instinctively. It is harder still being the child who watches everyone around him do things with ease, tasks they themselves take twice as much time to figure out while wondering why they aren’t able to do the same. Every […]
UTTARAKHAND
Demolition order
Dehradun, september 15. School education minister Dhan Singh Rawat ordered demolition of all dilapidated school buildings in the state, a day after the ceiling of a toilet in a government primary school in Champawat district collapsed, killing an eight-year-old student and injuring three others.
Addressing a press conference, the minister said a district-wise survey […]
“Skill is the currency of the century. Economic actors have a more important role than imagined. An educated and skilled workforce attracts investment, enhances productivity and is critical for moving up in the value chain. Academia and industry must collaborate for better outcomes.”
Vikas Singh, economist & columnist on reforming Indian higher education (Businessworld, September 24)
“Education […]
Nishant Saxena (Lucknow)
Academics and media pundits in lucknow, the administrative capital of Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populous (215 million) state — which is an also-ran on all socio-economic development indices, are pleasantly surprised by a spurt of positive activity in the education sector.
With children having enthusiastically returned to classes after the prolonged lockdown of […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
West Bengal’s unprecedented teacher recruitment and related scandals which have blocked the appointment of much-needed teachers in the state’s 92,000 government schools for over a decade, are in the process of being unblocked.
On September 26, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the Calcutta high court issued a slew of orders directing the West Bengal School […]
Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
Ashwath Narayan:
Reeling under attacks from the opposition Congress party which has launched a highly effective ‘Pay CM — 40 percent accepted here’ poster campaign across the state to highlight rampant corruption in the state (last November the Karnataka State Contractors’ Association wrote directly to prime minister Narendra Modi complaining that government […]
Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)
Primary school teachers in Maharashtra’s 65,734 government-run zilla parishad (ZP) rural schools are simmering with anger. The state government’s education ministry has directed all teachers to display A4 size photographs of themselves in their classrooms. Additionally, Prashant Bamb, a member of the legislative assembly (MLA) of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has […]
Autar Nehru (Delhi)
Kejriwal (right) & Sisodia:
India’s political class is arguably the most obtuse of any country worldwide. Whereas politicians world over are well aware that education of children is the highest priority of parents, for post-independence India’s politicians and political parties, education of generation next is a peripheral low priority issue. Party manifestos […]
Commendable evolution
CONGRATULATIONS FOR bringing out the mammoth 344-page EducationWorld India School Rankings issue (EW September). It’s undisputedly the most comprehensive schools rankings survey in the country, and perhaps worldwide. In particular, special thanks for bringing back the sports education parameter and continuing with the critical parameter of mental and emotional well-being services to assess schools […]
Road traffic mismanagement and chaos witnessed 24×7 on the roads of Bengaluru, the administrative capital of the southern state of Karnataka (pop.64 million), is pervading the state’s politics and all sectors of government. A few decades ago, Karnataka had the deserved reputation of being ranked among the country’s most well-governed states offering a business and […]
Heavy rain, flooding and waterlogging of Bengaluru (in 2014 foolish parochial politicians mindlessly surrendered its global brand identity as Bangalore, the IT capital of India) in early September caused substantial damage to business and industry variously estimated at Rs.500-700 crore by way of loss of material, stock-in-trade and production. The tragedy is that such water-logging […]
Since it was somewhat hesitantly and experimentally introduced in 2007, the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) survey, which rates and ranks 3,500- 4,000 of India’s best schools, has evolved into the largest and most detailed schools ranking survey worldwide. However it arouses mixed emotions in diverse publics. Left intellectuals who curiously continue to dominate […]
It gives me great pleasure to learn that EducationWorld has made a distinct category of vintage legacy schools and we are proud that Mayo College is ranked India’s #1 boys boarding school in this new category. During the pandemic we evolved an SOP (standard operating procedure) which helped us to become an anticipatory, responsive and […]
It is a matter of great satisfaction that the contribution of this 156-year-old school to society has been recognised and acknowledged in EducationWorld’s latest 2022-23 survey. For over 150 years Auckland House has educated and nurtured young women, developing their values of head and heart. We take great pride in walking the extra mile to […]
We are delighted to learn that Lawrence, Sanawar is ranked India #1 in the survey’s new category of vintage legacy co-ed boarding schools. This is welldeserved because the Board of Governors and successive headmasters have taken great care to preserve our 175-year-old school’s rich heritage while simultaneously modernising curriculums, pedagogies and infrastructure. During the past […]
We are thrilled that GSIS is ranked India’s #1 international residential school. This is a testament to the vision and sustained hard work of my parents — Dr. P.C. and Elsamma Thomas, who founded the school 45 years ago. My late father’s vision to build an institution that provides not only academics, but a wide […]
We are delighted to be ranked India #1 in EducationWorld’s new category of vintage legacy international schools. These schools stood the test of time and continue to blend heritage and innovation to deliver educational excellence. It is an honour to be recognised as a leader among this illustrious group. We are especially delighted to be […]
Tagore’s first experience of village life and close observation of the glaring poverty of the peasantry planted the seed of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Nabanipa Bhattarcharjee (The Book Review)
A HISTORY OF SRINIKETAN: RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S PIONEERING WORK IN RURAL RECONSTRUCTION
Uma Das Gupta
NIYOGI BOOKS
Rs.450 Pages 234
BORN INTO a wealthy family in Calcutta in […]
A biography of John Lang, writer, lawyer and alcoholic who exposed British epicures who ruled India for almost 200 years, writes Mridula Garg
JOHN LANG: WANDERER OF HINDOOSTAN, SLANDERER IN HINDOOSTANEE, LAWYER FOR THE RANEE
Amit Ranjan
NIYOGI BOOKS
Rs.795; Pages 472
Amit Ranjan’s book John Lang poses a conundrum quite like the persona of the protagonist. […]
To be useful, feedback has to be timely, specific and actionable. Teachers are often buried under day-to-day demands of the profession. But delayed feedback loses its power and utility for students, writes Tara Quigley
OVER THE COURSE OF MY 24-YEAR TEACHING career, I have assessed and provided feedback to students on countless assignments. But only after […]
Prior to enactment of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, EducationWorld started rating and ranking the country’s most respected special needs schools to inform parents and encourage education institutions to pay greater attention to children with disability, writes Paromita Sengupta
Sankalp’s director and co-founder Dr. Sulata Ajit (right)
Arguably the most poignant outcome […]
Consequent upon inclusion of schools promoted by defence services in the Central government day and boarding schools league tables, JNVs, which had hitherto dominated this league table, have had to cede rank, writes Paromita Sengupta and Reshma Ravishanker
SAV-J girl students
Since 2014, when EducationWorld editors took the decision to rank government schools — routinely […]
For state government schools, subject to relentless criticism by educationists, academia and media, a separate league table has been introduced this year to encourage them to upgrade and improve, writes Paromita Sengupta & Reshma Ravishanker
RPVV, Dwarka’s Dr. Atul Kumar (centre left)
The overwhelming majority of the country’s 1.30 million government schools which have earned […]
For EWISR 2022-23, a specially constituted sample respondent database was interviewed by the Delhi-based C fore to rate Central government day schools on 14 parameters of school education excellence, writes Paromita Sengupta & Reshma Ravishanker
Navy Children School, Vizag’s Dr. Parul Kumar
The condition of the overwhelming majority of India’s 1.20 million government schools is […]
In international day-cum-boarding schools, day scholars benefit from the excellent infrastructure and facilities built for boarders and the latter benefit by way of student body diversity. Against 28 schools ranked in this category in 2017, the number has risen to 41 in EWISR 2022-23
IIS-B’s Sarojini Rao & Lt. Gen. Arjun Ray (right)
Within the […]
The league table of international day schools in the annual EWISR is lengthening every year with new institutions springing up in metros, state capitals and even tier III and IV cities across the country. This year’s league table of India’s best international day schools is 123-strong
DAIS’ founder-chairperson Nita Ambani
Arelatively new post-1991 (when the […]
With several hitherto highly ranked boys boarding schools including Mayo College, Ajmer, Scindia School, Gwalior, Bishop Cotton, Shimla and St. Paul’s, Darjeeling among others transferred to the new vintage legacy category, there’s been a major rearrangement of seating in this league table
TDS headmaster Dr. Jagpreet Singh
The history of modern primary-secondary education has been […]
Girls boarding schools are valuable national assets because they provide access to a wide range of co-curricular and sports education and greater personality development opportunities, than to girl children in day schools
Top-ranked SKV principal Nishi Misra
Although gender-segregated schools are fading out of fashion as testified by the explosion of co-ed schools in all […]
Somewhat surprisingly in a reportedly conservative society, even under the boarding schools category the lengthiest league table is of co-ed institutions with numbers listed in the gender-segregated boys and girls schools shrinking year by year
Chinmaya Mission director Shanti Krishnamurthy (centre)
Societal preference of mixed gender co-ed schools is evidenced by the rapidly multiplying co-ed […]
In this issue, we present national, state, and parameter league tables of boarding schools (co-ed, boys and girls), international (co-ed day, day-cum-boarding, residential), vintage legacy, government, special needs, budget private and philanthropy schools, writes Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Since the EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) were somewhat tentatively and experimentally launched in 2007, they have […]
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Curious conundrum of declining women’s labour participation
INDIANS TAKE PRIDE IN COMPARING THEIR economy to the fastest and largest in the world. Last month twitter was full of congratulatory messages as India became the world’s fifth largest economy, pushing the UK, its once colonial overlord, to sixth place.
Yet, when it comes to women’s participation in the labour force (WLFP), India trails the […]