Four young aspiring scientists — Rochan Avlur (13), Ritwik Jaisimha (12), Nayonika Nair (10) and Sidharth Santhosh (13), students of the Bangalore-based Delhi Public School (East) and Deen’s Academy — who call themselves SAP MoonWalkers 4.0, were finalists at the First Lego League (FLL) Open European Championships held in Mannheim, Germany from June 6-9. […]
Conducted by the premier market research and polling company C fore, Delhi, the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2012 ranks over 400 of the country’s most well-known primary-secondaries on the basis of perceptual ratings awarded by a carefully constituted sample respondents base of 3,070 parents, principals, teachers and educationists across 14 parameters of excellence. Dilip Thakore reports
While […]
Two years after the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 — s. 12 (1) (c) of which mandates 25 percent reservation in all private aided and unaided schools in class I for children of disadvantaged groups — became law in April 2010, Parliament amended the Act to include India’s 40 million children […]
Founded in 1817, University of Michigan, USA is ranked among the top 20 universities worldwide in the Times Higher Education and QS World University Rankings 2011-12
Sited on a 3,177 acre campus in Ann Arbor, University of Michigan (UM) is a public university highly ranked and rated for academic and research excellence. Founded […]
Given the vast diversity of language, culture and ethnicity within each region, the regional tables of yesteryear have been replaced by state and city tables
On the basis of feedback received from field researchers of the Delhi-based market research and intelligence agency Centre for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb. 2000) which has been […]
The status quo has been maintained at the top table with Rishi Valley School, Chittoor and Doon School, Dehradun ranked the country’s top legacy boarding schools this year as well
The great churn witnessed in the Top 10 rankings of India’s most admired day schools is not replicated in the league table of the country’s most […]
This year the newly promoted (2003) Indus International, Bangalore and Dhirubhai Ambani International, Mumbai have ended the four-year duopoly of the vintage Woodstock, Mussoorie and Kodaikanal International. Summiya Yasmeen reports
In sharp contrast with the largely undisturbed Top 10 pecking order of British-inspired legacy boarding schools, in the league table of India’s most admired new genre […]
The highlight of this year’s day schools rankings is the rise to the very top of the Vasant Valley School, Delhi followed by The Valley School, Bangalore. Both these schools reveal striking similarities of institutional values and philosophy
At the summit of the league table of India’s 342-day schools sufficiently well-known to be rated by […]
Despite being proven beyond all reasonable doubt that India’s 18-million strong neta-babu (politician-bureaucrat) kleptocracy is engaged in open, continuous and uninterrupted loot of the public exchequer and actual and potential revenue of governments at the Centre and in the states, there’s a curious reluctance among media pundits and the nation’s intelligentsia to encourage the entry […]
I read both your letter from the editor and cover story ‘Private schools on the warpath’ (EW August) with great delight. You have systematically demolished and laid bare the flimsy premises upon which the Central and state governments have proposed to load India’s beleaguered private schools with what in essence, is their responsibility. Truly, the road […]
Pursuing higher education in India and abroad is set to become easier. The newly re-appointed Union finance minister P. Chidambaram announced that the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA, estb. 1946), of which 173 banks — including 26 public, 23 private sector, 38 foreign banks with offices in India and 61 co-operative banks as also 25 financial […]
The dismal condition of 1,167 primary and secondary schools with an aggregate enrolment of 650,000 children, run by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in India’s commercial capital (pop. 20.5 million), is now officially admitted. On July 26, by a resolution of the corporation, private educators including corporates, education trusts and NGOs were invited to take […]
Although the southern seaboard state of Tamil Nadu (pop. 72 million) prides itself for its high academic standards and quality of schools, its school safety record is the mirror opposite of its academic attainments. Almost a decade ago on July 16, 2004, the state’s appalling child safety record hit national headlines when 93 primary school […]
After 34 years of uninterrupted rule of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-led Left Front government during which era the education system of West Bengal (pop. 90 million) — once widely accepted as the best in India — was run into the ground by CPM apparatchiks and cadres, academics and parents expected major reforms after […]
Against the backdrop of the Right to Free & Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (aka RTE Act) which makes it compulsory for the State, i.e the Central and/or state governments to provide free and compulsory education to all children between the ages of six-14, the primary-higher secondary (class I-XII) education system in the southern state of […]
Uttar Pradesh
Kanya Vidya Dhan scheme for girl children
Under the state government’s Kanya Vidya Dhan programme announced on August 22, girl students who clear the intermediate (Plus Two) or equivalent examination from 2012 onwards, will be awarded a lumpsum Rs.30,000.
According to a government order, every girl student who qualifies for this scheme subject to the proviso […]
Novozymes — a constituent company of the Denmark-based Novo Group, a major transnational engaged in production of enzymes, micro-organisms and biopharmaceuticals — and the Holck-Larsen Foundation (India), have joined with Danish universities to establish a scientists exchange programme, the first of its type, between India and Denmark.
“With many excellent universities, India has a large population […]
Siliguri (pop.1.9 million) is a nondescript city and commodities trading centre (tea, timber) in the Darjeeling district of North Bengal, sited on the banks of river Mahananda in the Himalayan foothills. Known as the gateway to the popular hill station of Darjeeling and the seven sister states of north-east India, it’s certainly not renowned for […]
Contrary to popular opinion, the killer instinct isn’t a prerequisite of sporting success. In fact, it’s an unhealthy attribute to develop. It’s much healthier and personally and socially more beneficial to regard opponents as partners who, because of their competitive effort, afford you the opportunity to raise the level of your performance. You depend on […]
Our country has never been in such a flux and turmoil as it is today, with Indian society at the crossroads. The public is unsure about which path to take, and the nation is facing an identity crisis because of deteriorating values.
The easy solution is to blame government, as most people do. But there’s considerable […]
Today there are numerous career options within contemporary theatre — whether you want to act, direct, start your own acting school, teach in drama institutes or even as preparatory to entry into television and/or cinema
Cynics who predicted that theatre’s time had passed, have been proved wrong. Following the advent of cinema and popular acceptance of […]
I’m in Plus Two (science) and keen on specialising in psephology at the undergrad or postgrad levels. Please advise.
Seema Shah, Ahmedabad
Psephology is study of the science of public elections and statistical analyses of voting trends. Loosely, it enables prediction of electoral outcomes and is a sub-discipline of political science.
Several universities offer postgrad specialisation and/or research […]
A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time by Arjun Singh; Hay House; Price: Rs.599; 379 pp
A welcome and historically valuable development in Indian publishing is the practice of industry leaders teaming up with professional journalists and writers to pen their memoirs, giving a diversity of perspectives on the history of our times. Although inevitably […]
Shayama Chona, Founder-president of Tamana Society & former principal of DPS, RK Puram (1992-2009)
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
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How best to upgrade government schools?
Central government schools — KVs and JNVs are doing well. But standards vary from state to state. If official […]
On one issue the usually brain dead scriptwriters and directors of Bollywood and its regional avatars are bang on target: women are the worst enemies of women. In reel life, the greatest persecutors of heroines and indeed any woman endowed with half-good looks, are the scheming mother or sister in-law, and often the neighbourhood killjoy […]
Trivandrum International School In a state which has earned a global reputation for development through education, Trivandrum International School (TIS) has been promoted ... 
Andhra Pradesh: Govt cancels annual exams, classes 6 to 9 students promoted The Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday decided to cancel the annual examinations for classes 6 to 9 and promote all ... 
Top French institutes in India By Ceo- Kounal Gupta, Henry Harvin language academy Comment vous appelez-vous? You must be wondering what does this mean. Well ... 
The importance of subject matter knowledge Raymond Ravaglia is founder of the Stanford University Online High School and former associate dean and director of Stanford Pre-Collegiate ... 
Vocational education imperative
Dr Lalit Kanodia is the IIT-Bombay and MIT, USA-educated founder-chairman of the Datamatics Group
As India’s economy develops, there will be mass migration from rural to urban India and by 2050, a mere 10 percent of the population will be rural. This implies that nearly 40 percent of our existing population, i.e. about 500 million citizens […]