EducationWorld September 13

After completing my BA degree programme next year, I wish to pursue a career in design. I would like to know whether a specialisation in graphic or web design offers better career advan-cement. Please advise.
Ranjit Bhatia, Mumbai
Graphic design is the better choice as it is more versatile. As a graphic designer your work […]

One of the criticisms of the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings is that the rating and ranking league tables are entirely based on perception of respondents – albeit informed — of the survey. Factual data is conspicuous by its absence in these annual surveys, is a common complaint. While this lament is understandable, its self-evidently […]

Under the new assessment and evaluation format, the vintage Kodaikanal International and Woodstock, Mussoorie are back at the top of Indias most respected wholly residential international schools league table
For four years consecutively (2008-11), Woodstock, Mussoorie (estb.1852) and Kodaikanal International School (KIS, estb.1901), established by pioneer American missionaries in the heyday of the British Raj, […]

Unsurprisingly, the low-profile and understated Rishi Valley School (RVS) established by philosopher and alternative education savant Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) in 1931, which has been voted the countrys most admired boarding school of all types for the past three years by the informed respondents who const-itute the national database of the annual EW India School Rankings, […]

In the EW India School Rankings 2013, Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai is ranked the countrys #1 day school, Indus International, Bangalore the premier day-cum-boarding school, and Kodaikanal International the numero uno wholly residential school. Summiya Yasmeen reports
Although international schools affiliated with foreign boards such as the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges, […]

Following subdivision of the boarding schools league table into three categories, The Doon School, Dehradun has regained its position as Indias most respected all-boys boarding school
With the colonial tradition of single sex boarding schools gradually dying out in favour of healthier co-ed institutions, the league table of sufficiently well-known all-boys boarding schools is restricted […]

For the first time in the past three years, Welham Girls, Dehradun ranked #1, has bested the formidable Mayo College Girls, Ajmer

Ranked  #4 in the all-inclusive Top 45 league table of boarding schools and below Mayo Girls last year, Welham Girls School, Dehradun (estb. 1957) is ranked Indias #1 all-girls boarding school by a comfortable […]

On the basis of feedback received from the public, this year boarding schools have been subdivided in discrete categories — boys, girls, and co-ed — to facilitate fair comparison
One of post-independence indias few great achievements in K-12 education is that despite the leveling-down efforts of professedly socialist governments at the Centre and in the […]

Twenty-seven all-boys schools rated by more than 25 sample respondents in each region have been included in the inaugural national league table of India’s top-ranked Boys Day Schools 2013-14 headed by Campion School, Mumbai

Ranked #14 last year in the composite league table of day schools, Campion School, Mumbai is India’s top-ranked all-boys school […]

Following subdivision of last years composite day schools league table, all-girls day schools have acquired a higher profile and improved rankings — useful information for conservative and newly middle class households
Disaggregation and division of last years 443 day schools composite league table into four separate categories has improved the visibility and rankings of Indias […]

To enable access to students from Indias geographically huge states, 61 well-reputed day schools have also invested in residential facilities for out-of-town students. These schools are rated and ranked separately this year
Disaggregation and subdivision of the unwieldy league table of the countrys most well-known day schools into several rational categories has enabled a number […]

The objective of the annual EW India School Rankings, conducted by C fore, is to proclaim and track the countrys best schools as role models to the entire community of educators, and inspire top-ranked schools themselves to improve from good to great. Dilip Thakore reports

The national interest wont be served by glossing over bad news. […]

– Ashish Rajpal, founder and managing director of iDiscoveri/XSEED

I am no fan of Gujarat chief minister and BJP prime minister aspirant Narendra Modi. But I have to grudgingly admit he knows how to make a point. During one of his increasingly visible addresses, he said good governance needs action, not Acts. He then went […]

Companies do it; ngos do it; societies and charities do it; partnership and proprietory firms do it. But in their budgets presented to the people annually, neither the Central nor state governments disclose the amounts they spend from — taxpayers funds — on paying themselves by way of salaries and a laundry list of perquisites. […]

The Delhi-based National University of Educational Planning & Administration (NUEPA) is set to launch leadership programmes for aspiring, prospective, practicing heads/principals, systemic administ-rators holding different hierarchical positions in the management of gover-nment schools, government-supported institutions, grant-in-aid schools from primary to higher education stages across the country, through its newly-promoted National Centre for School Leadership (NCSL) […]

The unfurling of the tricolour on the ramparts of the Red Fort, Delhi, the impeccable discipline exhibited by leaders and jawans of the defence services, and the enthusiastic display of order and neatness by school children, cannot but arouse intense sentiments of liberty, equality and fraternity in even the most cynical citizens and analysts of […]

In pursuit of excellence and continuous improvement which we preach to all education institutions in the national interest, the eagerly anticipated annual EducationWorld India School Rankings are also being continuously improved and upgraded to reflect the innovations and effort  that managements, principals and teachers of the countrys best  primary-secondary schools are investing in institutional development […]

I read your cover story ‘Why English-medium school admis-sions are a nightmare (EW August) with great interest. Youve pointed out the plain truth that right across the country, the demand is for English-medium schools, while the supply is of vernacular medium schools which state governments insist on shoving down the throats of an unw-illing public. […]

With none of Indias 700 universities ranked among the global Top 200 league tables published annually by QS, Times Higher Education and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, pressure for abolition of the affiliation system under which Indian universities affiliate 200-800 colleges is intensifying. Under the system, universities provide supervisory and nurturance services to affiliated colleges, conduct […]

With society in the south-eastern state of Andhra Pradesh (Andhra and Rayal-aseema areas) in turmoil, since the July 30 resolution of the Congress party conceding the establishment of a separate Telangana state to be carved out of Andhra Pradesh, education institutions and students have become the worst casualty.Right across the 2,75,000 sq. km state (pop. […]

“The push for universal health and education more often than not, comes when the country is poor, not when it is rich. That builds the middle class.”
Dipankar Gupta, eminent sociologist on his new book Revolution from Above (Governance Now, August 1)

“All in all, more than one quarter of Australians were born abroad — the […]

Assam
Gauhati University upgrade call

While welcoming Gauhati Universitys newly-appointed vice chancellor, Dr. Mridul Hazarika on August 23, chief minister Tarun Gogoi under-scored the need to upgrade the status of the university through foreign collaboration. Although infrastructure is important, it cannot upgrade the status of the university. There is a need to tie up with foreign […]

The XSEED School of Tomorrow conference organised by the Gurgaon-based iDiscoveri Education Pvt. Ltd convened in Bangalore on August 3, attracted more than 500 school-owners, principals and key administrators. Moreover live webcast of proceedings to 1,000 schools reached one million students, parents and educators, according to a company spokesperson.The theme of the conference was ‘Solving […]

Indias largest opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems uncertain about whether it wants to take the nation forward to a progressive future or backwards into the feudal past which it views as a golden age. Within the BJP itself, on the one hand, there is Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat and recently […]

Inevitably, the vast majority of Indias 1.40 million including 80,000 private recognised schools (200,000 according to the Union HRD ministry which enumerates primary, upper primary, secondary and higher secondary sections within a composite school as four institutions) are day schools, with an aggregate enrollment of over 200 million children. The countrys British-inspired traditional or legacy […]

Unsurprisingly, disaggregation and subdivision of the composite day schools league table has not affected Vasant Valley School, Delhi, ranked #1 in 2012, and voted the countrys premier co-ed day school this yearRanked #1 in the composite all-India league table of day schools for the first time last year, the Vasant […]

Schools are complex social organisations, an intricate web of interdependent parts. They were invented to maximise student learning and develop compassionate, wise, knowledgeable and confident citizens. Everything about a school needs to focus on students learning with dignity and development of each individual at its heart.While schools have much in common, every school is a […]

With traditional Indo-Russian business and trade ties becoming stronger, acquiring professional certification in the Russian lang-uage can open doors to well-remunerated globetrotting careers With sophisticated information technology having created a global marketplace by facili-tating real-time communication across continents, studying a second foreign language (apart from English) as a primary or supplementary job skill could open […]