Over the past four months 140 C fore field personnel interviewed 10,301 parents, principals, teachers and senior school students in 28 cities countrywide, and persuaded them to rate schools in their region on a ten-point scale across 14 parameters of education excellence – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Way back in 2007, EducationWorld, launched on the […]
In this category in which competition to excel is most intense and rankings tend to fluctuate from year to year, The Valley School, Bangalore, ranked #6 last year, in India’s Best Day Schools 2016-17
With single gender schools gradually fading away, its inevitable that the league table of co-ed day schools is the largest in the […]
This year the seating arrangement at the Top 10 table is radically different. Ranked a modest #5 in 2015, JB Petit High for Girls, Mumbai (estb. 1860) has been voted #1 followed by La Martiniere for Girls, Kolkata (estb. 1836).
Although the great majority of greenfield schools being promoted these days are co-educational, all-girls schools are […]
Best Co-ed Day-cum-Boarding Schools 2016-17, i.e day schools that also host a substantial number of boys and girls as boarders, constitute a special category in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings.
The league table of India’s best co-ed day-cum-boarding schools has experienced a churn this year. After two years at the top, the reign of Daly […]
For the fourth consecutive year, the sample respondents polled by C fore in western India have voted Campion School, Mumbai India’s #1 boys day school followed by St. Xavier’s Collegiate, Kolkata and St. Johns High, Chandigarh
Dislodging the Campion School, Mumbai (estb.1943) from its premier position in the EW national boys day schools league table is […]
In the category of relatively progressive co-ed boarding schools, the reign of the Rishi Valley School, Chittoor, established by philosopher-savant J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986), shows no sign of ending. Here are India’s Best Co-ed Boarding Schools 2016-17
Its undoubtedly a sign of social progress that the number of co-ed boarding schools sufficiently well-known to be rated and […]
Under the capable leadership of its principal Jyotsna Brar, who retired recently, Welham Girls, Dehradun, top-rated on nine of the 14 parameters of education excellence this year, has retained the #1 slot since 2013. Here are India’s Best Girls Boarding Schools 2016-17.
For the fourth year in succession, Welham Girls, Dehradun has been voted India’s #1 […]
Although single gender schools are going out of fashion, they have changed with the times and continue to remain popular with conservative middle class households determined to provide their progeny a good start in life. Here are India’s Top Boys Boarding Schools 2016-17.
Dominated by Dehradun-based The Doon School (TDS, estb. 1935), the league table of […]
Since 2013, when international schools were sub-divided into three categories, the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai has dominated the international day schools league table.
International schools affiliated with foreign boards such as the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges, USA and Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), UK (e.g Woodstock, Mussoorie (estb.1852); Kodaikanal International (1901) and […]
Within this increasingly popular category, Indus International School, Bangalore (estb. 2003) has been voted #1 for the fifth year in succession by a wide margin
Under the umbrella category of international schools (defined as primary-secondaries affiliated with reputable offshore examination boards), international day-cum-boarding schools – half-way houses between day and fully residential primary-secondaries – seem to […]
Good Shepherd International, which sprawls across 180 acres in scenic Ooty, has broken the triopoly of vintage American international schools and has been declared #1 in this glamour category, albeit jointly with Woodstock, Mussoorie
In the glamorous wholly residential section of the international schools category, the vintage Woodstock School, Mussoorie (estb.1852), Kodaikanal International School (KIS, estb.1931) […]
The country’s well-funded 1,117 Central government-promoted Kendriya Vidyalayas and 596 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools dominate the EW league tables of government day and boarding schools
Neglected and ruined by years of political indifference and/or interference, India’s 1.2 million government schools, defined by lack of functional toilets, multi-grade teaching, teacher absenteeism, poor learning outcomes and grossly inadequate […]
Over the past two decades, budget private schools have multiplied as bottom-of-pyramid households have cottoned on that real education (including English language learning) is the passport to upward mobility
India’s estimated 300,000 budget private schools (BPS) are a unique phenomenon, evidence of the fierce determination of households even at the base of India’s iniquitous social hierarchy […]
The objective of the EW league table ranking the countrys most respected special needs schools is to enable parents to make informed choices, as also to acknowledge the country’s pioneer institutions in this important category
Although your editors introduced the parameter of special needs education in the annual EW India School Rankings to encourage mainstream schools […]
In India, authors of biographies of men/women great and small tend to fall in love with their subjects and end up writing hagiographies. Glenn Khargonkor’s biography of Dr. Ramdas Pai, chancellor of Manipal University and progenitor of the globe-girdling Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG), which under his quiet stewardship has metamorphosed into India’s #1 […]
Delhi on August 18. Alibaba Group will solicit donations, collect and deliver textbooks to schools and colleges across India. Collected material will be distributed to more than 2,500 educational institutions. A book donation ceremony is scheduled for beneficiary schools in Mumbai in end September.
In addition to mobilising and coordinating with all partners for the Mission […]
One of the unexpected benefits of the information technology, internet and social media revolutions sweeping the world is the huge outflow of data from a wide array of sources. From this phenomenon an entirely new industry has emerged: Big Data and Analytics. Essentially, this sunrise industry enables corporates and other organisations — including education institutions […]
To collate and compile data which has been processed, classified and presented by way of 100 plus league tables rating and ranking the Top 1,000 from among India’s 1.4 million primary/secondary schools scattered countrywide, work began over four months ago. 140 field personnel of the Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company Centre for Forecasting […]
N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder-chairman emeritus of Infosys Technologies, penned a gracious tribute (Economic Times, August 17) to Azim Premji who recently completed 50 years as chairman of the IT behemoth Wipro Ltd (revenue: Rs.51,590 crore in 2015-16). In an op-ed page essay, Murthy lauded Premji, his business rival for decades, for his firm middle class […]
The 119-strong contingent of the second most populous (1.2 billion) country brought back only two also-ran medals from the Rio Olympics — substantially less than the six won in the XXX Olympics staged in London four years ago. Against this dismal performance, it’s revealing that the People’s Republic of China, which has a comparable size […]
The demolition of over 100 homes — often with less than 12 hours notice — in Bangalore (aka Bengaluru) by pickaxe wielding gangmen of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) aka the Bangalore Municipal Corporation through the month of August, is a national scandal and symptomatic of the pernicious corruption which has permeated all institutions […]
Your cover story ‘26 NGOs enabling Indian education’ (EW August) was a revelation. All the NGOs profiled deserve encomiums for bringing quality education and health services to underprivileged children and youth abandoned by government institutions. Even more commendable is that these NGOs are led by highly-educated and qualified individuals, who have given up successful professional […]
India’s poor performance at the 35th Olympics games which concluded in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) last month — just two also-ran medals — despite the country sending its largest Olympics contingent ever (119 athletes) has again highlighted the dismal state of sports education and performance in the country — inadequate training facilities, stranglehold of politicians […]
Following its stunning triumph in the Delhi state election of February 2015 when it won an astonishing 67 of the 70 seats in the legislative assembly, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has its sights on the Punjab and Goa elections scheduled for early 2017. Unusually in the Indian political context, AAP is projecting its education […]
As indicated by her sweeping triumph in the state legislative assembly election of May, chief minister and leader of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), Mamata Banerjee has unquestionably emerged as a mass leader of the state. Her welfare measures for the poor, including the khadyasathi (rice at Rs.2 per kg), sabujsathi (free bicycles for school-going […]
Following a rash of scandals relating to admission into the country’s 176 government and 205 private medical colleges and universities, in 2012 the Central government replaced the system of state governments and consortia of private colleges conducting admission tests with a National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET). Inevitably the constitutional validity of NEET was contested by state governments […]
A politically loaded decision of the outgoing Anandiben Patel (BJP) government in Gujarat to award a 10 percent admission quota to economically backward classes (EBC) in higher education institutions as well as government jobs, has sowed confusion in the ranks of both admission and job seekers. The government which moved in haste has time to […]
The southern state of Karnataka (pop. 64 million) is staring at a massive teacher shortage crisis in primary-secondary education. According to a survey report of the Union HRD ministry (Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan) titled Teacher Demand and Supply in Secondary Schools, released in May, only 5.3 percent of the state’s 14,937 secondary schools and 7.2 […]
A government resolution issued on august 20 by Maharashtra’s ruling BJP-Shiv Sena government to bring deemed medical and dental universities under the ambit of the state’s online centralised admission process (CAP), was struck down by the Bombay high court on August 30. The court ruled that while admissions into government and private medical colleges are […]
“Country with 1.2 billion people wildly celebrates 2 losing medals. How embarrassing is that?”
Piers Morgan, British journalist, on India’s dismal showing at the Rio Olympics (twitter.com, August 24)
“We cherish every small happiness. But ENG who invented cricket & Yet2win a WC, still continue to play WC. Embarassing?”
Virender Sehwag, Indian cricket star, trolling Piers Morgan […]
Rajasthan
Mid-day meal monitoring scheme
The state government has initiated an SMS-based system through which meals data will be transmitted by schools to a toll free number for daily monitoring by the education ministry. Earlier, mid-day meal data was reported monthly.
Under the new system, management committees of government schools have to send meals data including type of […]
India is poised at a rare moment in its history. Four of every ten Indians today are under the age of 20. This is the world’s largest pool of young people with the potential to transform into an energetic, innovative and entrepreneurial workforce. This demographic revolution is happening in India when much of the population of […]
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