Over a period of four months, a sample respondents database of 12,367 educationists, principals, teachers, parents and students in 27 cities countrywide were interviewed by 127 field staff of the Delhi-based C fore, to rate and rank the country’s Top 1,000 primary-secondaries
– Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Yes, folks, it’s that time of the year […]
A recent newspaper report highlighting the intention of the state government of Delhi to take over management of 450 private schools for not refunding amounts charged by them in excess of the tuition fee permitted by the state government, gives rise to several policy questions. What are the pros and cons of private sector participation […]
Over 700 of India’s Top 1,000 schools rated and ranked in EWISR 2017-18 are co-ed day institutions. They are clearly the most preferred choice of middle class households countrywide
Of India’s Top 1,000 schools rated on 14 parameters of education excellence by an unprecedented 12,367 sample respondents comprising parents, educationists, principals, teachers and senior school students […]
While in other day school league tables, there have been minor changes in the Top 10, in India’s best day-cum-boarding schools 2017-18 rankings there has been a big churn
While in most of the ten categories into which schools have been sub-divided in the annual EW India School Rankings to create a level playing field for all […]
Except for the #1 rank which has been retained by the J.B. Petit High School for Girls, Mumbai, the Top 10 league table of India’s most admired girls day schools has undergone a major makeover.
There’s a major shake-up in the EW India Girls Day Schools Rankings 2017-18. Except for the #1 rank which has […]
For the fifth consecutive year, the 12,000-plus sample respondents have voted the CISCE-affiliated Campion School, Mumbai, India’s #1 all-boys day school and also top-ranked it for faculty competence, leadership and parental involvement
Since 2013, when the composite day schools category of the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings was sub-divided into co-ed day, day-cum-boarding, all-boys and girls […]
For upper middle class households who believe in no-nonsense holistic, character building primary-secondary education in which the right balance is struck between academics, co-curricular and sports education in bracing climates, the country’s legacy boarding schools are still the preferred option. Here are India’s Best Co-ed Boarding Schools 2017-18
Despite the criticism of trendy leftists and jholawallas […]
In India which hosts a population of diverse religions and degrees of conservatism, the country’s top-ranked girls boarding schools continue to serve the very useful purpose of providing egalitarian education to girl children. Here are India’s Top Girls Boarding Schools 2017-18
Although in Western countries, all-girls schools are becoming rare, in developing nations of the third […]
Quite clearly the change of incumbent in the headmaster’s office has not affected the rock-solid reputation of The Doon School which is ranked India’s #1 boys boarding school for the third year in succession.
The boys boarding school league table of the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings is as thoroughly dominated by the Dehradun-based The […]
Defined by world-class infrastructure, IT-enabled classrooms, diverse student body, and wide range of co-curricular options, the country’s small minority of international schools have set new benchmarks in K-12 education in India
India’s new genre international schools affiliated with offshore exam boards such as Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), UK, International Baccalaureate (IB), Geneva, Edexcel (UK) and Advanced […]
Since the annual EW India School Rankings were divided into ten separate categories, India’s Top International Day-cum-Boarding Schools 2017-18 league table has been topped by the Indus International School, Bangalore
Sited on sprawling campuses offering state-of-the-art academic facilities, 5-star student accommodation, elaborate sports and co-curricular education facilities, the country’s small minority of hi-end international day-cum-boarding schools […]
Set on expansive campuses usually in the country’s hill stations, wholly residential international schools offer modern pastoral care combined with the best international curriculums and pedagogies
Within the broad category of international schools, wholly residential international schools are the glamour institutions. Set on expansive campuses — usually in the country’s scenic hill stations — they offer […]
Almost inevitably, the generously funded Kendriya Vidyalayas and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas dominate the league tables of India’s best government day and boarding schools 2017-18
The country’s 1,125 Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) and 596 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) are the crown jewels of the Indian government school education system, and stand many heads taller than state government schools. […]
The main allure of budget private schools, which are acceptable alternatives to dysfunctional government schools for low-income households, is that they offer English medium education
For the vast majority of poor households in India unable to afford private schools designed for the middle class and forced to enroll their children in dysfunctional state government schools, the […]
Against the depressing backdrop of a mere 0.89 percent of India’s 1.4 million primary-secondaries providing education to children with special needs, the Delhi-based Tamana School of Hope is ranked India’s #1 special needs school for the third consecutive year
Though an estimated 2 percent of India’s 480 million children aged below 18 years suffer from physical […]
What ever happened to tall, dark and handsome as the standard of male pulchritude? It took test cricketer Abhinav Mukund to take to twitter to remind the public that fair is not always handsome. Under assault of the brain-dead badshahs of Bollywood and dominated by Neanderthals and corporates hawking fairness creams (banned in most Western […]
The tremendous enthusiasm generated within the primary-secondary schools community by the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) and the excitement generated by them to get on to the several scoreboards rating and ranking the country’s Top 1,000 schools in various categories — as also of K-12 institutions to advertise themselves in this landmark issue of […]
There is virtual unanimity cutting across all party lines in the Jammu & Kashmir legislative assembly on the issue of retaining Article 35-A of the Constitution of India which prevents non-Kashmiri citizens of the country from owning land or immoveable property, or obtaining government employment in the state. This is at odds with the fundamental […]
Thanks for your hard-hitting cover story ‘Sub-standard textbooks wrecking K-12 education’ (EW August). It’s shameful that state governments have neglected and corrupted the textbooks production process starting from selection of writers to printing of texts. Unfortunately, the hapless victims of their callousness and neglect of education are the country’s children. I agree with Prof. Seetharamu that […]
Nearly a decade old tussle over refund of ‘excess fees’ (amounting to over Rs.300 crore) collected by 544 private schools in Delhi in the wake of the 5th and 6th Pay Commission awards entered a decisive phase on August 16, with the Delhi (state) government submitting a list of 449 ‘defaulting’ private schools against whom […]
The University of Mumbai (estb. 1857) continues to remain mired in the unprecedented crisis it unwittingly landed itself in, when it hastily replaced its age-old manual examination assessment system with a new online assessment system for all its 477 courses. Technological and procedural disruptions in the new system have delayed declaration of exam results to […]
The Gujarat Government’s quick passing of legislation to regulate private school tuition fees has the entire K-12 education sector in a ferment, and the threat of prolonged litigation is in the air. Over 2,000 schools, through their representative bodies, are set to go to court.
Under the Gujarat Self-financed Schools (Regulation of Fees) Act, 2017, passed […]
The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government, which was voted back into the eastern seaboard state of West Bengal (pop.91 million) for a second consecutive term on May 19 last year, is yet to fulfill its electoral promise of bringing “positive change” in the state’s education sector, ruined by persistent government interference during 34 years […]
The steep fall in the demand for engineering education in Tamil Nadu (pop.72.1 million) is threatening the very existence of several of the state’s 496 private engineering colleges (out of a total of 527) affiliated with Anna University. This academic year (2017-18), more than 50 percent of the 261,692 undergraduate engineering seats (175,500 from the […]
“Platitudinous statements such as the need for increased public expenditure on education and health will not help without emphasising the need for better tax mobilisation for higher expenditure and larger borrowings with allowance for higher levels of fiscal deficit.”
Economic & Political Weekly editorial on The Economic Survey II (August 19)
“Somehow, Partition remains an unfinished process […]
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to design and develop a new advanced online programme on human rights for senior police personnel.
The programme, to be developed jointly by NHRC and IGNOU, will have separate modules on human rights subjects. IGNOU’s […]
The Delhi-based Mahatma Gandhi Institution of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP), one of the seven Unesco ‘category 1’ institutions, held a town hall meeting in Delhi on ‘harnessing Indian youth demographic bulge for a true dividend: vision to action for 21st century,’ on August 31. The meeting was addressed by Irina Bokova, director […]
A recent KPMG report titled ‘Online Education in India: 2021’ has projected that the online industry is about to witness a stupendous eight-multiplier growth to earn $1.96 billion (Rs.12,574 crore) by 2021. This statistic summarises the fairytale growth experienced by online education in India in the new millennium.
India is proving to be fertile ground for […]
Why Gandhi Still Matters, Rajmohan Gandhi, Aleph Book; Rs.499, Pages 200
The political appropriation of Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy has been going on for decades. Now the trend has spread to unlikely quarters. Gandhi peers at us from posters, sharing space with his ideological opponents. Even personal effects like his spectacles, have been used as logos in government propaganda. Commercialisation […]
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