To conduct the EWISR 2018-19 survey, field personnel of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 12,214 SEC ‘A’ fees-paying parents, school principals, teachers and senior school students in 27 major cities and education hubs across India – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
During his 82-minute Independence Day speech delivered from the ramparts of Delhi’s Red Fort last month, […]
The lengthiest league table of the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings is invariably of co-ed day schools. The great majority of the educated middle class has accepted co-ed day schools as normative
Invariably the lengthiest league table of the sui generis annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) survey published every September, is of co-ed day schools. […]
A notable feature of India’s best day-cum-boarding schools 2018-19 national league table is that seven DPS schools promoted/franchised by the Delhi Public Schools Society (estb. 1937) are seated at the Top 10 table
2017-18 was a year of churn for the 70-plus institutions listed in the EducationWorld league table of India’s most admired co-ed day-cum-boarding schools […]
With a large number of conservative households still preferring to send girl children to all-girls schools for religious and cultural reasons, the 2018-19 girls day schools league table is lengthier than all-boys day schools
Except at the very top of the 2018-19 national league table of sufficiently well-reputed all-girls day schools where J.B. Petit High School […]
With the great majority of latter day SEC ‘A’ households preferring to send children to co-ed institutions, India’s Best Boys Day Schools 2018-19 league table is dominated by missionary institutions promoted in an earlier era
Dislodging Campion School, Mumbai from its position as India’s #1 boys day school will take some doing. Since 2013, when the […]
With the country’s cities having transformed into toxic, over-crowded gas chambers, the prospect of sending the children off to boarding schools in the hills to breathe clean air while receiving their unique mix of excellent academic, co-curricular and sports education, has become an increasingly attractive option for SEC ‘A’ households. Here are India’s best co-ed […]
Led by a new generation of highly-qualified and professionally accomplished women leaders and champions of gender rights and equality, girls boarding schools are flourishing. Here are India’s best girls boarding schools 2018-19
With the emancipation of women and gradual — perhaps too gradual — rise in the social phenomenon of gender egalitarianism, sexually segregated (aka single […]
The Doon School, establised 83 years ago as a nationalist riposte to starchy anglicised boarding schools which were reluctant to admit native students, has captured the imagination of post-independence India’s elite classes
Although it maintains an obstinately low public profile and continuously flies below radar, The Doon School, Dehradun (TDS, estb.1935) enjoys a rock-solid reputation […]
India’s best international day schools 2018-19 which offer fully-wired campuses, expat headmasters and affiliation with reputed offshore examination boards, have quickly eclipsed the country’s vintage secondaries as the first choice of new upwardly mobile upper middle elites
The dawn of the new millennium heralded an exciting era for Indian K-12 education. During the past two decades, […]
International Day-cum-Boarding Schools have become the preferred choice of SEC ‘A’ households aspiring for international K-12 certification and holistic education experiences for their children. Here are India’s Best International Day-cum-Boarding Schools 2018-19.
Within the broad category of international schools (defined as primary-secondaries affiliated with offshore examination boards), international day-cum-boarding schools are highly fancied because they offer […]
The small minority of high-end international residential schools distinguished by sprawling campuses in salubrious environments, offering international curriculums and superb faclilities have established formidable reputations
With the majority of new generation international schools promoted as day or day-cum-boarding institutions and sited in the state capitals and tier II cities, it’s unsurprising that the league table of […]
Although middle class and SEC ‘A’ households tend to dismiss government schools as poor relations of private schools, in EW we believe that government schools need to be encouraged to upgrade their infrastructure and improve learning outcomes to Top 1,000 private school levels. Here are India’s best government day & boarding schools 2018-19
Government schools are […]
The country’s unique budget private schools are facing an existential crisis and are being forced to close down. However, they offer bottom-of-the-pyramid households an acceptable alternative to the country’s dysfunctional government schools
For India’s lower middle class and bottom-of-the-pyramid households shortchanged by the country’s dysfunctional public education system defined by crumbling infrastructure, multi-grade classrooms, English language […]
To acknowledge and celebrate the efforts of the small minority of special needs schools, C fore field researchers interviewed a special sample of 532 respondents including parents of CWSN and special educators in five cities
Despite the promise of universal access to primary education for all children aged 6-14 years under the Right of Children to […]
The annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) 2018-19 survey of the country’s Top 1,000 primary-secondary schools presents the most comprehensive, in-depth and extensive league tables of any schools evaluation survey worldwide. This is confirmed by Prof. Geeta Kingdon, chair of education economics and international development at the Institute of Education at University College, London and […]
On july 25, three children, all below age ten, were found dead of starvation in a one-room shanty in the heart of Delhi. Autopsies revealed they hadn’t eaten for three days. A few days earlier the media was awash with reports of sexual abuse of orphaned and abandoned children in government shelters in Bihar and […]
The outpour of national sorrow on the demise of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee (1924-2018) on August 16 is reflective of a widespread subliminal awareness within the country that a statesman — rather than a mere politician — an individual who understood the real aspirations and priorities of the people, has passed away. With […]
Your August cover story ‘3 Stepping Stones for School Improvement’ was highly informative, especially the section on teacher preparation and peer learning. I believe all education institutions should enable teachers to upskill through in-house training and annual workshops.
Above all, school managements need to raise the pay packages of teachers to encourage talented graduates to choose […]
Ever since the aam aadmi (Common Man’s) Party (AAP) — a political formation born out of Gandhian social activist Anna Hazare’s abortive anti-corruption crusade of 2012 — swept the Delhi state legislative assembly election of 2015, unexpectedly trouncing the BJP fresh from its triumph in General Election 2014, it has always been in the thick […]
The state government’s online Centralised Admission Process (CAP), introduced a decade ago to streamline admissions into class XI/first year junior colleges (FYJCs) aka Plus Two, ended in chaos and confusion after a Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court stayed the allocation of religious and linguistic minority quota seats to the merit quota. The court […]
The undisputed supremo and leader of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), which ended 34 years of uninterrupted, disastrous communist rule over West Bengal in 2011, chief minister Mamata Banerjee is all set to emerge as a national kingmaker in the aftermath of General Election 2019, now less than a year away.
But even as she is […]
Tamil nadu’s once highly reputed 22 state government universities are steadily losing their sheen because of scams, corruption and serious graft that are constantly being exposed by the media.
The latest scandal rocking the state’s floundering academy is a major scam in answer scripts re-evaluation at the Chennai-based Anna University (AU), the state’s premier engineering and […]
As admissions for 2018-19 close for professional education programmes, the southern state of Karnataka (pop. 67 million), which steered the nationwide private engineering colleges building boom of the 1990s, is confronted with the prospect of huge vacancies in these institutions. When the final round of counselling was completed on August 29, of the 68,404 seats […]
“Intellectualism was never associated with Indian politicians, but never before have there been such blatant attempts to de-intellectualise the country as now.”
Anand Teltumbde in ‘The New Normal in Modi’s New India’ (Economic & Political Weekly, August 4)
“Why do we hesitate to spend on them? Why do we constantly look for ways to reduce the […]
Bangalore, August 14. On the eve of Independence Day (August 15), Vidyashilp Academy, Bangalore, signed up to join the global Fairtrade Schools network. Students of Fairtrade Schools in Germany, Australia and UK welcomed Vidyashilp students into the Fairtrade network. Moreover Sarvaiya Pravinkumar Nagajibhai, a Fairtrade cotton shareholder of Soundarya Farmers Producer Co, Gujarat, from whose […]
Karthik K.S. is CEO of the Bangalore-based AEON Learning Pvt. Ltd
It’s almost a truism that education is now a continuous lifelong learning process. New millennium business and industry professionals have to reconcile themselves to learning throughout their careers rather than accumulate knowledge and master a specific skill during the school and college years. How one […]
Sapiens: a brief history of mankind, Yuval Noah Harari, Harvill Secker; Rs.210, Pages 433
This is a truly extraordinary book — a comprehensive history of the origin and evolution of the human race. Inevitably, it hasn’t received the media and public attention it should have in this country where reading and knowledge are of peripheral interest. […]
Nitin Agarwal is India CEO of the Equitativa Group, an independent REITs manager with $2 billion (Rs.14,000 crore) of assets under management. It manages Emirates REIT listed on NASDAQ Dubai.
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are a new phenomenon in India. What are their distinguishing characteristics and Equitativa’s proposed Education REIT?
A Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) […]
With the multiplication of channels on the idiot box, and every Tom, Dick, Jane and Jenny reading news bulletins from teleprompters describing herself as a journalist, our tribe is fast losing social respect.
Moreover, the fact that the country’s largest and most prosperous media house whose flagship English language multi-city newspaper editions are awash with full […]
Kochi, August 30. Emotional reunions of students and teachers were witnessed across this southern state as a majority of primary-secondary schools reopened on August 29 after a grim fortnight of devastating rain and floods. According to the state’s education minister C. Raveendranath, 650 schools were damaged by severe flooding — the worst of the past […]
Bombay House, the impressively solid five-floor sandstone building of Tata Sons Ltd and the Tata Group (aggregate annual revenue: Rs.710,000 crore) sited in Homi Mody Street in the downtown central business district of Mumbai, reopened for business on July 29, after it was shut down for renovation last winter. However, with a new regime calling […]
The death in London of celebrated writer and Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul on August 11 was not unexpected; he had been ailing for a long while. Although your editor who once knew him well, was estranged from him in the last decade of his life, one can’t help experiencing pain of loss because Naipaul’s acute […]
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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, who passed away recently in London at the age of 85, was one of the most insightful, even if most controversial, writers of our time. A high-caste Brahmin descended from indentured labourers who had migrated from eastern Uttar Pradesh to Trinidad […]