“Conviction rates tell the tale. Whereas in most rich countries 89 percent or more of those charged with crimes are found guilty, in India the rate is between 40 and 50 percent — and for cases involving politicians just 6 percent.”
The Economist on India’s failing law and justice system (August 24)
“The larger issue remains a […]
Since 2013, within the shrinking minority of all-boys day schools, Campion School, Mumbai has enjoyed an undisputed leadership position. This year too, the EWISR 2019-20 sample respondents have voted Campion #1.
Within India’s shrinking minority of all-boys day schools, the CISCE-affiliated Campion School, Mumbai (estb.1943) enjoys an undisputed leadership position. Since 2013, when the composite […]
With conservative households still preferring to send girl children to gender segregated schools, the EW 2019-20 league table of India’s best girls day schools comprises 93 institutions (cf. 53 boys day schools).
Although the overwhelming majority of greenfield schools promoted during the past three decades are co-education day schools, all-girls day schools have retained their popularity […]
Since 1999 when the first issue of EducationWorld was launched with minimal fanfare but maximum determination to “build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda,” this objective has not yet been attained. However, there’s no doubt that awareness of the critical importance of QEFA […]
Within the small minority of glamorous wholly residential international schools, the vintage Woodstock, Mussoorie, Good Shepherd International, Ooty and Kodaikanal International School continue to dominate the EWISR league table.
Within the small minority of glamorous international wholly residential schools, the Woodstock School, Mussoorie enjoys exalted status. Constructed in 1854 by American missionaries on a scenic 250-acre […]
Affiliated with offshore examination boards such as Cambridge International (UK) and IB (Geneva), India’s best international day-cum-boarding schools 2019-20 offer the benefits of high-end day and boarding school education have attracted the attention of the upper-middle class.
Though within the broad category of international schools affiliated with foreign examination boards such as Cambridge International, Edxcel […]
It’s an indicator of the mindset change in favour of new genre, culturally rooted co-ed boarding schools that upper middle SEC ‘A’ sample respondents have voted vegetarian fare guruji institutions the Top 3 countrywide.
Although post-independence India’s K-12 education system — especially the country’s 1.20 million government schools — has been run into the ground, fortunately, […]
Although in Western countries, girls-only schools are becoming increasingly rare, in 21st century India some women’s rights champions argue that girls-only boarding schools enable girls to uninhibitedly develop into confident young women. Here are India’s best girls boarding schools 2019-20
Although around the world and in Western countries in particular, girls-only day and boarding schools are […]
India’s globally famous vintage boys boarding schools such as Doon, Mayo, Bishop Cotton, Shimla, St. Paul’s Darjeeling are popular as ever with the country’s aspirational new middle class.
According to some education savants, single-sex boarding schools are going out of fashion as they’re not quite in keeping with the gender-egalitarian temper of the new millennium. But […]
In the co-ed day-cum-boarding schools 2019-20 EW league table, there is a constant churn with schools from new, better planned cities giving vintage, established schools in metros stiff competition.
When day schools become popular with parents and students in any city, they experience public pressure to transform into day-cum-boarding institutions to enable access to children in far-flung […]
Within the broad category of international schools, the most rapid growth has been of co-ed day schools which provide the benefits of international certification at relatively affordable prices compared to international day-cum-boarding and wholly residential schools.
With the demand for new genre international schools providing readily accepted school-leaving certification which smoothes students’ entry into the world’s […]
In 2015, EducationWorld introduced a separate league table ranking the country’s most admired special needs schools to acknowledge the pioneering work done by the small minority of special needs institutions.
Unesco’s State of the Education Report for India — Children with Disabilities 2019 estimates that 7.8 million children and youth under 19 years of age countrywide […]
India’s unique budget private schools reportedly educate a staggering 60 million children from low-income households. Despite their being unpopular with government, EW has been ranking and celebrating them in the public interest.
With awareness dawning on the vast majority of bottom-of-pyramid households that quality education (especially learning English) is the passport to upward socio-economic mobility, budget […]
To encourage and motivate managements and teachers of government schools to raise teaching-learning standards, EW has ranked the country’s Top 10 best government day & boarding schools inter 2019-20 se in separate league tables.
It’s common knowledge that despite most of India’s 1.30 million schools promoted/managed by the Central, state and local governments providing free-of-charge primary […]
With the Constitution guaranteeing gender egalitarianism under the law, co-ed day schools have become normative in urban and even rural India. Therefore the 600-plus co-ed day schools league table is the longest and most competitive in EWISR 2019-20.
Inevitably the longest league table in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) is of the country’s most […]
To conduct the EW India School Rankings 2019-20 survey, 122 field personnel of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 12,213 fees-paying parents, school principals, teachers and senior school students in 28 major cities and education hubs across India. This is the world’s most detailed schools rankings survey – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Initiated in […]
New Delhi, August 2. Nearly 450 Indian students and faculty have been awarded Erasmus+ scholarship and mobility grants funded by the European Union to study in top-ranked universities across Europe this year. With grants also offered by EU member states, more than 50,000 Indian students are pursuing higher education in Europe.
Of the 450 Erasmus+ Indian […]
Heavy rains and flooding following a devastating drought in 17 districts of the south-western sea-board state of Karnataka (pop.64 million) in early August have taken a toll of 86 lives and inflicted property damage estimated at Rs.40,000 crore. The districts hit hardest include Belagavi, Chikkodi, Bagalkot, Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Gadag. Although relief and rehabilitation plans […]
After the BJP stormed the bastions of the ruling Mamata Banerjee led-Trinamool Congress (TMC) in General Election 2019 — winning 18 of the state’s 42 Lok Sabha seats, only four less than TMC’s 22 — the electoral prospects of TMC, which ended 34 years of uninterrupted rule over West Bengal (pop. 91 million) by the […]
The finger prints of the country’s neta-babu brotherhood are all over the tragic death by suicide of Coffee Day tycoon V.G. Siddharatha on July 29. In a suicide note, Siddharatha wrote that all his efforts to pay off an insistent venture capital firm by liquidating his assets had been thwarted by officials of the country’s […]
Perhaps contemporary India’s most over-hyped institution is its loudly proclaimed independent judiciary. Despite the plain truth that it is the world’s most archaic and slowest judicial system, there’s no shortage of delusional nationalists ready to sing its praises. Yet the plain facts are that currently there are 33 million cases pending in the country’s too-few […]
It’s a time of reckoning for the leadership of the Congress party. The seeds of corruption which blossomed into the toxic undergrowth that now threatens to strangle this 134-year-old political party, were sown soon after independence under the leadership of the country’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru — the over-indulged son of a wealthy Allahabad […]
There are histories of India, and then occasionally we have histories of south India.
K.A. Nilakanta Sastri’s pioneering A History of South India (1955), which soon established itself as a classic, demonstrated the possibility of studying south India as a distinct historical unit encompassing the Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam linguistic regions. Even though his narrative […]
Author of The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey that won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2015 and The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2017) — a collection of short stories banned by the Jharkhand government which also dismissed him from the state medical service in 2017 — Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s latest oeuvre is My Father’s […]
– Prof. Ranjan Bose is director of the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
The draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019 prepared by a nine-member committee chaired by eminent space scientist, Dr. K. Kasturirangan, which is under consideration of the Union human resource development ministry, accords high importance to multidisciplinary education in undergraduate colleges. In fact, […]
Rising disenchantment with engineering qualifications has prompted a surge in demand for admission into arts, science and commerce study programmes in Tamil Nadu’s 634 arts, science and commerce colleges affiliated with nine universities across the state.
This year’s admission season (May-July) witnessed a huge rush of applicants for undergraduate commerce, computer science, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry […]
The sustained effort of EducationWorld (estb.1999) to “build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda” seems to be bearing fruit. Although education and human capital development was given step-motherly treatment in the first term of the BJP/NDA government at the Centre (2014-19), in its second term the […]
Introduced in the constitution of India (1950) as affirmative action by the State in favour of specific historically oppressed castes and tribes persecuted and ostracised for several millennia under the Hindu varna caste system, reservation of seats in higher education institutions and government employment is being demanded — and conceded — by populist politicians to […]
Thanks for your cover story ‘Unsung contribution of India’s private chain schools’ (EW August).
The country’s top K-12 education chains need to be commended for providing standardised, acceptable quality education at affordable prices to India’s growing middle class, especially in small-town India.
However, on the downside they have massified school education and popularised one-size-fits-all curriculums and pedagogies. […]
Although the bjp/nda 2.0 government’s swift and decisive August 5 initiative of abrogating Articles 370 and 35 (a) of the Constitution which had accorded the Muslim-majority state of Jammu & Kashmir special status among the 29 states of the Indian Union, and simultaneous bifurcation of J&K and its Ladakh district into separate Union territories, is […]
Even as an ever-rising number of women are entering public life and spaces once the exclusive preserves of men, in the hinterlands of our under-policed and under-governed republic, their physical safety and socio-economic advancement is under increasing threat. Surprisingly, there is almost total public apathy and shame deficit that a Thomson Reuters Foundation June […]
Introduced in 2007, i.e, eight years after EducationWorld was launched on the eve of the new millennium, the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) which rank the country’s Top 1,000 primary-secondary schools divided into three main (day, boarding and international) and ten sub-categories (co-ed day, day-cum-boarding, all-boys and girls, wholly residential etc) to avoid apples […]
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Draft NEP 2019: Command & control prescription
The draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019 released by the Union HRD ministry on May 30, strikes so many different notes in the same breath that one doesn’t quite know which ones might eventually form the tune. Many of the notes are jarring while some are sweet and familiar. Of the latter, some are very […]