EducationWorld September 2022

Schools spearheaded by Ms Devyani Jaipuria

Delhi Public School, Sector-45, Gurgaon

ABOUT: Delhi Public School, Sector-45, Gurugram is a K-12 coeducational school with a vision to empower students to strive for excellence and become lifelong learners. Under the dynamic leadership of the Founder Principal, Ms. Aditi Misra, the school has blossomed into a premier educational institution, nurturing upright global citizens ready to […]

Vidhyashram International School, Jodhpur celebrates landmark anniversary

Vidhyashram International School, Jodhpur is an academic institution of high repute. Inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Honourable Shri Ashok Gehlot, the school completed 20 glori- ous years of providing quality education to students in April 2022.

The foundation of this school was laid in April 2002 by Shri Vinay Kumar Jain, a philanthropist and […]

Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya: Impressive blend of novelty and heritage

Sited in the heart of Gwalior, SKV’s picturesque 35-acre campus is set amidst immaculately landscaped lawns and seasonal flower beds and is home to diverse species of fauna.

Spread over one lakh sq. ft., the school building houses classrooms equipped with Smart boards, a library hosting 17,000 books and journal subscriptions and seven state-of-the-art science, geography, […]

Be an effective pre-primary teacher with STTAR certificate programme on ECCE

ECCE as envisioned in NEP 2020

A firm foundation of lifelong learning begins with Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE). The formative years from birth to age 6 is the period when 85% of the human brain develops. These early years are the best time to initiate and stimulate cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional and motor development […]

14-year-old Mridhini makes Vista proud

As the school bell heralds the start of morning assembly, students start assembling at the ground. Some of them with bright and shiny faces, all geared up for the day, others still rubbing their eyes, reminiscing the feel of the cosy bed they had to reluctantly get out of to reach school on time. Among […]

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Misrepresented facts

Your cover story (EW August) was well researched and on point regarding issues of the Barefoot College (BC) model of learning without formal degrees and the reasons cited why it may not work in India. These are revolutionary ideas based on a steadfast belief in the human spirit and honesty that have yielded extraordinary […]

Small minded worthies

The ONGOING slanging match between the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) and the BJP/NDA Central government over the status of 2,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled ethnic and religious persecution by the brutal military regime in neighbouring Myanmar (aka Burma) and are living in pitiful makeshift slums of the country’s administrative capital, is indicative of the […]

Wanted: 2 As x 1000

Despite China which was relatively underdeveloped compared to India on October 1, 1949 — when the Communist Party of China (CPC) established the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing, and Chairman Mao Zedong famously declared that “China has stood up”— having overtaken India in the global development race after it took the capitalist road […]

True nation builder

The demise of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala (RJ), the ‘Big Bull’ of the Bombay and National Stock Exchanges, on August 14 is a big setback for the Indian economy. This statement is likely to invite derision and contempt of eggheads in academia and the overwhelming majority of citizens who believe that India’s century-old stock market is little […]

Placing K-12 education back on track

As the world begins to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic which severely disrupted K-12 schooling, the challenges confronting India’s education system need to be urgently addressed, writes Elisabeth Evi

Indian education was severely disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. While many children missed school altogether during the world’s most prolonged schools lockdown — averaging 82 weeks — […]

Guoanbu secret service: Chinese spies: From chairman Mao to Xi Jinping

In-depth research and scholarship have made this book a fascinating account of the role of intelligence services in China during the turbulent past century, writes Parimal Maya Sudhakar

Chinese Spies: From chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
Roger Faligot
Harper Collins
Rs.699
616 pages

The rise of a nation in international politics is measured by its hard and […]

Emperors of Gaia: Invisible empire: The natural history of viruses

In this fascinating book the author unravels the mysterious ways in which viruses orchestrate the cycle of life on Planet Earth, writes Anil Thakore

Invisible empire: The natural history of viruses
Pranay Lal
Penguin Random House
Rs.799
Pages 278

In January 2020, news emerged of a mysterious fever in China. Until it was identified as the […]

EducationWorld India’s best boys day schools 2022-23

With the overwhelming majority of new day schools being mixed gender, the boys-only league table has been shrinking every year. This year with legacy vintage boys schools ranked separately, the number has reduced to 26

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EducationWorld India’s top girls day schools 2022-23

With a large number of conservative households insistent upon gender-segregated education, high-ranked girls schools provide a window of opportunity for a large number of girl children to acquire quality K-12 education

Sacred Heart, Chandigarh’s Sr. Arti along with students

Tragic but true. Even in this 21st century day and age, there are not a few conservative […]

-says Dr. Gunmeet Bindra, the recently appointed principal of Daly College, Indore (estb.1882), ranked India’s #1 vintage day-cum-boarding school.

EducationWorld India’s best vintage legacy day-cum-boarding schools 2022-23

It’s a brilliant idea to rank India’s vintage schools over a century-old which are a valuable legacy of the country, separately. It’s logical that schools with ancient traditions and value systems are compared with each other rather than with new late 20th and early 21st century institutions. Over the past 130 years, Daly College has […]

Emerald Heights International School, Indore (EHIS) with its founder Siddharth Singh

EducationWorld India’s best day-cum-boarding schools 2022-23

Day-cum-boarding schools are highly valued because they offer parents and children the advantages of living at home plus access to superior infrastructure that boarding schools invariably provide. Little wonder their number is rising every year

Emerald Heights International School, Indore (EHIS) with its founder Siddharth Singh

In the pioneer annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) […]

EducationWorld India School Rankings EWISR 2022-23

The scale and depth of EWISR 2022-23 is unprecedented in India and worldwide. Over a period of four months, 122 C fore field researchers conducted interviews in 28 cities across the country. They persuaded 14,221 parents, teachers, principals, educationists and students to rate 4,000 primary-secondaries under 14 parameters of school excellence, writes Dilip Thakore & […]

Outrageous perversion of justice

-Sudheendra Kulkarni

‘Justice delayed is justice denied’ is an aphorism most of us learnt in our school days. “Tarikh pe tarikh” (‘date after date’) is a synonymous but more colloquial axiom familiar to all harassed and frustrated citizens seeking justice in India’s courts, which postpone case hearings habitually and almost interminably.

The judicial system of our country […]

Education Briefs

IIT-M’s new programme

Chennai, August 1. The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) announced that its three-year B.Sc degree course in programming and data science can be converted into a fouryear BS degree in data science and applications. Moreover while reading for the BS degree, students have the option of doing an eight-month apprenticeship or […]

Education Notes

Uttar Pradesh: Defalcation scandal

Agra/Firozabad, August. A school principal and other employees of the basic education department of Firozabad district have been charged with defalcating Rs.11.46 crore, sanctioned for the state’s Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme for children.

The teacher used fake ration and ID cards to register an NGO and transferred Rs.11.46 crore sanctioned for the […]

Karnataka: Another mega corruption charge

Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)

The once well-governed southern state of Karnataka (pop.68 million) is rapidly transforming into ‘broken windows’ society. In 1982, American academics James Q. Wilson and George Kelling ideated their Broken Windows theory. They posited that if civic neglect and official corruption in any society or neighbourhood remains unpunished, an outbreak of serious crimes and […]

West Bengal: Thrown away pearl

Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)

Although there’s no denying that Christian missionaries have made a great contribution to the growth and dissemination of English-medium school and higher education, there’s rising awareness within the country’s influential middle class that priest-educators, i.e, men and women of the cloth also discharging academic roles and duties, are becoming obsolete.Bound by strict laws […]

Maharashtra: Suffer little children

Dipta Joshi (Mumbai)

Eight months after large-scale tampering and malpractices were reported in the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) 2019-2020 written by 3.43 lakh aspirant school teachers, the Maharashtra State Council of Examinations (MSCE) disqualified 7,880 candidates who wrote the exam and banned them from writing any future TETs. In the list of proscribed aspirant primary school […]

Delhi: Intervention imbroglio

Autar Nehru (Delhi)

A 2017 decision of the AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) Delhi state government to conduct online admissions of pre-primary and class I children from economically weaker sections (EWS) admitted free-of-charge into private schools under s.12 (1) (c) of the RTE Act, 2009, has generated conflict between the state government’s Directorate of Education (DoE) and […]

Justice not seen to be done

The alacrity with which the BJP government of Gujarat state accepted a report of the Sentences Review Board (SRB) packed with state government officials including two BJP MLAs (members of legislative assembly), to release 11 convicted criminals serving life sentences for gang-rape of survivor Bilkis Bano, and the daylight murder of her three-yearold daughter and […]

Rhetoric & Action shadow

The prime minister’s 75th Independence Day address to the nation from the ramparts of Delhi’s historic Red Fort on August 15, was a departure from usual speeches delivered on this day to mark the end of almost two centuries of British rule over India. Unlike earlier speeches that boasted the tremendous progress the country has […]

Letter from the Editor

Over the past 15 years since the detailed globally unprecedented EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) survey was introduced, it has generated great enthusiasm within the educationists, institutional promoters, principals, teachers and students communities countrywide. This is because unlike all other schools ranking league tables (except for blatant knockoffs) which evaluate primary-secondary schools on a single […]

Navrachana School, Sama: Fostering leadership and 21st-century skills

– Kashmira Jaiswal, Vice Principal, Navrachana School, Sama

The ethos of Navrachana School, Sama is firmly rooted in the belief that it is extremely important to provide students opportunities for honing their leadership skills and building relationships, engaging in teamwork, defining identities, and achieving tasks effectively. The school provides ample opportunities to students to learn and […]

DPS Agra: School with a difference

-RK Pandey, Principal, Delhi Public School, Gandhi Nagar, Agra

Life is dynamic and ever-changing and the only way ahead once we embark on the journey of life is to embrace the process of evolution and growth. In this journey, the role of education and learning is non-negotiable. Education is not a static but a dynamic […]

Future readiness in education

Dr. Praseedha Sreekumar, Principal, Indus Altum International School, Belagavi

Sea squirts are amazing water creatures. They are free-swimming organisms, exploring the environment around them. After a while, they find rocks and settle down there for their entire lifetime. And what do they do for food? They eat their brain. Interesting! If we are not going to […]

Reinventing the teaching rule-book in an era of transformed education

– Pro Vice Chairperson of DPS, Sec 45, Gurgaon, Jaipur & DPSI, Chairperson of Dharav High School, Jaipur.

Educators worldwide have a ubiquitous view on how new-age teaching has been fundamentally transformed, especially in the last few years. Teachers have had to reimagine teaching methodologies and ways for students to express what they understand while also […]

Career Focus

Bright future for dermatologists

Pressure from the entertainment and glamour industries and the corporate sector is driving the demand for qualified skin care specialists, aka dermatologists

ACCORDING TO INDUSTRY estimates, aggregate annual expenditure on the skin and beauty care industry in India is currently $950 million (Rs.5,770 crore per year) and increasing at a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of […]