Taurian World School, Ranchi

Since it admitted its first batch of 56 class I-VI students in 2008, the CBSE-affiliated Taurian World School, Ranchi has set new benchmarks in school education for the educationally backward state of Jharkhand Twice top-ranked the most admired residential school in the newly constituted (2000) state of Jharkhand (pop. 32 million), and ranked among the Top 30 nationwide in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings, Taurian World School, Ranchi (TWS, estb. 2008), has won encomiums in record time. Promoted and built by Amith Bajla, an international business law postgraduate of the London School of Economics, on a 60-acre campus featuring lush natural valleys with a built-up area of 17,000 sq. ft, since it admitted its first batch of 56 class I-VII students, TWS has set new benchmarks in school education for the educationally backward state of Jharkhand. Currently this CBSE-affiliated school which prides itself on contemporary K-12 education blended with latest technology and international pedagogy in Ranchi (pop. 2.92 million), hosts 252 boy and girl students including 192 boarders. “The inspiration for the school came from the West, where the emphasis is on holistic education and learning through comprehension, rather than exams-focused rote learning,’’ says Bajla, the promoter-chairman of Taurian World School, Ranchi which was constructed with a project outlay of Rs.45 crore. “But although TWS has been modelled on the best international schools in India and abroad, we have taken care to blend our ancient gurukul tradition with best western pedagogies and practices,’’ he adds.   To this end, TWS accords great emphasis to developing students’ life skills including soft and communication skills, spoken English, body language and personality projection, for teaching its Helen O’Grady International curriculum designed by an eponymous UK-based company. Moreover, the school has also signed up with Harrison Assessment USA, a company which provides career aptitude testing, counselling and progress services to secondary and higher secondary students. “With a complement of 69 teachers — many of them with international teaching experience — we offer an excellent 1:7 teacher-pupil ratio. TWS is fully equipped to nurture well educated and rounded students thoroughly prepared for higher education, and endowed with a humanistic perspective. We have a strong co-curricular education programme which includes community service and village and farm development with some students also helping out in old-age homes, orphanages, hospitals and other non-political social causes,” says D.R. Singh, an alumnus of Agra University and IIM-Ahmedabad with international teaching experience in Tanzania and Botswana, and former principal of JVM Shyamali, a CBSE-affiliated English-medium school in Ranchi. He was invited to take charge as principal of TWS early this year. Primarily a boarding school, TWS offers modern hostels and dining halls, and a wide range of sports and games options to students. These include dedicated grounds for field games — cricket, football, hockey — and basketball, lawn tennis and badminton courts, besides horse riding. Indoor games facilities include table tennis, pool, chess, squash, badminton as also board and mind games. TWS’ library, widely acknowledged as the best school bibliotheque…