Across the country, the great majority of India’s girl children are growing up in the shadow of their brothers with less parental love and care, unequal education opportunities, and lesser socio-economic freedoms. On the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8), we must practice gender equality from early age and examine the phenomenon of widespread […]
Last year The Magic Years — Delhi’s #1 proprietary preschool for several years — was bested by Step by Step, Panchsheel. But this year it has reclaimed its #1 position in the national capital. Here are Delhi’s most preferred preschools 2016-17
No city, town or community nationwide is more aware of the critical importance of professionally-administered […]
Delhi-based market research agency C fore interviewed 639 parents with children in preschool, 70 principals and teachers in Mumbai who have rated and ranked 56 sufficiently well-known preschools in the proprietary and franchised categories on ten parameters of early childhood education excellence. Here are Mumbai’s best preschools 2017.
India’s commercial and entertainment capital, Mumbai (pop.21 million) […]
Although there is little evidence of the long promised poriborton (change) in the state’s education system, spared the regulatory attention of the neta-babu brotherhood, fully autonomous private pre-primaries are thriving in Kolkata. Here are Kolkata’s top-ranked preschools 2017-18:
In 2011 when the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) routed the CPM (Communist Party of India)-led Left Front government […]
The city’s edupreneurs have always been quick to embrace new pedagogies and education philosophies and promote preschool to higher ed institutions for discerning parents who place a premium on high quality education. Here are Chennai’s top preschools 2016-17
The southern port city of Chennai, currently witnessing an ugly power struggle between rival factions of the ruling […]
For ICT and other industry professionals from all over the country, the blooming English-medium preschools of Bangalore have come as manna from heaven. Here are Bangalore’s most loved preschools 2017-18
Always a stronghold of English language learning despite the efforts of frogs-in-a-well Kannada language chauvinists who have ruined the public education system of Karnataka (pop. 61 […]
With the city’s upwardly mobile new-age industry professionals becoming increasingly aware of the critical importance of ECCE for preparing children for school education, there’s been an upsurge in the promotion of a host of nexgen pre-primaries. Here are Hyderabad’s premier preschools 2017-18.
The early childhood and K-12 education sector is booming in the southern city of […]
Among Pune’s best preschools 2017-18, a total of 24 sufficiently well-known pre-primaries are ranked and rated by 522 parents with preschool children and 61 teachers/principals polled by field personnel of C fore, Delhi
Maharashtra’s second largest city after Mumbai, Pune (pop. 4 million) has over the years emerged as an education hub and hosts several top-ranked […]
Responding to pressing demand from the middle class for professionally delivered English-medium ECCE, a rising number of edupreneurs have stepped forward to promote model pre-primaries in the textiles city. Here are Ahmedabad’s top-ranked preschools 2017-18
In the western seaboard state of Gujarat which is currently witnessing high voltage campaigning by the Congress and BJP for the […]
A hub of the IT and automobiles manufacturing industries, this steel-n-glass satellite city of Delhi has experienced a rapid mushrooming of early childhood care and education centres demanded by its young workforce
Toxic air pollution levels and a typical jugaad-style pell-mell growth with commensurately climbing crime graphs haven’t prevented the rapid growth of Gurgaon (pop.900,000), a […]
To construct the EW Noida Preschool Rankings 2017-18 league tables, an informed respondents sample comprising 534 parents with preschool-going children and 75 preschool principals/teachers were interviewed by field personnel of Delhi-based market research firm C fore
Although officially the bustling new city of Noida (pop. 650,000) is sited in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous (212 million) […]
There’s pervasive fear and panic within the parents’ community that the country’s 1.08 million government and 328,845 private recognised schools (and an estimated 300,000 unrecognised private budget schools) with 250 million children, are rapidly turning into danger zones lacking the most basic child safety and security measures – Summiya Yasmeen
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 […]
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 […]
The great Indian middle class seems unmindful that government regulation of fees of private independent schools — the sole bright spot of a crumbling education system — could be the first step towards levelling them down to the pathetic condition of government schools defined by ramshackle buildings, multi-grade classrooms, unusable toilets, and abysmal learning outcomes […]
Since it was established in 1968, the International Baccalaureate Organisation (now known as International Baccalaureate) has established a global reputation as one of the world’s most respected school-leaving examination boards with 4,632 affiliated schools in 146 countries worldwide – Dilip Thakore
Plans and programmes — including workshops, lectures and celebratory functions to honour and award tutors […]
Within the media and the public, there’s little awareness that the country’s 266 private universities, 2,415 B-schools and 2,776 engineering institutes provide good, bad and indifferent education to 65 percent of the country’s 29 million youth in higher education, here are EducationWorld India Private Higher Education Rankings 2017-18 – Dilip Thakore
A sample database of 4,465 knowledgeable respondents — 2,133 higher education faculty, 1,368 final year students of 164 universities and 964 industry representatives — rated and ranked India’s top 100 private universities 2017-18 on ten parameters of education excellence – Dilip Thakore
Top-ranked for the second consecutive year in the EducationWorld India Private University Rankings (EWIPUR) […]
With almost 80 percent of the 3,470 engineering institutions promoted and managed by private entrepreneurs, it makes good sense to evaluate and rank the India’s best private engineering institutes 2017-18 to enable parents and students to choose the most suitable from among them – Summiya Yasmeen
Although India’s 3,470 engineering colleges certify more graduates than any […]
Apart from the Central government’s generously funded and heavily subsidised IIMs, which offer high-quality business management education to a mere 1.4 percent of the 232,000 students who write CAT annually, there are a few dozen private B-schools which offer quality education to MBA aspirants looking for other options – Summiya Yasmeen writes about India’s top […]
For the seventh annual EW India Preschool Rankings 2016 survey, over 100 field researchers of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 7,898 parents, principals and teachers in 16 cities countrywide to rate and rank owned/proprietary and franchised pre-primaries separately -Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Readers of this sui generis publication are familiar with the lament that education […]
The national capital christened Delhi NCR by consumer goods marketers, is arguably better aware of the importance of early childhood care and education than any other city countrywide. Here are Delhi’s top preschools for the 2016.
The national capital of Delhi which includes several newly risen cities spilling across state boundaries, christened Delhi NCR (national capital […]
Although ECCE is a novel concept for government bureaucrats and the public in the subcontinent, it’s relatively old hat in Mumbai, the country’s commercial capital which has always been open to modernisation ideals
As a west coast port city, Mumbai (pop. 21 million) — the country’s commercial capital — has always been open to modernisation ideals […]
Despite political turmoil for over half a century, West Bengal’s famous private schools have managed to maintain their reputation, and Kolkata’s top preschools providing quality education have impacted themselves on the city’s bhadralok
Right until the 1970s, Calcutta (transformed into Kolkata in 2001) was the education (and industry and business) epicentre of newly independent India. But […]
While the 24-strong EW league table of Chennai’s proprietary pre-primaries has experienced considerable churn, the 14-strong franchised preschools table has witnessed few changes from last year. Here are Chennai’s most preferred preschools:
Despite the destructive and unwarranted interference of Tamil Nadu’s film star politicians with the state’s once nationally admired education system which is now a […]
The annual EW Preschool Rankings generate considerable excitement and enthusiasm in the IT city which boasts a large number of double-income households of young parents. Here are Bangalore’s top-ranked pre-primaries:
The ICT capital of the country, the once garden city of Bangalore (renamed Bengaluru in 2014 by language chauvinist politicians with total disregard for the brand […]
This year 52 proprietary and franchised preschools including 13 previously unranked pre-primaries were rated and ranked by 620 parents (with preschool children), teachers and principals in Hyderabad. Here are Hyderabad’s most preferred preschools 2016-17.
Ranked India’s #1 state (jointly with neighbouring Andhra Pradesh) on the Ease of Doing Business Index 2016 of the World Bank, Telangana […]
Pune’s long tradition of academic scholarship has prompted its citizens to readily embrace early childhood care and education. Over the past decade in particular, a substantial number of private preschools have mushroomed citywide. Here are Pune’s top preschools for the year 2016.
The second most important industrial hub of Maharashtra — India’s most industrialised state accounting […]
An egregious misinterpretation of Mahatma Gandhi’s edicts on education discouraged English-medium education in Gujarat’s commercial capital. But after liberalisation in 1991, it’s a different story in pre-primary and school education
The western seaboard state of Gujarat (pop. 62.7 million) — the bailiwick of prime minister Narendra Modi who served as its chief minister for three consecutive […]
With private entrepreneurs having quickly established Gurgaon as a hub of the IT, automobile and BPO industries, globally benchmarked schools and universities, new-age pre-primaries have inevitably mushroomed. Here are Gurgaon’s most admired preschools for the year 2016:
Although sited in the neighbouring state of Haryana (pop. 28 million), the new steel and glass city of Gurgaon […]
An IT and IT-enabled services hotspot with a population of highly-educated and skilled professionals and the highest per capita income of Delhi NCR, Noida is experiencing spiralling demand for high-quality preschool to tertiary education. Here are Noida’s most respected preschools for the year 2016:
Established in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh during the […]
In the face-off between entrenched leftists and ‘invader’ right-wing intellectuals and academics on university campuses countrywide, the detailed and constructive recommendations of the Subramanian Committee have little chance of being incorporated into the New Education Policy 2016:Dilip Thakore
Two years after it was first proposed by former firebrand Union minister for human resource development Smriti Irani, […]
The Committee for Evolution of the New Education Policy aka the TSR Subramanian Committee submitted its National Policy on Education 2016 draft to the Union HRD ministry on May 28, 2016. Highlights of the 49-page ‘Summary of Recommendations’ of the report are given hereunder.
9.4 Challenges for NEP 2016
Despite many gains, the Indian education system faces […]
Confidence levels are high and optimism is palpable in the high security headquarters of Cambridge International Examinations, UK, which is on an affiliations drive to win friends and influence in Indian primary-secondary education:Dilip Thakore
The Cambridge (UK)-based Cambridge Assessment International Examinations board (CAIE, estb.1858), which has 10,000 schools in 160 countries worldwide and 389 primary-secondaries […]
In 1858, the University of Cambridge (estb. 1209) promoted the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) to raise standards of school education in the UK by administering exams for people who were not members of the university. In that year, 370 school students in seven English cities wrote exams set by UCLES. In 1864 […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed Michael O’Sullivan, CEO of Cambridge Assessment International Examinations, in Cambridge, UK. Excerpts:
Although CAIE is the largest provider of international education worldwide, it isn’t Britain’s largest provider of primary and secondary education in terms of the number of affiliated schools and students. How do you explain this seeming paradox?
Best Co-ed Day-cum-Boarding Schools 2016-17, i.e day schools that also host a substantial number of boys and girls as boarders, constitute a special category in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings.
The league table of India’s best co-ed day-cum-boarding schools has experienced a churn this year. After two years at the top, the reign of Daly […]
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