For the fourth consecutive year, the sample respondents polled by C fore in western India have voted Campion School, Mumbai India’s #1 boys day school followed by St. Xavier’s Collegiate, Kolkata and St. Johns High, Chandigarh
Dislodging the Campion School, Mumbai (estb.1943) from its premier position in the EW national boys day schools league table is […]
Under the capable leadership of its principal Jyotsna Brar, who retired recently, Welham Girls, Dehradun, top-rated on nine of the 14 parameters of education excellence this year, has retained the #1 slot since 2013. Here are India’s Best Girls Boarding Schools 2016-17.
For the fourth year in succession, Welham Girls, Dehradun has been voted India’s #1 […]
Although single gender schools are going out of fashion, they have changed with the times and continue to remain popular with conservative middle class households determined to provide their progeny a good start in life. Here are India’s Top Boys Boarding Schools 2016-17.
Dominated by Dehradun-based The Doon School (TDS, estb. 1935), the league table of […]
Since 2013, when international schools were sub-divided into three categories, the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai has dominated the international day schools league table.
International schools affiliated with foreign boards such as the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges, USA and Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), UK (e.g Woodstock, Mussoorie (estb.1852); Kodaikanal International (1901) and […]
Within this increasingly popular category, Indus International School, Bangalore (estb. 2003) has been voted #1 for the fifth year in succession by a wide margin
Under the umbrella category of international schools (defined as primary-secondaries affiliated with reputable offshore examination boards), international day-cum-boarding schools – half-way houses between day and fully residential primary-secondaries – seem to […]
Instead of focusing their attention on the country’s crumbling dysfunctional 1.2 million government primary-secondaries, politicians and bureaucrats of the Central and state governments are tying up the nation’s private schools in swirls of red tape even as admission queues lengthen outside their gates – Summiya Yasmeen
India’s private schools — some of them of centuries’ vintage which have […]
The vice-like — and tightening — chokehold of the Central and state education bureaucracy over primary and secondary education has made promotion of private greenfield schools a formidable challenge which can only be broken by very determined and persistent edupreneurs. From the stage of land acquisition, obtaining permissions from civic planners, securing electricity and water […]
On the 65th anniversary of promulgation of the Constitution, there’s little awareness within the smug middle class and academia of the extent to which mass illiteracy and sub-standard public primary and secondary education have impacted daily lives and endangered the future of the Republic: Dilip Thakore
For right-thinking citizens who find the time to make an honest […]
It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. While it’s clear that post-independence India’s venal and self-serving political class isn’t interested in according high priority to public education and universal literacy because an educated electorate would never elect the type of politicians who have pushed not only themselves, but their kith and kin […]
For the sixth annual EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2015 survey, over 100 field researchers of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 6,283 parents, principals and teachers in ten selected cities. Moreover in a departure from past practice, this year’s survey segregates preschools into three separate categories — owned/proprietary, franchised and pre-primaries of composite schools – Dilip Thakore […]
The annual winter stampede for admissions into Delhi’s most admired pre-primaries is the most frantic and brutal nationwide in the year 2015, with parents ready and willing to brave near zero temperatures for obtaining admission forms to the premier preschools
No city, town or community nationwide is more aware of the vital importance of professionally administered […]
For this year’s survey conducted under a new taxonomy, Mumbai’s most well-known 20 owned/proprietary, 17 franchised and 15 pre-primaries attached to K-10/12 schools were rated and ranked separately. Here are Mumbai’s top-ranked preschools for the year 2015
Mumbai (aka Bombay), India’s premier seaport and commercial capital (pop.21 million), has always been more receptive to revolutionary technology […]
In Kolkata — still awaiting poriborton (change) promised by the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal’s education system — professionally administered early childhood care and education is highly valued. Here are Kolkata’s premier preschools 2014-15
In the eastern metropolis of Kolkata (pop. 14.5 million) —which is still awaiting poriborton (change) promised by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in […]
In this year’s survey, 42 preschools in Chennai (cf. 21 in 2014) have been rated and ranked across ten parameters by 658 parents and teachers polled by Delhi-based market research agency C fore
Parents in the southern port city of Chennai (pop. 5 million), currently reeling under unprecedented rains and flooding which has forced closure of […]
To rate and rank the garden city’s most reputable proprietary, franchised and pre-primaries of composite schools, 614 parents, principals and teachers were interviewed by C fore field researchers. Here are Bangalore’s top pre-primaries for the year 2015:
In the peninsular garden city of Bangalore/Bengaluru (pop.11 million), fast living up to its ‘garbage city’ image for the inability […]
Rivalling Bengaluru as an IT and other new-technology industries hub, Hyderabad is fast emerging as a hotspot for ECCE with rising demand from well-educated and informed professionals fuelling the promotion of preschools citywide. Here are Hyderabad’s best preschools 2015-16.
In the southern city of hyderabad (pop.11.4 million), capital of the newly formed (2014) state of Telangana […]
There’s been a spurt in the number of preschools promoted to cater to the rising demand from IT and new-age industry professionals. C fore field researchers interviewed 609 parents and teachers/principals in Pune to evaluate preschools in three separate categories. Here are Pune’s best preschools for the year 2015:
The second largest academic and industrial hub […]
The 586 informed respondents interviewed by C fore field researchers in Ahmedabad have ranked Olive Green Kids, Navrangpura; EuroKids, Satellite and the Riverside pre-primary the textile city Ahmedabad’s top preschools in 2015 in the three new categories
UNDER THE NEW taxonomy adopted for rating and ranking pre-primaries for the EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2015, 586 sample […]
A classic study of how investment prompts urban growth and employment, the new steel and glass township of Gurgaon has attracted a large population of business and engineering professionals who value high-quality pre-primary education. Here are Gurgaon’s top ranked preschools for the year 2015:
Although technically in Haryana, the new steel and glass township of Gurgaon […]
In the EW Noida’s best preschools 2014-15, 24 preschools have been rated and ranked by 556 parents and 64 teachers/principals polled by field researchers of Delhi-based market research agency C fore
Although the new township of Noida (pop. 600,000) is sited in and falls under the administrative jurisdiction of Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populated (200 […]
For the first time, budget private schools which have mushroomed countrywide as a response to dysfunctional government schools, are rated and ranked in EWISR 2015
One of the greatest injustices that post-independence India’s thoroughly discredited neta-babu network has visited upon India’s estimated 200 million bottom-of-the-pyramid households is denial of the right to quality early childhood and […]
In the glamour category of EWISR 2015, Woodstock School, Mussoorie, last top-ranked in 2011, has staged a comeback. Moreover, Good Shepherd International, Ooty has risen spectacularly in the public esteem to be jointly ranked second with Kodaikanal International School.
The two-year reign of Kodaikanal International School (KIS) as India’s premier wholly residential international school is […]
Ranked India’s premier international day-cum-boarding school for the fourth year in succession, the Indus International School, Bangalore seems to have consolidated its apex position in this category.
In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) 2015, the state-of-the-art Indus International School, Bangalore (IIS-B, estb. 2003) has been voted India’s #1 international day-cum-boarding school by a huge […]
For the third year in a row, Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai has swept the board across almost all parameters to be ranked the country’s #1 international day school
To all intents and purposes, the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai (DAIS) seems to have consolidated its position at the very top of the EW national league […]
Since 2013, the national girls’ legacy boarding schools league table has been dominated by Welham Girls and Mayo College Girls. But in EWISR 2015 this duopoly has been broken.
Although single sex schools are going out of fashion around the world, in India endowed with a multiplicity of religious, caste and cultural minorities, they continue […]
Following several brand projection initiatives The Doon School, Dehradun has risen in the public esteem and stormed back to be ranked #1 on 12 of the 14 parameters of school education excellence.
Perhaps stung by its dethronement from its usual position as India’s #1 all-boys legacy boarding school last year, the leadership and management of The […]
The media shy Rishi Valley School, Madanapalle which had been ranked the country™s #1 co-ed boarding school for four of the past five years has regained its #1 rank
Within India™s legacy boarding schools sector, co-ed primary-secondaries substantially outnumber single sex institutions, undoubtedly a sign of progress towards gender egalitarianism. In this highly competitive segment, […]
The 11,660 sample respondents countrywide interviewed by C fore have once again voted Campion School, Mumbai India™s #1 all-boys day school followed by St. Xavier™s Collegiate, Kolkata, and St. John™s High, Chandigarh
The top 5 order in the EW India Boys Day Schools Rankings 2015 is a mirror image of last year™s national league table. The […]
For the second year consecutively, the girls day schools national league table is topped by two vintage Kolkata-based schools ” La Martiniere for Girls and Loreto House, Middleton.
Even though an overwhelming majority of greenfield K-12 schools being promoted in the new millennium are co-educational institutions, the country™s established all-girls day schools haven™t quite lost their […]
With The Valley School, Bangalore having been moved to the day schools category, there™s been a rearrangement at the Top 5 table with Daly College, Indore retaining its #1 ranking
Co-ed day-cum boarding schools, i.e, day schools which also host a substantial number of boys and girls as boarders, constitute a special category in the annual […]
In the inaugural standalone national league table of India’s best special needs schools 2015, Tamana Autism Centre, Delhi is ranked #1 with top ratings on five of the ten parameters
An estimated 2.5 percent of India’s 480 million children aged below 18 years suffer from physical disabilities, mental retardation and varying degrees of learning difficulties. Yet, […]
A seemingly innocuous Indian Institutes of Management Bill 2015, which severely dilutes the autonomy of the IIMs, has ignited fears that an unfinished BJP/NDA agenda of 2004 to acquire control and command over India’s premier B-schools, has been revived – Dilip Thakore
Beneath a deceptive everyday calm façade, there’s turmoil within the highly-reputed Indian Institutes of Management […]
s. 2. Whereas the objects of the Institutes mentioned in the Schedule are such as to make them institutions of national importance, it is hereby declared that each such institute is an institution of national importance.
s.7. Subject to the provisions of this Act, every Institute shall exercise the following powers and perform the following functions, […]
The pivotal persona who plays a vital role in shaping the character and brand of a B-school is the Dean of the institute, designated Director in India’s Central government-promoted 13 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). The essential qualifications of Dean/Director in all B-schools worldwide are excellent higher education, experience as faculty with administrative responsibilities in nationally […]
In response to swelling demand, progressive education entrepreneurs (aka edupreneurs) are establishing high-quality, nationally — and in some cases globally — benchmarked schools in India’s haphazardly growing tier-II/III cities – Dilip Thakore
With India’s five largest and chronically misgoverned metros — Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru — each of whom grudgingly hosts populations of 10 million […]
Against the backdrop of a gradual sea change in higher education, privately promoted universities are set to dominate the higher education segment, lamentations of left intellectuals notwithstanding.
Private institutions of higher education are the abused step children of the Indian State and society. In the lexicon of the “socialistic pattern of society” which Jawaharlal Nehru […]
The top management of the Delhi-based market research company C fore constituted a sample database of 5,689 academics, final year university students and industry managers to rate and rank Indias Top 200 universities across seven parameters of academic excellence Dilip Thakore
The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (aka Bangalore) is Indias top-ranked university followed by the […]
In scattered urban and rural habitats across the country, committed educationists in private education and voluntary organisations are ideating pedagogy and process innovations which could revive India’s moribund education system, and enable the nation to reap its much-trumpeted demographic dividend: Summiya Yasmeen
The reality that contemporary India’s early childhood, primary, secondary and higher […]
Since September, 200 C fore field researchers have quizzed 2,332 SECA (socio-economic category A) young parents and 795 principals and teachers to rate 173 unitary pre-primaries in ten cities countrywide across ten parameters of early childhood care and education excellence. Here are the Educationworld India Preschool Rankings for the year 2014:
This year to make the EW India School Rankings more inclusive, separate tables rating and ranking the country™s Top 10 government day and boarding schools are presented
The total number of schools promoted and/or managed by the Central, state and local governments across the country aggregate 1.20 million ” constituting the overwhelming majority of India™s […]
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