India™s small minority of wholly residential co-ed international schools are on a par with the best primary-secondary education institutions globally, and prepare students for entry into the world™s top universities
The streak of conservatism or trend in favour of vintage institutions rooted in traditions and values, discernible in league tables across all ten categories into which […]
Indus International School, Bangalore; Pathways World School, Aravali and The International School Bangalore have been reaffirmed as India™s Top 3 international day-cum-boarding schools in that order
For the second year in a row, the 2,915 sample respondents interviewed by C fore field researchers in the southern and northern regions have voted the Indus International School, […]
There™s no change at the top in the EW International Day Schools Rankings 2014 which with 32 ranked institutions constitutes the largest segment in the tripartite international schools category
India™s new genre international schools affiliated with offshore examination boards constitute the glamour segment of the Indian primary-secondary school system. Offering superior infrastructure, en suite residential […]
The Doon School, Dehradun, routinely ranked #1 in this category for the past few years, has been overtaken by the Bishop Cotton School, Shimla for the first time in the esteem of an informed public
Even though sexually segregated schools are fading out ” the overwhelming majority of newly promoted residential schools tend to be […]
Even though single sex boarding schools are being phased out, for cultural reasons many households prefer single sex institutions, especially girls boarding schools which serve a useful purpose
Evidently single sex girls™ boarding schools are being phased out, because only 11 of them are sufficiently well-known to the 8,263 sample respondents interviewed by C fore […]
A good augury for the future of gender relations in Indian society which has acquired a globally notorious reputation for gender atrocities, is that the great majority of post-liberalisation boarding schools are co-educational
A beneficial legacy of almost 200 years of British raj in India which has survived the test of time, are the few […]
The all-boys day schools 2014 league table features a substantial change in the seating arrangements at Top 10 table. But the Campion School, Mumbai seems to be consolidating its position as India’s #1 Boys’ Day School.
In the 2014 league table of all Boys’ Day Schools which features a radical change in seating arrangements at the […]
The long-reign in the annual EW India School Rankings of Modern High School, Kolkata as the country™s #1 all-girls day school has ended. However the top-ranker™s trophy for this sub-category of day schools (which will be awarded in Delhi on September 20) won™t be moving out of Kolkata. Because the 1,189 knowledgeable sample respondents who […]
The vintage and superbly equipped Daly College, Indore has achieved the rare feat of besting one of the increasingly popular alternative education schools inspired by the late seer, savant and educationist J. Krishnamurti, to be ranked #1 this year in the day-cum-boarding category
Ranked second in this category in 2013, the vintage and superbly equipped […]
Unsurprisingly, the great majority of India™s 1.40 million primary-secondary education institutions are day schools. Of them, schools promoted and managed by the Central, state and local governments add up to 1.20 million with composite private schools numbering 80,000 (200,000 according to Union HRD ministry which classifies primary, upper primary, secondary and higher secondary schools as […]
To compile the EW India School Rankings 2014, 8,263 knowledgeable fees-paying parents, educationists, principals and teachers were interviewed in 25 cities by 203 field researchers of the Delhi-based C fore and asked to rate schools in ten discrete categories on 14 parameters of education excellence.
That the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings published continuously in September […]
The intent of this education reform route map spanning the entire spectrum from preschool to PhD education, is to provoke debate within the somnolent groves of Indian academia and the intelligentsia to transform the nation’s demographic liability into an asset
IF INDIA’S ACADEMY had a conscience and sense of responsibility, August 15, when the nation celebrates […]
The newly inducted Modi sarkar urgently needs to take the NECCE policy draft approved by the UPA-II government forward. Thanks to a small minority of educators and educationists including pioneers who braving opprobrium, promoted metropolitan preschools several decades ago, the Mumbai-based Early Childhood Association (ECA, estb. 2010) and not least EducationWorld, which has convened four global […]
Under this model, rapidly expanding in the US, government transfers the management of its schools to proven education NGOs and/or private educationists, paying them the per student cost incurred by it
EVERYBODY WHO KNOWS THE first thing about the near-collapsed Indian education system, knows that its deadweight — which has dragged not only post-independence India’s education […]
The small minority of India’s top-rung legacy boarding and new genre international schools are on a par with the best private schools in the West. But the majority of secondaries are under-developed by global standards
THE GLARING qualitative gap which is evident between post-independence India’s private and government preschools and primaries, is unbridged in secondary education, […]
The price the Indian economy has paid for under-investment in VET has been catastrophic. Shopfloor productivity in industry is one-third to one-tenth of China and OECD countries.
PERHAPS BECAUSE of deep-rooted prejudices buried in the pernicious Hindu caste system, hands-on vocational education which would have upskilled the population, didn’t receive any worthwhile attention during the first […]
Although the country boasts 37,000 colleges and 735 universities, the fundamental problem of post-independence India’s higher education system is excessive Central and state government control
UNSURPRISINGLY ALL THE accumulated sins of omission and commission of the past six decades in preschool, primary and secondary education have risen to an ugly froth in India’s higher education system. […]
AS AUGUST 15 draws near and the newly-elected prime minister Narendra Modi prepares to deliver his first Independence Day address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Delhi, he has a great opportunity to outline a new programme for the redevelopment and rejuvenation of a nation eager to make amends for errors […]
In Kozhikode, Kerala “India’s most literate state” a tripartite public-private partnership between an MLA, municipal corporation and the Faizal & Shabana Foundation (estb. 2012) offers an inspirational model for the revival of India’s failing government schools
ONE OF THE GREAT paradoxes of post-independence India™s national development effort is the sustained neglect of 1.20 million government primary-secondary […]
With India emerging as a major hub of this booming new-age industry, global demand for qualified animation professionals is ballooning
WITH THE AGGREGATE revenue of the global animation industry slated to exceed $277 billion (Rs.1,670,586 crore) by 2015, and India emerging as a major hub of this booming new-age industry, global demand for qualified animation […]
The great sin of sustained neglect of primary, secondary and higher education in post-independence India has been compounded by continuous neglect of vocational education and training. But a quiet skills revolution is gathering momentum countrywide
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY India’s dysfunctional education system, defined by crumbling infrastructure, multi-grade teaching, massive dropouts, truant teachers and abysmal learning outcomes, is […]
A Bangalore-based social enterprise has developed a unique VET model which has the potential to transform hundreds of millions of rural youth into employable living-wage earners
A modestly appointed four-bedroom house converted into an office in Jayanagar, a green and pleasant suburb of Bangalore, is the head office of Head Held High Services Pvt. Ltd (H3S, […]
Centurion University’s Gram Tarang initiative has provided employment-yielding vocational training to 40,000 rural youth in the insurgency-infected Red Corridor districts of Odisha
In 2006, a team of professional educationists comprising professors Dr. Mukti Kanta Mishra, D.N. Rao and D. Nageshwara Rao took over the Jagannath Institute for Technology and Management, a failing engineering college in Parlakhemundi, […]
Over the past 17 years, this trust has provided free-of-charge vocational education including advanced computer training and English language learning to 18,000 children and youth with disabilities
Although post-independence India’s record of providing globally comparable quality education to the world’s largest child population (480 million) is pathetic, its record of provisioning special education for the country’s […]
Illiterate gatherers of forest produce transformed into businesswomen
The evolutionary outcome of a 1992 World Bank Institute project to design microenterprise management curriculums and delivery methodology for poor, illiterate and semi-literate women producers in backward states of India, the Intel-Udyogini School of Entrepreneurship (I-USE) was established as a block-level training institution with a 2009 grant of […]
Founded in 2006, LabourNet has developed a sustainable end-to-end 4 E solution — empowerment through education, employability and employment — for the informal sector labour
The low-profile Bangalore-based Movement for Alternatives for Youth Awareness (Maya, estb.1989) is a “development organisation working to address systemic issues of child labour through building empowered human institutions of the poor”. […]
It’s a tragedy that the great international institution christened Visva-Bharati (India-World) University in which literature Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore invested the “cargo of my life’s best treasure” and which he gifted to India, has been reduced to the status of a provincial university. Reports Gargi Banerjee with Dilip Thakore
The recently-concluded year 2013, especially November 14, […]
Visva-Bharati (later University) was inaugurated on December 22, 1921 at a ceremony presided by Dr. Brajendranath Seal, one of India’s foremost philosophers. Rabindranath Tagore donated the land, buildings, library, copyrights of his books and interest from the Nobel Prize money to Visva-Bharati.
The constitution drawn up by Dr. Prasanta Mahalanobis, a pioneer of statistical research in […]
Gargi Banerjee interviewed Dr. Sushanta Dattagupta, vice chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, in his office on the VBU campus. Excerpts:
Rabindranath Tagore often described Visva-Bharati as the greatest achievement of his life. Yet to this day there is confusion about Tagore’s educational philosophy and the goals he set for VBU…
In his formative years, Tagore was deeply disappointed with the […]
Santiniketan Griha. Originally constructed by Rabindranath Tagore’s father Dwarkanath in 1863 for meditation, it became the poet’s base when he first came to Santiniketan in 1901 with the intention of setting up a school. Most of his famous poems from Gitanjali for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1913, were composed in this house. Today […]
The forthcoming season of peace and goodwill is also a period of considerable anxiety for legions of young parents aware of the critical value of high quality and professionally administered early childhood education, for orderly growth and development of their children into successful and socially beneficial adults. This is the time when the country’s top […]
For the fourth year in succession, a carefully selected sample base of young parents and principals/teachers have ranked The Magic Years, Vasant Vihar, Delhi’s #1 followed by Step by Step, Panchsheel. Here are Delhi’s best preschools 2013:
Judged by the Quantum of Media coverage that the annual scramble for admissions of precious infants into the capital’s […]
A representative sample of 303 SECA preschool parents and teachers/principals has voted Podar Jumbo Kids, Santacruz the city’s #1 preschool ending the three-year reign of Kangaroo Kids, Bandra. Here are Mumbai’s top ranked preschools 2013:
Until the Advent of the New Millennium, awareness of the vital foundational importance of professionally administered early childhood care and education […]
The carefully selected 251 sample respondents comprising preschool parents and teachers/educationists of the EW Kolkata Preschool Rankings 2013 table have engineered radical proportion to last year’s Top 20 league table. Here are Kolkata’s top ranked preschools 2013:
This Year the EW League Table of Kolkata’s Top 20 preschools has experienced a major make-over. The carefully selected […]
In the league table of Chennai’s top ranked preschools 2013, Vruksha Montessori, Alwarpet has ended the three-year reign of Vaels Billabong High-Kangaroo Kids, Neelankarai
The Three-Year (2010-12) Reign of Vael’s Billabong High-Kangaroo Kids, Neelankarai (KKN) as Chennai’s #1 pre-primary school has ended. This year’s sample respondents comprising 276 parents with preschool of children and 62 principals/teachers […]
Despite its youthful demographic profile, the garden city’s citizenry is as appreciative of vintage pre-primaries as it is of new genre, new millennium early childhood care and education institutions. Here are Bengaluru’s top ranked preschools for the year 2013:
With its Large and Growing population of young professionals in the IT, biotech and science and technology […]
While coping with continuous agitations, protests and strikes, a mix of parents of preschool children and teachers/principals have voted for stability in the EW Hyderabad Preschool Rankings 2013. Here are the best preschools of Hyderabad 2013-14
The 292 Sample Respondents comprising a mix of parents of preschool children, and teachers/principals interviewed by Delhi-based market research company […]
In the first-ever rating and ranking of Pune’s Top 10 pre-primary schools 2013, Leapbridge International, Kalyani Nagar, is ranked #1 closely followed by Serra International Preschool, Aundh
In the fast-growth city of Pune (pop. 5.5 million), which has emerged as the second largest academic and industrial hub (after Mumbai) of Maharashtra, over the past decade, a […]
Acknowledgement of the importance of English-medium preschool education is rising rapidly within Gujarat, a laggard state in English language education. Here are Ahmedabad’s top ranked preschools for the year 2013:
A laggard state in English language education, acknowledgement of the importance of English-medium preschool education is rising rapidly within Gujarat, whose economic development model has aroused […]
In the inaugural EducationWorld league table of Gurgaon’s Top 10 preschools 2013, a representative sample of 230 parents and teachers voted Pallavan, Sohna Road #1 in the new steel and glass city.
Situated on the periphery of Delhi, the new steel and glass city of Gurgaon (pop.876,824) — India headquarters of several multi-nationals including GE, […]
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