A representative sample of 197 SEC A preschool parents and teachers rated and ranked Noida’s Top 10 pre-primaries 2013 for the first time.
A satellite township of Delhi NCR (National Capital Region), Noida (pop. 642,381) — an IT and industrial hub — is one of four new cities (in addition to Pune, Gurgaon and Ahmedabad) included […]
A.K. & Sanjay Agarwal
MDN Edify Education, Hyderabad
Both commerce graduates of Osmania University, siblings Anjani Kumar (AKA) and Sanjay Agarwal (SA) are directors of the Hyderabad-based MDN Edify Education Pvt. Ltd. Since the company was incorporated in 2009, it has signed content and curriculum provision and management contracts with 164 preschools and 16 K-12 schools […]
Although only the intellectually honest — and this excludes the vast majority of the country’s Left intellectuals who dominate the academy — will admit it, Indian education is steadily and inexorably being privatised. While post-independence India’s fast-expanding middle class seceded from the public/government school education system several decades ago, of late even aspirational lower middle […]
An eve-of-election statement of intent taken through the ordinance route by the Union HRD ministry inviting globally top-ranked foreign universities to establish captive campuses in India, has drawn lukewarm response from foreign higher education institutions wary of entering India’s over-regulated higher education system. Dilip Thakore reports
Despite alarming new millennium reports about the poor quality of graduates […]
The HRD ministry has sent proposals to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion and the Department of Economic Affairs to permit foreign universities to open their campuses in the country as companies as provided under the Companies Act.
As per the powers vested with the Central government to make rules under the UGC Act, the […]
“We would certainly consider the option to establish a high quality, niche research campus in the country.” Anthony Smith, Vice-Provost, University College, London
“At this time, Stanford University does not intend to open any additional campuses within the US or abroad, in India or elsewhere. This is an institutional decision and not related to any actions taken by […]
One of the paradoxes of K-12 education in India is that while the overwhelming majority of the public — including parents within the socio-economically deprived households — is desperate to provide their children with English medium or at least high quality English language education, several state governments or more accurately neo-literate politicos and bureaucrats within […]
One of the few and perhaps most valuable upsides of almost 200 years of British rule in the Indian subcontinent during which the GDP growth rate was less than 1 percent per annum, is that it introduced the English language to the people of India. Modernisation ideals and the ideas of national freedom and democracy […]
The start of the new academic year marks the culmination of a season when parents are obliged to pull every string and use their influence with politicians, bureaucrats, high court judges and even media personnel to put in a word for admission of their wards into the country’s top-ranked day, boarding and international schools. Dilip Thakore […]
Between them the Central government-owned IIMs admit only 2,880 of the 214,000 graduates who write the CAT (Common Admission Test) annually. EducationWorld commissioned the Delhi-based C fore to assess and rank India’s most respected non-IIM B-schools. Dilip Thakore reports
Conterminously with the onset of the south-west monsoon and the commencement of the new academic year, 214,000 […]
To provide readers, especially aspirant business managers, a comprehensive profile of India’s most respected ‘other’ (excluding IIMs) B-schools, the Top 50 national league table is supplemented with Top 10 national rankings on the basis of parameters of excellence.
To compile the rankings league table of the country’s Top 50 B-schools, C fore field researchers interviewed 532 […]
With a large number of the country’s non-conformist youth entering the agriculture and social sectors, the EW-C fore survey presents a league table of not-strictly-business institutes
With a growing number of the country’s youth taking to untrodden ways and careers in agriculture and the social sector, your editors decided it would be in the interest of […]
The managements and faculty of the best among India’s ‘other’ B-schools believe that despite being obliged to compete academically with the government-backed B-schools without the benefit of subsidies and handouts, they are closing the gap which separates them from the IIMs
Long accustomed to playing second fiddle to the country’s Central government-promoted and heavily subsidised six […]
To enable higher secondary school students and graduates to make informed choices about institutes offering new- age professional education, EducationWorld commissioned the Delhi-based market research agency C fore to rate and rank India’s best professional colleges in 2013 through a perceptual survey. Summiya Yasmeen reports
Until the onset of the noughties a decade ago, professional education […]
Inevitably the NLSIU, Bangalore, promoted in 1987 by the Bar Council of India, was placed on the top rung of the podium in a survey of India’s top-ranked Law Schools, 2013:
In almost all democratic nations governed by the rule of law, the legal system and legal profession are citizen friendly. India, the world’s most […]
Here are India’s best hotel management institutes for the year 2013.
Promoted way back in 1966 by the Oberoi Group, the Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development, Delhi is top-ranked on all four parameters of excellence
The Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development (OCLD), Delhi is ranked India’s #1 hotel management institute in the inaugural EducationWorld-C fore India’s […]
Over the past 27 years since it was promoted by the Union textiles ministry, NIFT-Delhi has set new benchmarks in fashion education and produced some of the country’s top designers, securing a position among India’s top 20 Fashion Design Institutes 2013.
Given its status as India’s pioneer institution offering professional degree programmes in fashion design, it’s […]
As Indian companies and foreign media conglomerates continue to make massive investments in print, television and online media platforms, job opportunities for professionals are exploding. Here are India’s best Mass Communication Institutes for the year 2013:
With over 500 television channels, 50,000 newspapapers and magazines, hundreds of advertising agencies and public relations firms, the media and […]
With a 30 percent annual growth rate, this new age industry’s revenue is expected to exceed $1,623 million (Rs.9,738 crore) by 2015, provoking leap-frogging demand for trained animators. Here are India’s Top 10 Animation Design Institutes for the year 2013:
Of the several new age professional education vocations featured in this inaugural EW-C fore survey, animation […]
Given the extraordinary exclusivity of IITs which admit a mere 2 percent of aspiring engineering students annually, your editors decided to eliminate them from EducationWorld-C fore’s inaugural rankings of India’s most admired engineering colleges. Dilip Thakore reports
It’s well-known the prosperity of the developed OECD nations of the first world — and latterly of China — has […]
Labouring unsung under the long shadow of the country’s celebrated IITs, India’s next-best engineering institutes have received the overdue attention focused on them by the inaugural EW-C fore Engineering Colleges Rankings 2013 as manna from heaven
Euphoria, joy, relief, gratitude and other positive emotions were the reactions of heads and faculty of engineering colleges and technology […]
For the managements of the great majority of institutes listed in the inaugural EW-C fore league tables of the country’s most admired non-IIT engineering colleges/technology institutes, their ranking within state boundaries may well be more valuable than national rank. India’s 28 states and seven Union territories are linguistically, culturally and even ethnically so diverse that […]
To provide readers, especially aspirant engineers, a comprehensive profile of India’s most highly respected ‘other’ (excluding IITs) engineering colleges, the Top 100 national and state league tables are supplemented with Top 10 national rankings on the basis of parameters of excellence.
To compile the national and state rankings, C fore field researchers interviewed 1,126 faculty and […]
Against the backdrop of insistent demand for medical education and a rash of scandals involving the Medical Council of India raising serious doubts about the quality of education delivered, EducationWorld commissioned the Delhi-based C fore to rate and rank India’s Top 30 medical colleges 2013. Summiya Yasmeen reports
To compile the national and state rankings of India’s most respected medical colleges, C fore field researchers interviewed 217 faculty and 253 final year medical students countrywide, asking them to rate medical colleges on six parameters, viz, competence of faculty, faculty welfare and development, research and innovation, pedagogic systems and processes, placements and infrastructure and […]
Three years since it became law on April 1, 2010, it’s becoming increasingly clear this historic legislation was hastily drafted without proper evaluation of ground realities in primary education criminally neglected for over six decades. A close reading of the RTE Act indicates that several of its ill-conceived provisions have the potential to wreck India’s […]
s.2.(n) “School” means any recognised school imparting elementary education and includes: (iii) school belonging to specified category and (iv) an unaided school not receiving any kind of aid or grants to meet its expenses from the appropriate government or local authority.
s.3.(1) Every child of the age of six to fourteen years shall have a right to free […]
To mark the end of three years since the right to Free & Compulsory Education (aka RTE) Act, 2009 became operational (on April 1, 2010), 22 education NGOs and six respected educationists convened in Delhi on March 28. On the occasion, they made an appeal to the Central and state governments to shift the focus […]
Belatedly as usual, India’s lackadaisical academics and the intelligentsia are beginning to weigh the socio-economic costs of the gender crimes epidemic allowed to spread almost unchecked across the subcontinent. Women are being forced out of academia, corporates and industry resulting in huge economic loss to the nation. Urmila Rao & Summiya Yasmeen report
Age of consent
Lower age of consent for consensual sex to 16 years
Retains age of consent at 18 years
Gang rape
20 years imprisonment and life imprisonment for rape and murder. Refrained from recommending death penalty
20 years imprisonment
and death penalty for repeat offenders
Sexual assault/ rape
Seven years to life imprisonment and compensation […]
Tanima Majumder, second year BA student at Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta University.
“I feel unsafe while commuting to college even during the day. It’s common to be subjected to lewd comments and groping on Kolkata’s roads and in buses. Night commuting is very unsafe. I try to finish all my assignments by working intensively during the […]
In its latest annual survey of the world’s top 6,603 think tanks, the University of Pennsylvania has ranked the Delhi-based Centre for Civil Society India’s No.1 in its Global Go-To Think Tank league table headed by the Brookings Institution (USA), Chatham House (UK), and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (USA). K.V. Priya with Dilip Thakore
Fully persuaded by the logic that social return per dollar invested in early childhood education is higher than equal investment in K-12 and tertiary education, EducationWorld organised major ECE global conferences in 2010 and 2011. On January 19, the 3rd ECE Global Conference 2013 was staged in Bangalore. Dilip Thakore reports
Of late there’s been a wave of global rediscovery of the vital importance of early childhood education (ECE). In countries around the world, there is growing acknowledgement of the critical contribution that education in the early years makes towards the overall development of children. Of greater significance though, is growing research data which suggests that […]
I would like to begin with a true story, an episode of a few decades ago. A young woman had come to her parental home during her first pregnancy. Her father was a reputed doctor in a small temple town called Srivilliputtur. The delivery was normal and the baby was healthy. Baths and diets were […]
Against the backdrop of early childhood education (ECE) being described as an area of darkness in Indian education, at the EducationWorld Early Childhood Education Global Conference 2013, a panel discussion on the subject ‘Is Indian academia/society ignorant about ECE?’, evoked spirited debate.
Chaired by EducationWorld editor Dilip Thakore (DT), the specially constituted panel comprised Dr. Venita Kaul (VK), director of […]
At the EducationWorld ECE Global Conference 2013, a panel discussion convened to discuss the dangers of age-inappropriate ECE, drew a packed house. The panel chaired by Summiya Yasmeen (SY), managing editor of EducationWorld, included Dr. K.R. Maalathi (KRM), a Chennai-based education consultant and advisor to the Ashok Piramal Group, Mumbai, and Children Welfare Society, Dubai; Dr. Shekhar Seshadri (SS), professor, department […]
A slew of big-ticket domestic and overseas projects launched under the banner of its for-profit subsidiary Manipal Global Education Services, are set to dramatically transform the Manipal Education & Medical Group from a competent provider of professional education in peninsular India into Asia’s premier higher ed multinational. Dilip Thakore reports
The Manipal (Karnataka) and Bangalore headquarters of […]
Manipal University. This is the successor institution of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (estb. 1942) and the Kasturba Medical College and teaching hospital founded in 1953 by the legendary educationist-entrepreneur Dr. T.M.A Pai (1898-1979), and developed by his successor Dr. Ramdas Pai into India’s first private deemed university, recognised by the Delhi-based University Grants Commission […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed Dr. Ranjan Pai, managing director and chief executive of the Manipal Education and Medical Group Pvt. Ltd (estb. 2000) — the holding company of 43 education institutions with an aggregate enrolment of 300,000 students and 47 healthcare institutions including 16 hospitals in India and abroad, in his office in Bangalore. Excerpts from the 90-minute […]
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