Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has begun his second innings in Shastri Bhavan, Delhi, at an inflection point in national development when a broad consensus has emerged that top priority has to be accorded to real education and skilling of the world’s largest population of children and youth writes Dilip Thakore
In this new academic year cover story, PW presents a motivation and success guide devised by experts to enable parents to equip children with the mindset, skills and confidence to achieve academic and extra-curricular success -Kiran Balimane & Cynthia John
The new academic year starting June-July is the season when monsoon rains start, bringing joy […]
Against the backdrop of dismal conditions in Indian education, a mint new report authored by LoEstro Advisors, a Hyderabad-based education focused investment banking and consulting firm, says that a positive sea change is manifesting in private K-12 education countrywide writes Dilip Thakore
Seven decades after under the inspiring leadership of Mahatma Gandhi the country won […]
“We are humbled that EW survey respondents have consistently ranked Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) among India’s Top 5 public engineering and technology universities. Since establishment in 1933, the institute has evolved into a deemed university with three campuses in Mumbai, Marathwada and Bhubaneswar, providing education, training, research and industrial collaboration in chemical engineering, chemical […]
With the new academic year all set to begin this month, PW presents a comprehensive child development guide devised by experts to enable parents to better prepare children to achieve their academic and extra-curricular goals of the next year -Kiran Balimane & Cynthia John
The end of the summer vacation and start of the new […]
The annual EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings provide comprehensive league tables ranking the country’s Top 500 arts, science and commerce colleges, Top 100 private engineering colleges, Top 300 government and private universities in 15 discrete categories, and Top 100 private B-schools. However, these are all-inclusive rankings rating the most well-reputed higher ed institutions across several […]
India’s private B-schools capable of responding quickly to changes in the business environment and customising their curriculums accordingly, are likely to play an increasingly important role to modernise and upgrade India Inc to compete with the world’s most dominant corporations, writes Dilip Thakore
Indian School of Business: Financial Times, London global #31
Although they continue to be adamantly unresponsive, every year since 2020 EducationWorld has been eliciting expert opinion to rate and rank government agricultural universities countrywide.
NAU’s Dr. Z.P. Patel (right): 114 crop varieties and 728 technologies record
Since 2020 thousands of farmers have been periodically protesting countrywide, demanding legally guaranteed minimum support prices for agriculture […]
Established in 23 states countrywide, India’s 27 publicly-funded National Law Universities (NLUs) have emerged as the gold standard of contemporary legal education
The country’s 27 publicly-funded National Law Universities (NLUs) are the IITs of legal education. Since the first National Law School of India University, Bengaluru was promoted in 1988 pursuant to legal education reforms advocated […]
Although the country’s new genre private universities with their sprawling capital intensive campuses, new-age study programmes, and high-quality faculty, are capturing the public imagination, government universities continue to host 74 percent of youth in higher education
The latest All India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE) Report 2021-22 (released January 25) of the Union education ministry […]
“We are thrilled that SRIHER is once again ranked India’s #1 private medical university. This is public recognition of our continued commitment to excellence in medical education, healthcare, and research. SRIHER is a multi-disciplinary medical university with 14 faculties offering 37 undergraduate, 125 post-graduate and doctoral programmes in medical, dental, nursing and other allied health […]
JGU’s Dr. Raj Kumar (right): #1 three consecutive years
New-genre liberal arts universities created great public excitement and were ranked within the national Top 20 of the composite private universities league table in the annual EW India Higher Education Rankings in 2019. After sub-division of the broad category of private HEIs according to subject […]
India’s new genre multidisciplinary universities benchmarked against the world’s best are a breath of fresh air with the potential to check, if not stop, the annual migration of an estimated 8 lakh school and college-leavers for higher education abroad.
Indian university graduates: unemployability spectre
Since the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, based on the Kasturirangan […]
Attaining the $30 trillion GDP dream by 2047 necessitates private engineering and technology universities skilling an army of managers and workers in STEM subjects
Prof. Ramgopal Rao (centre): research powerhouse & start-ups incubator
If the lofty Viksit Bharat (‘developed India’) with a $30 trillion GDP dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — who seems […]
To compile the league table of India’s most admired public and private universities, 2,100 respondents, comprising faculty and students in higher education institutions and industry leaders in 22 states countrywide were interviewed, writes Dilip Thakore and Summiya Yasmeen
Although learned professors and academics in their ivory towers seem oblivious and hold themselves blameless, there’s much that’s […]
With summer holidays having begun across the country and children likely to spend more time outdoors, it’s especially important for parents to protect children against summer heat. In this special summer cover story, eminent medical practitioners and health experts provide precautionary guidelines to cope with common summer heat-related ailments -Kiran Balimane & Cynthia John
Since 1986 when the Delhi-based University Grants Commission (UGC) introduced a ‘Scheme for Autonomous Colleges’, their number has grown to 979. Of them the majority — 786 — are privately promoted and managed
St. Xavier, Mumbai’s Dr. Rajendra Shinde (centre): autonomy advantages
Way back in 1986, the National Policy on Education (1986-92) mooted the idea […]
In this year’s private non-autonomous colleges league table, St. Stephen’s College, tied to the apron strings of Delhi University — a Central government institution — retains its #1 status. Several nationally acclaimed Arts, Science and Commerce (ASC) undergrad colleges are in the same boat
St. Stephen’s Prof. John Varghese (centre): service commitment
Although it is commonly accepted that the IITs and NITs provide the best engineering undergrad education, since they admit a mere 2-3 percent of aspirant school-leavers, the public interest is better served by ranking undergrad private engineering colleges which constitute 70 percent of all engineering institutions countrywide, writes Dilip Thakore.
The annual EWIHER with its careful categorisation of higher education institutions — to eliminate apples and oranges type comparisons – is the most reliable guide for school-leavers seeking academically and aptitudinally suitable colleges and universities, writes Dilip Thakore
As most corporate leaders will testify, academic standards India’s higher education institutions — especially undergrad arts, science and […]
For mysterious reasons government autonomous colleges are rarely ranked by the Union education ministry and media publications. EducationWorld is an exception because we appreciate them as islands of collegiate education excellence: Writes, Summiya Yasmeen
GDWC, Hyderabad principal Dr. Padmavathi (centre) & students: long-awaited recognition
India’s 979 autonomous undergrad colleges have a special place of honour […]
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
Digital screens, apps, social media and ChatGPT have become as much a part of children’s lives as textbooks and playgrounds. We present guidelines from tech educators and parenting experts on the benefits and risks of parenting in the new digital age with special focus on the impact of Al on children, Kiran Balimane & Cynthia […]
In this General Election-eve story, we assess the track record of the Modi government — the first non-Congress government to have completed ten years in office in independent India — in early childhood, primary-secondary, skilling and higher education writes Summiya Yasmeen
Prime Minister Narendra Modi: eventful decade for Indian education
Although most parents tend to dismiss exam stress as normative, mental and emotional well-being professionals warn that persistent academic stress and anxiety especially in the new age of ubiquitous social media has grave short and long-term implications for children’s physical and mental health write Kiran Balimane, Cynthia John & Mini P.
To harness India’s demographic dividend — 500 million children and youth below age 34 — it is critical that we identify weaknesses in our K-12 system and fix them pronto. An overview of the deep-rooted problems of Indian school education with some remedial solutions writes Sridhar Rajagopalan
In the emerging hyper-competitive global marketplace where the quality […]
There’s a rising consensus among educators and green activists that it’s also important for families and households to adopt sustainable living practices to protect the next generation from the impending environmental disaster that’s looming ahead writes Kiran Balimane, Mini P. & Cynthia John
At the COP28 Meeting — the 28th United Nations (UN) climate meeting — […]
With the spectre of PISA 2009 when Indian 15-year-olds were ranked second last from among 74 participating countries looming in the background, at the last minute the BJP government at the Centre withdrew India’s participation in PISA 2022, which was written by 690,000 students from 81 countries writes Dilip Thakore
There’s a mountain of truth in the old cliche that failure is the stepping stone to success. Therefore, parents should avoid the temptation to scold or reprimand children for failure to meet expectations. Instead, they should use it as an opportunity to build their resilience and character writes Poornima Dilip, Mini P. & Cynthia John
A growing body of research indicates that it’s parents’ online addiction that’s fuelling children’s digital dependence and adversely impacting the mental and emotional well-being of teens writes Kiran Balimane, Mini P. & Cynthia John
With media focus on rising children’s digital addiction, parents’ internet and digital addiction is the elephant in the room that few are […]
Introduced in 2010, EWIPR has become an annual fixture on the national education calendar with the number of cities covered by the survey increasing from six to 17 this year. Moreover EW’s consistent advocacy of professionally administered early childhood care and education has influenced NEP 2020, writes Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
ParentsWorld interviewed respected medical experts and dieticians to recommend science-backed home remedies for common, minor childhood ailments writes Poornima Dilip, Mini P. & Cynthia John
The onset of winter brings with it a host of illnesses including the common cold, respiratory infections and skin-related ailments. And most often, the first and natural response to early […]
The spectacular rise of members of the Indian diaspora to dizzying heights in business, politics, the academia and other vocations and professions abroad, even as upward socio-economic mobility in 21st century India remains an arduous climb, raises the question: why do Indians succeed and thrive the world over, except in their own country , writes […]
Day-cum-boarding schools offer a win-win proposition: day scholars benefit from the excellent infrastructure and sports facilities built for boarders, the latter by way of student body diversity. Therefore it’s unsurprising that the number of international day-cum-boarding schools is rising countrywide year on year.
International day-cum-boarding schools are the glamour section of the annual EW India […]
“We highly value the league table of India’s Super 30 Budget Private Schools introduced by EducationWorld last year and are very grateful to your survey respondents for voting St. Mary’s #1 once again this year. I attribute the top rank to our dedicated focus on teacher training and well-being, and efforts to make the school […]
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