Although several newspapers and magazines publish league tables ranking colleges and universities, these are general news publications with peripheral interest in education. Therefore the annual EWIHER, first introduced in 2013, are the best and most reliable rankings available to parents and school-leaving students, writes Dilip Thakore
Grading and ranking higher education institutions has come under a […]
Although the total scores of several non-autonomous Arts, Science and Commerce colleges exceed those of colleges granted autonomy, for mysterious reasons they have not been awarded autonomous status
St. Stephen’s, Delhi principal John Varghese (centre & inset): system stability musings
No one can blame readers for experiencing a sense of deja vu when they peruse […]
The small minority of 188 government colleges who have qualified for autonomous status have a special place of honour within the national higher education system
GDWC, Hyderabad’s Dr. Padmavathi: leapfrog to India #2
According to the latest All India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-21 released by the Union education ministry on January 29, […]
With the Covid-19 pandemic having ruined two consecutive summer holidays, parents and children are set to celebrate the first post-pandemic summer holiday with vengeance. We present some enjoyable, enriching and immersive summer activity options writes Cynthia John, Mini P. & Catharinal Silvia. M
With the summer holidays approaching, there’s a discernible buzz of excitement in […]
With a 13-member National Steering Committee headed by Dr. K. Kasturirangan giving final touches to the NCFSE, EW invited several eminent school leaders to share their great and small expectations writes Summiya Yasmeen
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Although finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman seems to have pleased India Inc with her Budget 2023-24 tax and spend proposals, following a long and negligent tradition of North Block, Delhi, she has paid scant attention to the education sector writes Dilip Thakore
Primary school children in Karnataka: scant attention
With World Sleep Day coming up on March 17, we highlight the importance of children getting sufficient, good quality sleep; common sleep disorders and ways and means to improve children’s nocturnal rest and rejuvenation writes Ramiya Sakthivel, Mini P. & Cynthia John
“Sleep, the main course in life’s feast, and the most nourishing” — William Shakespeare, […]
Winds of change reminiscent of the 1991 Union budget that catalysed liberalisation and deregulation of industry, are gathering momentum in India’s moribund education sector mired in dead habit, rote learning and rock-bottom learning outcomes writes Dilip Thakore
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With children incrementally accessing the internet and venturing into the Dark Net, educating, enabling and guiding children — especially tweens and teens — to use the internet beneficially and safely has become an important parental obligation, writes Poornima Dilip, Cynthia John & Mini P.
The all-pervasive internet is a blessing which can transform into a curse […]
A spate of new genre private universities enabled by state government legislation and led by brilliant academics with excellent project management and leadership skills are generating overdue stir within the shady bowers of Indian academia, writes Dilip Thakore
IN THE LATEST (NOVEMBER) WORLD University Rankings (WUR) 2023 of the London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Times Higher […]
In this special year-end issue, we bring to you curated actionable advice from a panel of reputed psychologists, nutritionists, parenting and lifestyle coaches to develop seven habits and skills to improve family life, especially children’s health and well-being in the year ahead
With the death-raining Covid-19 pandemic cloud, which devastated the lives and livelihoods of thousands […]
Left academics and intellectuals excoriate them as profiteering enterprises exploiting the poor and gullible. Yet India’s unique budget private schools which provide low-priced education to children of aspirational lower middle and working class households have played a very important role in the half-hearted national development effort, writes Dilip Thakore
The objective of EWIPR 2022-23 is to enable young parents to choose suitable pre-primaries for their children, and introduce a spirit of healthy competition between preschools and stimulate their managements to improve under all parameters of pre-primary education excellence, writes Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
SUSTAINED NEGLECT OF EARLY childhood care and education (ECCE) has been […]
There is rising awareness within government, educators and parents about the importance of equipping India’s generation next with creativity and innovation skills to enable them to succeed in the 21st century VUCA world, writes Ramiya Sakthivel, Cynthia John & Mini P.
Even if belatedly, there is rising awareness within government, educators and parents about the importance […]
Against the backdrop of growing wealth inequality and hunger, a rising wave of philanthropy funding is gathering momentum around the world and in India. According to the Global Philanthropy Report 2021, the education sector is specially favoured by philanthropic foundations and high networth individuals, writes Dilip Thakore
Contrasting images of 21st century India: favourable […]
While it is the obligation of parents to discover and enable children’s multiple intelligences, they also have a duty of care to ensure that children don’t experience stress and anxiety while managing crammed schedules of co-curricular and sports activities, writes Ramiya Sakthivel, Cynthia John & Mini P.
The maximum learning loss that children experienced during the […]
It gives me great pleasure to learn that EducationWorld has made a distinct category of vintage legacy schools and we are proud that Mayo College is ranked India’s #1 boys boarding school in this new category. During the pandemic we evolved an SOP (standard operating procedure) which helped us to become an anticipatory, responsive and […]
It is a matter of great satisfaction that the contribution of this 156-year-old school to society has been recognised and acknowledged in EducationWorld’s latest 2022-23 survey. For over 150 years Auckland House has educated and nurtured young women, developing their values of head and heart. We take great pride in walking the extra mile to […]
We are delighted to learn that Lawrence, Sanawar is ranked India #1 in the survey’s new category of vintage legacy co-ed boarding schools. This is welldeserved because the Board of Governors and successive headmasters have taken great care to preserve our 175-year-old school’s rich heritage while simultaneously modernising curriculums, pedagogies and infrastructure. During the past […]
We are thrilled that GSIS is ranked India’s #1 international residential school. This is a testament to the vision and sustained hard work of my parents — Dr. P.C. and Elsamma Thomas, who founded the school 45 years ago. My late father’s vision to build an institution that provides not only academics, but a wide […]
We are delighted to be ranked India #1 in EducationWorld’s new category of vintage legacy international schools. These schools stood the test of time and continue to blend heritage and innovation to deliver educational excellence. It is an honour to be recognised as a leader among this illustrious group. We are especially delighted to be […]
Prior to enactment of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, EducationWorld started rating and ranking the country’s most respected special needs schools to inform parents and encourage education institutions to pay greater attention to children with disability, writes Paromita Sengupta
Sankalp’s director and co-founder Dr. Sulata Ajit (right)
Consequent upon inclusion of schools promoted by defence services in the Central government day and boarding schools league tables, JNVs, which had hitherto dominated this league table, have had to cede rank, writes Paromita Sengupta and Reshma Ravishanker
SAV-J girl students
Since 2014, when EducationWorld editors took the decision to rank government schools — routinely […]
For state government schools, subject to relentless criticism by educationists, academia and media, a separate league table has been introduced this year to encourage them to upgrade and improve, writes Paromita Sengupta & Reshma Ravishanker
RPVV, Dwarka’s Dr. Atul Kumar (centre left)
The overwhelming majority of the country’s 1.30 million government schools which have earned […]
For EWISR 2022-23, a specially constituted sample respondent database was interviewed by the Delhi-based C fore to rate Central government day schools on 14 parameters of school education excellence, writes Paromita Sengupta & Reshma Ravishanker
Navy Children School, Vizag’s Dr. Parul Kumar
The condition of the overwhelming majority of India’s 1.20 million government schools is […]
In international day-cum-boarding schools, day scholars benefit from the excellent infrastructure and facilities built for boarders and the latter benefit by way of student body diversity. Against 28 schools ranked in this category in 2017, the number has risen to 41 in EWISR 2022-23
The league table of international day schools in the annual EWISR is lengthening every year with new institutions springing up in metros, state capitals and even tier III and IV cities across the country. This year’s league table of India’s best international day schools is 123-strong
With several hitherto highly ranked boys boarding schools including Mayo College, Ajmer, Scindia School, Gwalior, Bishop Cotton, Shimla and St. Paul’s, Darjeeling among others transferred to the new vintage legacy category, there’s been a major rearrangement of seating in this league table
TDS headmaster Dr. Jagpreet Singh
The history of modern primary-secondary education has been […]
Girls boarding schools are valuable national assets because they provide access to a wide range of co-curricular and sports education and greater personality development opportunities, than to girl children in day schools
Top-ranked SKV principal Nishi Misra
Although gender-segregated schools are fading out of fashion as testified by the explosion of co-ed schools in all […]
Somewhat surprisingly in a reportedly conservative society, even under the boarding schools category the lengthiest league table is of co-ed institutions with numbers listed in the gender-segregated boys and girls schools shrinking year by year
Chinmaya Mission director Shanti Krishnamurthy (centre)
Societal preference of mixed gender co-ed schools is evidenced by the rapidly multiplying co-ed […]
In this issue, we present national, state, and parameter league tables of boarding schools (co-ed, boys and girls), international (co-ed day, day-cum-boarding, residential), vintage legacy, government, special needs, budget private and philanthropy schools, writes Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Since the EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) were somewhat tentatively and experimentally launched in 2007, they have […]
Rising awareness of the importance of formal SEL (social emotional learning) is timely in post-pandemic India where social tensions and religions, caste, class and gender fault lines are manifesting in a slowing economy experiencing rising unemployment and inflation
One of the most promising developments in early childhood and K-12 education worldwide is rising awareness among educationists, […]
With the overwhelming majority of new day schools being mixed gender, the boys-only league table has been shrinking every year. This year with legacy vintage boys schools ranked separately, the number has reduced to 26
With a large number of conservative households insistent upon gender-segregated education, high-ranked girls schools provide a window of opportunity for a large number of girl children to acquire quality K-12 education
Sacred Heart, Chandigarh’s Sr. Arti along with students
Tragic but true. Even in this 21st century day and age, there are not a few conservative […]
It’s a brilliant idea to rank India’s vintage schools over a century-old which are a valuable legacy of the country, separately. It’s logical that schools with ancient traditions and value systems are compared with each other rather than with new late 20th and early 21st century institutions. Over the past 130 years, Daly College has […]
Day-cum-boarding schools are highly valued because they offer parents and children the advantages of living at home plus access to superior infrastructure that boarding schools invariably provide. Little wonder their number is rising every year
Emerald Heights International School, Indore (EHIS) with its founder Siddharth Singh
In the pioneer annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) […]
The scale and depth of EWISR 2022-23 is unprecedented in India and worldwide. Over a period of four months, 122 C fore field researchers conducted interviews in 28 cities across the country. They persuaded 14,221 parents, teachers, principals, educationists and students to rate 4,000 primary-secondaries under 14 parameters of school excellence, writes Dilip Thakore & […]
In this special 75th Independence Day cover feature, we present suggestions to parents on simple but effective ways to educate children about India’s unique freedom movement and the democratic and secular ideals that Mahatma Gandhi and other great visionaries gifted free India, writes Ramya Sakthivel & Cynthia John
Sentient educators and intellectuals are unanimous that educating […]
Fifty years after its initiatives in rural education, healthcare, solar energy, water conservation, handicrafts, waste management and wasteland development have transformed the lives of millions in the neglected outbacks of hinterland India, the overwhelming majority of citizens are unaware of this unique institution, writes Dilip Thakore
Early this year as the country was recovering from the […]
The mind-boggling array of career pathways available to 21st century youth has made career and vocation planning a more complex endeavour than in the past. Confronted with a diverse multiliplicity of choices, parents and youth have to match aptitudes with career preferences, writes Poornima Dilip, Cynthia John & Ramya Sakthivel
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