Against the backdrop of the rising popularity of private universities which are beginning to establish themselves as formidable competitors not only to public universities in India but also to foreign varsities, for the past five years EducationWorld has been publishing league tables rating and ranking private universities on several parameters of higher education excellence – Dilip […]
To compile the EWIPHER league tables this year, C fore field representatives interviewed 9,914 academic faculty, industry representatives and final year students to rank the country’s Top 100 private universities, engineering institutions, arts, science and commerce colleges and Top 100 private B-schools – Dilip Thakore
As usual, publication of the annual EducationWorld India Private Higher Education Rankings […]
To provide millennial parents options beyond signing up their progeny for normative summer activities, ParentsWorld presents some enjoyable, creative, off-the-beaten track indoor and outdoor activities for children in the summer holidays – K. P. Mailini, Mini. P & Cynthia John
The eight-week summer holidays, which begin this month in India for most schools, evoke contrasting emotions […]
Universalisation of primary-secondary education would establish the rule of reason over emotion and empower citizens of the world’s most populous democracy to appreciate the profound logic of the Gandhian prescription of religious harmony, caste and gender equality and development of self-respect in all Indians, to reap the country’s much-awaited demographic dividend – Dilip Thakore
Homeschooling has gained popularity in the new millennium with a small minority of households abandoning the rote learning and exam-obsessed mainstream school system to provide their children individualised primary-secondary education at home to develop their creative, critical thinking and problem solving cognitive capabilities – Arundhati Nath & Summiya Yasmeen
With India’s metros fast reaching saturation point, the expansion of small town India’s neo middle class has fuelled demand for high-quality globally benchmarked K-12 English-medium schools, especially in tier II-IV cities – Summiya Yasmeen
With the Indian economy growing at 7 percent-plus annually — the highest annual growth rate of all large economies worldwide, according to […]
The burden of parental expectations, unwieldy syllabuses, rote learning-rewarding examinations, and surging admission cut-offs in India’s too few best colleges and universities are pushing children and adolescents into irrational dread of examinations. The onus is on parents to provide cheerful support and encourage children to be in good physical and mental shape to give their […]
Although India’s school education system is severely criticised in national and international surveys, these indictments are not applicable to the country’s estimated 310,000 licensed private unaided schools. Leaders of India’s top-ranked day, boarding and international schools offer valuable advice on good management and best practices – Dilip Thakore
A social response to helicopter parents who micro-manage children’s lives by organising a host of structured activities including academic tuitions and after-school music/sports classes, slow parenting encourages children to learn, live and grow at their own pace in non-stressful environments. Aka simplicity parenting, it is increasingly finding favour with educationists, psychologists and parents worldwide – Jayalakshmi […]
Since it admitted its first batch of 100 students a decade ago, the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat (Haryana) has established itself as one of India’s most promising humanities and liberal arts universities. In the QS BRICS University Rankings 2019, JGU is ranked among the Top 3 percent and among the Top 450 in the […]
As digital devices — smart phones, computer tabs, laptops, gaming consoles, etc — become ubiquitous, children, especially adolescents, are increasingly becoming tech addicted with disastrous consequences. New research indicates that excessive on-screen time adversely impacts attention spans and creativity, limits social interaction and perhaps slows down the neural growth and development of children – Christobelle Joseph
Over the past three months, more than 100 field personnel of the Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company C fore interviewed 8,245 sample respondents including SEC (socio-economic category) ‘A’ parents, preschool principals and teachers to rate and rank proprietary and franchised pre-primaries separately in 16 cities countrywide – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
In this booming metro which retains some of its charm in several wards and suburbs, a multiplying number of new genre internationally benchmarked preschools have sprung up to meet the demand of its expanding middle class population. Here are Bangalore’s best preschools 2018-19
Widely known as the Silicon Valley of India for the several large multinational IT […]
Given its historical error of neglecting English language learning, there’s rising clamour within middle class households in Gujarat for privately provided early childhood care and education. Here are Ahmedabad’s best preschools 2018-19.
The western seaboard state of Gujarat (pop. 60.4 million), where prime minister Narendra Modi served as chief minister for three consecutive terms before leading […]
India is facing a teen suicide crisis with an increasing number of vulnerable adolescents and young adults finding it difficult to cope with the burden of parental expectations, peer pressure, demands of an exam-focused education system and breakdown of traditional family structures – Arundhati Nath
On September 12 an 18-year-old student of IIT-Guwahati hanged herself in […]
With #metoo stories dominating print and television headlines and the social media during the past two months, the role of parents in educating male children about women’s rights and freedoms, mutual consent, and practising gender equality from early age, has begun —even if belatedly — to receive academic interest and attention – Sruthy Susan Ullas
With one of the richest treasure troves of natural and man-made wonders and a history dating back to the dawn of civilisation, despite a civil insurgency and tsunami damage, Sri Lanka’s tourism industry has recovered and is booming again
The pearl on the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka (pop.21 million) is perhaps one […]
It is the misfortune of the world’s largest child and youth population that like its predecessor governments, the BJP-NDA government at the Centre and in several major states has failed to sufficiently comprehend that nurturance of the country’s abundant human resource is the prerequisite of national development – Dilip Thakore elaborates on the BJP education report […]
Disturbingly, a large and growing number of children and adolescents in India are suffering mental health disorders. A World Health Organisation (WHO) report released last year says that one in four early teens in India suffers depression – Geetha Rao
Kavya Rao (14), a class IX student in Mumbai, was a class topper and an excellent […]
Creating mind maps i.e, diagrams to visually organise information, helps students develop successful self-learning and study skills – Jayalakshmi Vaidyanathan
Mind mapping is an innovative learning technique that helps students visualise and externalise concepts by creating mind maps i.e, diagrams to visually organise information. It is commonly used as an effective learning aid, to boost critical thinking […]
For adults the island nation of Singapore is one of the busiest global business hubs worldwide. But, for children, it’s a fantasy wonderland with an endless list of enthralling sights and sounds which simultaneously educate and entertain – BHUMIKA K.
A giant black slope lights up and bursts into flowers as you slide down a fruit […]
Exasperated by spreading urban blight, post-liberalisation India’s expanding and increasingly affluent middle class is becoming enamoured with boarding schools typically sited in the country’s still salubrious hill stations, and/or pristine unpolluted campuses on the outskirts of gas chamber cities – Dilip Thakore
The law of unintended consequences works in mysterious ways. Over seven decades ago despite the […]
A deadly strain of the corruption virus is debilitating Indian academia. Mind-boggling reports of apex level academic corruption from every state of India’s sub-continental landmass are beginning to register on the collective conscious. Dilip Thakore reports
Having developed resistance and immunity for decades within its shady groves, a deadly strain of the corruption virus is sweeping Indian academia. […]
With technology, electronic devices and the Internet becoming ubiquitous and children taking to gizmos and gadgets with manic frenzy, there’s rising panic about children and youth’s growing digital gaming addiction. In its latest International Classification of Diseases, the World Health Organisation has categorised ‘gaming disorder’ as a serious mental health condition – K.P. Malini & […]
To conduct the EWISR 2018-19 survey, field personnel of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 12,214 SEC ‘A’ fees-paying parents, school principals, teachers and senior school students in 27 major cities and education hubs across India –Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
During his 82-minute Independence Day speech delivered from the ramparts of Delhi’s Red Fort last month, […]
The lengthiest league table of the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings is invariably of co-ed day schools. The great majority of the educated middle class has accepted co-ed day schools as normative
Invariably the lengthiest league table of the sui generis annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) survey published every September, is of co-ed day schools. […]
A notable feature of India’s best day-cum-boarding schools 2018-19 national league table is that seven DPS schools promoted/franchised by the Delhi Public Schools Society (estb. 1937) are seated at the Top 10 table
2017-18 was a year of churn for the 70-plus institutions listed in the EducationWorld league table of India’s most admired co-ed day-cum-boarding schools […]
With the country’s cities having transformed into toxic, over-crowded gas chambers, the prospect of sending the children off to boarding schools in the hills to breathe clean air while receiving their unique mix of excellent academic, co-curricular and sports education, has become an increasingly attractive option for SEC ‘A’ households. Here are India’s best co-ed […]
Led by a new generation of highly-qualified and professionally accomplished women leaders and champions of gender rights and equality, girls boarding schools are flourishing. Here are India’s best girls boarding schools 2018-19
With the emancipation of women and gradual — perhaps too gradual — rise in the social phenomenon of gender egalitarianism, sexually segregated (aka single […]
The Doon School, establised 83 years ago as a nationalist riposte to starchy anglicised boarding schools which were reluctant to admit native students, has captured the imagination of post-independence India’s elite classes
Although it maintains an obstinately low public profile and continuously flies below radar, The Doon School, Dehradun (TDS, estb.1935) enjoys a rock-solid reputation […]
International Day-cum-Boarding Schools have become the preferred choice of SEC ‘A’ households aspiring for international K-12 certification and holistic education experiences for their children. Here are India’s Best International Day-cum-Boarding Schools 2018-19.
Within the broad category of international schools (defined as primary-secondaries affiliated with offshore examination boards), international day-cum-boarding schools are highly fancied because they offer […]
The country’s unique budget private schools are facing an existential crisis and are being forced to close down. However, they offer bottom-of-the-pyramid households an acceptable alternative to the country’s dysfunctional government schools
For India’s lower middle class and bottom-of-the-pyramid households shortchanged by the country’s dysfunctional public education system defined by crumbling infrastructure, multi-grade classrooms, English language […]
To acknowledge and celebrate the efforts of the small minority of special needs schools, C fore field researchers interviewed a special sample of 532 respondents including parents of CWSN and special educators in five cities
Despite the promise of universal access to primary education for all children aged 6-14 years under the Right of Children to […]
Disciplining recalcitrant children has emerged as one of the biggest challenges confronting parents in the new age of mass consumerism. Should they spare the traditional rod and spoil the child, or ideate new solutions for disciplining children? -Sruthy Susan Ullas
Arunima Rajeev, a 30-year-old Bangalore-based homemaker, has stopped going to grocery stores for shopping and switched […]
In the new age of instant digital connectivity and globalisation, it is possible — and necessary — for educationists in vastly different geographies to identify and adapt best practices in education. In India we can make a start by implementing 3 stepping stones for school improvement to repair the severely damaged foundations of the countrys […]
With 134 million children countrywide having access to mobile phones and the Internet, there’s high probability that they are viewing inappropriate online content including porn. Decades of research has highlighted that viewing pornography is associated with anti-social outcomes, and that younger the age at which children are exposed to porn, the more deleterious the impact […]
It’s the time of the year when the world’s largest school-going population — 250 million children — is getting ready to start or resume school. Therefore, parents across the country are gearing up to buy school books, uniforms, arrange tuition/co-curricular activities, and set routines. PW presents a detailed guide for parents to help start well […]
In a glamour-obsessed society which places high premium on physical beauty and form and promotes perfect body images through advertising, cinema and all-pervasive social media, there’s increasing pressure on adolescents to conform to improbable physical ideals. This growing body image obsession is prompting millions of teens worldwide to resort to extreme diets and punishing exercise […]
EducationWorld, India’s #1 education magazine (an affiliate of ParentsWorld) in association with the reputed Delhi-based market research and opinion polls company Centre for Forecasting and Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore) conducted its annual EW India Higher Education Rankings 2018-19 to rate and rank the country’s Top 100 private universities, engineering colleges, and multidisciplinary arts, science […]
On the eve of Earth Day (April 22), ParentsWorld interviewed environment experts and parents who have taken the lead in teaching children to Go Green from infancy – K.P. Malini
When Rajesh Shah returned from the US to India in 2007 with his family comprising wife Vallari, a mediator, gardener and dancer, and two children Parthiv and Tarang to […]
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