Twenty-five years ago, the eve of the new millennium was an era of global hope and optimism. After over two decades of spearheading a movement to jettison the neta-babu licence-permit-quota regimen that had strangled Indian business and industry for over 40 years your publisher-editor came to the conclusion that post-liberalisation India needed to urgently reform […]
This issue of EducationWorld marks the culmination of several months of mountainous labour in our Bangalore and Mumbai offices. The EW team has been burning the proverbial midnight oil compiling, checking and rechecking the EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) 2024-25 league tables published in our September and current issue.
When school leaders, advertisers and sponsors are […]
Since the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings were launched in 2007, they have evolved into the world’s — yes, world’s largest — schools rankings survey. Yet instead of celebrating this Indian achievement, the general reaction is calculated indifference and resentment. Even though EW was launched way back in 1999, politicians and babus in Delhi and […]
When I witness my UK-based nephews dismantle a 450 cc Harley-Davidson motor-cycle and put it back together in a jiffy, and finish household plumbing and repair jobs using sophisticated electric tools, I so regret my own education in an upscale boarding school in India where vocational education was conspicuously missing from the curriculum. Presumably, school […]
When I switched from the corporate sector to business journalism over four decades ago, journalism was a glamour vocation. Industry leaders and businessmen, long pilloried and abused in the heyday of socialism, were anxious to tell their stories to Business India of which I was a category-creator and first editor. After their stories were told […]
The prime cause of post-colonial India’s disappointing national development effort is continuous neglect of K-12 education. Seven decades after independence and a quarter century after this publication was launched with the mission to “build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”, I still can’t understand why post-independence […]
Public perception of media rankings of education institutions is cynical. Most people — especially academics and educators — tend to dismiss them as slapdash initiatives for generating advertising revenue. But it’s pertinent to note that academics and educators tend to know precious little about institutional development and brand building, even of schools, colleges and universities […]
Despite continuous efforts of EducationWorld for almost a quarter century to accord high importance to public education improvement and upgradation, human capital development remains a blind-spot of the Indian establishment, academy, and society.
For over three decades the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) of the independent Pratham Education Foundation has been highlighting poor learning outcomes […]
The imminent completion of the second term of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-dominated NDA coalition government in New Delhi and the prospect of General Election 2024 scheduled for this summer have aroused a flood of comment relating to its track record in political, societal and economy management.
In general, the party under the charismatic leadership of […]
Even as the Great leader and the acclamatory establishment, including academics who should know better, are predicting best days ahead for the Indian economy which is all set to emerge as the world’s third largest — never mind population advantage and pathetic per capita income data — the country seems to be oblivious that the […]
In my four decades-plus and counting career as a development journalist (Business India, BusinessWorld and EducationWorld) I have consistently advocated the virtues of competition and more competition in business and academia. Therefore, I was always opposed to public sector monopoly enterprises promoted by the Central and state governments, and restricted competition within the private sector […]
In the hearts and minds of your editors, early childhood care and education (ECCE) of youngest children under five years has a special place. Since 2010 when we staged the country’s first national/international ECCE conference in Mumbai and simultaneously introduced the EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings (EWIPR) to awake educationists and society to the critical importance […]
24 years of uninterrupted publishing of a magazine is an exemplary record, even if it sounds self-congratulatory. Yet it’s a measure of our commitment to EducationWorld’s mission statement, viz, “to build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda” that come rain or shine, health or illness, we […]
On several occasions in the past quarter when our energies have been totally focused on compiling, checking and cross-checking scores across 14 parameters, totals and rankings of over 4,000 of India’s best primary-secondary schools (from a universe of 1.5 million) — since it was tentatively pioneered in 2007, the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) […]
It’s here! The biggest EW issue of the year. From the blank-eyed stares one gets, there is little awareness or appreciation that since 2007 when the annual Education India School Rankings (EWISR) survey was introduced, it has evolved into the largest, deepest and most comprehensive primary-secondary schools rating and rankings survey worldwide.
On the eve of the new millennium when this publication was launched, we ventured forth into uncharted waters when EducationWorld became the first education-focused magazine in Indian history. Our avowed mission was — and remains — “to build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”. Since then, […]
A great mistake the Congress party made after independence was to abandon the sub-continent’s ancient tradition of free enterprise and free markets and take a sharp Left ideological turn under the influence of Jawaharlal Nehru, free India’s first prime minister. Nehruvian socialism resulted in politically free India becoming an economically enslaved nation. All business, industrial […]
fter liberalisation and deregulation of the dirigiste socialist Indian economy in 1991, the country’s middle class has grown and prospered. According to some estimates it numbers 400 million or 80 million households, as the outflow of Indian graduates and latterly school-leavers, to universities in English-speaking countries — the US, UK, Australia and Canada as also […]
The public often forgets the vast scale and diversity of subcontinental India. For instance, within the education sector there are 1.4 million primary-secondary schools; 43,796 junior and undergrad colleges and 1,113 universities countrywide established to serve the educational needs of over 500 million children and youth. It’s quite obviously impossible to evaluate and rank them […]
A large number of media publications — dailies and periodicals — rate and rank education institutions under several parameters and in various categories. Yet all of them are either general interest publications or business magazines which regard this exercise primarily as an annual revenue generation initiative.
But EducationWorld is a focused education news and features magazine […]
For most people including educators, the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for K-12 education — last presented to the nation in 2005 — is what the apocryphal elephant was to the seven blind men of Hindoostan. As our indefatigable Managing Editor, Summiya Yasmeen discovered in parleys with over three dozen educators — principals, teachers, education consultants […]
Although Indian education is at a liberalisation and deregulation inflection point three decades after Indian industry was liberalised in the landmark Union Budget of 1991 — when licence permit-quota raj which had cabined, cribbed and confined the Indian economy for over four decades was substantially dismantled — better late than never.
With former space scientist Dr. K. Kasturirangan, chairman of the nine-member committee which authored the 484-page Draft National Education Policy, 2019 which translated into the 66-page National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, having unobtrusively accepted the position of chairman of a steering committee to implement NEP 2020, the speed of overdue reform of India’s moribund education […]
Smooth induction of infants into the education system so they develop genuine love of learning, spirit of enquiry and problem solving capabilities is an issue of utmost importance which has not received the attention it deserves. In the latter half of the 20th century, it was normative practice to start drilling and skilling children to […]
The very first issue of EducationWorld — The Human Development Magazine has hesitantly launched in a small 600 sq. ft low-ceiling office in Bangalore (now Bengaluru) on November 6, 23 years ago. The inaugural issue was blessed and formally released by the late Prof. N.S. Ramaswamy (1926-2012), a visionary and insufficiently honoured education institutions builder […]
Since it was somewhat hesitantly and experimentally introduced in 2007, the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) survey, which rates and ranks 3,500- 4,000 of India’s best schools, has evolved into the largest and most detailed schools ranking survey worldwide. However it arouses mixed emotions in diverse publics. Left intellectuals who curiously continue to dominate […]
Over the past 15 years since the detailed globally unprecedented EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) survey was introduced, it has generated great enthusiasm within the educationists, institutional promoters, principals, teachers and students communities countrywide. This is because unlike all other schools ranking league tables (except for blatant knockoffs) which evaluate primary-secondary schools on a single […]
It’s highly unlikely that you’ll encounter an individual as enthused by the surprisingly unsung exploits and initiatives of Barefoot College, Tilonia (Rajasthan) as your correspondent. During the past decade, I have written three cover features on this pioneer community college which has greened the desert landscape of Tilonia (pop.4,500) and a cluster of villages in […]
Work on formulating the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 presented to the nation after an interregnum of 34 years, began in 2016 when the TSR Subramanian Committee working at manic speed, presented the first draft. Evidently, the committee’s report to liberalise and deregulate the education sector on the lines of liberalisation of the Indian economy […]
J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) aka Jiddu/JK, was one of the great philosopher-seers of the 20th century with deep interest in the education of children.
While an adolescent, the young JK was discovered on the banks of the River Adyar, Madras by William Leadbetter, a grandee of the Theosophical Society (estb.1875), who in an epiphanic moment identified him […]
Alhough some self-styled educators and educationists may be unaware, EducationWorld which has a record of 22 years of uninterrupted publishing, come floods, famine or pandemic, has been ranking education institutions across the spectrum from preschools to universities since 2007, perhaps the only news magazine worldwide with this record. But given the pathetic condition of the […]
Not a few academics and pundits tend to be derisive of education institution rankings. The main criticisms are that they are shallow and compare dissimilar institutions, and sample sizes are too small to provide an accurate assessment of the relative merits of education institutions, each of which is unique in its own right. Critics are […]
With the third wave Omicron variant of the novel Coronavirus, which ill-advisedly prompted first the Central and later state governments to impose the most prolonged lockdown (82 weeks) of education institutions from pre-primaries to universities upon the children of India not proving as deadly as the previous Delta variant, schools, colleges and universities have resumed […]
Way back in 2004 when this pioneer education news magazine, promoted in 1999 with the mission to arouse public opinion to exert pressure on the ignorant establishment to develop India’s abundant and high-potential human capital, was in its infancy, we featured a cover titled ‘Dirty dozen corrupt practices destroying Indian education’. Seventeen years later following […]
When after several years of invitation, the top management of the low-profile Hyderabad/Vijayawada-based Sri Chaitanya Group of Institutions (SCGI) agreed to tell its story, there was considerable excitement in the offices of EducationWorld. Because over the past 36 years since foreign-returned medical practitioners Dr. B.S. Rao and Dr. Lakshmibai Jhansi Boppana established a higher secondary […]
Since the EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) survey was somewhat tentatively introduced in 2007, this annual initiative has evolved into the largest, most detailed and perhaps most sophisticated primary-secondary schools ratings and ranking survey worldwide.
This claim is undisputed because every year 3,000 schools well-reputed in their regions (north, west, east and south) divided into three […]
The annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR), introduced in 2007 and continued ever since without a break-even in the pandemic year, has evolved into the world’s largest and most sophisticated schools ranking survey. Sophisticated because unlike other surveys that rank education institutions in India and abroad, the EWISR evaluates the country’s 2,500-3,000 most reputed primary-secondaries […]
There is properly no history, only biography,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), the great American essayist, lecturer, philosopher and abolitionist. Yet in post-independence India, there is a curious reluctance within society — and the media — to give credit to great leaders in vocations other than politics and the film industry. This despite the reality […]
The greatest tragedy of post-independence India’s national development effort is an egregious failure to develop its abundant and high-potential human capital. The inherent capabilities of the country’s people are evidenced by consistently rising agriculture and industry output and the steady growth of the services sector despite the majority populace having continuously experienced sub-optimal education for […]
By any yardstick the novel Coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan China in late 2019, and has infected over 200 million individuals worldwide and inflicted 4.2 million fatalities — including 31 million and 427,000 in India, i.e, Bharat — has taken a grim toll of lives and livelihoods. The evidence that it has severely damaged the […]
EducationWorld in collaboration with the Boarding Schools Association of India (BSAI) hosted the second edition of Education Leadership Retreat 2024 at Sunbeam School, Varuna, Varanasi .....Read More
IIT Delhi organised its 11th Alumni Day on Sunday under the theme ‘Engage, Enrich, Empower: Celebration of an Emotion’ that brought together alumni, students, and .....Read More
