With American disenchantment with communist China growing by the day, America’s top-ranked universities are increasingly looking towards India — which currently hosts the world’s largest child and youth population — for students and academic collaboration partnerships. Suddenly American academics have discovered that the English language skills of Indian students and relative autonomy of […]
Delhi-based DIYA BADGEL is the new India director of the AFS Intercultural Programs. Promoted in 1915 as the American Field Service (AFS), currently AFS is a US-based non-profit organisation providing multinational exchange programmes for children and young adults to develop the knowledge, skills and understanding required to create a more just and peaceful […]
Hitherto principal of the Chaoyang Kaiwen Academy, Beijing (China), ANDREW LEALE is founding-headmaster of the Harrow International School, Bengaluru (HISB) which is under construction on a 30-acre campus in Devanahalli, a suburb of the garden city (pop.10 million). HISB is the outcome of a collaboration agreement between two heavyweights — the Delhi-based Amity […]
Best-selling author, motivational speaker, and self-improvement guru, SEAN COVEY is the Utah (USA)-based president of FranklinCovey Education, a division of FranklinCovey Inc (FCI, annual revenue: $263 million (Rs.2,177 crore) in 2021-22), a publicly-listed company providing assessment training and services in leadership and business management to corporates and individuals.
AJAY GUPTA is founder-CEO of S.K. Educations Pvt. Ltd, a Delhi-based company that owns the Bachpan Play School and Academic Heights Public Schools (AHPS) brands. Over the past 20 years since Gupta ventured into K-12 education, the number of Bachpan and AHPS franchisee schools has multiplied to 1,200 with an aggregate enrolment of […]
JAMES COSTAIN is the newly appointed Head of School at the Legacy School (estb.1984), Bengaluru, ranked among India’s Top 10 international day schools, and #1 in Karnataka and Bengaluru in the latest EW India School Rankings 2022-23. Affiliated with the UK-based Cambridge International and Geneva-based International Baccalaureate (IB) exam boards, Legacy School has […]
KUSUM BHANDARI and PARIMAL DAS are joint conveners of Udayan Care Kolkata (UCK), the regional chapter of Udayan Care, an NGO founded in Delhi in 2002 by social activist Kiran Modi. Udayan Care provides shelter, education scholarships and vocational training programmes to homeless children. In 2007, philanthropist-educationist Bhandari and Das, former president of […]
An extra-curricular activity of RANJEET SINGH YADAV, a sub-inspector of the Uttar Pradesh state police has transformed him into a press and social media star in India’s most populous state (215 million). In his off-duty hours, this Ayodhya-based khaki wale guruji (‘teacher in khaki’) runs an informal school for 65 children under the […]
Pune-based Sushma Pathare is principal of the free-of-charge Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation English Medium School, Bopkhel (PCMC-EMS, estb. 2016) — one of 26 primary-secondary schools managed by the Mumbai-based Akanksha Foundation in private-public partnership with local governments. Affiliated with the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, PCMC-EMS provides English-medium education to […]
Karun Tadepalli is the Hyderabad and Dallas, Texas (USA)-based CEO and co-founder of byteXL India Pvt. Ltd (estb.2020, headcount: 125). The company has developed an edtech platform that offers second, third and final year engineering undergrads self-learning courseware and guided training programmes in emerging technologies (Devops, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, AI, ML, and […]
An indefatigable champion of orphaned and marginalised children, P. Purnachandra Rao is the promoter (founder-secretary) of the Needy Illiterate Children Education (NICE) School (estb.2002). Sited in Mynampadu village (pop.5,900), an hour’s drive from Guntur (pop.800,000), NICE is a free-of-charge K-10 English-medium residential school affiliated with the […]
Head of School James Costain’s educational philosophy and leadership vision are wholly aligned with the vision and passion for education at Legacy School, Bengaluru. He feels a great honour and privilege in leading the continued journey of Legacy School and its learning community. “Our goal is to authentically progress the journey of the school towards […]
Established in 2002, Nanritam (‘truth’) is a Purulia (West Bengal)-based NGO promoted by Ranjana Sengupta, founder-secretary, and Prof. P.K. Giri, president of Nanritam Society, together with five like-minded professionals — Dr. Shyamal K. Datta, Dr. Osman Ghani, Milika Datta, Ranjit Mukherji, and Dr. Bharati Bakshi with Prof. Kaushik Basu, former World Bank chief […]
Mumbai-based sex education evangelist Anju Kish is the founder-director of UnTaboo Education Pvt. Ltd (estb.2015). The company conducts age-appropriate and gender inclusive safety and sex education workshops for children in the 8-18 years age group. Over 30 progressive primary-secondary schools including Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Oberoi International, Mumbai, Mayo College, Ajmer and The […]
Rajesh Panda is founder-managing director of Corporate Gurukul Pte. Ltd (CGPL, estb.2007), a Singapore-based ed-tech company that offers internships and immersive experiential learning programmes to secondary and tertiary education students in partnership with globally top-ranked universities.
Currently, its eight-week online internship and eight-days on-campus programmes in partnership with the National University of Singapore (NUS) […]
Aishwarya Rao is the Coimbatore-based director (academics and administration) of the Vivekalaya Group of Institutions (VGI, estb.1989) which owns and manages the CBSE Vivekalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School (estb.1989), Akshyantra Learning Centre (1990) offering the NIOS curriculum, the Cambridge (UK)-affiliated The Vivekalaya’s Prakriya International School (2012), the NIOS-affiliated Bodhi Academy (2018) and the […]
A committed proponent of play in early childhood education, Bengaluru-based parenting coach, leadership mentor, educator and edupreneur Preethi Vickram is founder-director of the new-age Cambridge (UK)-affiliated Tapas (derived from the Hindi word tapasya meaning devotion, estb.2020). The school which began operations last June (2021) offers project-based STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) […]
Pankaj Sharma is president of the Pune-based Lexicon Group (estd.2006) whose education division has promoted three CBSE-affiliated primary-secondary schools, eight preschools and a therapy centre for special children with an aggregate enrolment of 15,000 students. The Lexicon Group has business interests in health and fitness, lifestyle and media.
Newspeg. The group’s latest initiative launched […]
Aditya Patil is founder-CEO of the newly-promoted Ascend International School, Mumbai (AIS, estb.2011). AIS, which is receiving good notices from Mumbai’s cognoscenti, offers the primary years programme (PYP) of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO), Geneva to 100 K-VI students mentored by 31 teachers. Promoted by the Kasegaon Education Society (KES), which runs 39 education institutions […]
GRK Reddy is the Chennai-based chairman and managing director of MARG Group (estb. 1994), a thriving infrastructure conglomerate comprising six separate businesses including the 1,000-acre MARG Swarnabhoomi ” a unique complex which integrates education, research and industry into a model people, energy and resource-efficient ecosystem. The Swarnabhoomi Academic Institutions (SAI) trust (estb. 2011) comprise the […]
Raj Mruthyunjayappa is the Bangalore-based managing director (Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa) of the Boca Raton (USA)-based Campus Management Corporation (CMC) which offers a complete ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution to over 2,000 higher education institutions in 26 countries. In this capacity, Mruthyunjayappa manages CMC’s business in all geographies except the American continents. […]
Sudhanshu Fadnis is the founder-director of Delhi-based KSR Sportseed (KSRS) Pvt. Ltd, a company he promoted in 2012 to offer sports education, training and assessment to schools. A mechanical engineering graduate of MS University, Vadodara and the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, Fadnis acquired plenty of work experience in blue-chip engineering corporates Larsen […]
Delhi-based Sher Mehta, an economic forecasting and applied economics postgraduate of Kingston University, UK and University of Antwerp, Belgium, is founder-CEO of India’s first Macroeconomics School ” an online global school of macroeconomics with a vocational orientation ” which offers short-term online courses in the subject.
Newspeg. On October 13, the Macroeconomics School was officially launched […]
A professional vocalist and co-founder of the Mumbai-based NGO Trinayani, Ritika Sahni is passionately committed to empowering persons with disabilities (PWDs) with training and livelihood opportunities while educating and sensitising the public to people with special needs. Since it was registered in 2006, Trinayani has placed 40-50 PWDs in industry, has conducted around 250 disability […]
A history postgraduate of Delhi’s St. Stephen’s College, Vanita Uppal is principal of The British School (TBS, estb.1963) where she started teaching history in 1991. In 2008, she was appointed principal of the secondary school after serving as dean of students and deputy principal. The school offers the IGCSE programme of the Cambridge International Examinations, […]
Vivek Pathak is the founder-director of Kolkata-based NIPS School of Hotel Management (estb. 1993), which offers undergraduate, postgrad, and diploma programmes in hospitality management. The school currently has 540 students tutored by 22 faculty on its muster rolls.
Newspeg. In November, NIPS laid the foundation of a fully-fledged business-cum-training hotel on a plot adjacent to the […]
Prof. Michael Thorne is the vice chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University, UK (ARU, estb. 1858). With a student population of 36,000, ARU is one of South-east England’s largest public universities, and is spearheading the South Asia Anglia Partnership (SAAP, estb. 2013). SAAP is a common forum for vice chancellors of universities in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, […]
California-based Dr. Mariappan Jawaharlal is co-founder of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Center India (estb. 2012). A start-up headquartered in Chennai, it offers primary-secondary students experiential hands-on and minds-on robotics programmes designed to make learning enjoyable while simultaneously developing their creativity, critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Newspeg. Dr. Jawaharlal was recently in Bangalore to […]
She is all of 16, writes poetry, plays the synthesizer, composes her own music, is a tenacious debater and wants to work towards a more just society. Meet Maithili Dalvi, teenager extraordinaire. There’s more. Maithili has already made her mark in the fields of medicine, biotechnology and biochemistry by presenting seminal research at the Intel […]
Ahmedabad-based mother tongue advocate-entrepreneur Darsha Kikani is an independent director of several public limited liability companies. She also organises the annual Vartamelo (story fair) in Gujarati language creative writing competition open to class VII-XII students and teachers.
Launched in 2017, this annual storywriting competition held in January-February every year attracted participation from 200 schools […]
Deep Narayan Nayak, a teacher at the state government promoted Tilka Maji Adibashi Free Primary School, in the Jamuria village (pop.1.5 lakh) in Paschim Bardhaman district of West Bengal, is popularly known as ‘Raster Master’ (Teacher of the Street). This enterprising 34-year-old educator turned walls of village homes into blackboards and roads into […]
Ranjita Raman is the Mumbai-based CEO of Jaro Education Pvt. Ltd (JE, estb.2009) — a constituent of the Jaro Group of companies. JE is an edtech company that provides world-class executive education, certificate and degree programmes included, to enable junior, middle and senior-level working professionals to upskill and advance their careers.
Bengaluru-based Aayur Kaul is the India head of the New York-based Skillshare Inc. (est.2010) — “the world’s largest online learning community for creativity”. Skillshare, with over 13 million registered members worldwide, made its India debut last November. Kaul’s brief is to introduce Skillshare’s products and services to Indian learners.
Newspeg: Skillshare’s India debut fortuitously […]
A widely acknowledged master of articulation, Dr. Rakesh Godhwani is the Bengaluru-based founder-CEO of the School of Meaningful Experiences (SoME, estb.2018, head count: 22), an education start-up that offers online communication and leadership skills development programmes to teenage children, entrepreneurs and working professionals.
Through partnerships with corporates, schools, colleges and […]
Yashovardhan Poddar is the Bengaluru-based co-founder of edtech start-up Openhouse Technologies Pvt. Ltd (estb.2018, head count: 100) that offers K-12 children a rich menu of curated after-school learning programmes including academic support, public speaking, theatre, dance, entrepreneurship, community service, chess, robotics, data science, and music.
Music education evangelist Bindu Subramaniam — daughter of globally-renowned violin maestro L. Subramaniam and Indian classical and playback singer Kavita Krishnamurthy — is the Bengaluru-based co-founder and CEO of the Subramaniam Academy of Performing Arts (SaPa, estb.2007). SaPa provides joyful age-appropriate education in Carnatic, Hindustani classical and Western music. […]
Mayank Batheja is co-founder and director of Delhi-based fintech startup, Credenc Web Technologies Pvt. Ltd (estb.2017) which offers higher education loans to students. Over the past four years, Credenc has disbursed education loans valued at Rs.160 crore to over 3,000 students.
Newspeg. Recently, Credenc received equity and debt investment of […]
Edupreneur Shveta Raina is the Mumbai-based founder-CEO of Advantage Leadership Solutions Pvt. Ltd, which owns Talerang, a proprietary career training brand and platform that is the combination of two words — Talent, and Boomerang. Talerang offers school students, college graduates and professionals well-designed short duration and long-term programmes to make […]
Nitesh Jain is the founder-CEO of the Gurugram-based Best Edventure Pvt. Ltd (estb.2019), a company that runs the BeSingular education platform.
Jain: future technologies focus
This online platform provides K-12 students study programmes in future technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), game design, coding, IOT (Internet of Things), […]
Koneru Satyanarayana is president of the private, low-profile Vijaywada- (Andhra Pradesh)-based KL (Koneru Lakshmaiah) Deemed University (estb.1980). Sprawled across a green 100-acre world-class campus, KLDU is providing high quality undergrad, postgrad, doctoral and post-doctoral study and research programmes in design, architecture, fine arts, engineering, law, management, […]
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