The 2nd EW-BSAI Education Leadership Retreat 2024 convened between December 21-23 in Sunbeam School, Varuna, Varanasi, which attracted 108 school leaders from 21 cities and towns across the country, was a great success. Post-event feedback indicates this initiative made a substantial positive impact
The second EW (EducationWorld)- BSAI (Boarding Schools Association of India) Education […]
Like the previous six Union budgets presented by her, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s seventh consecutive budget has missed the opportunity to make adequate provision for foundational literacy and numeracy and basic education for India’s 265 million in-school children – writes Dilip Thakore
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (centre) & team: Capex, MSMEs […]
Reports of widespread cheating, favouritism and swindles in NEET-UG 2024 have generated the first storm of the new Parliament convened on June 24. That’s bad news for the weakened BJP/NDA 3.0 government, and especially for re-inducted Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan – writes Summiya Yasmeen
Students countrywide protesting NEET-UG 2024 mismanagement: unprecedented scale
Ever since Rakesh Sharma, the only Indian astronaut who travelled to space in 1984, we have not witnessed any such expedition by an Indian. After four decades of wait, Capt. Gopichand Thotakura has achieved this feat. He is an Indian civil astronaut selected by Blue Origin for its New Shepard’s 25th Mission, along with […]
Spread over three days, this unprecedented retreat convened in the Himalayan foothills attracted 70 promoters, trustees, and principals of K-12 schools from 16 states across the country – writes Summiya Yasmeen
Cheerful delegates with ELR 2024 participation certificates
he inaugural Education Leadership Retreat (ELR) 2024, organised by EducationWorld and the Boarding Schools’ Association of India […]
Rural India has been shortchanged from reaping the gains of freedom and national development by way of continuously adverse terms of trade between town and country. A visitor from another planet is likely to identify rural Bharat as a totally different country from urban India with its swish motorcars, glitzy shopping malls and big weddings […]
Bristling with a gamut of discretionary rules, regulations and conditions, the UGC (Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India) Regulations, 2023, is unlikely to enthuse top-ranked foreign universities to establish owned campuses in India – writes Summiya Yasmeen
During the past 24 years since it was launched in 1999 with the ambitious objective to “build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda,” EducationWorld has continuously highlighted nationally important education issues. For the past almost quarter century, we have told the stories of thousands of dedicated […]
Revolutionary capital-intensive AI technologies and robots are spreading fear of lay-offs and part-time employment for workers tardy about re-skilling and upgrading their skills. The message is going out to all employees from executive suites downwards: upskill or else writes Dilip Thakore
Vocational education & training: substantial rewards for upskilling early movers
Released last December, CASS 2022 indicts the country’s 1.48 million government and private schools for failure to sufficiently develop children’s social and emotional learning skills, positive attitudes, beliefs and values writes Summiya Yasmeen
Although mainstream media reports at the fag end of the academic year 2022-23 and on the eve of the new school year gloss […]
Ranjana Raghunathan, assistant professor, School of Liberal Arts and Design Studies, Vidyashilp University
We live in a rapidly changing world where the youth need to grapple with newer challenges and chaos at a much faster pace. The social, economic, and ecological complexities wrought by rapid development, rising fundamentalisms, and environmental damage are unprecedented. There is a […]
Although disappointment with achievements of this publication, which has been ploughing a lonely furrow for over two decades exceeds contentment, there is cause for some satisfaction. Today, there is substantially greater acceptance within the establishment and society of several causes consistently advocated by EducationWorld, Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
WITH PUBLICATION OF this issue, EducationWorld […]
Mandated without adequate debate and preparation in the trademark style of the BJP/NDA government, the inaugural Common University Entrance Test (CUET) 2022 — promulgated as the sole exam for admission into undergraduate programmes of the country’s 45 Central universities — has made a disastrous debut, writes Summiya Yasmeen
Mandated without adequate debate and preparation in the […]
According to the latest data of the Union education ministry, 23,000 Indian students are reading medicine in China, 18,000 in Ukraine, 16,000 in Russia, and 15,000 in the Philippines. Every year, thousands of aspiring medicos are driven out of the country because of a huge demand-supply imbalance in medical education, writes Summiya Yasmeen
-Dr. (Mrs.) Amita Chauhan
Chairperson, Amity Group of Schools
Until a few decades ago, summer vacations meant a mandatory trip to our grandparent’s house, or the annual family vacation to the closest hill station. Children, who for some reason could do neither, would find their own ways to entertain themselves, whether it was by wandering around […]
Although currently taking a gap year is an upper class privilege, not a few teens from middle class households are becoming aware of the importance of life skills and internships acquired in a break that enrich higher education and develop competencies that are valuable in adult life, writes Abhilasha Ojha
India’s prolonged 82 weeks lockdown of schools from pre-primary onward is unprecedented in history. Even during the Spanish flu of 1918-20 which took a toll of 18 million lives, schools did not shut down for more than 20 weeks. Extraordinary challenges require extraordinary response – Summiya Yasmeen
Curiously, Bangalore aka Bengaluru, the glitz and glamour city widely acknowledged as India’s Silicon Valley, seems to care little about education especially of the poor majority bypassed by the garden city’s transformative IT revolution. During the past 18 months of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, a majority of the city’s children have had no access to […]
Although the Covid-19 pandemic which has forced the lockdown of all education institutions has made the extraordinary efforts of rural India’s education evangelists more difficult, many have devised innovative solutions to maintain children’s learning continuity – Abhilasha Ojha
Residing in a remote village in the educationally under-served state of Odisha (pop. 45.4 million), unsurprisingly, Rina Bagha […]
The EducationWorld Grand Jury India Higher Education Rankings were introduced in 2019 to recognise and acknowledge low-profile, media shy higher education institutions (HEIs) implementing best practices. Juries comprising knowledgeable educationists were constituted to evaluate low-profile and newly promoted private HEIs deserving recognition. To select progressive higher education institutions across the country, we invited nominations from […]
Against the backdrop of a difficult and challenging pandemic year for India’s teachers, the online CENTA Teaching Professionals Olympiad (TPO) 2020 attracted entries from 25,000 teachers in India and 30 countries abroad – Summiya Yasmeen
One year on since the Central government ordered shutdown of all education institutions including preschools, schools, colleges and universities to check […]
As schools and colleges shut down during the Covid-19 pandemic cautiously reopen, educators are confronted with challenges of repairing the academic, emotional and nutrition damage suffered by tens of millions of children countrywide – Summiya Yasmeen
Children of pandemic shuttered Kolkata primary school: malnutrition damage danger
One year after governments around the world first discerned […]
The persistent failure of police personnel countrywide to rise to bad occasions and discharge their duties with minimal competence has raised disturbing questions about police recruitment, education and training. Numerous police reform commissions and committee reports are gathering dust in government offices
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Police Academy graduates: governed by Police Act, 1861
An alumnus of IIT-Delhi and the blue-chip Georgia Tech University, Atlanta (USA) with professional experience in Reliance Industries, Mafatlal Industries and the Sunflag Group (Tanzania), Prof. Hitesh Bhatt signed up in 2010 with the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA, estb.1979), Gujarat, founded by the legendary Dr. Verghese Kurien, and was promoted to the director’s […]
An alumnus of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) and former manager at UPASI (United Planters Association of South India), Dr. N. Kumar signed up as an assistant professor at TNAU in 1979. In 2018 he was appointed vice chancellor of his alma mater. Excerpts from an interview:
Established on huge scenically landscaped 100 acre-plus estates on urban peripheries, ICAR and the country’s 71 government agriculture universities manage model farms with impressively high yields, but maintain minimal connect with rural communities and farmers – Dilip Thakore
The recent turmoil in the Rajya Sabha on September 20, the upper house of Parliament, when three […]
An engineering and business management alumnus of NIT, Bhopal, and the S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, with five years of work experience in blue-chip corporates (ITC, IBM), Siddharth Chaturvedi is executive vice president of the family promoted AISECT Group (estb.1985) of higher education institutions. The AISECT Group manages 23,000 vocational skills […]
An alum of IIT-Kanpur and the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, with work experience in high-end consultancy firms including McKinsey & Co, New York, Atul Khosla is the founder pro-vice chancellor of Shoolini University, Himachal Pradesh (estb.2009) ranked #1 in the state in the EW India Private University Rankings 2020-21.
A polymath alumnus of Madras, Delhi, Hong Kong, Oxford and Harvard universities, Dr. C. Raj Kumar is founding vice chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana (JGU, estb.2009). JGU is ranked among India’s Top 5 private universities by EducationWorld, and India’s #1 private university in the World University Rankings 2021 league table of […]
An alumna of Delhi and Leicester (UK) universities, Maya Menon is the celebrated founder-director of The Teacher Foundation (estb.2002), a highly respected Bangalore-based teacher development organisation.
Are you satisfied with NEP 2020’s proposals for revamping teacher education?
Far from being satisfied, I am sceptical about how the proposed reforms will translate into norms and practice in […]
Dr. Bijaya Kumar Sahoo is founder-chairman of the Bhubaneswar (Odisha)-based SAI International Group comprising four institutions — the SAI International School, SAI International Residential School, Sai Angan preschool and Sai International College of Commerce — with an aggregate enrolment of 5,260 students and 756 teachers. Dr. Sahoo is also Advisor with ministerial rank of the […]
An alumnus of the Aston Business School, UK, and Cass Business School, London, Ryan Pinto is CEO of the Mumbai based Ryan International Group of Institutions (RIGI), India’s largest proprietorial K-12 schools chain with 137 schools and an aggregate enrolment of over 270,000 students mentored by 16,000 teachers.
Dr. Swati Popat Vats is president of the Early Childhood Association (ECA, estb.2011) which has a membership of 38,000 preschools countrywide, and president of the Association for Primary Education and Research.
How satisfied are you with NEP 2020’s recommendations for early childhood are and education (ECCE)?
NEP 2020 clearly acknowledges that over 85 percent of a […]
Against the backdrop of spreading pessimism, EducationWorld presents suggestions and recommendations of seven carefully selected education leaders for implementing the new education policy in seven critical domains – Summiya Yasmeen
The initial euphoria that greeted the new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 promulgated on July 29, is dying down as the sobering realities of implementing this […]
The EducationWorld Higher Education Grand Jury Awards were introduced last year to acknowledge and recognise higher education institutions (HEIs) implementing global best practices. Juries comprising knowledgeable educationists were constituted to recommend conferment of these awards, especially upon low-profile and newly promoted private HEIs.
To select progressive higher education institutions across the country, we invited nominations from […]
Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic and forced national/ state lockdowns which have accentuated the infirmities of India’s failing K-12 education system, we present recommendations of selected school leaders on ways and means to reinvent K-12 education in the post-Covid era – Summiya Yasmeen
The global Covid-19 pandemic and forced national/state lockdowns have highlighted the […]
At the first-ever celebration of budget private schools (BPS) staged in Mumbai on February 26, 400 promoters, trustees and principals of India’s most admired BPS congregated to celebrate the Top 300 rated and ranked in the EW India Budget Private School Rankings 2020 published last month – Summiya Yasmeen
Promoters and principals of India’s most admired […]
At the 10th consecutive EW ECE National Conference, over 400 ECCE professionals, academics, principals and teachers from 70 cities across the country congregrated in Mumbai last month. They discussed best practices in ECCE and ways and means to universalise early childhood care and education in India – Summiya Yasmeen
A decade ago in 2010, EducationWorld hosted the […]
Somewhat surprisingly across India, the lead in promoting vocational education and training (VET) in a big way has been taken by the eastern seaboard state of Odisha and its BJD government led by the Doon School & St. Stephen’s College educated Naveen Patnaik, serving an unprecedented third term in office as chief minister – Autar Nehru
Following the launch of EducationWorld in 1999 with the objective of “building the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”, even if belatedly, private sector education providers, NGOs and idealistic citizens countrywide are exhibiting enthusiasm for promoting progressive education institutions, improving teaching-learning standards and measuring learning outcomes – Summiya […]
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