The inaugural EducationWorld Higher Education Grand Jury Awards have been introduced to acknowledge and recognise low-profile and newly established private higher education institutions (HEIs). Juries of knowledgeable educationists were specially constituted to recommend conferment of the EW Grand Jury Awards especially upon newly promoted or low-profile HEIs implementing best practices.
The country’s Top 100 private universities, engineering institutes, B-schools and arts, science and commerce colleges, which topped the EducationWorld India Private Higher Education Rankings 2019-20 league tables, were acclaimed by a distinguished assembly of over 200 leaders of academia – Summiya Yasmeen
The country’s Top 100 private universities, engineering institutions, B-schools and multi-disciplinary arts, science and commerce […]
Belatedly, the destructive fallout of haphazard, irresponsible evaluation of the academic capabilities of high school-leavers has prompted soul-searching within the small but growing minority of bona fide educationists about India’s outdated examination system which rewards rote learning – Summiya Yasmeen writes about grades inflation destroying k-12 education
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With summer holidays approaching, a select mix of knowledgeable educationists, teacher trainers and principals recommend a miscellany of extra-curricular reading for teachers and educators – Summiya Yasmeen
In under-appreciated perquisite of the teacher’s job is the long summer break which normatively extends to eight weeks in India. With school summer holidays beginning this month (April), this […]
A striking feature of pro tem finance minister Piyush Goyal’s 100-minute budget address to Parliament and the nation on February 1 was that the word ‘education’ was mentioned only once and the allocation for education at Rs.93,807 crore was marginally higher than last year – Dilip Thakore
A major infirmity of the Indian State is that its […]
The EducationWorld Promising 21st Century India Preschool Awards were introduced last year to felicitate below-the-radar and/or emerging preschools which have introduced contemporary pedagogies and practices in early childhood care and education (ECCE).
To shortlist and select newly-promoted progressive preschools countrywide, we invited nominations from educationists, individuals and schools themselves supported by evidence of best practices in […]
The 5ws (what, where, who, why and when) and 1H (how) is a favoured formula in journalism for writing complete stories. Therefore in journalistic style, let’s examine the 5Ws and 1H of the biggest bugbear of Indian K-12 education — teacher professional development. While it’s commonly acknowledged that teacher quality and training is essential for […]
To develop children’s literacy, it is important to encourage deep reading from early childhood. A competitive case study of two young children is revealing. One is very familiar with tech devices, using phones and iPads often. The other is experienced in the print medium, having been read to and having interacted with books regularly.
At the recent g20 summit held in Buenos Aires (Argentina), heads of the world’s leading economic powers including the United States, China and India gave their unequivocal support and commitment to prioritising early childhood development. There’s increasing awareness worldwide that early childhood education is critical for children to derive the full benefit of school and […]
When i started my journey as an education entrepreneur, I did not follow the teachings of business gurus. I did not think big, nor did I have success as my goal. I didn’t want to conquer the world. All I had was a deep love for children, hatred of rote learning and knowledge of how […]
Loris malaguzzi (1920-1994), the Italian pedagogist and designer of the Reggio Emilia early childhood approach to education, wrote in a poem titled ‘No way. The hundred is there’ that every child has a hundred languages and hundred ways of thinking, playing and making sense of the world, i.e, each child is different and learns differently.
EW’s 9th Early Childhood Education Conference convened in Bangalore on January 19 attracted over 350 early childhood care and education professionals, academics, principals and teachers from 70 cities across India – Summiya Yasmeen
Despite massive disruption of flight schedules due to heavy fog enveloping Bangalore’s Kempegowda International Airport, which delayed dozens of outstation arrivals, EducationWorld’s 9th […]
Though politically it was a significant year with Congress re-emerging as an electoral threat to the BJP in General Election 2019 scheduled for next summer, 2018 was a business-as-usual year for Indian education – Summiya Yasmeen
No news is good news. This aphorism sums up the year 2018 for Indian education. Led by the unassuming Prakash Javadekar, […]
Once the epicentre of India’s freedom struggle and the alma mater of three prime ministers, two vice-presidents and a president of India as well as of authors, artistes and senior bureaucrats, this 131-year-old university has experienced a steady descent into a whirpool of student violence, corruption, caste politics, faculty recruitment scams and lawlessness – Autar […]
The two-day EWISR Awards 2018-19 event was the sequel of the EducationWorld India School Rankings — the world’s largest and most in-depth school rankings survey — published last month. Over 1,000 educators and school leaders were conferred national, state and city rankings among other honours – Summiya Yasmeen
Over two days on September 28-29, principals, promoters, […]
The EducationWorld Grand Jury Awards were introduced in 2016 to acknowledge and celebrate schools — especially low-profile and newly promoted institutions — which excelled in parameters of K-12 education excellence over and above the 14 parameters assessed in the annual EW India School Rankings survey. In its third year, a specially constituted jury of knowledgeable […]
The EducationWorld Grand Jury Awards were introduced in 2016 to acknowledge and celebrate schools — especially low-profile and newly promoted institutions — which excelled in parameters of K-12 education excellence over and above the 14 parameters assessed in the annual EW India School Rankings survey. In its third year, a specially constituted jury of knowledgeable […]
A highlight of the two-day EducationWorld India School Rankings Awards 2018-19 celebrations staged at the upscale Leela Ambience Hotel, Delhi NCR on September 28-29, was the launch of the unique ELITE (Emerging Leaders in Innovation, Technology and Education) School Rankings 2018-19, designed and executed by Edfinity, a Silicon Valley-based online learning firm supported by the […]
An arts and education postgraduate of Osmania University and the University of New Mexico, USA, Begum Anees Khan is the Promoter-Chairperson of the Hyderabad-based Nasr Education Society (NES, regst.2001), and the Founder-Principal of the top-ranked CISCE-affiliated class I-XII Nasr Girls School, Hyderabad. Over the past 53 years, NES has promoted and manages five […]
Outstanding Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2018
Currently vice president of the Genesis Global School, Noida and hitherto the Founding-Principal and Director of this globally benchmarked CBSE, CAIE and IB-affiliated international school ranked #4 in EducationWorld’s national league table of international day-cum-boarding schools, Pramod Sharma is one of India’s most experienced and respected school leaders who has played a major role in […]
Outstanding Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2018
A home science graduate of the Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, and early childhood education postgrad of the University of Iowa, USA, Ratna Reddy is founder-director of the Chirec Group of three schools in Hyderabad (pop. 7.75 million) which have an aggregate 3,750 students and 480 teachers on their muster rolls. After her […]
Outstanding Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2018
Born in Burma (now Myanmar) where she received her K-12 education at the Cusek School, Yangon (formerly Rangoon), Amarjyoti Gohil (nee Khullar) moved en famille to the UK in 1970. Continuing her education in the UK, she was admitted into the University of Liverpool which awarded her a postgraduate degree in psychology in 1974.
With the Indian economy growing at 7 percent plus since 1991, there is a substantial rise in demand for managers and workers. But the overwhelming majority of job seekers aren’t sufficiently qualified for industry and business job vacancies because of a huge and widening gap between the academy and India Inc – Dipta Joshi
If the mother tongue (MT) versus English as medium of instruction argument was grossly oversimplified, it would have two competing sets of arguments. On the one hand are what can be broadly termed as the cognitive, socio-emotional and rights-based arguments concerning the learning and well-being of the child. On the other, are the socio-economic and […]
Modestly launched in 1999 with the huge ambition “to build the pressure of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”, EducationWorld has succeeded in moving education of the world’s largest child population from the peripheries towards the centre of the national agenda. In this special report we highlight the great […]
Outstanding Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2017
Dr. Jagdish Gandhi
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In 1959, Jagdish Gandhi, then a 23-year-old newly married commerce postgrad student at Lucknow University, started a primary school with a borrowed capital of Rs.300 and an initial enrolment of just five students. In the 58 years since, the City Montessori […]
Hitherto unknown and unappreciated, think tanks are thriving in India with many coming of age. In the latest (2016) annual survey of the world’s top think tanks conducted by the University of Pennsylvania under its Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, nine Indian think tanks are ranked among the Top 175 globally – Indranil Banerjie
A sequel to the first-ever EducationWorld India Private Higher Education Rankings 2017-18 league tables published in May, the four-hour awards nite programme celebrated the country’s most admired private universities, engineering institutes and B-schools whose growth, development and potential tend to be obscured by mainstream media – Summiya Yasmeen
The inaugural EducationWorld India Private Higher Education Rankings Awards […]
Over the past year, the top-ranked Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Student agitations, anti-government protests and campus violence have transformed this Central government-funded postgraduate university — established in 1969 by a special Act of Parliament and named after the country’s first, and self-styled socialist prime […]
Despite the steady devaluation of post-independence India’s human capital, the BJP/NDA government’s second full-fledged budget shows no awareness that agricultural productivity and rural regeneration are intimately connected with improved learning outcomes in education
Ever since EducationWorld was launched on the eve of the new millennium with the mission to “build the pressure of public opinion to […]
Given the recent amendment of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2014 our expectation was that the budget for child protection which is less than 0.4 percent (of the total budgetary outlay) should have been prioritised to strengthen the JJ system. As this is the first year of the United Nation’s new development framework — the Sustainable […]
Even though some informed monitors of the economy maintain that the infirmity of Indian education is inefficient spending rather than adequacy of education outlays, your editors have steadfastly maintained that the two prescriptions are not mutually exclusive.
We believe greater expenditure on infrastructure, landscaping, buildings, classrooms, teacher training and development, sports facilities, and especially libraries, laboratories […]
Convened at Bangalore’s state-of-the-art ITC Gardenia Hotel on January 23, the 6th EW ECE Global Conference 2016 featured international and national ECCE experts who shared their knowledge and best practices with over 250 promoters, principals and teachers of top-ranked pre-primaries and K-12 schools from across the country:Summiya Yasmeen
For the sixth year consecutively, EducationWorld hosted […]
The grand promises made by the BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in the run-up to General Election 2014 to reform and upgrade Indian education, have remained mere IOUs to the people: Summiya Yasmeen
2015 was a disappointing year for Indian education. The grand promises made by the BJP-led NDA coalition, which was voted […]
Against the backdrop of the invitation of the Union HRD ministry for public involvement with drafting NEP 2015 possibly being an elaborate cosmetic exercise, EducationWorld presents its recommendations on the 13 ‘themes’ of school education shortlisted for public debate – Summiya Yasmeen
Six months ago on India’s 66th Republic Day (January 26), the BJP-led NDA government invited online […]
In the Union Budget 2015-16, finance minister Arun Jaitley seems to have forgotten that contemporary India shabbily hosts the world’s largest population of children and youth (0-24 years) aggregating 600 million. Nor does the finance minister seem aware that the world’s largest child and youth population is the most deprived constituency globally:Dilip Thakore
An estimated 300,000 recognised/unrecognised private schools countrywide with a massive enrolment of 60 million children are endangered because of non-compliance with infrastructure norms prescribed by the Right to Education Act, 2009. Unsurprisingly 1.2 million dysfunctional government schools are exempt
SIX MONTHS AGO, the Kailash Public School in Sehna village (pop. 20,000) in Punjab’s Barnala district experienced the […]
The Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which came into force in 2010, inter alia prescribes minimum infrastructure, teacher-pupil ratio and other norms for all schools. S.18 stipulates that no private schools shall function without a recognition certificate from the “appropriate government”, which will be awarded only if schools fulfill the infrastructure […]
“I chose a (budget) private school because of its good quality of education. The teachers give a lot of attention to students. In the local government school, children don’t learn anything. We don’t mind paying fees if our child is being prepared for a better life. I studied at a government school but didn’t learn […]
To compile the national and state rankings of India’s most respected medical colleges, C fore field researchers interviewed 205 faculty and 234 final year medical students countrywide, asking them to rate medical colleges on six parameters, viz, competence of faculty, faculty welfare and development, research and innovation, pedagogic systems and processes, placements and infrastructure […]
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