Prof. Parimal Mandke is pro tem president of NIIT, Neemrana (Rajasthan), ranked among the country’s Top 25 private universities in the EW India Private University Rankings 2021-22.
How satisfied are you with NIIT University’s switch to online learning over the past year?
Fortunately because of our parentage, NIIT University (NU) […]
Dr. Ashok Pandey is director of the CBSE-affiliated Ahlcon Public School (APS, estb.1998) and Ahlcon International School (2001), Delhi, with an aggregate enrolment of 5,700 students and 310 teachers.
How satisfied with APS’ transition to online learning. For a teacher, the greatest gift is the company of students. […]
Rohan Bhat is chairman of the Children’s Academy Group of Schools (CAGS) with three branches in Mumbai and an aggregate enrolment of over 8,000 students. Children’s Academy, Malad and Kandivali are ranked among Mumbai’s Top 10 co-ed day schools in the EW India School Rankings 2020-21.
Dr. Shayama Chona President, Tamana Autism Centre — School of Hope, Delhi
Dr. Shayama Chona is the celebrated former principal of DPS, R.K. Puram, Delhi, where she served for 35 years (1978-2009) and founder-chairperson of the Tamana Foundation (estb.1992) which manages three Tamana special needs schools in Delhi with an enrolment of 500 students mentored […]
Mansoor Khan Co-founder, DPS Bangalore & School of India
Mansoor Ali Khan is co-founder/director of five K-12 DPS schools in Bengaluru and Mysuru (Karnataka), franchised by Delhi Public School Society (estb.1949). The first DPS, Bangalore South was promoted in 2001, followed by DPS, Bangalore North (2002), DPS, Bangalore East (2007), DPS, Mysore (2012), […]
Rashid Sharfuddin Principal, SelaQui International School, Dehradun
An alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, the University of Bath, UK, and former housemaster at the top-ranked The Doon School, Rashid Sharfuddin is the headmaster of the CBSE-affiliated fully-residential SelaQui International School, Dehradun.
Degree of satisfaction with shift to the online mode of learning. We were probably […]
Ashish Gulati Vice-chairman, Blue Bells Group of Schools, Gurugram
An alum of the top-ranked Management Development Institute, Gurugram, Ashish Gulati is vice chairman, Blue Bells Group of Schools comprising five schools and preschools in Gurugram with 3,626 children and 281 faculty.
Degree of satisfaction with the Blue Bells Schools’ switch to the online mode of learning. Adaptation […]
Jagpreet Singh Headmaster, The Doon School, Dehradun
Former principal of The Punjab Public School, Nabha, Dr. Jagpreet Singh is the recently (April 2020) appointed headmaster of the top-ranked all-boys boarding The Doon School, Dehradun (TDS, estb.1935).
Degree of satisfaction with TDS’ switch to the online mode of learning. The Covid-19 pandemic has posed many challenges and […]
Rashmi Misra is founder-chairperson of Vidya Integrated Development for Youth and Adults (VIDYA, estb.1985), an NGO providing education, skills training, and healthcare to 15,000 underprivileged children and adults in New Delhi, Haryana, Mumbai/Pune and Bengaluru. It also runs the CBSE-affiliated VIDYA School, Gurugram (estb.2009) that provides free-of-charge English-medium K-12 education […]
Ekta Sodha CEO, Cadmus Sodha Group of Schools, Jamnagar
An education postgraduate of Newcastle University, UK, Ekta Sodha is the Jamnagar (Gujarat)-based CEO of the Cadmus Sodha Group of Schools, a chain of five affordable K-X schools in Gujarat with an aggregate enrolment of 5,500 students and 550 faculty.
Manit Jain is co-founder of the Heritage Group of four K-12 schools in Delhi NCR with an aggregate enrolment of 3,467 students. In the latest EW India School Rankings 2020-21, the group’s showpiece Heritage Xperiential Learning School, Gurugram is ranked India’s #1 co-ed day school.
Abhishek Gupta Pro chancellor, Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal
Abhishek Gupta is pro-chancellor of the privately-promoted Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal (JLU, estb. 2013), which has 2,432 students and 230 faculty on it muster rolls and member, board of management of four DPS schools (Bhopal, Indore, Kolar Road, Rau) in Madhya Pradesh.
All education institutions have been shuttered for […]
Gen (Retd.) Arjun Ray, PVSM, VSM is chief executive and managing director of the Indus Trust (regst.2001) that has promoted the top-ranked, IB (Geneva)-affiliated Indus International Schools in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune which have an aggregate 2,900 children from over 30 countries mentored by 450 teachers on their muster […]
C. Raj Kumar Vice-Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University
A polymath alumnus of Madras, Delhi, Oxford and Harvard universities, Dr. C. Raj Kumar is founding vice-chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana (JGU, estb.2009) which has an enrolment of 6,650 students mentored by 832 faculty.
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The world’s longest lockdown of schools is likely to prove disastrous for the learning outcomes of over 100 million children. However the silver lining of the grim pandemic storm is that a small minority of education leaders have succeeded in devising creative responses, writes Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Out-of-school children: most prolonged education […]
If government can provide a children’s education allowance (DBT) of Rs.2,250 per month per child to all Central government employees, why can’t it do the same for children of the poor? writes Geeta Kingdon
The Covid-19 pandemic has beamed a spotlight on the extent of private-public school inequality and its tragic consequences. In the Covid period, […]
Widely acknowledged as one of the sixth continent’s premier teaching and research universities, CU has established a stellar reputation for exporting its higher education around the world, writes Reshma Ravishanker
Sited on a sprawling 286-acre campus in Perth, the nearest Australian city to Asia, Curtin University (CU, estb.1966) is widely acknowledged as one of the sixth […]
Promoted in 1991 by businessman and philanthropist, Niranjanlal Dalmia, NLDHS is ranked among top dozen co-ed day schools of Maharashtra in the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2020-21, writes Dipta Joshi
Located in Mumbai’s satellite city of Thane, over the past three decades, N.L. Dalmia High School (NLDHS, estb.1991) has acquired a good reputation for providing holistic […]
The reconstitution of the union council of ministers on July 7 witnessed the induction of 36 new ministers and 12, including several party heavyweights, dropped, taking the effective strength of the council to 78, just three short of the maximum permitted 81. In this reshuffle, both Union ministers of education (Ramesh Pokhriyal and junior […]
Crime against children
I read your cover story demanding reopening of schools right away, online. I am an educator who had only six years of uninterrupted schooling. My father was an Indian Army officer and we were transferred to non-family stations every few months. I can avow, with deep regret that broken education, especially in […]
Thirty years after the defining Union budget of July 24, 1991 announced overdue liberalisation and deregulation of the Indian economy by abolishing industrial licensing and anti-monopolies legislation, slashing import duties, relaxing rules relating to international trade and substantially released the animal spirits of the country’s millions of natural entrepreneurs, cabined, cribbed and confined by half […]
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 […]
Twenty-five students from The Heritage School, Kolkata, had the opportunity to attend the Conclave on Mental Health at the Raj Bhavan, Kolkata on 20th January. .....Read More
The Jharkhand cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, has approved the introduction of computer-based education in government middle schools under the Gyanodya scheme, along .....Read More
Towards a level playing field in K-12 education
If government can provide a children’s education allowance (DBT) of Rs.2,250 per month per child to all Central government employees, why can’t it do the same for children of the poor? writes Geeta Kingdon
The Covid-19 pandemic has beamed a spotlight on the extent of private-public school inequality and its tragic consequences. In the Covid period, […]