– G.S. Madhav Rao, Director Academics, Vasal Education
In the ever-evolving landscape of education, where the pursuit of excellence is paramount, Vasal Education stands as a vanguard of innovation and distinction. With a legacy network of preschools and K-12 schools, Vasal Education has etched its identity as a true powerhouse in the realm of education. It […]
– Dr Hanif Kanjer, Founder-Director, Rustomjee Cambridge International School; Founder-Dean, Rustomjee Business School; Director, Rustomjee International School
In March 2023, Rustomjee Cambridge School witnessed an extraordinary achievement as Darsh Parmar, one of its top-ranking students, aced the Cambridge International A-level exams. Not only did he secure an impressive academic record, but Darsh also received admission offers […]
Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya (SKV) stands for Service, Heritage, and Enterprise. The school believes in empowering its students through diverse programmes and intitiatives that nurture their skills and encourage them to make a positive impact on society. Some of the notable initiatives of SKV are:
Sankalp: Menstrual Hygiene Awareness
Sankalp is a service project initiated in 2012. Under this […]
Dr Hanif Kanjer, Founder-Director, Rustomjee Cambridge International School; Founder-Dean, Rustomjee Business School; Director, Rustomjee International School
In March 2023, Rustomjee Cambridge witnessed a moment of immense pride as Nelson Mehta, one of its brightest students, achieved a remarkable feat. Nelson’s outstanding performance at the A-Level exam earned him the prestigious opportunity to pursue his dreams at […]
A polymath alum of the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and IIT-Delhi and Professor at the high-ranked IIT-Delhi for over three decades (1978-2014), Dr. Bishnu Pal is the founder-Dean of the Ecole Central School of Engineering (ECSE) of the new age multi-disciplinary Mahindra University, Hyderabad. Promoted by the Mumbai-based Mahindra Group, the well-known heavyweight in automotives (Mahindra […]
Sited on a contemporary 2.4-acre campus in south Mumbai, the coeducational JBCN International School, Parel (JBCN-P, estb. 2011) has quickly developed into a progressive K-12 institution providing international curriculums and inquiry-based pedagogies to its 1,407 students mentored by 169 teachers.
Committed to its motto of ‘International education with Indian roots’, this Cambridge International, UK and International […]
Although they are an unmitigated blessing which have reduced long-winded train journeys to a sepia memory, there’s something wrong about the hyper-commercialism of the men (in the words of a learned judge, the word embraces women) who run India’s airlines. The pejorative “price gouging” doesn’t seem to be part of their vocabularies. Recently when the […]
Among the most dedicated, but also under-appreciated professionals are Indian hospital nurses. Perhaps for reasons connected with the country’s obnoxious caste system, these silent professionals are not accorded the social respect that they are given in enlightened countries globally. They are also pathetically under-paid. Some five years ago, when I was felled by one of […]
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today” — Malcolm X (1925-1965)
American Black power activist Malcolm X’s insightful words resonate deeply in the realm of education, underscoring the importance of preparing students for the challenges and opportunities that
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lie […]
India’s undeclared emergency: Constitutionalism & the Politics of Resistance
Arvind Narrain
Westland publications
Rs.699, Pages 235
The merry month of May was significant for coronations in Britain, our erstwhile colonial master nation, and in its crown jewel, India. On May 6, King Charles III, a long-time prince in waiting, was crowned King of England and Head […]
The imminent collapse of the Bangalore-based edtech start-up Think & Learn Pvt. Ltd aka Byju’s, makes one wonder about India’s talking-heads stock market and financial experts who drove up the sky-high valuation of this online tutoring company which rose to $22 billion (Rs.1.8 lakh crore) at its peak in 2020. Common sense and logic should […]
– Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Abu Dhabi (UAE)-based Gokul Karthik Kumar (24) is bent on leveraging the power of AI (artificial intelligence) to create positive social impact in the world. Among his innovations are a
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methodology to detect hate speech in social media memes, an AI-human interactive dubbing platform and deep learning-based text-to-speech systems in […]
-Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)
LYDIAN NADHASWARAM
Chennai-based teenage music prodigy Lydian Nadhaswaram (17) sprang into the global limelight after he won the $1 million (Rs.7 crore) The World’s Best (American reality show) title in 2019 for piano proficiency, and wowed viewers on The Ellen DeGeneres Show with blindfold piano play. In addition, he plays 18 musical […]
DPS, Jaipur (estb. 2003) has built an excellent reputation for providing high-quality holistic day-cum-boarding school education to its 1,780 students
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Dr. Richa Prakash Ghosh (centre) with DPSJ students: integrated curriculum
Sited on an eco-friendly 15-acre campus off the Jaipur-Ajmer national highway, Delhi Public School, Jaipur (DPSJ, estb.2003) has built an excellent reputation for providing […]
Within a short period of four years, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, has the earned the reputation of being the world’s first artificial intelligence-focused university
MBZUAI labs block. Inset: Timothy Baldwin
Established in 2019, the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi has earned the reputation of being the world’s first AI (artificial intelligence) […]
Pro-judgement support before US Supreme Court
For more than 50 years, admissions officers at some of America’s swankiest universities have given a leg up to black, Hispanic and Native American students whose achievements in secondary school might not, on their own, have won them a place. On June 29, the Supreme Court declared this […]
After 13 years of Conservative government, the country’s public services are in less than fine fettle. There is an exception. Under the Conservatives, England’s schools have improved. England is now the best in the West when it comes to reading at primary-school age, according to one ranking. When it comes to maths, English students of […]
Scholars have expressed hope that Nigeria’s introduction of tuition fees and student loans will end the underfunding of its universities. One of the first acts in office of new president Bola Tinubu in June was to sign into law a student loan bill, seven years after it was first introduced to the country’s parliament.
Until now, […]
A for-profit billed as Germany’s largest university, majority owned by a private equity firm, has bought a London banking education provider with UK degree-awarding powers as well as a Canadian university, as it expands an online model that features an AI “teaching and learning assistant”.
The sale of the London Institute of Banking and Finance (LIBF) […]
Vietnamese children: “one of the world’s best schooling systems”
Ho Chi Minh, the founding-father of Vietnam, was clear about the route to development. “For the sake of ten years’ benefit, we must plant trees. For the sake of a hundred years’ benefit, we must cultivate the people,” was a statement he liked to repeat. […]
Norwegian universities have a busy summer ahead as politicians argue over the finer details of international student fees, which will be charged to those from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) from this month.
Overall support for the plans from the Norwegian parliament’s education committee on June 6 confirms the late summer deadline, despite warnings from […]
Foreign students in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s government has begun consulting universities about lifting its cap on international students, potentially bringing thousands more to the island in coming years, according to senior university officials. Legislators are looking to relax the official 20 percent limit on “non-local” undergraduate students — roughly half of whom come […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Heinonen (centre): successful Festival of Hope
Finland-born Olli Pekka Heinonen is Director-General of the globally respected Geneva-based International Baccalaureate (IB, estb.1968) examinations board which offers Primary and Middle Years curriculums, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) and the International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme (IBCP) school-leaving examinations written by higher secondary students worldwide.
Newspeg. In late […]
-Paromita Sengupta (Bengaluru)
Sangal: flying start
Gurugram-based Umang Sangal (28) is the founder-promoter of Uplifters Academy Pvt. Ltd, a mint new edtech company (estb.2023), offering skills training programmes and guidance through live online classes which has got off to a flying start. Uplifters is targeting pre and final year undergrads and working professionals in Tier […]
-Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Basu: fundraising drive
Eminent social worker A.K. Basu is the secretary of Tollygunge Women In Need (TWIN, estb.1995), the Kolkata counterpart of Belgium-based non-profit TWIN-Satyagraha. The parent organisation was founded by a Belgian couple Dr. Marie Paule Baudot, and Josef (Tor) Mutton in 1995. For over two decades, TWIN Kolkata’s annual budget […]
-Autar Nehru (Delhi)
AJP co-founders Subramaniam & Agarwal (right)
Rahul Subramaniam and Poshak Agarwal are co-founders of Athenaeum Jupiter Pvt. Ltd (AJP, estb.2013), a Gurugram-based study abroad coaching-cum-consultancy facilitating student undergrad admissions into premier universities in 11 countries including the US, UK, and Canada under its brand Athena Education. Currently, AJP has one coaching centre […]
-Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
Renaud-Coulon: global network
Annick Renaud-Coulon is a transnational expert on corporate universities and the Paris-based Founder and Chairwoman of the Global Council of Corporate Universities (GlobalCCU). She defines corporate universities as “educational structures based in private and public, commercial and non-commercial organisations, to implement the business strategies of the organisation and to […]
NCFSE outlines ways and means to implement the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in the country’s 1.5 million primary-secondary schools. By the end of this calendar year, two additional NCF drafts, for teacher education (NCFTE) and adult education (NCFAE) are scheduled to be produced , writes Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Dr. Kasturirangan (left) […]
Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya (SKV) hosted the IPSC Visual Art Fest 2023 with the theme “Antarangini” – Expressions Unleashed, an avenue to exchange ideas, explore interpretations and empower imagination.
Over 200 students from 19 premier boarding school from all over country participated in this three-day fest held from July 27 – 29, 2023. The opening ceremony was […]
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, […]
In a season of climate change induced by excessive rains and floods whose death and destruction fury has been exacerbated by man-made disasters, news from the UNDP and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative study saying that 415 million citizens of this benighted republic have escaped multi-dimensional poverty in the years between 2006-2019, has not […]
It’s undeniable that the rain, floods and landslides that swept North India — Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and inundated Delhi, the national admin capital — last month are the outcome of global warming and climate change that are Nature’s revenge against unchecked exploitation and carbonization of Planet Earth. However floods fury that routinely […]
Liberalise education
Your insightful cover story ‘Licence-permit-quota raj despair in K-12 education’ (EW July) was alarming. I couldn’t agree more with the authors who say that with opportunities for rents-seeking declining in industry, LPQ raj has migrated to K-12 education.
There is urgent need for the Central and state governments to liberalise and improve their ease-of-doing […]
Nasrin Modak Siddiqi (Mumbai)
Class V children in Maharashtra: make-or-break exams back
Despite the landmark right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, having decreed that in the interests of joyous, stress-free learning in primary education (class I-VIII), children won’t be subjected to public examinations and every child shall be promoted until […]
Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai)
Government school children in Tamil Nadu
In the popular imagination, the peninsular state of Tamil Nadu (pop.68 million) is India’s most educated state churning out lakhs of well-educated doctors, engineers and scientists year on year. Therefore, a big slippage in school learning outcomes in the Union ministry of education’s Performance Grading Index […]
Autar Nehru (Delhi)
SNAMUN 2023 snapshot: boarding schools comeback
Despite news of flash floods triggering landslides, washing away roads, bringing down buildings and flooding Delhi after 45 years because of 72 hours of incessant rainfall in northern India’s Himachal Pradesh and adjacent regions in July, the 6th edition of SNAMUN ’23 was successfully staged at […]
Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Within a month of the public standoff between West Bengal Governor, Dr. C.V. Ananda Bose, and the Mamata Banerjee government over the issue of the former’s appointment of 11 interim vice chancellors of state government universities without consulting the education ministry (as reported on these pages last month), these two arms of government […]
Reshma Ravishanker (Bengaluru)
Karnataka’s newly elected congress government is cracking the whip on the state’s 24 private universities, many of them established during the rule (2019-2023) of its predecessor BJP government. On July 17, the Under Secretary, Higher Education Department, shot off letters to registrars of private universities lambasting them for not inviting government representatives to […]
“The world is looking at India as a nursery of new possibilities. Many countries are approaching us to open IIT campuses there. Two IIT campuses — one in Tanzania and one in Abu Dhabi — are already about to start operations…. Various global universities are also reaching out to us, expressing their interest in setting […]
International politics of statistics
Everyone has heard of that popular put down of data — “lies, damned lies and statistics”. Getting people to trust official data is more difficult than collecting data. In recent years, gaps in data
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collection, partly on account of inadequate funding and partly because of political interference, has generated widespread distrust of statistics […]