EducationWorld December 15

Cover Story

EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2015

For the sixth annual EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2015 survey, over 100 field researchers of the Delhi-based C fore interviewed 6,283 parents, principals and teachers in ten selected cities. Moreover in a departure from past practice, this year’s survey segregates preschools into three separate categories — owned/proprietary, franchised and pre-primaries of composite schools – Dilip Thakore […]

Expert Comment

Islam must reform from within

– Rahul Singh is the former editor of Reader’s Digest, Indian Express and Khaleej Times, Dubai

All major religions have their ups and downs — Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and of course, Islam. After the November 13 terror attacks in Paris, the focus is currently on Islam. Indeed, during the past decade and a half following […]

Institution Profile

Genesis Global School, Noida

Within the past six years, Genesis Global School, Noida, which is affiliated with the Delhi-based CBSE, CIE (UK) and IBO (Geneva) examination boards, has quickly established a national reputaton as a Top 10 international day-cum-boarding school – Swati Roy

The 21st century Genesis Global School (GGS), Noida (Delhi NCR) celebrated its sixth anniversary […]

Institution Profile

University College Cork, Ireland

Named Irish University of the Year in 2003, 2005, 2011 and 2016 by the Sunday Times, University College Cork, Ireland is set on making India its focal point for collaborative research, recruitment and awareness strategy — SUMMIYA YASMEEN

Founded in 1845 as one of three Queen’s Colleges in Belfast, Cork and Galway, University College […]

Cover Story

Delhi’s most admired preschools 2015

The annual winter stampede for admissions into Delhi’s most admired pre-primaries is the most frantic and brutal nationwide in the year 2015, with parents ready and willing to brave near zero temperatures for obtaining admission forms to the premier preschools

No city, town or community nationwide is more aware of the vital importance of professionally administered […]

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Mumbai’s top-ranked preschools 2015

For this year’s survey conducted under a new taxonomy, Mumbai’s most well-known 20 owned/proprietary, 17 franchised and 15 pre-primaries attached to K-10/12 schools were rated and ranked separately. Here are Mumbai’s top-ranked preschools for the year 2015

Mumbai (aka Bombay), India’s premier seaport and commercial capital (pop.21 million), has always been more receptive to revolutionary technology […]

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Kolkata’s premier preschools 2014-15

In Kolkata — still awaiting poriborton (change) promised by the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal’s education system — professionally administered early childhood care and education is highly valued. Here are Kolkata’s premier preschools 2014-15

In the eastern metropolis of Kolkata (pop. 14.5 million) —which is still awaiting poriborton (change) promised by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in […]

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Chennai’s most respected preschools 2014-15

In this year’s survey, 42 preschools in Chennai (cf. 21 in 2014) have been rated and ranked across ten parameters by 658 parents and teachers polled by Delhi-based market research agency C fore

Parents in the southern port city of Chennai (pop. 5 million), currently reeling under unprecedented rains and flooding which has forced closure of […]

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Bangalore’s top pre-primaries 2015

To rate and rank the garden city’s most reputable proprietary, franchised and pre-primaries of composite schools, 614 parents, principals and teachers were interviewed by C fore field researchers. Here are Bangalore’s top pre-primaries for the year 2015:

In the peninsular garden city of Bangalore/Bengaluru (pop.11 million), fast living up to its ‘garbage city’ image for the inability […]

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Hyderabad’s best preschools 2015-16

Rivalling Bengaluru as an IT and other new-technology industries hub, Hyderabad is fast emerging as a hotspot for ECCE with rising demand from well-educated and informed professionals fuelling the promotion of preschools citywide. Here are Hyderabad’s best preschools 2015-16.

In the southern city of hyderabad (pop.11.4 million), capital of the newly formed (2014) state of Telangana […]

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Pune’s best preschools 2015

There’s been a spurt in the number of preschools promoted to cater to the rising demand from IT and new-age industry professionals. C fore field researchers interviewed 609 parents and teachers/principals in Pune to evaluate preschools in three separate categories. Here are Pune’s best preschools for the year 2015:

The second largest academic and industrial hub […]

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Ahmedabad’s top preschools 2015

The 586 informed respondents interviewed by C fore field researchers in Ahmedabad have ranked Olive Green Kids, Navrangpura; EuroKids, Satellite and the Riverside pre-primary the textile city Ahmedabad’s top preschools in 2015 in the three new categories

UNDER THE NEW taxonomy adopted for rating and ranking pre-primaries for the EducationWorld India Preschool Rankings 2015, 586 sample […]

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Gurgaon’s top ranked preschools 2015

A classic study of how investment prompts urban growth and employment, the new steel and glass township of Gurgaon has attracted a large population of business and engineering professionals who value high-quality pre-primary education. Here are Gurgaon’s top ranked preschools for the year 2015:

Although technically in Haryana, the new steel and glass township of Gurgaon […]

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Noida’s best preschools 2014-15

In the EW Noida’s best preschools 2014-15, 24 preschools have been rated and ranked by 556 parents and 64 teachers/principals polled by field researchers of Delhi-based market research agency C fore

Although the new township of Noida (pop. 600,000) is sited in and falls under the administrative jurisdiction of Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populated (200 […]

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor

To impact the importance of ECCE upon the ignorant establishment and the public consciousness, EducationWorld has commissioned six annual surveys to rate, rank and celebrate the best pre-primaries in cities countrywide where there is a modicum of awareness of the vital importance of early childhood, pre-primary education. Moreover at considerable expense and effort, we have […]

Editorial

Bihar’s choice between devil & deep sea

Undoubtedly the sweeping victory of the three-party mahagathbandhan Grand Alliance (JDU, RJD and Congress) in the Bihar legislative assembly election whose result was announced on November 8, has come as a relief to the long-suffering people of Bihar (pop.104 million). Its ancient glories notwithstanding, by common consensus Bihar is the most backward — per capita […]

Mailbox

Excessive regulation bane

Congratulations to EducationWorld on your 16th anniversary. I have been following the magazine through the years and I compliment you and your team for doing a great job of highlighting the formidable challenges confronting Indian education.

Your 16th anniversary cover story ‘10 quick-fix solutions to mend Indian education’ (EW November) is excellent for its sweep, focusing […]

Education News

Delhi: Nationalised league tables

With only one of india’s 800 universities (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) ranked among the Top 200 in the World University Rankings (WURs) league tables published annually by the reputed London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education and Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University, the 18-month-old BJP-led NDA government at the Centre has devised an out-of-the-box solution. […]

Education News

Maharashtra: Hasty pudding

The BJP/Shiv Sena government of Maharashtra — India’s most industrial state (pop.112 million) — is under opposition fire for its suggestions made to the Delhi-based Union human resource development ministry which is putting the finishing touches to its much awaited New Education Policy (NEP). The report uploaded on the state government’s website on November 9, […]

Education News

Tamil Nadu: Language politics revival

Persistent attempts by the dominant regional parties in Tamil Nadu (pop. 72 million) to make all school children statewide study Tamil, including students of 6,500 private matriculation schools (unique to Tamil Nadu), 565 schools affiliated with the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and 468 Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), have […]

Education News

West Bengal: TET politics

It’s an indicator of the magnitude of the scale of educated unemployed in the eastern seaboard state of West Bengal (pop. 91 million), where too few jobs were created during 34 years of uninterrupted rule of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (1977-2011) because of a prolonged private investment famine and flight of capital. The Teacher […]

Education News

Karnataka: Accreditation games

On November 16, following a supreme court directive of September 8, the Bangalore-based National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC, estb.1994), which appraises and accredits institutions of higher education in India, cleared 38 private universities which were among 44 universities across the country that had been recommended for derecognition by the Tandon Committee (2009) for “aberrations […]

Education News

They said it in November

“Learning is about so much more than filling in the right bubble.”

US President Barack Obama calling for a cap on time spent on standardised testing in US classrooms “to make sure that we’re not obsessing about testing” (Time, November 9)

“There is an imperative need in India to have these issues discussed openly, beginning with the pervasive […]

Education Notes

Education Notes

Haryana

TET exam cancelled

The Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test Level 3 (PGT) exam — scheduled to be written by over 460,000 candidates in the state on November 14 — was cancelled on suspicions of a question paper leak. Speaking to mediapersons in Chandigarh on November 14, Pankaj Kumar, secretary, Haryana School Education Board, said fresh dates will […]

Education Briefs

Manipal University convocation

The 21st convocation of the top-ranked Manipal University was held at the varsity’s state-of-the-art 600-acre campus in Manipal over three days — November 21, 25 and 28 — during which over 3,294 graduating students were awarded undergrad, postgraduate and doctorate degrees. The impressive ceremony was presided over by chief guests A.S. Kiran Kumar, chairman, Indian […]

Young Achievers

Ranveer Saini

Undeterred by a history of autism since age two, Ranveer Singh Saini (14) created history to become the first Indian junior champion in the GF Golf-level 2 alternate shot team play event at the Special Olympics World Summer Games 2015, staged in Los Angeles between July 25-August 2. The duo of Ranveer and Monica Jajoo […]

Career Focus

Rising demand for home care professionals

Employment in this sunrise industry is expected to double in the next few years, offering a plethora of job opportunities – Indra Gidwani

With the general practitioner who makes house calls a rare, if not extinct, species in contemporary India, a whole new home healthcare industry has mushroomed countrywide. According to Bangalore-based Dr. Anitha Arockiasamy, president of […]

Career Focus

Your counselor replies

I’m a class XII (science) student keen on qualifying as a software engineer. Should I sign up for a B.Sc in computer science?
Nikhil swamy, Chennai

The best option is to enroll in a B.Sc (computer science/IT) degree programme of a recognised college/university. It’s also advisable to supplement your education with short-term certificate courses in hardware […]

Teacher-to-Teacher

Progressive Education Movement revival

The 1920s was a high point of the Progressive Education movement whose most famous proponent was American educationist John Dewey (1859-1952). A response to school education delivered according to social class in 19th century industrial society, progressive education broke the mould and introduced a more enlightened approach to public schooling — to transform schools into […]

Sports Education

Improving coaches’ effectiveness

In his bestselling book Bottom Line (1997) Phil Jackson, the highly successful former coach of Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers (now president of the New York Knicks) whose approach to coaching is profoundly influenced by oriental philosophies, lists “know when to step back and let people find their own solution to a crisis,” as […]

Books

Extraordinary memoir

Dreaming Big by Sam Pitroda with David Chanoff ; penguin; Price: Rs.699; Pages: 331

Within a society given to worshipping at the altars of political, business and even cinema dynasties, it’s unsurprising that Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India, the autobiography of Satyen (‘Sam’) Pitroda, the US-based self-made millionaire who catalysed post-independence India’s cruelly-delayed telecom revolution, […]

Postscript

Limited leaders

The recent demise in Delhi of Brij Mohan Lal Munjal, chairman of Hero MotorCorp Ltd — the country’s largest producer of automotive two wheelers (6.63 million units in the year ended March 31, 2015) — marks the end of an era of the two-wheeler manufacturing industry in India. It’s pertinent to note that right until […]