To compile this year’s league tables of India’s most admired preschools, 100 field personnel of the Delhi-based market research company C fore interviewed 8,002 sample respondents comprising preschool principals, teachers and parents with at least one child in preschool in 16 cities countrywide to rate and rank proprietary and franchised pre-primaries separately – Dilip Thakore […]
When the US-based PEW Foundation after a recent field survey, confirmed the enormous countrywide popularity of prime minister Narendra Modi in India, and widespread expectation that he would transform the country, the report struck a chord among the majority of Indians. But when a few months earlier, after an international study the very same foundation […]
Among the country’s best K-12 schools which offer excellent holistic curriculums, there’s growing recognition of the important role of drama and theatre in children’s development. Educators in the best schools agree that creativity, confidence, communication, teamwork and linguistic capability among other vital life skills are enhanced and accelerated by drama and theatre education. Regular access […]
Last year The Magic Years — Delhi’s #1 proprietary preschool for several years — was bested by Step by Step, Panchsheel. But this year it has reclaimed its #1 position in the national capital. Here are Delhi’s most preferred preschools 2016-17
No city, town or community nationwide is more aware of the critical importance of professionally-administered […]
Delhi-based market research agency C fore interviewed 639 parents with children in preschool, 70 principals and teachers in Mumbai who have rated and ranked 56 sufficiently well-known preschools in the proprietary and franchised categories on ten parameters of early childhood education excellence. Here are Mumbai’s best preschools 2017.
India’s commercial and entertainment capital, Mumbai (pop.21 million) […]
Although there is little evidence of the long promised poriborton (change) in the state’s education system, spared the regulatory attention of the neta-babu brotherhood, fully autonomous private pre-primaries are thriving in Kolkata. Here are Kolkata’s top-ranked preschools 2017-18:
In 2011 when the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) routed the CPM (Communist Party of India)-led Left Front government […]
The city’s edupreneurs have always been quick to embrace new pedagogies and education philosophies and promote preschool to higher ed institutions for discerning parents who place a premium on high quality education. Here are Chennai’s top preschools 2016-17
The southern port city of Chennai, currently witnessing an ugly power struggle between rival factions of the ruling […]
For ICT and other industry professionals from all over the country, the blooming English-medium preschools of Bangalore have come as manna from heaven. Here are Bangalore’s most loved preschools 2017-18
Always a stronghold of English language learning despite the efforts of frogs-in-a-well Kannada language chauvinists who have ruined the public education system of Karnataka (pop. 61 […]
With the city’s upwardly mobile new-age industry professionals becoming increasingly aware of the critical importance of ECCE for preparing children for school education, there’s been an upsurge in the promotion of a host of nexgen pre-primaries. Here are Hyderabad’s premier preschools 2017-18.
The early childhood and K-12 education sector is booming in the southern city of […]
Among Pune’s best preschools 2017-18, a total of 24 sufficiently well-known pre-primaries are ranked and rated by 522 parents with preschool children and 61 teachers/principals polled by field personnel of C fore, Delhi
Maharashtra’s second largest city after Mumbai, Pune (pop. 4 million) has over the years emerged as an education hub and hosts several top-ranked […]
Responding to pressing demand from the middle class for professionally delivered English-medium ECCE, a rising number of edupreneurs have stepped forward to promote model pre-primaries in the textiles city. Here are Ahmedabad’s top-ranked preschools 2017-18
In the western seaboard state of Gujarat which is currently witnessing high voltage campaigning by the Congress and BJP for the […]
A hub of the IT and automobiles manufacturing industries, this steel-n-glass satellite city of Delhi has experienced a rapid mushrooming of early childhood care and education centres demanded by its young workforce
Toxic air pollution levels and a typical jugaad-style pell-mell growth with commensurately climbing crime graphs haven’t prevented the rapid growth of Gurgaon (pop.900,000), a […]
To construct the EW Noida Preschool Rankings 2017-18 league tables, an informed respondents sample comprising 534 parents with preschool-going children and 75 preschool principals/teachers were interviewed by field personnel of Delhi-based market research firm C fore
Although officially the bustling new city of Noida (pop. 650,000) is sited in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous (212 million) […]
With the onset of winter, one of the great talking points of the nation is the high levels of air pollution in the cities of urban India, in particular Delhi, the national capital. A thick cover of smog — defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary as “a fog made heavier and darker by smoke and chemical fumes, […]
November 19, the centenary year of the birth of former prime minister Indira Gandhi, was an occasion for some members of the privilegentsia and luvvies who flourished under the fumbling rule of the Nehru-Indira dynasty, which misruled post-independence India for over half a century, to indulge in dewy-eyed nostalgia. Even to this day, they yearn […]
Given that forests cover 20 percent of the landscape in India, there is no dearth of opportunities for committed youth interested in careers in wildlife conservation – GEETHA RAO
With rising global awareness about the importance of maintaining essential ecological balance, life-support systems and preserving and protecting genetic diversity (flora and fauna), wildlife conservation has emerged as […]
Indian higher education’s dirty secret is out. According to a recent report of the US-based Institute of International Education (IIE), in 2016-17, students fleeing India’s 38,000 colleges and 800 universities — some of them established 150 years ago but not ranked anywhere in the World University Rankings of the London-based QS or Times Higher Education […]
This has to stop. The fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression conferred upon all citizens by the Constitution isn’t a licence to misuse it.
Despite the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) having established a strong prima facie case against an unnamed class XI student of the Ryan International School, Gurgaon in the tragic murder […]
Syama Prasad Mookerjee His Vision of Education – Anirban Ganguly & Avadhesh Kumar Singh, Wisdom Tree books; Rs.995; Pages 316
Widely ignored during the Nehru-Indira dynasty years for his Hindu Mahasabha connections, Syama Prasad Mookerjee was nevertheless an iconic figure of the pan-independence era. A learned academic and polymath, he strode over the landscape of Bengal with […]
I am a second year B.Sc (statistics) student and want to sign up for a Masters in statistics after completing my graduation next year. Which universities in India offer this programme and what are the eligibility requirements? — Neela Mazumdar, Mumbai
Among the top-ranked educational institutions/universities offering Masters in statistics programmes are: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata; The […]
Don’t take my word for it. According to Dr. James Heckman, professor of economics at the University of Chicago and winner of the Nobel Prize for economics in 2007, every dollar spent per child in early childhood care and education (ECCE) is worth several spent on her school or university education. That’s because several authoritative […]
Delhi-based human rights campaigner Ayush Chopra (15) was the youngest Indian representative-invitee at the 14th International Human Rights (IHR) Summit staged from August 24-26 at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York. The summit is organised annually by the Los Angeles-based not-for-profit Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI, estb.2001).
Recently crowned U-19 junior all-India women’s singles champion, Lucknow-based Amolika Singh Sisodiya (16) is the latest among the stars of Indian badminton who against all the odds have checked Chinese domination of this fast-paced racquet game which requires fast-response reflexes and deep reserves of stamina. Since she started playing in 2010, this 5 ft 10 […]
The Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) announced the winners of the Infosys Prize 2017, across six fields — engineering and computer science, humanities, life sciences, mathematical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences — in Bangalore on November 15. The prize for winners in each category is a purse of Rs.65 lakh, a 22-karat gold medallion and […]
The state government is all set to establish an independent medical university in response to demand from a large number of government and private medical colleges, Bali Bhagat, the state’s health minister, informed press personnel in Jammu on November 28.
A four-member committee headed by additional secretary (health and medical education) has been constituted which includes […]
“How well and quickly we can reform our teacher education, implement high quality four-year integrated teacher education programmes and create institutions of excellence in teacher education will determine the fate of 370 million children who will in a few years join India’s adult population.”
S. Giridhar, chief operating officer, Azim Premji University (Deccan Herald, November 5)
After the recently concluded winter session of the state legislative assembly, Karnataka’s primary and secondary education minister, Tanveer Sait, said notification of amendments to the Karnataka Educational Institutions (Regulations of Certain Fees and Donations) Rules 1999 will be made soon. The amendments will notify a fees formula for the state’s 19,593 private unaided K-12 schools.
Now in its second consecutive term in office at Writers Building, Kolkata, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government of West Bengal (pop.91 million) led by chief minister Mamata Banerjee is shifting its attention to the education sector which experienced severe neglect and politicisation during the 34 years of uninterrupted rule (1977-2004) of the Communist Party of […]
Following heavy criticism from the media (especially EducationWorld) and the tragic suicide of 17-year-old Anitha, an aspiring medical student who topped the class XII state board exam but failed to clear NEET (National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test) for admission into medical colleges countrywide, the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government led by chief minister […]
The University of Mumbai (mu, estb.1857) continues to be dogged by controversies ever since it replaced the varsity’s age-old manual assessment system with on-screen marking (OSM) — an online examination assessment system — earlier this year.
Activists seeking information under the Right to Information Act (RTI) say the university tweaked the tender process to favour the […]
Sixty-five Indian universities (higher education institutions) have made it to the Top 300 rankings of the annual QS BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) University Rankings 2018 topped by Chinese universities. Tsinghua University, Beijing, has retained its #1 ranking and a record seven Chinese universities are ranked within the Top 10.
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Your 18th anniversary issue is a collector’s item. The cover story on child safety is brilliant, the anniversary essays are insightful and relevant and the special report ‘EW’s unfinished long march to save […]
On November 8, the country observed the first anniversary of the shock demonetisation (invalidation) of Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 currency notes of the Mahatma Gandhi series announced by prime minister Narendra Modi last year in an unscheduled nationally televised broadcast. Overnight, this announcement in effect invalidated 86 percent of all the cash (Rs.14.2 lakh crore) in […]
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