The first British university campus in India, set to open next year (2025) will offer a “comprehensive” programme of courses in a bid to admit thousands of students over the next decade. The University of Southampton received approval last August to establish a branch in the world’s most populous country, with a new campus planned […]
Mumbai, december 13. Finland International School (FIS), a pioneer of Finnish education in India, announced the launch of a greenfield campus in Guwahati. The announcement was made in Mumbai at an event presided by Kimmo Lahdevirta, Ambassador of Finland to India, and Consul General of Finland in Mumbai Erik af Hallstrom. FIS is […]
Spain could soon have more private universities than public ones if current trends continue. However experts are raising concerns about quality, equity and an adverse impact on public institutions.
Currently, there are 91 active universities in Spain, of which 50 are public and 41 are private. Five more private institutions […]
“Even though just one-third of Indians who are of college-going age actually go to college — that share is about 80 percent in US and UK — 13 percent of Indians with advanced degrees remain unemployed, one of the highest shares in the world. In US, that share is 2.3 percent and in UK 2.7 […]
In today’s fast-paced educational landscape, the pressure on students to succeed is higher than ever. From standardised testing to extracurricular activities, academic achievements often dominate the conversation about a student’s worth and potential.
However, a narrow focus on academic performance alone can lead to burnout, stress, […]
A third year undergraduate student of Interaction Design at Anant National University, Zarqa Khan serves as president of the student council. Her key interest areas include user studies, research and marketing, as well as interaction design, which she hopes to pursue further. She aspires to create designs for overall experiences that are natural […]
Riddhima Kulkarni is an undergraduate third year student of Interaction Design at Anant National University and she also serves as general secretary of the student council. Her creative interest areas vary from graphics and painting to the thrill of biking, and Kathak has been close to her heart for seven long years now.
Sarala Birla Academy is proud to announce its association with the International Foundation for Sustainable Peace and Development (IFSPD), a global institution founded by leaders from over 60 nations. As a partner of the United Nations, IFSPD is one of the world’s largest organizations focused on sustainability and global development.
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Mahatma Gandhi
The joy of giving is a powerful, timeless force that binds us all, creating connections that transcend words. It’s the simple act of sharing what we have—be it a kind word, a thoughtful gesture, or a meaningful gift—that not […]
– Pramey Ajudiya, Master of Design (Integrated Product Design), Class of 2025, Anant National University, Ahmedabad
As a 3rd-semester student pursuing a Master of Design (Integrated Product Design) at Anant National University, my academic journey has been transformative and rewarding as the programme has provided me with a platform to delve deep into the realms […]
The conversation in India as to how infrastructure impacts education has just begun a couple of years ago. A few innovative schools have recognised how environment can be the third teacher; and have made it an integral part of their best practises. One such example in this space is the approach that CHIREC takes […]
A trainee at the nationally renowned Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy (PPBA), Bengaluru, Manisha Ramadass is the first Indian woman para-athlete to have won an international paralympics badminton medal.
In the 25-minute final of the SU5 category — a classification for players with upper limbs disability — the 19-year-old upset Denmark’s Cathrine Rosengren […]
With high hopes of winning an Olympic medal in Los Angeles four years from now, Ahmedabad-based South Asian and national triathlon champion Pragnya Mohan (30) has also set her heart and mind on the success of her social project “Ek beti, Ek cycle” (one daughter, one cycle).
When Times Higher Education launched the Arab University Rankings three years ago, universities in the prosperous Gulf states were the leading lights. But this year, institutions outside that region are showing strong signs of progress, proving that they can shine just as brightly as their Saudi and Emirati counterparts, despite facing tough economic, social […]
Currently celebrating its 21st anniversary, this K-12 school is ranked among the Top 10 co-ed day schools in Gurugram in the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2024-25.
Sited on a five-acre green campus off the Dwarka Expressway, the Brahm Dutt Blue Bells Public School, Sector 10, Gurugram (BDBBPS, estb.2003), has acquired an excellent reputation […]
The 2nd EW-BSAI Education Leadership Retreat 2024 convened between December 21-23 in Sunbeam School, Varuna, Varanasi, which attracted 108 school leaders from 21 cities and towns across the country, was a great success. Post-event feedback indicates this initiative made a substantial positive impact
The second EW (EducationWorld)- BSAI (Boarding Schools Association of India) Education […]
US universities may be more cautious about establishing branch campuses in India than their British and Australian counterparts. A delegation from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) met with Indian education minister Dharmendra Pradhan in November to talk about academic and research collaboration opportunities, including setting up a campus.
In a statement, the Indian ministry of education said […]
English learning class in China: waning enthusiasm
In preparation for the summer Olympics of 2008, the authorities in Beijing, the host city and China’s capital, launched a campaign to teach English to residents likely to come in contact with foreign visitors. Police, transit workers and hotel staff were among those targeted. One aim […]
Reshma Ravishanker
US & News Report in its Best Colleges Rankings 2025 ranks Purdue #46 in America — the only public university to be ranked among the Top 50.
Sited in West Lafayette (a two-hour drive from Chicago), Purdue is one of America’s top-ranked public universities with a global reputation for the quality of academics and […]
Dr. Ray Ravaglia and Sheila K. Bauer, co-founders of AccessUSA
Given the unimportance of QS Rankings in its core constituency, it is unlikely that US universities are factoring them into their operations. Why should students do so?
The university ranking industry is inescapable. Universities worldwide spend significant money chasing […]
Kalpesh Banker is Managing Partner at EduShine Search Partners, Delhi
A paradigm shift in higher education has begun and is acquiring momentum. Gradually — perhaps too gradually — research, creativity, innovation are becoming more important than knowledge acquisition and retention
India’s universities are at a crossroads. With legacy institutions disappointing students and industry, […]
Most educators agree that if used carefully and intelligently, AI has massive potential to radically impact education by improving teaching practices and student learning outcomes – Ditsa Bhattacharya & Summiya Yasmeen
Last March, edtech company Maker Labs installed India’s first artificial intelligence (AI) teacher robot named Iris in the KTCT Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram to “redefine […]
Bhubaneswar, December 2. The state’s recently elected BJP government has raised the allocation for mid-day meals for children in government primaries.
Addressing a press conference in Bhubaneswar, Raghuram R. Iyer, Nodal Officer for the PM-Poshan (child nutrition) scheme said: “The materials allocated for primary school students (classes I-V) have been raised from Rs.5.90 to […]
Banerjee (centre left) inaugurating Infosys Development Centre, Kolkata: turning tide?
With just a year to go for the state legislative assembly election of 2026, the tide may be turning for West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, whose third term in office has been marked by governance, public safety, and economic […]
Children’s day out: permission directive. Inset: Girija Devi
In mid-December, the Tamil Nadu government introduced new guidelines directing the state’s government, aided and private schools (including CISCE and CBSE) with an aggregate 3.9 million students to obtain prior clearance from government for a range of school activities — field trips, […]
The public education system in the southern state of Karnataka (pop.69 million), whose admin capital Bengaluru is the nation’s ICT (information communication technologies) epicentre and most recently voted India’s #1 hub for start-ups and unicorns, is in bad shape. The state’s 49,000 government schools, 430 […]
Meenakshi and Ajay Dalmia, and PaVan Iyengar are the highly-qualified co-founders of Drive Change Learning and Resource Centre (DLRC, estb. 2015), a unique K-12 “learning space” that may well redefine schooling through its inventive, experiential learning model strongly connected with nature and […]
It’s official. the revolutionary mandate of the historic Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education (aka RTE) Act, 2009 to abolish all exams for children in elementary school (classes I-VIII) has been revoked.
I am a committed reader of EducationWorld. Thanks for publishing the well-researched preschool rankings survey of 19 cities (EW December). The inclusion of Indore and Vadodara this year is most welcome. I hope to see more cities included next year.
In most cities, I noticed several new preschools being ranked in the league […]
US universities are bracing themselves for four years of “playing defence” on international students against the anti-immigration policies expected in president-elect Donald Trump’s second term.
His first four years in power offer some clues as to what might be in store: he tightened visa issuance, attempted to block […]
The constitution of India was promulgated as the governance charter of free, independent India on January 26, 1950. However November 28, the day on which the final draft of the Constitution was approved by Parliament in 1949, is celebrated countrywide as Constitution Day. In the last session of Parliament, on its 75th anniversary, the Constitution […]
DINESH GUPTA is the Delhi-based founder-CEO of Vikalp India Pvt. Ltd (VIL, estb 2010), an edtech company which over the past 15 years has leveraged the power of technology and the research expertise of eminent educators to develop a well-designed experiential learning program for K-12 education that has been […]
Educationist, philanthropist, and wellness evangelist Dr. Satyabrata Minaketan is founder-chairman of the Bhubaneswar-based ODM Educational Group, comprising eight institutions including six schools — ODM Public School and ODM Global School (Bhubaneswar); ODM Sapphire Global School, Ranchi; ODM International School, Durgapur; ODM International School, Angul, and ODM International School, Gurugram — […]
Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada
Shahu Patole, translated from the Marathi by Bhushan Korgaonkar
Harper Collins
Rs.599 Pages 354
This book endorses verity of the maxim that ‘food is the utlimate reality’. But its importance is that it reveals the connection between cuisine and the hierarchial caste system.
The recent English translation by Bhushan Korgaonkar of Marathi […]
— Mahika Shishodia is Head of Education, Lodha Foundation
When the full potential of gifted children is not developed, the cost is not only the loss of individual success but also of society and the nation. Google and Apple were conceptualised and built by gifted individuals
One of the greatest drawbacks of the Indian economy is the vast gulf that separates Indian academia and India Inc. Whiling away hours in ivory towers, the country’s academics, most of them brainwashed by Nehruvian socialist propaganda that all successful businessmen are crooks and cheats, have little respect for manufacturers of goods and providers of […]
When media pundits and mainstream journalists who tend to focus more on petty politics rather than root development issues pay attention to education matters, your editor who promoted EducationWorld 25 years ago with the mission to make “education the #1 item on the national agenda”, is delighted. But when a respected media pundit through an […]
In an era of extreme income and wealth disparities between India’s richest 10 percent who own 55-60 percent of national wealth and the country’s poorest 90 percent with embarassing per capita income, the national interest demands promoting the savings habit rather than conspicuous consumption. It’s a well-established canon of economics that savings equal investment.
The downsides of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution that’s sweeping the world is attracting more attention than its upsides. The media is replete with gloom-and-doom predictions of conquest of the world by indestructible AI-driven robots and machines. They will enslave the genus homo sapiens which will be sentenced to work in minerals extraction sites in […]
A recent visit to India by Thomas Piketty, renowned professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics who has acquired a global reputation for his ground-breaking research on wealth inequality in several countries, has reignited the debate about high wealth disparity in contemporary India. At issue is whether priority should be given to […]
Four student leaders at Government Holkar Science College in Indore have been expelled for locking 150 people, including the principal and professors, inside a hall .....Read More
Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon has announced Open Management Development Programmes (MDPs) for March 2025. These programmes are meticulously curated to empower professionals with essential .....Read More
Higher education leaders India needs
KALPESH BANKER
Kalpesh Banker is Managing Partner at EduShine Search Partners, Delhi
A paradigm shift in higher education has begun and is acquiring momentum. Gradually — perhaps too gradually — research, creativity, innovation are becoming more important than knowledge acquisition and retention
India’s universities are at a crossroads. With legacy institutions disappointing students and industry, […]