Sited in Hyderabad’s bustling tech suburb of Gachibowli, Vista International School (VIS, estb. 2011) has built an excellent reputation for providing well-balanced academic, sports, co-curricular and values education to its 1,500 students mentored by 110 well-qualified teachers. In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2022-23, VIS is ranked among the Top 5 day schools in […]
Apart from offering a holistic education rooted in India traditions and values, Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior (SKV) has been leaving no stone unturned in opening up new avenues for its students for global citizenship and providing them education encompassing international dimensions. By enrolling as a member of AFS India – an organisation that provides […]
Ketto was founded in 2012 by Varun Sheth, Zaheer Adenwalla, and actor Kunal Kapoor. The company was started with a vision to make a greater impact by working with grassroots-level non-profit groups in the social sector. Today, after over a decade of dedicated work, Ketto proudly stands as
In today’s increasingly competitive world, where contentions are endless and cut-throat and the stakes are really high, the word ‘altruism’ is sadly receding into a place where it signs the attendance book of one’s vocabulary but is seldom called into action. But […]
The primary focus of Indian students tends to be on Ivy league and large universities on the East and West coasts. However, America’s 600 inland higher education institutions — many as good as the best — are unknown quantities to our school leavers and graduates, writes Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
Apart from fulfilling her responsibilities as Head Girl at Gurukul The School, Ghaziabad she is also a LifeSkills and Well-being Ambassador under the Adolescent Peer Educators Leadership Program of CBSE.
Suhani Vats, Head Girl of Gurukul The School, Ghaziabad recently graduated from high school with an aggregate of 97.2 percent in the CBSE board exam and […]
The IB senior leadership led by Director General Olli-Pekka Heinonen (second from right) at the Festival of HOPE launch in Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai
Bringing the success of its Youth Ambassadors programme to India for the very first time, the Geneva-based International Baccalaureate (IB, estb. 1968) hosted the Festival of Hope in New […]
The newly sworn-in congress government of Karnataka, which won an absolute majority (135 seats in the 224-seat legislative assembly) in a bitterly-fought electoral contest, has inherited a broken, ailing public school system from its predecessor BJP government. A mere nine days after Siddaramaiah (no initials) took oath as the […]
College and university rankings have always been a controversial issue in India. There are several government rankings agencies notably the Bengaluru-based National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC, estb.1994) and latterly the Union education ministry’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF, estb.2015). Neither of these official HEIs (higher education institutions) ranking […]
The recently concluded legislative assembly election in Karnataka won by the Congress party with an absolute majority, offers several important lessons for politicians and citizens of all hues and ideological persuasions. Driven by transformational new digital technologies and instant communication provided by social media, electorates across the country are not what they were ten — […]
A report released early last month (April) by the transnational accounting and corporate consultancy firm Ernst & Young and iMocha — billed as the world’s leading skills intelligence and skills assessment platform — titled Tech Skills Transformation — Navigating the Future of Work in 2025 and Beyond reveals a huge deficit of adequately technology skilled […]
Intelligent rankings
Congratulations to EducationWorld for publishing yet another comprehensive higher education rankings issue (EW April and May). It has intelligently rated and ranked junior and undergrad colleges and universities across the country under critical parameters of higher education excellence.
Our senior school students look forward to and benefit immensely in making informed higher education […]
fter liberalisation and deregulation of the dirigiste socialist Indian economy in 1991, the country’s middle class has grown and prospered. According to some estimates it numbers 400 million or 80 million households, as the outflow of Indian graduates and latterly school-leavers, to universities in English-speaking countries — the US, UK, Australia and Canada as also […]
Love for one’s native language is a commendable virtue. But forcing it down the throats of everyone residing within a country or state smacks of dictatorship. Especially in a country comprising 29 linguistic states in which English or more accurately ‘Inglish’ is the language of Parliament, […]
A single judge bench of justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of Calcutta High Court currently hearing the multi-crore school jobs scam in West Bengal, which exposed dire irregularities in appointment of teachers in 82,748 government primary schools, and uncovered evidence of administrative malfeasance, on May 12, ordered cancellation of […]
“Earlier, we used to give just kitabi gyan (book learning) to our students, but this will change with the introduction of the New Education Policy. The new NEP focuses on practical learning. Such an education system is at the centre of NEP and now it is the responsibility of the teachers to implement this system […]
Punjab Education officers suspended
Chandigarh, may 30. Harjot Singh Bains, the state’s school education minister, ordered the suspension of three officials of his ministry on charges of dereliction of duty.
During a surprise inspection of the Government Primary School, Lambayan in SAS Nagar district, class V students brought to the minister’s attention that they were yet […]
Griffith’s two coups
Delhi, april 28. Griffith University, Australia signed MOUs with two of India’s top-ranked higher ed institutions — Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) — when its delegation led by Vice Chancellor Prof. Carolyn Evans visited India recently.
The agreement with IISc will build on an existing […]
Indulging in corrupt practices in China has become highly risky. The anti-corruption drive launched by Xi Jinping be it in the education sector, military or the party itself, hasn’t spared anybody
What unseated the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from power in Karnataka? The widespread perception, well-grounded in reality, that it was indeed a […]
India will have to make a strenuous effort to make sure its youth are healthy, educated and capable. A delay will mean they will not transform into the demographic dividend they could become
India recently overtook China to become the most populous country of the world. Ostensibly, this was due to India’s population growing at a […]
A class X student of Kolkata’s top-ranked Modern High School (MHS) for Girls, Anandini Sengupta (15) is still savouring the sweet taste of success, months after her short story Hope Floats was selected from 10,000 entries and published by Scholastic Publishers in an anthology titled Teen Tales. The Top 16 entries of aspiring […]
Bengaluru-based Aarav Lad (9) was adjudged first runner-up in the 9-11 age group among 120 solo pianists in the fifth online edition of the International Festival-Contest ‘Music of the World,’ staged in Israel in March. The competition attracted contestants from 24 countries worldwide.
Debuting in his first international competition, this pre-teen prodigy wowed the […]
Dr. Chandra receives award from EducationWorld Publisher/Editor Dilip Thakore
Dr. Naresh Chandra is Director (Education) of the B.K. Birla College of Arts, Science & Commerce (Autonomous), Kalyan, Mumbai (BKBCK, estb. in 1972 under the patronage of Shri B.K. Birla and Smt. Sarala Birla). An alumnus of Meerut University, Dr. Chandra is a veteran educationist […]
Dr. Laghate receives award from EducationWorld Publisher/Editor Dilip Thakore
Director of the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) — an autonomous unit of the University of Mumbai — for two terms and currently Senior Professor, JBIMS, and Dean, Faculty of Commerce and Management, University of Mumbai (UoM), Prof. (Dr.) Kavita Ramchandra Laghate is […]
The annual EducationWorld Grand Jury India Higher Education Rankings were introduced in 2019 to acknowledge and felicitate higher education institutions (HEIs) — especially newly-promoted, low-profile HEIs. Special juries of knowledgeable educationists are constituted to recommend conferment of the EW Grand Jury Awards upon higher ed institutions implementing best practices.
To select progressive higher education institutions across […]
With appropriate tools and strategies, educators have the opportunity to harness the power of AI to provide personalised, engaging and effective learning experiences for children writes Robinson Philipose
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has made headlines around the world and scared educationists with alarmist predictions of widespread testing malpractice. But on the other side, AI has […]
Victory City Salman Rushdie Alfred A Knopf Rs.519 Pages 352
An engaging novel about the founding and ultimate fate of the Vijayanagar empire (called Bisnaga) after a European mispronounces it
On August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was due to speak at the Chautauqua Institution in New York State. Shortly after the speakers ascended the stage, a […]
According to top brass of the State Bank of India, May 15 was a red letter day for the bank and the country. Full front-page ads splashed in the Times of India and several other dailies informed the long-suffering public of the silver jubilee (25th anniversary) of SBI credit cards. For your editor, it was […]
The death in London on May 17 of Srichand Parmanand Hinduja at age 87 received grudging paragraphs and cursory coverage in the Indian print and television media, given to saturation coverage when politicians and movie stars with relatively modest achievements go the way of all flesh.
The seeds of the global Hinduja family were laid by […]
The Adani case gets curious and curiouser. Now that the Supreme Court has absolved SEBI (Securities & Exchange Board of India) of any lapses in investigating whether there was any truth in the Hindenburg Report of January which accused infrastructure — airports, marine ports, cement, grain silos and edible oils, media — developer Gautam Adani […]
Global dialogue on the new paradigm of education witnessed a significant positive thrust through insights from international educators and thought leaders at the STTAR Global School Education Conference hosted by Saamarthya Teachers Training Academy of Research (STTAR).
Held on May 19 & 20, 2023 at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi, the two-day conference saw exchange […]
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Corruption in education — India & China
Sudheendra Kulkarni
Indulging in corrupt practices in China has become highly risky. The anti-corruption drive launched by Xi Jinping be it in the education sector, military or the party itself, hasn’t spared anybody
What unseated the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from power in Karnataka? The widespread perception, well-grounded in reality, that it was indeed a […]