In a departure from past practice in which we presented perceptual rankings of the countrys Top 200 public and private universities together and ranked them inter se, this year we have opted to rate and rank the Top 100 private universities, engineering colleges and B-schools Dilip Thakore
This year EducationWorld’s annual summer rankings of India’s best […]
Public universities in India are in a shambles. Public apathy towards higher education and public universities in particular, is the prime cause of their dismal condition. This apathy is reflected in many ways, notably in the decline of relative priority accorded to higher education in terms of public expenditure as a proportion of total government […]
Four decades after commencing operations, BC has transformed into a model rural community college whose unique home-grown livelihood and rural employment generation programmes have spread to 14 states of the Indian Union and 72 countries worldwide:Dilip Thakore
THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED, STRAIGHT-AS-an-arrow four-lane National Highway No.8 which links Jaipur, the admin capital of the western India desert […]
How satisfied are you with the progress and development of Barefoot College? In particular, what new milestones has BC crossed since we last featured a cover story in 2012?
I am fairly satisfied. Fourteen of the United Nations 2015 Sustainable Development Goals are embedded in […]
With top ratings on the parameters of faculty competence, faculty development and welfare, research and innovation, and infrastructure, Manipal University has leapfrogged BITS, Pilani and IIIT, Hyderabad to the top of EWIPUR 2016:Dilip Thakore
The Manipal (Karnataka)-based Manipal University (MU, estb.1953) — accorded the status of deemed (private) university in 1993 — which provides medical, engineering, […]
With the monotonously top-ranked IITs and NITs admitting a minuscule percentage of the estimated 1.3 million school-leavers aspiring for engineering education, and other government engineering colleges in a shambles, league tables of the country’s Top 100 private engineering colleges serve a very useful public purpose, here are India’s Best Private Engineering Colleges 2016-17:Summiya Yasmeen
On the reasoning that 70 percent of the country’s 3,452 B-schools are privately promoted, the IIMs, which routinely top all B-school surveys and the small minority of other government B-schools have been eliminated from this year’s private B-schools league tables:Summiya Yasmeen
The Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur (formerly XLRI) followed by Mumbai’s S.P. Jain Institute of […]
A curious facet of the neta-babu driven model of education is that post-independence India’s 35,000 colleges, 744 universities and the 38 Soviet-style Council of Industrial & Scientific Research labs across the country, which employ several hundred thousand higher education faculty and research scientists, haven’t been able to present the nation even one breakthrough invention like […]
Regional director (South Asia), Cambridge International Examinations, UK
Where would you place education on your national list of priorities?
Right on top. Judicious investment of ideas, effort and resources in education can be a big gamechanger to harness the high potential of India’s youth.
How best to upgrade the existing education system in India?
Let’s give education […]
The Public Intellectual In India by Romila Thapar aleph book company in association with the book review literary trust; Price: Rs.889; Pages: 284
In his obituary to Benedict Anderson, historian Ramchandra Guha recollects a letter from him in which he asked, “How many public intellectuals are there in India? In Southeast Asia they are dying, replaced by professors […]
Leadership is a performing art, and the best way to get better at it is to practice it while learning about it — Jim Thompson, founder, Positive Coaching Alliance, USA
An urgent need of these complex times is to equip youth to lead the way into the future. Admittedly, it’s important to teach them to be […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed Dr. Sugata Mitra, professor of education technology at Newcastle University, after he conducted lecture-workshops in Mumbai and Bangalore under the EducationWorld Professional Development Workshop Series.
Indian education is in sorry condition. Learning outcomes in primary schools are very poor with class V children unable to read class II texts and 53 percent of […]
As adults, we have the choice to turn off a programme or turn the page if what we see or read makes no sense. However, we cannot afford to extend this liberty to children in schools — that they should walk out of classes which don’t make sense. Turning away from education is equivalent to […]
I completed my BA next year and would like to explore a career in digital humanities. Which universities abroad offer this specialisation and what are the job opportunities?
Subhash Iyer, Chennai
Digital humanities is a transdisciplinary field that involves creation and dissemination of knowledge in the networked age mediated by digital culture and technology. Course modules […]
For businesses and companies, social media sites are emerging as important communication channels to market products, brands and generate new business
Wikipedia defines social media as “computer-mediated tools that allow people or companies to create, share, or exchange information, career interests, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks”. In layman’s terms, it’s the information people […]
The second oldest higher education institution in the US, College of William & Mary, USA is ranked among the Top 10 publicly-funded universities of America:Summiya Yasmeen
Chartered in 1693 by King William III and Queen Mary II of England, the College of William & Mary, USA (W&M) is the second oldest higher […]
Affiliated with the UK-based CIE board, the K-12 Ardee World School, Gurgaon is the first school in Delhi NCR to offer Montessori education upto class VIII:Autar Nehru
Spread across two acres within Ardee City, a 200-acre residential township built by the Ardee Group in Gurgaon’s Sector 52, Ardee World School (AWS) is the […]
It’s raining encomiums for Sohini Karmakar and Rojismita Purohit, class XII science students of Visakhapatnam’s Vikas Vidyaniketan School (estb.1993) who cracked the annual Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY, youth sciences study incentive plan) scholarship exam of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Although the students were ranked #410 and #1,410, they are among the 1.5 […]
The Delhi-based NIIT Ltd, a well-known name in digital technology skills and talent development, was conferred the ‘Best Innovation Brand in the Education Sector’ by an Assocham National Brand Summit & Excellence Awards 2016 jury. Sanjay Zhunzhunwala, chairman, and Shradha Agarwal, co-chairperson of the Assocham Regional Council, presented the award to Shakera Roy, general manager […]
Union human resource development minister Smriti Irani announced five new composite schools in Ranchi, Palamau, Dumka, Chaibasa and Hazaribagh districts to provide education to students from class I until postgraduation — all on one campus. The minister was participating in the Vidyalaya Chale-chalayein Abhiyan — Jharkhand’s school enrolment drive programme — at Kalamati […]
The dimming electoral prospects of West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) party led by its feisty chief minister Mamata Banerjee, reeling under impact of the Vivekananda flyover collapse in Kolkata on March 31 that resulted in the death of 25 unsuspecting citizens, and the Narada sting operation which revealed the complicity of the TMC with […]
For 174,000 out of 650,000 higher secondary students across the southern state of Karnataka (pop. 64 million) who finally completed their Plus Two, aka pre-university, exam staged by the department of pre-university education (DPUE) on April 12, the preceding four weeks was a period of repeated punishment. The students had to write the chemistry exam […]
The April 8 decision of the union ministry for human resource development (HRD) to raise annual tuition fees for higher secondary school-leavers entering the country’s 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) from the current Rs.90,000 to Rs.200,000 in the new academic year starting July, has evoked mixed reactions within students, parents, academics and industry leaders […]
Maharashtra’s BJP-Shiv Sena government has introduced a new school certification system applicable to all primary and secondary schools statewide, irrespective of board affiliation. The ‘Samruddha Shala’ system will evaluate a school’s compliance with the norms and standards mandated by s.19 and Schedule of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009.
The first official (union HRD ministry) league tables ranking the Top 100 category ‘A’ Indian universities, engineering colleges and B-schools were released in New Delhi on April 4.
Based on a National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) devised by a 16-member “core committee” of academics constituted by the Union human resource development ministry in October 2014, the […]
Thanks for your hard-hitting cover story ‘Licence-permit-quota raj crushing India’s private schools’ (EW April). Most reports in daily newspapers tend to portray private schools as money-grabbing institutions out to fleece parents by charging huge fees.
Your story has highlighted on-the-ground reality — how private schools, preferred by all segments of society, are being harassed and intimidated […]
The despatch of over 3,500 Central paramilitary, BSF and other troops to Handwara in the Kashmir Valley on April 16-17 after continuous stone-pelting on Indian Army personnel and pickets over a doubtful molestation charge of a minor girl by an army jawan, is an indicator that civilian unrest in the northern periphery state of Jammu […]
It’s not common knowledge that there are 355 private universities, 2,775 engineering colleges and 2,400 B-schools, and other privately-promoted professional education institutions which provide education to over 60 percent of the 27 million youth enrolled in the country’s floundering higher education system. Because of post-independence India’s disastrous romance with socialism, private initiatives in higher education […]
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