From a humble beginning over two and a half decades ago, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University in Bhubaneswar, known more by its acronym SOA, stands out as a shining academic institution illuminating the educational landscape of eastern India.
A socially inclusive higher education institution focused on quality education and innovative research, SOA has been […]
The annual EducationWorld India Higher Education Rankings provide comprehensive league tables ranking the country’s Top 500 arts, science and commerce colleges, Top 100 private engineering colleges, Top 300 government and private universities in 15 discrete categories, and Top 100 private B-schools. However, these are all-inclusive rankings rating the country’s most well-reputed higher ed institutions across […]
Since last year when government varsities were segregated according to their subject specialisations, the National Law Universities (NLUs) have dominated EW India Gov. Law & Humanities league table
NLSIU’s Dr. Krishnaswamy (centre right): “unparalled legal learning environment”
Even as India’s legal system is collapsing under the weight of pending caseload — a record 47 million […]
The 4,223 knowledgeable EW sample respondents have reconfirmed the new genre O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU, estb.2009) India’s #1 Liberal Arts and Humanities University. Sited on an 80-acre campus in Sonipat (Haryana), JGU is awarded top score on six of the ten parameters of higher education excellence including […]
Since the Central government-promoted IIMs admit a minuscule 2 percent of the 2.2 lakh graduates who write their annual CAT (Common Admission Test), in 2016 your editors took a considered decision to rank only non-government private B-schools which admit the vast majority of business management students, writes Dilip Thakore
The 2023-24 league table of India’s best private medical and health sciences (including health management) universities comprises 11 exclusive higher ed institutions conferred university status by the Centre/state governments for excellence in medical/health sciences teaching and research.
The reaction of vice chancellors of the topper universities.
“We are pleased to learn that Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher […]
In this issue we have rated and ranked 36 private engineering and technology universities which provide superior quality education and have been awarded deemed university status
BITS-Pilani’s Prof. Ramgopal Rao (centre): IITs parity
In all assessments about the growth and development potential of Indian industry and emergence of India as a superpower of the 21st […]
With the National Education Policy 2020 mandating the transformation of all colleges and universities into multidisciplinary institutions by 2035, they are the flavour of the season
Amity’s Dr. Atul Chauhan: brand building mastermind
Multidisciplinary universities are the flavour of the season. The new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has mandated that all specialised or […]
Although they dominate this sector, government agriculture universities have not been able to sufficiently raise per hectare yields to best global levels
NAU VC Z.P. Patel (right): extension services pride
India’s government agriculture universities are one of the big disappointments of the post-independence national development effort. Although the apex-level Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), […]
It’s pertinent to note that India’s 657 government including 235 Central and 422 state government universities educate 73.1 percent of the total 41.3 million students in higher education
UoM’s Pro VC Prof. Ajay Bhambre (centre right): commitment proof
Although India’s fast multiplying new genre private universities constitute the glamour section of the annual EducationWorld […]
The EWIHER 2023-24 league tables ranking India’s best private and public universities are presented at a time of great flux in Indian education, especially higher education. NEP 2020 mandates that all colleges and universities gradually transform into multidisciplinary, autonomous higher education institutions, writes Dilip Thakore and Summiya Yasmeen
Almost imperceptibly, Indian education is experiencing a sea […]
Aspiring prime minister Rahul Gandhi often asks why business tycoon Gautam Adani is so “close” to prime minister Narendra Modi. A better question would be: can any industrialist or businessman afford not to be on the right side of any politician, especially the prime minister.
The plain truth is Rahul’s great grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru, a professed […]
A merry game of musical chairs is being played in the country’s top-ranked schools. In wake of the belated liberalisation of Indian education, including the K-12 sector, global multinational school chains entering the moribund education sector and greenfield schools springing up everyday, principals/headmasters and well-qualified, competent subject teachers have become hot property. Therefore, the scramble […]
Hardly two months have elapsed since the Hindenburg Report of a shady outfit of confessed short-sellers with no fixed address and five ‘researchers’ on their payroll, wiped out a staggering Rs.9 lakh crore of the market value of Ahmedabad-based coal, ports, green energy, grain silos and airports tycoon Gautam Adani on the Indian stock market. […]
The Anatomy of Hate Revati Laul Westland Books Rs.1,499 Pages 220
The author has chosen to study three individuals who swiftly meld into mobs, to understand the circumstances and motivations that make them ready tools of politicians and revivalists
In recent years, there has been an increasing tendency of enraged vigilante groups running amok, creating havoc and […]
The Digital Ape: how to live (in peace) with smart machines Nigel Shadbolt & Roger Hampson Manjul Publishing House Rs.354 Pages 90
We are reassuringly told that AI actually is poor at “commonsense reasoning”, and while they are superhuman in completing certain tasks, they are “overall bad at generalising”
Sriya Sainath (25), a computer science engineering graduate of NIT-Rourkela and currently a first year MBA student of the blue-chip IIM-Bangalore, was adjudged Young Analyst 2022 of the London-based Institute of Analytics (IoA) in early March. IoA is a global organisation established to encourage responsible and ethical data science professionals.
There was a thrilling sense of deja vu in the Jhala household when Ahmedabad-based Veerangana Jhala (7) was conferred the National Bravery Award 2023 ahead of Republic Day (January 26) in Delhi by Major General (Retd.) ‘Ironman’ Vikram Dogra, for displaying extraordinary courage in saving 60 human lives in a fire on […]
Studio pedagogy takes a very different approach. A substantial number of contact hours and credits are given to undergrads to resolve live workplace problems individually or in team writes Pratyush Shankar
Traditionally, engineering education has been perceived to be a higher education discipline that requires good grasp of theoretical concepts and a fair amount of workshop or […]
Suddenly our huge population is expected to yield a “demographic dividend” that will enable us to catch up with China and the US and transform India into a global economic power
Now it’s official. On July 1, India will overtake China as the world’s most populous nation. Though this was expected for some time, a recent […]
Duolingo & Next Genius initiative
Mumbai, april 26. The US-based Duolingo Inc, which has designed the global Duolingo English Test (DET), a modern English proficiency assessment for international students and institutions, and its India partner, Next Genius Foundation, are embarking on an Inspiring India Tour to visit 1,000 high schools across 50 cities in India […]
J&K Moving direct appeal
Kathua/jammu, april 20. Days after class III student Seerat Naaz in a video message urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure basic facilities at her government school in Kathua district in the remote Lohai-Malhar block, Ravi Shankar Sharma, director of school education (Jammu), initiated action to give the school a facelift.
After procrastinating for several months over the issue of implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, West Bengal’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) government has signalled a rejig of its strategy. In what is being interpreted as a sudden softening of its opposition to NEP 2020, on March 17, the higher education department wrote […]
Tamil nadu’s education exceptionalism — the state’s DMK government wants to run its own NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) for admission into the state’s medical colleges, aspires to teach engineering undergrad and postgrad study programmes in Tamil and wants to be exempted from the three languages formula in K-12 education — is […]
Even if belatedly, primary-secondary education is becoming an important election issue — at least in state legislative assembly elections. Credit for this must primarily accrue to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which against all expectations swept the Delhi state assembly elections in 2015 and 2019 and also the Punjab state election last year. […]
India is headed for a sweeping reorganisation of its school system in the next few years. The 628-page draft National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE) made public on April 6, based on the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, offers ample evidence of the impending overhaul. The NCF-SE draft has been placed in […]
“Viewed through the prism of brutality, thus, history has few heroes. If the Mughals were violent, it was not because they were Mughals; it was because they were royal.”
Manu S. Pillai, historian and author, on many justifying the NCERT’s deletion of chapters on Mughals in school textbooks by pointing to their brutality (Times of India, […]
GDCW pride
I was delighted to learn that my alma mater — Government Degree College for Women, Begumpet, Hyderabad — is ranked among India’s Top 3 government autonomous colleges in the EW India Higher Education Rankings 2023-24 (EW April).
Congratulations to principal Dr. Padmavathi, faculty and students for continuing the GDCW tradition of empowering women […]
The omission of the epochal Mughal era (1526-1857) and references to the importance Mahatma Gandhi attached to Hindu-Muslim unity as also his assassination by a Hindu/RSS fanatic in 1948, in the model class XII history textbook written and commissioned by the National Council for Educational Research & Training (NCERT) — an autonomous subsidiary of the […]
The 17-day strike called by private medical practitioners in Rajasthan in response to the Rajasthan Medical Care (RMC) Act, 2022, which ended on April 4 after unaided private hospitals which have not received aid or facilitation by the government were exempted, was a national disgrace and exposed the ugly face of the medical profession. The […]
The public often forgets the vast scale and diversity of subcontinental India. For instance, within the education sector there are 1.4 million primary-secondary schools; 43,796 junior and undergrad colleges and 1,113 universities countrywide established to serve the educational needs of over 500 million children and youth. It’s quite obviously impossible to evaluate and rank them […]
Navrachana Higher Secondary School, Sama has been imparting education for over 55 years, encouraging all its students to strive for excellence. We foster a climate of respect and empathy, lay clear guidelines for respectful behaviour and create a culture rich in compassion […]
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Demographic dividend opportunity & illusion
Suddenly our huge population is expected to yield a “demographic dividend” that will enable us to catch up with China and the US and transform India into a global economic power
Now it’s official. On July 1, India will overtake China as the world’s most populous nation. Though this was expected for some time, a recent […]