– Deepa Bhushan, Director – Schools, CP Goenka International School
At CP Goenka International Schools, we’re all about staying ahead of the curve in education. Picture this: our classrooms are buzzing with the latest tech gadgets, making learning super interactive and fun. From virtual labs to coding challenges to digital ethics, we’re all about preparing […]
Navrachana Vidyani Vidyalaya embodied this ethos through a transformative project spearheaded by Mr. Subhajit Mukherjee of Mission Green, Mumbai. The initiative aimed ambitiously to cultivate 100,000 trees through a mango seed drive, benefiting local farmers and enhancing greenery. This project deeply resonated with our school’s commitment to sustainability and holistic education. Students, teachers, and […]
In the realm of educational excellence, Emerald Heights International School stands out once again as it secures the coveted Best Presentation award at the National Round of the IRC League’s Makethone Competition. Hosted by Avishkaar at the esteemed Yamuna Vihar Sport Complex in New Delhi on January 13, 2024, this triumph underscores the school’s commitment […]
Heritage stands as one of the three pillars of Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, proudly showcasing the annual “Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Dharohar Festival.” The festival, dedicated to the preservation of Indian heritage and the passing on of our rich culture to students, has been a hallmark achievement of SKV over the years.
Celebrated annually, the Dharohar festival highlights […]
– Niru Agarwal, Managing Trustee, Greenwood High International School
Greenwood High preschools are recognised for their unwavering commitment to enabling the holistic development of children and preparing them for the future.
At our preschools, we understand the importance of providing a nurturing environment where children can thrive and grow. We believe in fostering a love for […]
– Niru Agarwal, Managing Trustee, Greenwood High International School
Greenwood High provides state-of-the-art boarding facilities for girls and boys, featuring separate hostels and supervisors, round-the-clock medical services, and a secure environment. Our boarding facilities are meticulously crafted to ensure students’ comfort and support during their years at Greenwood High.
With dedicated wardens overseeing both genders, we […]
“We are humbled that EW survey respondents have consistently ranked Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) among India’s Top 5 public engineering and technology universities. Since establishment in 1933, the institute has evolved into a deemed university with three campuses in Mumbai, Marathwada and Bhubaneswar, providing education, training, research and industrial collaboration in chemical engineering, chemical […]
Revolutionaries: the other story of how India won its freedom
Sanjeev Sanyal
Harper Collins
Rs.599 Pages 351
To counter public amnesia the author uses the methodology of micro-history to intervene into the mainstream narrative of India’s freedom struggle as it has been ‘received’ since 1947
Reading this alternative history of how India won its freedom from British […]
– Fareesa Qareena, Social Media Manager, Vista International School, Hyderabad
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technological and mechanical innovation, Vista International School’s Innovation Cell stands out as a beacon for young minds eager to explore, create, and innovate. With a mission to instill the STEM mindset in children, the Innovation Cell at Vista goes […]
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: I am an ordinary man — India’s struggle for freedom (1914-1948)
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Aleph Book Company
Rs.999 Pages 443
The dynamic flux of political, social and economic interventions together with Gandhiji’s relationships with hundreds of people demanded energies beyond the capacity of ordinary mortals
A reviewer assessing the sequel to Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s edited ‘autobiography’ […]
In the bustling city of Chennai, nestled within the vibrant community of the House of Hiranandani’s integrated township at Old Mahabalipuram Road, popularly known as OMR, lies a beacon of educational excellence – Hiranandani Upscale School (HUS). Established in the year 2011 by the visionary Surendra Hiranandani, HUS stands tall as a distinguished educational […]
Students in elite institutions are highly privileged. Why do they not spend this precious time, while they are young and full of energy, learning about the world instead of fomenting riots to change it?
Many of the most prestigious American universities have become dysfunctional during the past month. They have […]
By integrating alternative energy education into school curricula we must raise a generation with an informed and proactive mindset towards environmental stewardship
In the wake of escalating greenhouse emissions and climate change impacts, as Planet Earth inches closer to the critical temperature rise threshold of 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels, the urgency to […]
Dr. Jagdish Gandhi, founder-manager of the City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow, who passed away in January 2024 at age 89 is mourned by thousands of school leaders, teachers and students countrywide whose lives he touched. The major legacy he has left behind is 65 years of relentless effort to promote global citizenship […]
Noida-based Ayaan Suri and Shaurya Mahajan — members of Team Quadrex — are the newly crowned under-14 junior champions of RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) 2023, staged between December 5-9 (2023) at the Alpensia Convention Center in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Team Quadrex was among six teams invited from five countries to compete in RCAP 2023, after winning […]
Mumbai-based music prodigy Ayaan Deshpande (10) has sprung into the global limelight. Last August, he was adjudged winner in piano proficiency and composition at the Golden Key Music Festival, Vienna. This qualified him to perform at the winners’ Gala Concert held at the majestic Ehrbar Hall — once the concert venue for 19th century Western […]
An alum of the top-ranked Georgia Tech University and Stanford University, USA, Raghav Himatsingka is founder-CEO of the Mumbai-based Raising Superstars Pvt. Ltd and inventor of the Prodigy Baby app that arouses the latent potential of 0-6 year-old children. Excerpts from an online interview: (see https://www.educationworld.in/ew-interview-raghav-himatsingka-co-founder-raising-superstars/)
An engineering graduate with a postgrad degree […]
– Puja Pant, Vice Principal, Ecole Globale International Girls’ School
Learning is a purposeful and important activity but one that happens best in a joyful environment. It is only when and if the students enjoy the learning process that they bring excitement, energy and curiosity to the classroom. Therefore, as educators, it should be our prime […]
There’s something not quite right about the endless rounds of cricket matches, sports, games and entertainment being served up to the Indian public. Currently, IPL T20 cricket matches are attracting crowds upward of 50,000-60,000 every evening in specially constructed stadia across the country, with matches ending near midnight. Moreover, several multiples of the huge in-stadia […]
Love of luxury and ostentation in a country where nearly a billion citizens struggle for two square meals per day eking out nasty, brutish and too long lives, often — perhaps not often enough — leads to downfall.
The precipitate fall of KC Chandrasekar Rao, who successfully carved Telangana out from the composite state of Andhra […]
A crass remark or provocative statement can change the outcome of a general election. In 2014, Congress worthy Mani Shankar Aiyar’s too clever by half witticism that Narendra Modi, the son of an OBC tea vendor at a railway station who had worked his way up the social and political ladder and served three successful […]
The best a student can do during summer is something that would be unavailable during the year. Summer is the ideal time for internships and structured programmes.
Although they are becoming increasingly popular, most university summer programs are inherently deceptive. These programs feed upon the desire of parents and students to attend […]
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 most well-reputed higher ed institutions across several […]
New delhi, april 10. Samsung India, the well-known subsidiary of the Seoul-based Samsung Eletronics Co Ltd, announced the third edition of its flagship CSR initiative — ‘Solve for Tomorrow’, in collaboration with IIT-Delhi, the Union ministry of electronics & information technology, and United Nations (India). The objective of the ‘Solve for […]
Thane, april 15. The Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) urged reform in the policy of awarding minority status to private educational institutions.
“Educational institutions cannot misuse the policy and do injustice to minority communities. The state government should determine a minimum percentage of minority students while granting licenses […]
“The protests are a product of that suffocating sense of thwarted political agency that a lot of young people feel… The students are, perhaps inchoately, attempting that work of moral repair.”
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, former president, Centre Policy Research, on pro-Palestinian student protests at US university campuses (Indian Express, April 24)
Despite a plethora of legislation including the Indian Penal Code 1860, Juvenile Justice (Care & Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and the RTE Act, 2009 expressly prohibiting corporal punishment of children, the ancient tradition of teachers inflicting physical punishment for real and imagined misbehaviour is widespread in India’s 1.60 million schools. Reports of teachers inflicting […]
Students writing KCET: out-of-syllabus questionsAn education mess in this southern state which has appropriated its description as the Silicon Valley of India, has become messier. On April 8, the Supreme Court restrained the state’s Congress government from publishing results of board exams held in March for classes V, VIII and IX students of KSEAB (Karnataka […]
A series of teacher recruitment scandals have plagued three-term West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee since 2011 when her Trinamool Congress (TMC) party famously routed the CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist)-led LDF coalition which had ruled the state continuously for 34 years.
Employment in government schools in which salaries for primary school teachers […]
India’s private B-schools capable of responding quickly to changes in the business environment and customising their curriculums accordingly, are likely to play an increasingly important role to modernise and upgrade India Inc to compete with the world’s most dominant corporations, writes Dilip Thakore
Indian School of Business: Financial Times, London global #31
Although they continue to be adamantly unresponsive, every year since 2020 EducationWorld has been eliciting expert opinion to rate and rank government agricultural universities countrywide.
NAU’s Dr. Z.P. Patel (right): 114 crop varieties and 728 technologies record
Since 2020 thousands of farmers have been periodically protesting countrywide, demanding legally guaranteed minimum support prices for agriculture […]
Established in 23 states countrywide, India’s 27 publicly-funded National Law Universities (NLUs) have emerged as the gold standard of contemporary legal education
The country’s 27 publicly-funded National Law Universities (NLUs) are the IITs of legal education. Since the first National Law School of India University, Bengaluru was promoted in 1988 pursuant to legal education reforms advocated […]
Although the country’s new genre private universities with their sprawling capital intensive campuses, new-age study programmes, and high-quality faculty, are capturing the public imagination, government universities continue to host 74 percent of youth in higher education
The latest All India Survey of Higher Education (AISHE) Report 2021-22 (released January 25) of the Union education ministry […]
“We are thrilled that SRIHER is once again ranked India’s #1 private medical university. This is public recognition of our continued commitment to excellence in medical education, healthcare, and research. SRIHER is a multi-disciplinary medical university with 14 faculties offering 37 undergraduate, 125 post-graduate and doctoral programmes in medical, dental, nursing and other allied health […]
JGU’s Dr. Raj Kumar (right): #1 three consecutive years
New-genre liberal arts universities created great public excitement and were ranked within the national Top 20 of the composite private universities league table in the annual EW India Higher Education Rankings in 2019. After sub-division of the broad category of private HEIs according to subject […]
India’s new genre multidisciplinary universities benchmarked against the world’s best are a breath of fresh air with the potential to check, if not stop, the annual migration of an estimated 8 lakh school and college-leavers for higher education abroad.
Indian university graduates: unemployability spectre
Since the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, based on the Kasturirangan […]
Attaining the $30 trillion GDP dream by 2047 necessitates private engineering and technology universities skilling an army of managers and workers in STEM subjects
Prof. Ramgopal Rao (centre): research powerhouse & start-ups incubator
If the lofty Viksit Bharat (‘developed India’) with a $30 trillion GDP dream of Prime Minister Narendra Modi — who seems […]
To compile the league table of India’s most admired public and private universities, 2,100 respondents, comprising faculty and students in higher education institutions and industry leaders in 22 states countrywide were interviewed, writes Dilip Thakore and Summiya Yasmeen
Although learned professors and academics in their ivory towers seem oblivious and hold themselves blameless, there’s much that’s […]
A top priority of left — communist, socialist — governments worldwide, is compulsory, free-of-charge early years and primary education for children. Yet despite newly-independent India’s Congress party passing a resolution in 1956 to establish a “socialist pattern of society”, compulsory primary education wasn’t decreed until 2009 […]
One of the most enduring — and justified — criticisms of K-12 education in post-independence India is addiction to rote learning through memorisation rather than comprehension. Obstinacy of the country’s 69 school examination boards to reward students’ memorisation rather than originality, critical thinking and problem-solving skills in […]
- Mita Mukherjee Nearly 25 lakh persons working as pre-primary facilitators and caregivers in the country will be offered training to equip them with the .....Read More
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Enabling summer education option
Raymond Ravaglia
The best a student can do during summer is something that would be unavailable during the year. Summer is the ideal time for internships and structured programmes.
Although they are becoming increasingly popular, most university summer programs are inherently deceptive. These programs feed upon the desire of parents and students to attend […]