“It’s always satisfying to learn that the good work done by our management is being appreciated. For the past 50 years, JNS has ensured provision of holistic education with equal attention to academic, sports, cultural, extra-curricular and value-based education. It’s encouraging that this collective effort is appreciated by well-informed people”
“I am delighted with our #3 rank in this fast-growing satellite city. I attribute our steady rise in the annual EWISR to focus on delivering quality education and simultaneously educating our parents community and society. During the Covid-19 crisis we have successfully maintained learning continuity of our students and are now looking at ways to […]
“Elpro’s success is the result of tireless hours of hard work, effort, planning and commitment of a dedicated team that is shaping the future generation of a globalising world. Our students and teachers are shaping the success of the school through their perseverance in performance”
— Dr. Amrita Vohra (right), principal, Elpro International School, Pune.
“I believe our #1 ranking in this fast-expanding city is the outcome of our special efforts to create a non-threatening teaching-learning environment, regular teacher training and development and according high importance to co-curricular and sports education while providing state-of-the-art infrastructure”
— Rita Kapur, director (education), Gyanshree School, Noida.
“Our Ludhiana #1 co-ed day school ranking for the sixth consecutive year reassures us that we are on the right track. I attribute our success to the harmonious relationship between the school’s four major support pillars i.e, students, teachers, parents and the community who have whole-heartedly endorsed our student empowerment, Satyan Entrepreneurship, Buddy Reading, teacher […]
“The persistent efforts of the school’s trustees, parents, teachers, students, well-wishers and associates have made it possible for Heritage to be ranked Kolkata’s #1 co-ed day school again. Together we have built a centre of K-12 excellence defined by experiential, holistic learning, continuous teacher training, student participation in national and international events, inclusive education and […]
“We cherish our ranking as Kanpur’s #1 co-ed day school. Over the years we have won respect for our academic rigour, teaching-learning innovations and sports and co-curricular education excellence. We are the first school in the city to provide technology integrated with experiential learning pedagogies. Our top ranking also imposes responsibility to continuously improve the […]
“The entire Jodhamal Public School fraternity is proud of our #1 ranking in the trusted EWISR for the fifth consecutive year. I dedicate this award to our accomplished and courageous teachers, exceptionally understanding, supportive and satisfied parents and most importantly, eager, confident, disciplined students who are excelling in academic, co-curricular and sports activities”
“We are appreciative that our quiet effort to the cause of providing selfless and high-quality meaningful education has been recognised. The leadership of the core team; our creative pedagogies; the individual care and attention extended to every student; open, honest and meaningful parental connect; and most importantly, the belief, faith and trust our children have […]
“We are delighted and enthused that our efforts have been recognised by your sample respondents. Our Top 10 ranking is the outcome of the seeds sown by our founders Dr. Saroj Suman Gulati and the Late Shri B.D. Gulati who constructed a strong foundation based on values and best practices for our schools. Moreover, our […]
“I am delighted with our #1 rank in the fast-growing city of Ghaziabad. We owe our steady and continuous improvement to parental support and hard work of teachers and students. Also the smooth induction of latest digital technologies to personalise learning has helped achieve better learning outcomes”
— Shishir Jaipuria, chairman, Seth Anandram Jaipuria Group of […]
“Our overdue inclusion in Chennai’s Top 10 is the result of the sustained efforts of teachers, parents and students. I am glad that our investment in excellent infrastructure and facilities and well-qualified teachers and in-service training has been recognised by your sample respondents” — Bharathi Laksmi (centre), principal, Hindustan International School, GST Road, Chennai.
“Our #1 rank in Amritsar is the outcome of continuous experimentation with new pedagogies to contemporise curriculums and equip our children with the skills needed for success in a fast-changing world. We thank our parents for supporting our new initiatives with enthusiasm and teachers for providing the best academic and co-curricular education environments for children” […]
“The annual EW India School Rankings are inspiring because they are objective. Therefore, it is motivating and reassuring that for over a decade Udgam has been consistently ranked among the city’s Top 5 schools. I attribute this to the positive attitude of our teachers and staff and full cooperation between teachers and parents”
This issue of EducationWorld is historic for two reasons. First, it is the 21st-anniversary issue of this sui generis news magazine. Secondly, because by unplanned happenstance, it features our most famous and successful initiative, the EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) for the year 2020-21. Pioneered in 2007, over the years the annual EWISR has evolved […]
The IT (information technology) and ITES (IT enabled services) industry is widely propagated — and is by Indian standards — the best growth and development story of post-liberalisation (1991) India. But it hasn’t realised its full potential because IT companies are replete with penny-wise pound foolish techies with little awareness of the brand-building value of […]
Despite a long innings in the fourth estate, one has never trusted the so-called professional readership surveys — ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulation) or Indian Readership Survey (IRS). Therefore none of the path-breaking news magazines helmed by your editor — Business India, Businessworld, Debonair and EducationWorld — ever invited the grey men of ABC or […]
Compelling evidence that the great majority of the country’s youth prefer English — or more properly Inglish — as the national language is provided by the 1.6 million higher secondary school-leavers who wrote NEET (National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test), which determines admissions in order of merit into the country’s much-too-few (542) government and private […]
Uncivil city: Ecology, equity & the commons in Delhi Amita Baviskar; Sage/Yoda Rs.1,195; Pages 243
– Susan Visvanathan (The Book Review)
Amita Baviskar brings careful and serious considerations to the city of Delhi and its environs, including Gurgaon, giving us revealing insights into this fast-growing urban constellation plagued by toxic pollution. She looks at the way a […]
Politics of precarity: Gendered subjects and the health care industry in contemporary Kolkata Panchali Ray; Oxford University Press Rs.1,250; Pages 260
– Mohan Rao (The Book Review)
The Covid-19 pandemic is here to stay and we have to learn to live with it. In addition to the many things the pandemic has exposed — neglect of […]
An alumnus of IIT-Kanpur, IIM-Calcutta and the top-ranked Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago with work experience at JP Morgan Chase, ICICI Bank and Tata Consultancy Services, Dr. Krishnamurthy Subramanian is Chief Economic Adviser of the Union government. Excerpts from an interview with Dilip Thakore:
Mainly authored by you, the path-breaking Economic […]
The preschool education sector is on the brink of extensive changes in regulatory framework as early childhood care and education is integrated with formal K-12 education
– Rajat Mukherjee and Monika Srivastava are partners at Khaitan & Co, LLP. Views are personal
5+3+3+4 will replace 10+2. This isn’t math magic but a change in the framework of […]
To compile the 2020-21 league table of dedicated special needs schools, C fore field personnel interviewed 485 parents of children with disabilities and special needs educators in six cities. They were asked to rate dedicated schools on ten parameters of education excellence
According to Unesco’s State of the Education Report for India 2019 — Children with […]
Although the best among the Central government’s 636 JNVs dominate the government boarding schools league table, some state governments have replicated the Centre’s JNVs initiative to establish excellent boarding schools – Paromita Sengupta
Although the country’s 1.20 million government schools defined by crumbling buildings, primitive infrastructure, AWOL (absent without official leave) teachers and abysmal learning outcomes, […]
In EWISR 2020-21, the two-year reign of the Delhi state government’s Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya, Sector 10, Dwarka, which sensationally ended the dominance of Central government-run Kendriya Vidyalayas, has ended – Paromita Sengupta
The Covid-19 outbreak and isolation which has forced closure of 1.4 million anganwadis (government-run child nutrition and early childhood education centres), 60,000 private […]
The seven-year reign of Campion School, Mumbai in the all-boys category has ended. This year the 11,368 sample respondents have voted St. John’s High School, Chandigarh #1 by a three points margin
One of the few success stories of post-independence India is gender egalitarianism — at least within the 200 million-strong great Indian middle class. Although […]
This year’s 11,368 sample respondents have voted Carmel Convent, Chandigarh India’s premier girls day school with top scores under the parameters of co-curricular education, infrastructure, value for money and community service
The 2020-21 league table of India’s top-ranked girls day schools has experienced a sweeping makeover. The vintage JB Petit High School for Girls, Mumbai […]
The country’s steadily multiplying older day-cum-boarding schools are being given stiff competition by newly promoted capital intensive globally benchmarked institutions which offer children in the country’s fast growing cities day and boarding options at attractive price points.
When day schools acquire good reputation for providing excellent education or boarding schools in fast-growth tier-II and tier-III towns […]
That the largest league table in the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) is always of co-ed day schools is socially positive testimony that despite the daily horror stories of sexual violence visited upon women and girl citizens, Indian society is determinedly moving forward towards the constitutional goal of gender parity. This year the co-ed […]
Disruption of the academic calendar by the global Covid-19 pandemic necessitated deferment of the much-awaited EducationWorld India School Rankings 2020-21 to November. Nevertheless this year’s EWISR — for which 11,368 sample respondents were interviewed in 28 cities — is as robust and uncompromising as previous C fore-EW surveys – Dilip Thakore & Summiya Yasmeen
– Dr. A.S. Seetharamu is former professor of education, Institute of Social & Economic change, Bengaluru
My association with EducationWorld which celebrates its 21st anniversary this month, precedes the birth of this news magazine which has positively impacted Indian education across the spectrum, and has aroused national awareness about the critical importance of human capital development. […]
Many educationally advanced, especially OECD countries, rank schools on the basis of average marks of students in school-leaving board examinations. In India, neither national (CBSE and CISCE) nor state exam boards do so.
There are two major arguments in favour of publishing academic school rankings. First, the information will enable parents to make better-informed school choices […]
Bengaluru, November 6. The Bengaluru-based Sportz Village and EducationWorld recently hosted a ‘Maintaining fitness and good health during the pandemic’ webinar moderated by Summiya Yasmeen, managing editor, EducationWorld. The eminent educators’ panelists included Dr. Ashok Pandey, director, Ahlcon Group of Schools, Delhi; Dr. S. Bhavanishankar Subramanian, senior principal, Lalaji Memorial Omega International School, Chennai; Saumil […]
Thiruvananthapuram, October 12. Kerala has become the first state in the country to digitize all 16,030 government schools, announced chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan at a press conference. “The government took special interest in universalizing K-12 education and has presented a Left alternative, a Kerala model of education to the world,” he said adding with all […]
“We have this unfortunate situation where everybody from the Supreme Court to the Central government wants to ‘regulate’ the media. People, aam janata, by and large are tired and sniggering at us.”
Veteran journalist Shekhar Gupta on status of divided news media (Business Standard, October 10)
“We are encouraging students, professionals to stay back […]
With tamil nadu’s Coronavirus infection rates and fatalities falling from a peak of 57,968 (July) and 127 (August) to 18,709 and 25 in November, the state’s AIADMK government is mulling over reopening schools and colleges on November 16. However, with the state legislative election due next summer and news that 575 students and 829 teachers […]
With West Bengal’s 81,000 primary, secondary and higher secondary government schools and 600 private schools with an aggregate enrolment of 26 million children shut down since mid-March because of the Coronavirus pandemic which has taken a toll of 7,350 lives in the state, the online education revolution seems to have bypassed the state […]
An October 13 judgement of the Calcutta high court slashing tuition fees payable to private schools with retrospective effect from April this year, has dismayed promoters and managements of West Bengal’s estimated 1,200 private schools, and 300 budget private schools in particular. With all schools shut down since mid-March in the wake […]
Over 48,000 private schools of Rajasthan (pop.78 million) with an aggregate enrolment of 5 million children, which were conducting online classes for their students since April after the Central government ordered a shutdown of all schools and education institutions countrywide, have suspended all teaching-learning operations with effect from November 5. This unprecedented protest has been […]
Irate parents and parents associations in Maharashtra are protesting the state government’s inaction in reducing private school fees for the academic year 2020-21. On social media platforms, they are slamming the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government for ignoring their demand for an ordinance decreeing 50 percent reduction in tuition fees […]
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