Hridey Sahgal, a class XII student of The International School Bangalore (TISB) — ranked among India’s Top 5 international day-cum-boarding schools in the EW India School Rankings 2016 — has been selected for the Ashoka Youth Ventures programme initiated last September by the US-based Ashoka Innovators for the Public (formerly Ashoka Foundation), for organising the […]
Confidence levels are high and optimism is palpable in the high security headquarters of Cambridge International Examinations, UK, which is on an affiliations drive to win friends and influence in Indian primary-secondary education:Dilip Thakore
The Cambridge (UK)-based Cambridge Assessment International Examinations board (CAIE, estb.1858), which has 10,000 schools in 160 countries worldwide and 389 primary-secondaries […]
Over 800 principals, trustees and teachers of India’s top-ranked day, boarding and international schools who attended EWISRA 2016 were conferred national, state and city rankings among other awards as per the EWISR 2016 league tables: Summiya Yasmeen
The new-format two-day EW India School Rankings Awards (EWISRA) 2016 staged at the Leela Ambience, Gurgaon on September 23-24, […]
It is rare to go to a government event, especially where political leaders are speaking, in which one can stay awake or be truly inspired. Indeed, I had very low expectations of President Obama’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), which was held at Stanford University in the latter half of June. I thought it would be […]
Ranked India’s #1 all-girls day school in the EW India School Rankings 2016, JBPHSG has acquired a formidable reputation for empowering girl children:DIPTA JOSHI
One of the oldest all-girls education institutions in the country, the JB Petit High School for Girls, Mumbai (JBPHSG, estb.1860) has acquired a formidable reputation for offering high quality academic and extra-curricular […]
One of the ten campuses of UCal’s public education system, UCD is ranked #44 in America by US News and World Report and #85 worldwide by the London-based QS – Summiya Yasmeen
Founded in 1905, the University of California, Davis (UCD) is consistently ranked among the Top 50 universities in the US and Top 100 worldwide. […]
In 1858, the University of Cambridge (estb. 1209) promoted the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) to raise standards of school education in the UK by administering exams for people who were not members of the university. In that year, 370 school students in seven English cities wrote exams set by UCLES. In 1864 […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed Michael O’Sullivan, CEO of Cambridge Assessment International Examinations, in Cambridge, UK. Excerpts:
Although CAIE is the largest provider of international education worldwide, it isn’t Britain’s largest provider of primary and secondary education in terms of the number of affiliated schools and students. How do you explain this seeming paradox?
An innovation introduced at the EducationWorld India School Rankings Awards 2016 was the presentation of the inaugural EducationWorld Grand Jury Awards 2016 instituted to felicitate low-profile and/or emerging schools which have introduced best 21st-century practices in primary-secondary education. To shortlist and select low-profile and/or newly-promoted progressive schools countrywide, we invited nominations from educationists, individuals and […]
Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2016
Capt. Raj Mohindra
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Mumbai-based Capt. (Retd.) Raj Mohindra is widely acknowledged as the prime mover behind the establishment of India’s first IBO, Geneva-affiliated international school — the Mahindra United World College of India (MUWCI), Pune — almost 20 years ago. A distinguished officer of […]
Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2016
Dr. P.C. Thomas
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Dr. P.C. Thomas is founder-principal of the Good Shepherd International School (GSIS), Ootacamund (aka Ooty), Tamil Nadu, ranked the country’s #1 wholly residential school in the EducationWorld India School Rankings 2016. Over the past 39 years since this globally comparable, K-12 co-ed […]
Lifetime Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2016
Dr. R. Vardarajan
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Dr. R. Varadarajan is the widely respected founder-chairman of the Mumbai-based National Education Society (NES) and Saraswathi Vidya Bhavan (SVB) group of 62 educational institutions with an aggregate enrolment of 47,280 students and 1,820 teachers in Mumbai and Thane. An alumnus of […]
I’m a class XII (commerce) student interested in gaming/game programming as a career. Which courses should I sign up for? Deepak Srinivasan, Chennai
Game programme design relies heavily on math and physics. As a commerce student, you are at a disadvantage. However, don’t lose hope. You can sign up for a BCA or B.Sc (IT) undergraduate […]
Dilip Thakore interviewed the Rt. Hon’ble Lord Swraj Paul, chairman of the Caparo Group Ltd, London.
As chancellor of the Thames Valley and Wolverhampton universities, you are actively engaged with higher education in the UK. To what extent, if at all do you share the pessimism of academics who say that learning outcomes and research standards in […]
Its buses and trains arrive on the dot. Its engineers are famously precise. But when it comes to English, Japan is uncharacteristically sloppy. Signs are often misspelled. Taxi drivers point at phrasebooks to communicate with foreigners. Shops that take an English name to be trendy often get it horribly wrong: witness ‘Poopdick’, a second-hand cosmetics […]
The Rise And Fall Of Nations by Ruchir Sharma Penguin Books; Price: Rs.799; Pages: 464
For the Indian economy with its pathetic 2 percent share of international trade, the global financial crisis of 2008 triggered by the subprime mortgages investment boom in the US, wasn’t a big deal. The economy recorded 8.4 percent GDP growth in the […]
Post-independence India’s Nehruvian socialist legacy has ensured there’s no stopping the slide of academia into mediocrity. Not only has public expenditure (Centre plus states) remained stuck in the 3-3.5 percent per annum groove for over 60 years as against 6 percent recommended by the high-powered Kothari Commission in 1966, the country’s higher judiciary has facilitated […]
Huang Yanlai was 74 when he first raped 11-year-old Xiao Yu. He threatened her with a bamboo-harvesting knife while she was out gathering snails in the fields for her grandmother in Nan village, Guangxi province, in south-west China. Over the following two years, Xiao Yu (a nickname meaning Light Rain) was raped more than 50 […]
When Aziz Amir was a young man, his mother died from an infection which should have been easy to treat. “She didn’t go to a hospital because she didn’t want to show herself to a male doctor,” says Amir, a trained cardiologist who now owns a private hospital in Kabul. Determined to give more Afghan […]
Work never stops at Jamia Sirat-ul-Mustaqeem, a madrassa in a rundown part of Rawalpindi in Pakistan Punjab. After its 20 pupils are in bed, the teachers use Skype to connect to homes in Britain, France, Norway and Sweden, where teenagers attempt to read the unfamiliar Arabic script of the Koran. Many European parents find these […]
The Netherlands’ university association has defended the growth of English-language courses at Dutch institutions, claiming that it will “enhance the quality of education” and boost the country’s “innovative strength and competitiveness”. Figures revealed by Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant in August found that 60 percent of courses at Dutch universities are taught in English, and this […]
Nearly half of prime minister Theresa May’s cabinet went to comprehensive (i.e, non-selective) state schools; Justine Greening, the new education secretary, is one of them. Outside 10 Downing Street on July 13, May pointed out that children in state schools had less of a chance of making it to the top than their privately educated […]
As the new school year approaches, most pupils in Detroit and New Orleans are preparing to return to desks in America’s charter schools. First permitted by Minnesota in 1991, charter schools are found in 43 states; in a few cities they have become mainstream. Academies — their equivalents in England — were set up later […]
The fashionable new buzzword in contemporary education is ‘inclusive education’. The Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which makes it mandatory for privately promoted schools to admit children from socio-economically disadvantaged households in their neighbourhoods (s.12 (1) (c)), is the latest instance of inclusive education. Earlier, inclusive education was propagated […]
The discerning among the rising number of regular readers of this publication are likely to have noticed that during the past few months, a searchlight has increasingly been focused on school examination boards and the role they play in syllabus development and design.
This is because in the light of authoritative reports highlighting declining learning outcomes […]
Yoga is a multi-billion dollar business and an attractive career option for youth and adults aspiring to teach this ancient Indian mind and body healing science: Indra Gidwani
From a relatively unknown spiritually uplifting discipline, today yoga has become a transnational cultural phenomenon with millions of practitioners worldwide and a dedicated International Yoga Day. The fact […]
Standing 3 ft 7 inches in his socks, Delhi-based Anubhav Sawhney (21) recently earned a black belt in taekwondo — a highly disciplined martial art form known to have originated in Korea — in a national test staged in Rohtang Pass, Himachal Pradesh. Determined to disprove ill-informed popular prejudices against height challenged (aka stunted) individuals, […]
The Educomp Schools Conclave 2016 of Educomp Solutions Ltd — India’s largest education company and pioneer of the Smartclass education system in India — was held in Noida (Delhi NCR) on September 27. Over 50 principals of top-ranked schools in Noida attended the conclave where the company unveiled its latest offering in innovative learning branded […]
To celebrate Teachers’ Day (September 5), Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, India’s premier IT services, consulting and business solutions company (annual revenue: Rs.110,084 crore), inked a partnership agreement with the Thanjavur-based SASTRA University.
Under the terms of the agreement, TCS will train over 2,000 government and private school teachers in Tamil Nadu to use […]
“Nearly 90 per cent of teacher training institutes are now in the private sector. A new kind of post-liberalisation inspector raj governs them, with rampant corruption. There’s pervasive commercialisation in this sector and little room for quality concerns.”
Dr. Krishna Kumar, professor of education, Delhi University on the crisis in teacher eductation (Hindustan Times, September 4)
Six years after it became law on April 1, 2010, the Right of Children to Free & Compulsory Education (RTE) Act — particularly s. 12 (1) (c) of the Act which makes it obligatory for private non-minority schools to reserve 25 percent of seats in elementary classes (I-VIII) for children from poor households in their […]
After storming to power for a second consecutive term in 2016, the Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) led by stormy petrel chief minister Mamata Banerjee, has established its supremacy in West Bengal (pop. 91 million). The 2016 assembly election results have vindicated the TMC’s socialist populism. Metalled roads in more than 170 rural constituencies, village electrification, […]
A May 24 ordinance of the union government which granted aspiring medical students the option of exemption from NEET (National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test) — a common national exam for admission into undergraduate and postgrad medical and dental study programmes of all medical colleges countrywide — for one year (2016-17), came as a great relief to thousands […]
A row has broken out between the Mumbai-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS, estb.1936), reputed as among the country’s best social sciences higher ed institution (ranked #25 in the EducationWorld India National University Rankings 2015), and the University Grants Commission (UGC, estb.1956), the apex non-technical higher education regulatory and funding organisation. A deemed (public) […]
With an education budget of Rs.10,690 crore in fiscal 2016-17, the highest ever allocated by any government of Delhi state which includes the national capital, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government — elected to power in February 2015 with a sweeping majority — raised hopes of radical changes in Delhi’s 924 government schools. Unfortunately, the […]
Please refer to our email sent to C fore dated July 15 in which we clearly disagreed with the format of the EW India School Rankings 2016 survey and conveyed our refusal to participate in it. We have serious objections that in spite of our refusal, you have printed the name of DPS, Faridabad in […]
The stand-off between the bjp-led NDA government and the Supreme Court over the former’s delay in appointing judges proposed by the apex court’s collegium, threatens to paralyse the country’s already sclerotic judicial system. On August 13, a bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice T.S. Thakur rebuked the Centre for bringing the entire […]
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