Team Debate India comprising Elakiya Ananthakrishnan and Supriya Suresh (P.S. Senior Secondary, Mylapore, Chennai), Sampada Venkatesh, (National Public School, Indiranagar, Bangalore) and Shubhankar Kashyap, (Indirapuram Public School, Ghaziabad) were recently crowned Novice champions of the Asia World Schools Debating Championship (AWSDC) 2017 staged at the Anglo Singapore International School, Bangkok (Thailand) during July 24-28. Additionally, […]
Only 4 percent of India’s 400 million workforce is formally trained as against 20 percent in China and 60-80 percent in Europe and USA. AISECT University, which integrates skills development into conventional study programmes, offers a model worthy of emulation -Indranil Banerjie
They call him Santosh-NET, the local bazaar go-to guy for all types of […]
The enactment of the Central Goods & Services Tax (GST) Act, 2017 by Parliament on April 12 is undoubtedly a historic milestone in the economic history of India. Until the passage of this Act, goods transported by say an individual or firm in Amritsar (Punjab) to a business enterprise in Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu) — the […]
NVS (estb. 1992) is the highest ranked co-ed day school in Maharashtra outside the highly industrialised cities of Mumbai and Pune in EWISR 2017-18 – DIPTA JOSHI
Established in 1992 as a lonely outpost of globally-benchmarked primary-secondary learning in the educationally neglected northern region of Maharashtra — India’s most industrialised state (pop. 112 million) — on […]
Dr. Shuchi Grover, a US-based computer scientist and learning scientist, delivered this keynote address at the EWISRA 2017-18
The 2020 Science Report authored by scientists from around the world at the turn of the century observed that science is changing in a subtle but fundamental way with the use of computer science (CS or simply computing) […]
An alumna of IIT-Delhi and IIM-Calcutta, Ramya Venkataraman is founder and CEO of Centre for Teacher Accreditation (CENTA), promoted to recognise teaching excellence and create career pathways for teaching professionals. Excerpts from an interview:
After a distinguished career in management consulting and also establishing the education practice of McKinsey & Co, you left to promote CENTA in 2014. […]
The two-day celebratory EducationWorld India School Rankings Awards 2017-18 was the largest gathering of K-12 education leaders in Indian history. Over two days, 900-plus principals and trustees of India’s best schools networked and discussed issues of national importance – Summiya Yasmeen
The EW India School Rankings (EWISR) Awards 2017-18, which felicitated and celebrated India’s Top 1,000 […]
The tragic suicide of 17-year-old Anitha, an aspiring medical student from a Dalit family in rural Tamil Nadu (pop.72.1 million) on September 1, has sent shockwaves across the country and sparked huge protests by several political parties, college students and activists in the state. Anitha’s tragedy was that she averaged 98 percent in the class […]
Branch campus leaders in Qatar insist that the diplomatic crisis in the Gulf is having limited impact on their universities as they prepare for the new academic year. Four Arab states — Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of funding terrorist groups. Bahrain, […]
The number of English-taught or English-medium bachelor’s programmes being offered by European universities has increased 50-fold in the past eight years, according to a major study. Research from the European Association for International Education (EAIE) and international study platform StudyPortals indicates there are 2,900 such courses being offered today at universities in continental Europe, up […]
When 14 years of civil war ended in 2003, Liberia was left with decrepit schools. Many children carried Kalashnikovs rather than textbooks. Since then Liberian governments have tried to start afresh. But, in part because of the outbreak of Ebola in 2014, efforts to improve education have made halting progress.
Western institutions working in China and the Chinese government have profoundly different attitudes. Usually, the two rub along uneasily. But sometimes the gap yawns too wide. This is what happened in the case of Cambridge University Press (CUP) versus the censors.
CUP is the world’s oldest publishing house. It prints China Quarterly, a respected academic journal. […]
A stuffed fox stares down at a group of about 20 smartly suited men, the majority well into retirement age, drinking beer and chatting in the wood-paneled front room of a grand Berlin house. Every so often, a man wearing enormous white gloves, a plumed hat and a fencing-style sword by his side calls for […]
The EducationWorld India School Rankings league tables assess schools across 14 parameters of education excellence. Respondents fatigue and constraints of printing space compel us to restrict the league tables to 14 parameters. However, there are several other parameters and best practices in which some schools excel. To recognise and celebrate schools which excel in these […]
Outstanding Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2017
Jayashree Mohta
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An alumna of Loreto House, Kolkata, Jayashree Mohta is chairperson of the Sarala Birla Group of nine schools, all of them highly ranked in the latest EWISR 2017-18. Jayashree became actively involved in managing the schools promoted by her parents Basant Kumar […]
Outstanding Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2017
Dr. Jagdish Gandhi
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In 1959, Jagdish Gandhi, then a 23-year-old newly married commerce postgrad student at Lucknow University, started a primary school with a borrowed capital of Rs.300 and an initial enrolment of just five students. In the 58 years since, the City Montessori […]
Outstanding Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2017
Arun Kapoor
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Arun Kapur is one of India’s most distinguished preschool-class XII educationists. A history postgrad of Delhi University, Kapur began his career as a teacher in The Doon School, Dehradun, routinely ranked India’s #1 boys boarding school in the annual EducationWorld India School […]
Outstanding Achievement in Education Leadership Award 2017
Dr. Deepak & Dr. Bharti Madhok
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Dr. Deepak & Dr. Bharti Madhok are the co-founders of the Sunbeam Group of Educational Institutions (SGEI) comprising 13 institutions in Varanasi including six co-ed schools with 14,991 students, two women’s colleges and the Gramin School, Karsana, a […]
Kingfizzer: The rise and fall of Vijay Mallya, Kingshuk Nag, Harper Business; Rs.399, Pages 224
Former Times of India and Business India journalist and author Kingshuk Nag’s biography, Kingfizzer, on the dramatic rise and fall of Vijay Mallya, flamboyant former chairman, CEO and the be all and end all of United Breweries, the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines, and […]
A Lear-like tragedy is unfolding within the upper crust of tony Sobo (south Bombay). The once flamboyant and super-rich former chairman of the prospering Raymond India Ltd, Vijaypat Singhania, who in 1998 solo-piloted a micro light single-engine airplane from London to Mumbai in 23 days to a hero’s welcome, is now in his own words […]
Two US universities renowned for their strength in technology have credited their interdisciplinary nature as the reason why they top Times Higher Educations World University Rankings (WUR) for arts and humanities subjects. Stanford University takes the #1 spot in the 2018 subject table for the seventh year in a row, while the Massachusetts Institute of […]
One of the most bitter legacies of Soviet-style central planning and neta-babu licence-permit-quota raj with which post-independence India was lumbered for over four decades — and vestiges of which still remain — is the neglect of education, and skills education even more so. Because of central planning, newly-independent India became a closed navel-gazing economy. Drastic foreign […]
Whether a teenager grasps calculus is not obviously an issue of geopolitical importance. Yet since the first Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2000, the poor performance of American pupils in this global test has worried policymakers. Not least since Chinese pupils, or at least residents of Shanghai, are at or near the top […]
With its population rising by 2 million every year, India is among the world’s youngest nations with 50 percent of the citizenry below the age of 25 and more than 65 percent aged below 35. In 2020, the average age in India will be 29 years as against 37 for China and 48 for Japan. […]
Second year dual degree undergrad student of Harvard University and the Berklee School of Music, Boston, Avanti Nagral (19) is creating waves in the international pop music circuit. An alumna of Mumbai’s top-ranked Cathedral and John Connon School, this singer and songwriter released her debut soul single I Like — dedicated to the independent […]
This university has produced some of the most well-known figures in French public life including six presidents of the republic, 13 prime ministers and 12 heads of foreign states
Situated in the heart of Paris, Sciences Po is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading universities for the social sciences. The QS World University Rankings […]
Team India, represented by students of the unfancied Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Delhi (SSCBS), was adjudged winner of the Enactus World Cup 2017 by an eminent panel of business leaders. The winning projects included Mission Raahat and Project Udaan. Mission Raahat suggests ways and means to provide safe sanitation in urban slum communities. […]
Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh has proposed attaching pre-primary schools to government primaries to stem the flight of children to private schools. At the fourth governing council meeting of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan in Shimla on September 19, Singh asked education ministry officials to identify primary schools in district headquarters […]
“Rohingya people should be given citizenship in Myanmar, the country where they were born.. Over the last several years, I have repeatedly condemned this tragic and shameful treatment. I am still waiting for my fellow Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do the same. The world is waiting and the Rohingya Muslims are waiting.”
On July 1, 2017, when the phase 1 network of the Bangalore metro rail network was inaugurated, there was great jubilation within the citizenry because the new line enables the city’s growing community of commuters to change trains at two nodal junctions and proceed in other directions as is normative in all underground trains around […]
After a record breaking 104 days, the general strike in the Darjeeling hills district of West Bengal by the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) which is demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland to be carved out of West Bengal, was called off on September 27, following an appeal by Union home minister Rajnath Singh. Singh said […]
Maharashtra’s night schools, which run evening classes to provide classes V-XII state board education for economically weaker sections of society (irrespective of age and gender) unable to attend day schools, are facing an acute shortage of teachers since the beginning of the current academic year (2017-18). That’s because a government resolution (GR) dated May 17 […]
A peaceful protest on september 24 by women students of the 101-year-old Benares Hindu University (BHU), sited in the Parliamentary constituency of prime minister Narendra Modi — demanding justice for a fellow student who had been sexually harassed and a safer campus overall for women — resulted in their being chased and thrashed by lathi-wielding […]
The gruesome murder of Pradyuman Thakur, a seven-year-old class II student of Ryan International School, Bhondsi (Gurgaon), who was found dead in the toilet of the upscale school with his throat slit on the morning of September 8, has caused widespread middle class and media outrage, focusing national attention on the issue of child safety […]
Re the EW India School Rankings 2017-18 (EW September), I would like to place on record that for the past three years, our school has been getting two ranks in EWISR. We had complained about this anomaly in writing last year. Yet again this year we have got two ranks, #37 and #41 in Karnataka’s […]
The sharp soviet-inspired left turn taken by independent India’s establishment constituted a complete break from centuries of the subcontinent’s tradition of native private enterprise. On the eve of independence, several big business houses established by pioneer industrialists such as G.D. Birla, J.R.D. Tata, Walchand Hirachand, Lala Shri Ram, among others, were poised to lead India […]
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Computational thinking — the 5th C
Dr. Shuchi Grover, a US-based computer scientist and learning scientist, delivered this keynote address at the EWISRA 2017-18
The 2020 Science Report authored by scientists from around the world at the turn of the century observed that science is changing in a subtle but fundamental way with the use of computer science (CS or simply computing) […]