A class XII student of the CBSE-affiliated L’ecole du Monde, Lucknow, Swapnil Kumar (17) is back home with a haul of gold and bronze medals in the weapon and full contact categories of the 3D World Kung Fu Championship, staged by the European Kung Fu Federation in Beijing between July 25-30. Swapnil’s achievement is specially […]
An enduring outcome of post-independence India™s neta-babu socialism which has bled the country white during the past six decades, is the huge 18 million strong parasitic incubus of government employees accustomed to feasting off the state which has grown within the body politic.
A case in point is former three-term Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit […]
One Life is not Enough by K. Natwar Singh; Rupa Publications; Price: Rs.500; 396 pp
The media hype about former Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer and external affairs minister Natwar Singh™s reportedly tell-all autobiography, is wholly unwarranted. All it contains is some innocuous gossip about the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty which comes as no surprise. The best […]
Continuous improvement and innovations in information communication technologies and growth of online communities have redefined social connections and opened up huge opportunities to revolutionise teaching-learning processes. Social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Pinterest have enabled people to connect, share information, collaborate and develop scholastic relationships like never before.
According to a […]
Responding to a frequent criticism that the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings were entirely based on perceptions, despite the recalcitrance of the Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Council for Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) to officially release data relating to the actual performance of affiliated schools in their (classes XII and X) […]
This year to make the EW India School Rankings more inclusive, separate tables rating and ranking the country™s Top 10 government day and boarding schools are presented
The total number of schools promoted and/or managed by the Central, state and local governments across the country aggregate 1.20 million ” constituting the overwhelming majority of India™s […]
India™s small minority of wholly residential co-ed international schools are on a par with the best primary-secondary education institutions globally, and prepare students for entry into the world™s top universities
The streak of conservatism or trend in favour of vintage institutions rooted in traditions and values, discernible in league tables across all ten categories into which […]
Indus International School, Bangalore; Pathways World School, Aravali and The International School Bangalore have been reaffirmed as India™s Top 3 international day-cum-boarding schools in that order
For the second year in a row, the 2,915 sample respondents interviewed by C fore field researchers in the southern and northern regions have voted the Indus International School, […]
There™s no change at the top in the EW International Day Schools Rankings 2014 which with 32 ranked institutions constitutes the largest segment in the tripartite international schools category
India™s new genre international schools affiliated with offshore examination boards constitute the glamour segment of the Indian primary-secondary school system. Offering superior infrastructure, en suite residential […]
The Doon School, Dehradun, routinely ranked #1 in this category for the past few years, has been overtaken by the Bishop Cotton School, Shimla for the first time in the esteem of an informed public
Even though sexually segregated schools are fading out ” the overwhelming majority of newly promoted residential schools tend to be […]
Even though single sex boarding schools are being phased out, for cultural reasons many households prefer single sex institutions, especially girls boarding schools which serve a useful purpose
Evidently single sex girls™ boarding schools are being phased out, because only 11 of them are sufficiently well-known to the 8,263 sample respondents interviewed by C fore […]
A good augury for the future of gender relations in Indian society which has acquired a globally notorious reputation for gender atrocities, is that the great majority of post-liberalisation boarding schools are co-educational
A beneficial legacy of almost 200 years of British raj in India which has survived the test of time, are the few […]
The all-boys day schools 2014 league table features a substantial change in the seating arrangements at Top 10 table. But the Campion School, Mumbai seems to be consolidating its position as India’s #1 Boys’ Day School.
In the 2014 league table of all Boys’ Day Schools which features a radical change in seating arrangements at the […]
The long-reign in the annual EW India School Rankings of Modern High School, Kolkata as the country™s #1 all-girls day school has ended. However the top-ranker™s trophy for this sub-category of day schools (which will be awarded in Delhi on September 20) won™t be moving out of Kolkata. Because the 1,189 knowledgeable sample respondents who […]
The vintage and superbly equipped Daly College, Indore has achieved the rare feat of besting one of the increasingly popular alternative education schools inspired by the late seer, savant and educationist J. Krishnamurti, to be ranked #1 this year in the day-cum-boarding category
Ranked second in this category in 2013, the vintage and superbly equipped […]
Within the largest and most competitive sector of the league tables this year, the CISCE and IBO-affiliated The Shri Ram School, Vasant Vihar/Moulsari in Delhi NCR has regained its top ranking in India’s best co-ed day schools 2014-15 last attained in 2011.
It augurs well for the future of gender relations and equality, that co-ed […]
Unsurprisingly, the great majority of India™s 1.40 million primary-secondary education institutions are day schools. Of them, schools promoted and managed by the Central, state and local governments add up to 1.20 million with composite private schools numbering 80,000 (200,000 according to Union HRD ministry which classifies primary, upper primary, secondary and higher secondary schools as […]
Candidates for the Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT) conducted by the Union Public Service Commission rocked the national capital with vociferous protests for two weeks in July-August demanding changes in the test format. They said CSAT was biased in favour of students from English-medium schools and those who came from ˜technical™ streams of learning such […]
Jalandhar (Punjab)-based Aditi (17, who doesn’t use a surname) was the top-ranked girl in the all-India joint entrance examination (JEE) 2014 for admission into the country’s 17 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the results of which were declared in June. This student of the Swami Sant Dass Public School, Jalandhar, who averaged 95.4 percent in […]
The Doon School, Dehradun (TDS) and King™s College, London invite applications for the first ˜Winter at Doon with King™s College London™ study programme. According to a Doon School media release, the two-week intensive residential programme for class XI and XII students from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, will be held at The […]
Sikkim
Mishandled protest
A former director of higher education, the principal of Sikkim Government College, east district superintendent of police, and a police officer were suspended for œmishandling a students™ protest in Gangtok against a hike in college fees, admits a government press release issued on August 9. The quartet was suspended on the recommendations […]
œWith three workdays a week, we would have more time to relax, to improve quality of life.
Carlos Slim, Mexican billionaire, proposing a radical change in the way people work (Time, August 4)
œI still tremble when I am reminded of the third-degree torture inflicted upon me by the police while taking my confessional statement.
Although former three-term Gujarat chief minister and now prime minister Narendra Modi had reportedly promised acche din (good days) for all ” especially for school-going girl children ” under the new BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which swept General Election 2014, his track record as Gujarat™s unchallenged chief minister for over a decade (2001-2014) is […]
An August 6 judgement of the Madras high court summarily dismissing serious charges filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against a Chennai-based private medical college accused of illegally collecting capitation fees, and four private medical colleges for fraudulently presenting impersonators as faculty members during inspection by a Medical Council of India (MCI) team, […]
Even though skills education as a national development imperative is a top priority of the new Narendra Modi-led BJP/NDA government in New Delhi, in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India™s most populous (200 million) state, technical education seems to have lost its sheen.
An estimated 124,000 seats of a total of 147,000, for which the UP State […]
Three years after the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) routed the CPM (Communist Party of India)-led Left Front government in the West Bengal legislative assembly election of 2011, ending 34 years of uninterrupted communist rule in the state, the much awaited poribartan (change) in the education sector is limited to ad hoc changes and ill-conceived […]
The commencement of a third round (and possibly fourth in the near future) in the online admission process to allot 7,000 seats in private unaided schools in Mumbai and Pune to children of poor households in their neighbourhood in compliance with s.12 (1) (c) of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) […]
The Union ministries of labour and employment and human resources development seem to be inspired by the œskills, scale and speed mantra of newly-inducted prime minister Narendra Modi who led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)/National Democratic Alliance coalition ” which has just completed its first 100 days in office in New Delhi ” to a […]
Unjust discrimination
Your special report ˜SOS: Save 300,000 budget private schools™ (EW August) is an eye opening account of how the country™s poor are educating their children. It™s tragic how budget private schools which have sprung up as a response to poor quality government schools, are being shut down by insensitive and indifferent education officials. […]
The communal temperature in post-election India is heating up, and if unchecked could open a pandora™s box of religious strife and bedlam. Although the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was presented a landslide victory for promising to re-calibrate the sputtering engine of economic growth and generate mass employment, there™s a clear and present danger that the […]
That the EducationWorld India School Rankings published every September is our most eagerly awaited issue and arouses great interest within the communities of parents, educators and students, is a welcome sign that awareness of the need to dispense well-rounded holistic education ” rather than mere academic learning ” has dawned upon primary-secondary school managements countrywide. […]
To compile the EW India School Rankings 2014, 8,263 knowledgeable fees-paying parents, educationists, principals and teachers were interviewed in 25 cities by 203 field researchers of the Delhi-based C fore and asked to rate schools in ten discrete categories on 14 parameters of education excellence.
That the annual EducationWorld India School Rankings published continuously in September […]
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