2030: Will India Recover Its Lost Education Momentum?

Against the backdrop of leaders in all walks of life inexplicably unable to absorb the self-evident proposition that rigorous education and human capital development is the essential precondition of national progress, on the 20th anniversary of EducationWorld we do some crystal ball gazing to forecast the shape, form and efficacy of Indian Education Circa 2030

Young Achievers

Aswatha N.S.

welcome New Index

The release on september 30 of the School Education Quality Index (SEQI) by Niti Aayog — the Union government’s think tank — marks a new chapter in education development reportage and restoring competition between the states of the Indian Union after a gap of several years.

University Of Portsmouth, UK

Conferred university status in 1992, UoP is ranked among UK’s Top 50 universities by the Times Higher Education and is highly reputed for study programmes in democratic citizenship; sustainability and the environment

Sharanya Narayani International School, Bangalore

Within a short span of four years, this day-cum-boarding school affiliated with the most respected international exam boards has quickly made a favourable impression on the parents community of the IT city

LEAD SCHOOLS LEADER

Sumeet mehta is the co-founder and CEO of LEAD School, a comprehensive K-10 school academic system designed by researchers of Leadership Boulevard Pvt. Ltd, a “double impact bottom line” — social impact and for-profit — Mumbai-based company.

Mahatma Gandhi's Prescription Can Revive Indian Education

Gandhi implicitly understood that to attain his social reform objectives and abate Hindu-Muslim antagonism aroused by the Partition of the subcontinent on religious lines, education of the population was a necessary precondition. Therefore he expended long years in ideating and developing his prescription of basic education.

Empty Statistics

At a central advisory board of Education (CABE) commit-tee meeting convened on September 21 to deliberate the 484page National Education Policy 2019 (NEP) draft report of the K. Kasturirangan Committee (released for public debate on May 31), the Union HRD ministry took time off to release the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2018-19 report titled Higher Education Statistics and Public Information System.

EduStar Awards, Mumbai

The second edition of EduStar Awards that prides itself as being the only award constituted ‘For the Teachers, By the Teachers’ took place on 14 September 2019 at the Mumbai’s Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers that houses the iconic 144 year old Bombay Stock Exchange, the country’s largest securities market in India with over 6000 listed stocks.

India's Best Co-Ed Day Schools

Over 700 of India’s Top 1,000 schools rated and ranked in EWISR 2017-18 are co-ed day institutions. They are clearly the most preferred choice of middle class households countrywide

india's premier girls boarding schools

under the capable leadership of its principal jyotsna brar, who retired recently, welham girls, dehradun, top-rated on nine of the 14 parameters of education excellence this year, has retained the #1 slot since 2013

rio post-mortem

india’s poor performance at the 35th olympics games which concluded in rio de janeiro (brazil) last month — just two also-ran medals — despite the country sending its largest olympics contingent ever (119 athletes) has again highlighted the dismal state of sports education and performance in the country — inadequate training facilities, stranglehold of politicians on sports associations and neglect of sports in the country’s 1.4 million schools, 37,000 colleges and 800 universities.

premier co-ed day-cum-boarding schools

co-ed day-cum-boarding schools, i.e day schools which also host a substantial number of boys and girls as boarders, constitute a special category in the annual educationworld india school rankings.

IndIa's Best Co-ed Day Schools

In this category in which competition to excel is most intense and rankings tend to fluctuate from year to year, The Valley School, Bangalore, ranked #6 last year, is the country’s top-ranked primary-secondary of 2016.

Escalating Fees Row

Despite several decisive victories for autonomy — T.M.A. Pai vs. Union of India (2002) and Inamdar’s Case (2005) — in the Supreme Court, private independent education institutions are experiencing incremental pressure from the Central and state governments — and a subsidies-addicted middle class — for government ‘regulation’ (reduction) of their tuition fees. This time round, the pressure is for regulation of the fees of private unaided (i.e, independent) K-12 schools.

Aakriti International School, Bhopal

AKRITI GROUP IS ONE OF THE A leading name in Central India's corporate scenario much to the credit of creating happiness for everyone associated with the group in real estate, sugar mills, healthcare, education, hospitality, and organic food.

Incestuous Rankings Proposal

Tainted with corruption, mis-management and poor quality teaching, Tamil Nadu’s once highly reputed 22 state universities have lost their lustre.

St. Stanislaus High School, Mumbai

In the latest EducationWorld India School Rankings 2017-18, St. Stanislaus is the sole state board-affiliated private school ranked in the Top 10 national all-boys day schools league table dominated by CBSE and CISCE-affiliated schools.

EDHEC Business School, France

With campuses in France, London and Singapore, EDHEC is consistently ranked among the Top 20 B-schools worldwide 

RTE Act Imbroglio

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 AAP government has conspicuously failed to bring about the promised change in the state’s public education system.

JB Petit High School For Girls, Mumbai

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.

India Needs To Be Open For Business

Dilip Thakore interviewed the Rt. Hon’ble Lord Swraj Paul, chairman of the Caparo Group Ltd, London.

india's top-ranked girls day schools

this year the seating arrangement at the top 10 table is radically different. ranked a modest #5 in 2015, jb petit high for girls, mumbai (estb. 1860) has been voted #1 followed by la martiniere for girls, kolkata (estb. 1836)