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portunities. The school offers stu- ADMISSION & FEES up through remedial education once
dents three full-size basketball courts, on-campus classes begin,” says Rad-
four half-size synthetic turf football The Millennium National School, hika Vaidya, a science and education
courts, three volleyball and two Kho Pune is a co-ed K-12 day school af- alumna of Pune University who signed
Kho courts and a cricket ground with filiated with the Delhi-based Central up with MNS as a science teacher in
practice nets. Racquet games facili- Board of Secondary Education 2005, and was appointed principal in
ties include four all-weather tennis (CBSE). For nursery classes, admis- 2013.
courts, wooden badminton courts as sions are offered through a lottery With the dark era of the pandemic
also a table tennis hall with ten tables, staged in December. In higher nearing its end, Anvit Phatak is con-
and a modern gymnasium. Co-curric- classes, admissions are based on fident about this avant garde school’s
ular education is provided through vacancies. Admission forms are future. “Although the prolonged Co-
classical vocal and instrumental mu- available online from March/April. vid pandemic lockdown of educa-
sic, Bharatnatyam, magic, advanced Tuition fees (annual): Rs.64,200- tion institutions countrywide was a
craft, foreign languages like German 83,000 trying period for our teachers, par-
and Chinese, and organic gardening For further information, contact ents and students, I believe this era
clubs. Ph: 7798982010/20/30 has strengthened MNS and India’s
Fortuitously, the MNS manage- Email: talk@myshala.com K-12 education system. Now there is
ment’s early adoption of new digital Website: www.myshala.com unanimous willingness to incorporate
technologies has stood it in good stead technology into the teaching-learning
during the Covid-19 pandemic when process, and greater clarity about the
schools were ordered to shut down for we were able to smoothly switch to purposes of education. From here, it’s
over 80 weeks. “Since right from the online classes. I don’t believe our stu- onward and upward,” says Phatak,
start we maintained high standards of dents have suffered significant learn- who has drawn up a 2040 goals plan
technology integration in education, ing loss which cannot be quickly made for the school.

Coventry University, UK

This 30-year-old varsity with an enrolment of
50,000 students has consistently been ranked
among Britain’s Top 15 for five years (2016-
2020) by the Guardian University Guide

ITED IN THE WEST MIDLANDS, COVENTRY
University (CU, estb.1992) is a nationally respect-
ed public research higher ed institution provid-
Sing undergrad and postgrad study programmes
to 50,000 students including 20,000 from abroad. This
30-year-old varsity has consistently been ranked among
Britain’s Top 15 for five years (2016-2020) by the Guard-
ian University Guide. Moreover, in the UK’s latest Teaching
Excellence Framework which assesses 134 higher education Coventry city campus: four other UK campuses
institutions under parameters of teaching quality, student
satisfaction, student retention rates and placements, CU Coventry Polytechnic followed by grant of university status.
was awarded Gold rating. Currently, the university’s four faculties — arts and humani-
The history of CU harks back to 1843 with the estab- ties; engineering, environment and computing; health and
lishment of Coventry College of Design which merged with life sciences and law and business schools — offer over 130
the Lanchester College of Technology and Rugby College undergrad and 100 postgraduate study programmes.
of Engineering Technology to morph into Lanchester Poly- Despite the new Omicron variant of the novel Coronavi-
technic in 1970. Subsequently in 1987, it was christened rus causing a huge upsurge of Covid infections in the UK,

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