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is equally impressive. It includes three ADMISSION & FEES 16 students cleared the West Bengal
sports grounds for football, cricket, Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) 2021 to
basketball, and volleyball. The co-cur- Army Public School, Barrackpore is qualify for admission into the state’s
ricular education menu features yoga, a K-12 co-ed day CBSE-affiliated 120 engineering colleges, while 13
music, art and crafts, and nine student school. The school primarily pro- students cleared NEET for entry into
clubs (debate, book reading, photog- vides education to wards of serving, the country’s 605 medical colleges.
raphy, dance, karate, chess, public short service commissioned and APS-B has also been conferred several
speaking, quiz, and theatre) to devel- retired armed forces officers with a awards and encomiums including the
op children’s multiple intelligences. small number (10 percent of total Telegraph School Award for Excel-
Moreover the school’s Child with Spe- enrolment) of children of civilians lence 2021 and the Chief of Army Staff
cial Needs wing equipped with ramps, also admitted. 2020 trophy for academic excellence.
elevators, disabled-friendly toilets and Admission into class I is through “Although I am fairly satisfied
staffed with two counsellors and a spe- an interview/interaction. From class with the development and evolution
cial educator, enables 55 special needs II onwards, admissions are against of APS-B, continuous improvement
children to realise their full potential. vacancies and a written admission is our mantra. Therefore, we have
The APS-B management’s focus test is mandatory. drawn up a strategy to improve our
on comprehensive education has paid Tuition fee (annual): Rs.34,440 performance under every parameter
off by way of excellent academic out- For further information, call 33 of school education excellence in the
comes. Of the 272 students who wrote 25932317; e-mail: armysch.bkp@ EW India School Rankings. During
the CBSE class XII school-leaving gmail.com the past two months, our governing
exam in February-March 2021, 50 board has sanctioned upgrading of in-
averaged 95 percent-plus with batch frastructure including inauguration of
topper Lisa Biswas (humanities) aver- X board exam, 37 of 389 students av- a Sensory Play Park for special needs
aging 98.4 percent. In the 2020 class eraged above 95 percent. Moreover, children,” says Mukherjee.

University of Melbourne, Australia

UoM (estb. 1853) has nurtured four Australian
prime ministers, five governors general and
eight Nobel laureates. THE ranks it Australia #1
and #33 worldwide

HE SIXTH CONTINENT’S SECOND OLDEST
public higher education institution, University of
Melbourne (UoM, estb.1853) has nurtured four
TAustralian prime ministers, five governors gen-
eral and eight Nobel laureates — the most of any university
Down Under. The London-based Times H igher Educ ation
ranks UoM Australia’s #1 university and #33 worldwide
in its World University Rankings 2022. The China-based
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Educa- Melbourne University: distinguished alumni
tion ranks UoM among the world’s Top 35 universities in
its Academic Ranking of World Universities 2022. der the new UoM model, students are encouraged to sign
Legislated by a special Act of the Parliament of Victoria up for a general bachelor’s degree before undertaking spe-
in 1853, UoM admitted its first batch of 16 students and cialised postgraduate and professional courses.
four professors in a cluster of buildings on the fringes of Sited on six leafy campuses in the state of Victoria,
Melbourne. During the 1900s, UoM expanded significantly UoM’s ten faculties offer bachelors, Masters and doctoral
when the university amalgamated a number of undergrad programmes to 52,000 students from 150 countries. The
colleges, and initiated a curriculum makeover in 2008. Un- university boasts a substantial endowment of $1.33 billion

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