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Volume X XIII No.9

BOARD OF ADVISORS O ver the past 15 years since the detailed globally unprecedented
EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR) survey was
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan introduced, it has generated great enthusiasm within the
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, educationists, institutional promoters, principals, teachers and
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, students communities countrywide. This is because unlike all
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma (Mumbai); Dr.
Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Dr. Geeta Kingdon other schools ranking league tables (except for blatant knock-
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio offs) which evaluate primary-secondary schools on a single parameter, i.e,
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); learning outcomes in school-leaving board exams, the annual EWISR league
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta tables assess schools under 12-15 parameters including teacher welfare and
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore (London)
development, teachers competence, leadership, infrastructure, co-curricular
EDITOR menu, sports education, parental involvement, among others.
Dilip Thakore Moreover the methodology adopted by us is based on elaborate — and
MANAGING EDITOR expensive — field interviews, rather than the usual six jurors sitting in a
Summiya Yasmeen room with little knowledge of schools beyond their bailiwicks. Every summer
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR over a period of four months, field researchers of the Centre for Forecasting
Sundar Anand & Research Pvt. Ltd, aka C fore, Delhi, a highly-reputed specialised market
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi research and opinion polls company, persuade over 14,000 carefully chosen,
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) knowledgeable sample respondents (educationists, fees-paying parents, prin-
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) cipals, teachers and senior students) to rate the country’s 3,500-4,000 most
9500506102, Dipta Joshi (Mumbai) 9920243111 reputed schools on a scale of 1-100 on 12-15 parameters of school education
CHIEF EXECUTIVE excellence. Subsequently, the parameter scores are totaled to rank schools in
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MARKETING and ranking is important to provide level playing fields and eliminate apples
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