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portant to understand that delayed son for its sudden exclusion? Kindly
feedback serves no purpose at all. shed some light.
R amesh S ivanna Madhuk ar R ao
CHENNAI HYDERABAD

Rishi Valley School has been moved
Erroneous classification to the new category of V intage Leg-
I wish to bring to your notice in Part acy co-ed boarding schools where it
II (EW October) of the latest EWISR is rank ed I ndia # 1 . Please see pg.5 8
2022-23, Sree Vidyanikethan Inter- (E W October) — Editor
national School, Tirupati is ranked
#3 in Andhra Pradesh in the co-ed
boarding schools category. Old schools wiped out!
Please note that ours is a co-ed WE HAVE BEEN taken out of your
day-cum-boarding school. Kindly boarding schools league tables alto-
reclassify us in future. gether. When our parents studied the
OCTOBER 2022 R aj esh Patil boys boarding schools league table,
Principal, Sree Vidyanikethan Bishop Cotton School, Shimla was
International School, TIRUPATI conspicuously missing. It has been
moved to your new Vintage Legacy
Evolving parameters category which no parent is likely to
MY HEARTIEST congratulations Nomenclature confusion search.
to EducationWorld for the compre- I DRAW YOUR attention to the EW I believe this is a ploy to wipe out
hensive EW India School Rankings India School Rankings 2022-23 Part old schools. There is no reference
2022-23 Part I and Part II (EW I (EW September). In the co-ed day at all to our school in the board-
September and October) issues. schools category, in Tapi district ing schools or any type of category
As a committed reader of EW you have ranked Singhania Public alongside. How is this fair?
— especially the school rankings School, Fort Songadh #2 and Delhi Moreover, our aggregate score is
surveys — I am impressed with Public School #1. According to our higher than of The Doon School, yet
your evolving parameters of school information there is no Delhi Public we have ended up in a distant cat-
education excellence over the years. School in the Tapi district of Gujarat. egory nobody is likely to care about.
Another welcome inclusion is the For your information Singhania Please put us back on the map!
Vintage Legacy Schools league tables Public School, Fort Songadh has Rebecca Weale
in eight sub-categories. They are been continuously ranked #1 in Tapi Bishop Cotton School, SHIMLA
indeed a class apart. in your surveys from 2017-2021.
P. Chow dhary Please rectify the information pub- League tables listing Vintage Legacy
KOLKATA lished on your website. schools are prominently display ed
Dr. N avin K umar S harma on our website as well as published
Principal, Singhania Public in the magazine. Moreover, the
Timely feedback need School, Fort Songadh, TAPI DISTRICT aggregate score aw arded to BCS ,
I FULLY AGREE with Tara Quigley’s S himla is out of a total of 1 ,6 0 0
views on the ‘Importance of provid- S orry . There is a DPS , Tapi in the cf. 1 ,5 0 0 for non-vintage schools
ing timely feedback’ to students contiguous S urat district. The recti- including The Doon School, because
(Teacher-2-Teacher, EW October). fication has been made — Editor all vintage schools have been as-
As a primary school teacher, I sessed on an additional parameter
have noticed that children always of quality of alumni — Editor
show more interest in their work, Rishi Valley mystery
become more interactive and are IN PART II (EW October) issue of
open to discussion when regular and the EW India School Rankings 2022- Corrigendum
timely feedback is provided. 23, I was surprised to find the Rishi On page 106 (EW October), the
I empathise with teachers who Valley School, Madanapalle (Andhra previous year's ranks of Vista In-
have back-to-back classes and are de- Pradesh) excluded from the co-ed ternational School Hyderabad have
puted for non-academic duties with boarding schools league tables. been inadvertently published as 36
little time to give “timely, specific I recall the school being routinely (2019)|4 (2020)|4 (2021) instead of
and actionable” feedback. It is im- ranked #1 for several years. Any rea- 186|222|124.

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