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Cover Story EW INDIA SCHOOL RANKINGS 2022-23

with the number of schools in 22 diverse and targeted.
sub-categories grouped under four Over the past 15 years, this annual
main categories — day, boarding, survey has expanded to include gov-
international and vintage legacy — ernment day, government boarding,
having risen exponentially, for the special needs and budget private
past three years, the annual EWISR schools which admit children from
is spread over two consecutive issues low-income SEC (socio-economic
of Educ ationW orld. category) B, C and D households. To
In last month’s bumper 344- rate and rank latter institutions, a
page issue, we presented Part I of separate sample database of 4,000
EWISR 2022-23 rating and ranking respondents comprising parents,
day primary-secondary (co-ed day, students, teachers, principals and
day-cum-boarding, boys day and educationists was interviewed over
girls day) schools and vintage legacy two months.
schools under these categories. annual EWISR distinguishes it from
This elaborate architecture of the
I N THIS ISSUE, WE PRES Palety: unprecedented scale & depth school rankings surveys abroad,
ENT Part II of EWISR
especially in the UK which rate and
rank schools inter se on a single
2022-23 featuring league
tables ranking India’s best
outcomes. After Educ ationW orld
special needs education, and com-
boarding (co-ed, boys and girls) and tal & emotional well-being services, parameter viz , academic learning
international schools affiliated with munity service. Reclusive, low-pro- pioneered its multi-dimensional
offshore examination boards (day, file schools evaluated by less than 25 EWISR 15 years ago, several imita-
day-cum-boarding and residential). sample respondents were eliminated tive schools ranking surveys have
In addition, league tables rating and from the ranking process. The score been launched by some professedly
ranking top government (Central and awarded by every respondent under education magazines which have fla-
state), Top 20 Special Needs Schools each parameter was totaled to rank grantly plagiarised this publication’s
for differently-abled children, Top schools in each sub-category,” carefully conceptualised parameters
P
15 philanthropic schools and Super explains re m c h a n d P a l e ty , of school excellence. However, all
30 affordably priced budget private promoter-CEO of the Delhi-based of them lack the robust field survey
schools (the complete rankings to Centre for Forecasting & Research evaluation methodology that defines
be featured in a forthcoming BPS Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb.2000) which the annual EWISR.
dedicated issue) are included in this has been conducting the annual “Apart from equipping parents
issue. EWISR for the past 15 years. with information to choose the most
“The sheer scale and depth of Moreover in response to pub- appropriate school for their children,
EWISR 2022-23 is unprecedented in lic and institutional demand that the annual EWISR also fulfils the
India and worldwide. Over a period vintage schools with decades of very important objective of enabling
of four months, 122 field research- community service are a class apart, school promoters and managements
ers conducted interviews in 28 cities this year ‘vintage legacy schools’ are to compare themselves with their
across the country. They persuaded separately ranked in each sub-cate- peers under all parameters of school
14,221 SEC (socio-economic catego- gory. This innovation is a continua- education excellence, and strive to
ry) ‘A’ fees paying parents, teachers, tion of your editors’ efforts to make attain whole institutional improve-
principals, educationists and senior the annual EWISR survey more ment year-by-year. The socially
school students to rate the schools beneficial outcome is that the entire
they are aware of on a ten-point scale school education system improves
under 14 parameters, viz , teacher “EWISR also fulfils the with students better prepared for
welfare and development, teacher very important objective higher education and eventually
competence, academic reputation, their workplaces and vocations,”
co-curricular activities, interna- of enabling school adds Palety, an alum of the high-
tionalism, individual attention to managements to compare ranked Punjab Engineering College,
students, curriculum and pedagogy Chandigarh and Fore School of
(hybrid learning readiness), sports themselves with their peers Management, Delhi, who began his
education, infrastructure, value for under all parameters of career in ORG, India’s pioneer retail
money, leadership/management school education excellence.” market research firm, and later went
quality, parental involvement, men- solo and promoted C fore in the mil-

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