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academics block and given our sce-
nic 35-acre campus a comprehensive
makeover. Moreover, our academic
results in the CBSE class XII school-
leaving board exam 2022 are excellent
with our cohort of 70 girls averaging
92 percent and the topper averaging
s
98.8 percent,” says N i h i M is ra ,
principal of the top-ranked Scindia
Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior since 2010.
A history and English postgrad of Alla-
habad University who acquired valu-
able teaching and admin experience in
Sherwood College, Nainital and The
Mayoor School, Bhopal prior to sign-
ing up with SKV 12 years ago,
Misra is especially enthused by the
top scores awarded to this routinely
high-ranked girls boarding school
under the parameters of teacher wel-
fare and development and academic EGIS students: morale booster promotion. Inset: Taran Jyot Singh
reputation, although she is too modest
to comment about SKV’s highest score respondents have awarded the techno- of the Indian diaspora. During the two
under leadership. Currently, SKV has logically advanced — “we are the first years of pandemic lockdown, a large
500 girls and 56 teachers on its mus- school countrywide to have equipped number of them returned to their
ter rolls. our students with i-pads in our very families abroad and some are yet to
T a ra n J y ot S in g h , managing first year of operations” — EGIS in its return. As a result against our full ca-
trustee of the Asian Educational Chari- tenth anniversary year. pacity of 350, we currently have a total
table Trust that administers the Ec ol e “Because of our excellent infra- enrolment of 270. Therefore, our first
G l ob a l e I n te rn a tion a l S c h ool , structure and Cambridge Internation- priority is to get back to full capacity.
D e h r du n (EGIS, estb.2012), is al and CBSE curriculums supported I am confident that given the excellent
a
equally delighted with the promotion by new education technologies, almost academic, co-curricular and sports
to national #3 that this year’s sample one-third of our students are children facilities for archery, shooting, swim-
ming and field games we offer, we will
Mody School, Lakshmangarh snapshot: nationwide encomiums. Inset: Kajal Marwaha
be back to full strength very soon. In
the circumstances, the big promotion
awarded to us by the well-informed
Educ ationW orld sample respondents
is a huge morale booster,” says Singh,
an economics and law graduate of
Pune and Garhwal universities, and
director of a family-run hospitality
company who co-promoted EGIS a
decade ago having discerned a dearth
of “thoroughly contemporary” prima-
ry-secondary girls schools.
A notable and encouraging phe-
nomenon in Indian K-12 education
is that excellent, globally comparable
girls boarding schools are flowering
not only in well-established residen-
tial schools clusters such as Dehra-
dun — eight of Top 10 girls boarding
schools in EWISR 2022-23 are sited in
Dehradun — but across the country.

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