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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XIII No.10

BOARD OF ADVISORS S ince it was somewhat hesitantly and experimentally intro-
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan duced in 2007, the annual EducationWorld India School
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, Rankings (EWISR) survey, which rates and ranks 3,500-
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, 4,000 of India’s best schools, has evolved into the largest and
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma (Mumbai); Dr.
Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Prof. Geeta Kingdon most detailed schools ranking survey worldwide. However it
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio arouses mixed emotions in diverse publics. Left intellectuals who curiously
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); continue to dominate the academy despite the rejection of communist/ so-
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta cialist ideology in Russia and China — the fons et origo of this obsolete creed
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama akore (London)
— have contempt for it. It’s a commercial venture, the evaluation methodol-
EDITOR ogy is flawed, it provokes unseemly competition et al.
Dilip akore But bona fide school promoters, principals and teachers love this annual
MANAGING EDITOR survey because it provides feedback on ways and means to upgrade and
Summiya Yasmeen improve institutional performance across a broad range of parameters of
CHIEF SUB EDITOR school education excellence. Parents also look forward to the annual EWISR
Sundar Anand because it enables them to shortlist, even if not select, primary-secondary
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi schools most likely to develop the unique intelligences of their children.
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) That’s why every year there is a clamour from schools countrywide for inclu-
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) sion in our survey. In 2007 a mere 250 schools were sufficiently well-known
9500506102, Dipta Joshi (Mumbai) 9920243111 to sample respondents to include in the survey. In the latest EWISR 2022-
CHIEF EXECUTIVE 23, the number of schools included in our league tables has risen to 4,000
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 from 392 cities and towns across the country.
MARKETING The field interviews-based institutional evaluation methodology ad-
Vice President — Sales: Tejas Pattni 9022487997 opted by us is elaborate, and expensive. Every summer over a period of four
Aasana Jain (Marketing Manager) months, field researchers of the Centre for Forecasting & Research Pvt. Ltd,
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South India: Poonam Shah 9731966373 aka C fore, Delhi, a highly-reputed specialised market research and opin-
North: Hannan Ahmed 9810302768 ion polls company, persuade over 14,000 carefully chosen, knowledgeable
GRAPHICS sample respondents (educationists, fees-paying parents, principals, teachers
Suresh K. and senior students) to rate the country’s most reputed schools on a scale of
SUBSCRIPTIONS 1-100 on 12-15 parameters of school education excellence. Subsequently, the
Kiran Kumar: 9108225694/ parameter scores are totaled to rank schools in 22 segregated categories. We
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of DT Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. ing); Special Needs and Philanthropy schools are also featured.
Printed at Rajhans Enterprises, 134, 4th Main, In- There’s something in these league tables for everyone — parents, educa-
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