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INDIA’S BEST INTERNATIONAL DAY SCHOOLS

The league table of international day schools in the annual schools are the most popular because
EWISR is lengthening every year with new institutions springing they provide internationally compa-
rable teaching-learning at relatively
up in metros, state capitals and even tier III and IV cities across affordable prices compared with
the country. This year’s league table of India’s best international international day-cum-boarding and
day schools is 123-strong fully residential schools, which are
obliged to make huge investment in
co-curricular and sports education
and residential accommodation.
Thus, it’s not surprising that
the league table of international
day schools in the annual Educa-
tionWorld India School Rankings
(EWISR) is lengthening every year
with new institutions springing up
in India’s metros, state capitals, and
even tier III-IV cities to meet paren-
tal demand for international certi-
fication. The 2022-23 league table
of best international day schools is
c
123-strong f. 117 in 2021-22 with
schools rated and ranked in 34 cities
countrywide.
Against this backdrop of spiral-
ing demand for admission into day
schools affiliated with demanding
offshore examination boards, it’s un-
D
surprising that h iru b h a i A m b a n i
DAIS’ founder-chairperson Nita Ambani: extraordinary commitment I n te rn a tion a l S c h ool , M u m b a i
(DAIS, estb.2003), promoted by
A and development, curriculum and the family of legendary self-made
relatively new post-1991
business magnate Dhirubhai Ambani
pedagogy and life skills education
(when the heavily regulat-
(1932-2002), founder-chairman of
ed, cabined, cribbed and
standards for aspirational schools.
confined Indian economy
was substantially — but not suffi- Secondly, they nurture and educate Reliance Industries Ltd, India’s most
valuable company (annual revenue:
children of the rich, who as the great
ciently — deregulated) phenomenon, institutions builder the late rof . Rs.7.93 lakh crore), has topped the
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international schools affiliated with N . S . R a m a s w a m y , founder-di- international day schools league
globally reputed offshore examina- rector of JBIMS and NITIE, Mum- table ab initio.
tion boards such as International bai and IIM-Bangalore, famously Sample respondents interviewed
Baccalaureate (Geneva/The Hague), remarked, would otherwise loiter by the Delhi-based Centre for Fore-
Cambridge Assessment International in public spaces fomenting trouble. casting and Research (C fore) have
Education (UK) and Advance Place- Therefore, the small but fortunately once again voted the Cambridge and
ment, USA, are unpopular with po- steadily expanding number of private IB-affiliated DAIS India’s #1 inter-
litically correct lefties who dominate international schools which levy national day school with top scores
the academy and media. They are tuition fees substantially lower than under the parameters of academic
adjudged elitist and too expensive. international schools abroad, are reputation, faculty competence,
However, international schools national assets. Moreover, interna- leadership/management quality and
benchmarked against the world’s tional schools are invariably gender- curriculum and pedagogy (hybrid
most well-equipped and students- integrated (co-ed) institutions which readiness).
enabling K-12 schools, serve very is another social benefit. “We are overwhelmed that DAIS
useful purposes. First, they set Within this broad category of has been ranked India’s #1 inter-
infrastructure, teacher recruitment new genre international schools, day national day school for ten years

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