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impressive with five acres earmarked ADMISSION & FEES tion Globally, and honoured with the
for outdoor sports including football, Green Olympiad Certificate (2019)
cricket, handball, volleyball, basket- DPS Mihan is a CBSE-affiliated of TERI (The Energy and Resources
ball and hockey. Indoor sports facili- K-12 school. For admission, register Institute) for promoting “environ-
ties include arenas for chess, karate, online at http://www.dpsmihan.edu. ment stewardship at school level”.
and roller skating. Six professional in/enquiry/index.html. Admission “Our 75 teachers are highly commit-
coaches mentor children to attain is based on interaction with parent ted and they deserve a major share of
fitness and develop their sports po- and child. the credit for the rapid development
tential, and students routinely win Tuition fees (annual): Rs.60,000- and public acceptance of DPS Mihan.
district and state-level competitions. 80,000 per annum. On our part, we ensure that they have
Moreover, the school’s curriculum For further information, call continuous professional development
incorporates teaching of ‘fine skills’ 9607855441/9607855442 (9.00 am opportunities and attend training pro-
including social etiquette. and 4.00 pm). grammes,” says Yadav.
“We are fully committed to provid- Looking ahead, Tulika Kedia is op-
ing all-round 360 degree primary- timistic that the school’s first batch of
secondary education and have taken complex with swimming pool and class X students who will write CBSE’s
great pains to develop a balanced other facilities,” says Nidhi Yadav, board exam in 2023, will excel. “I am
curriculum integrating academics principal of the school since 2020. confident that the all-round educa-
with co-curricular and sports educa- According to Yadav, environ- tion we provide will pay off hand-
tion. For instance, we have designed ment conservation and sustainability somely in terms of excellent board
a unique rotational system which ex- education is a special focus subject in results. Meanwhile to meet the rising
poses students to ten sports with chil- DPS Mihan. In 2021, the school was demand for admission, we have begun
dren encouraged to train and excel in acknowledged as a ‘School of Excel- constructing four additional academic
one of them. Moreover, we are in the lence under Climate Action Project’ blocks to increase our enrolment ca-
process of constructing a multi-sports by the US-based non-profit Take Ac- pacity to 4,800 students,” says Kedia.

University of Amsterdam

In 20 bachelor's and 150 Masters degree
programmes, English is the medium of
instruction in this public research institution
consistently ranked the Netherlands' #1 varsity

HE NETHERLANDS’ THIRD OLDEST VARSITY,
the University of Amsterdam (UvA, estb.1632) is
internationally reputed for teaching and research
Texcellence. A publicly funded research institution,
UvA is consistently ranked the Netherlands’ #1 university
and among the world’s Top 60 in the QS and THE global
rankings. The US News & World Report ranks it #38 and
the London-based QS ranks it #55.
Spread across four campuses in the Dutch capital re- UvA University Quarter campus: impressive alumni roll call
nowned for its museums and canals, UvA offers a wide
range of bachelor’s programmes in its seven faculties in- (see box). While the official language of the Netherlands is
cluding the humanities, social and behavioural sciences, Dutch, English language literacy is almost universal. How-
economics and business, science, law, medicine, and den- ever, UvA spokespersons recommend that foreign students
tistry to 34,000 students mentored by 6,000 faculty and also learn elementary Dutch (Institute for Dutch Language
administrative staff. In 20 bachelor’s and 150 Masters Education, https://intt.uva.nl/) online before emplaning.
degree programmes, English is the medium of instruction UvA traces its history to 1632 when the city’s municipal

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