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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XIII No.5

BOARD OF ADVISORS A lthough some self-styled educators and educationists may be
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan unaware, EducationWorld which has a record of 22 years of
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, uninterrupted publishing, come floods, famine or pandemic, has
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, been ranking education institutions across the spectrum from
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma (Mumbai); Dr.
Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Dr. Geeta Kingdon preschools to universities since 2007, perhaps the only news
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio magazine worldwide with this record. But given the pathetic
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); condition of the country’s education system, it’s hardly surprising that we
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta are anti-establishment. Therefore, it’s rare for ministers and minions to give
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama akore (London)
your editors interviews and access. I wonder why, when our intent is to high-
EDITOR light education excellence and if at all, offer constructive criticism to reform a
Dilip akore moribund education system which has clearly failed to develop the abundant
MANAGING EDITOR human capital of post-independence India.
Summiya Yasmeen Regrettably, this culture of unaccountability has also spread to private
CHIEF SUB EDITOR sector education institutions whose cause and contribution EducationWorld
Sundar Anand has championed ab initio. It’s not unusual for privately promoted schools
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi and colleges to decline information and access out of an unwarranted senti-
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) ment of false modesty which abjures publicity and are content to do their bit
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) for the public weal in a tiny corner of the country. To them my advice is to
9500506102, Dipta Joshi (Mumbai) 9920243111 heed the biblical injunction against hiding their lamp under a bushel. The
CHIEF EXECUTIVE public interest would be served better if they let their light shine and shared
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 best practices and precepts.
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