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Foreign education majors in India
Comment
Brookes Education Group (UK) GPS Brookes School, Kochi (Kerala) IB affiliated
promoted with Global Education
Trust (India)
Maple Bear Global 62 Maple Bear Preschools In collaboration
Schools Ltd (Canada) in India with Modi Group (Uttar Pradesh)
Helsinki International Schools Early Child Care & Education “Educational solutions
(Finland) for kindergartens and teachers based on
Finland’s famous education system”
Kunskapsskolan (Sweden) K-12 schools in Gurgaon (2), India partner Kunskapsskolan Smart
Lucknow & Bengaluru Services Pvt. Ltd, Gurgaon
FinlandWay Garodia Finland Way School, Mumbai “Co-founded by experts from University
of Helsinki & the World Bank”
Nord Anglia Education (UK) Oakridge International Schools 7,000 students
(Bengaluru, Visakapatnam, Hyderabad of 21 nationalities
— Gachibowli & Bachupally)
Global Schools Foundation GIIS schools in Ahmedabad, 18 campuses in seven Asian &
(Global Indian International Noida & Hyderabad Middle East countries
Schools)
Aga Khan Development Network Eight K-12 schools & Operational in India since 1905 — educating
(Switzerland) 19 preschools in India 2.3 million children, built 170,000 toilets
Global Education Consultancy School management, higher ed —
(Australia) counseling and ICT ed consultancy
Harrow School, UK Harrow School, Bengaluru In partnership with Amity University Group
Wellington College, UK Wellington International College, Pune Partnership with Unison Group
Rutgers Prep School, USA American Eduglobal Schools in Lucknow, Partnership with Edovu Ventures
Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Jaipur
Although several deep-thinking quality globally comparable teaching- than unemployed — youth entering
educationists and academics enter- learning for the country to encash its the jobs market every year, scour the
tain misgivings about the entry of much-proclaimed demographic divi- country searching for meaningful em-
foreign schools and universities with dend before it lapses. ployment.
long colonial histories into the Indian Intelligent monitors of contem- Therefore even if belatedly, press-
education marketplace, if the cred- porary India’s floundering education ing urgency to reform and contem-
its and debits of liberalisation are system are becoming increasingly porise school and higher education
weighed, there’s no doubt the former apprehensive that with primary- has become widespread within the
outnumber the latter. Apprehensions secondary education still mired in country’s hitherto isolationist teach-
relating to exacerbation of social in- rote learning and memorisation, and ers and academic communities. Since
equality and cultural diminution are higher ed institutions over-reliant on EducationWorld was launched on the
abstract considerations that require received wisdom, unless there’s ur- eve of the new millennium to beam a
total restructuring of the education gent reform and upgradation of the focused and sustained searchlight on
system. On the other hand, the urgent education system, there’s clear and pre-primary to Ph D education with
priority of government and society present danger of the overdue demo- the avowed objective to “build the
is to upgrade the preschool to Ph D graphic dividend transforming into a pressure of public opinion to make
education system immediately, to en- massive demographic liability as the education the #1 item on the national
sure that the world’s largest child and vast majority of 10 million ill-educated agenda”, your editors have witnessed
youth population has access to high and unskilled unemployable — rather huge and rising enthusiasm within the
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