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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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