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EMERGENCY! BAN BIG EDUCATION NEWS
TECH MIND BLOWING Delhi: Supreme
Court stays new
INDIA'S CHILDREN & equity regulations
YOUTH
Telangana: Rising
Australia's Online Safety scepticism
Amendment Act, which
makes big tech companies Tamil Nadu:
accountable for registering Schools closure
children under 16 as social controversy
media subscribers, has
received global encomiums.
Several other countries West Bengal:
are set to enact similar Dismal picture
legislation. India needs to
urgently follow suit

34 RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IMPEDING

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Countrywide millions of hours are invested every
year in religious rituals and festivals. But they
also represent significant investment of time,
organisational effort and money — Dr. S.P. Mishra

62 FIVE NECESSARY SKILLS THAT EMPLOYERS WANT

EW GRAND JURY INDIA It's now quite clear that fresh graduates require
PRESCHOOL RANKINGS 2025-26 extra edge and knowledge beyond academic 58
qualifications. Increasingly they must possess
Introduced in 2018, the EducationWorld workplace skills that are flexible, transferable
Grand Jury India Preschool Rankings and future-oriented — Kuldip Sarma
felicitate pre-primaries that have
introduced contemporary pedagogies
and practices in early childhood care and IN THIS ISSUE
education (ECCE)
76 Editorial 10 Cover Story 46

Mailbox 12 Teacher-2-Teacher 58
PICTORIAL ESSAY Preschool Grand Jury
30 Rankings 2025-26 Awards Education News 14 Rankings 62
EW India Preschool

Education Notes 26 Pictorial Essay 76
SCINDIA KANYA VIDYALAYA, GWALIOR
Education Briefs 28 Books 86
In the latest EW India School
Rankings 2025-26, SKV Institution Profile 30 Postscript 90
(estb.1956) is ranked India’s #1
girls boarding school and was School of Eminence:
elevated to the exclusive Ivy Expert Comment 34 Navrachana Higher Secondary
League schools’ category Schoool, Sama, Vadodara 36

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