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BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla I
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan n my four decades-plus and counting career as a development jour-
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, nalist (Business India, Businessworld and EducationWorld) I have
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); consistently advocated the virtues of competition and more competi-
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. tion in business and academia. Therefore, I was always opposed to
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); public sector monopoly enterprises promoted by the Central and
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta state governments, and restricted competition within the private sector as
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore (London)
mandated under the Soviet-inspired socialist national development model.
EDITOR Fortunately, your editor’s strident advocacy of abolition of State monopolies
Dilip Thakore and licence-permit-quota raj contributed towards liberalisation and deregu-
MANAGING EDITOR lation of Indian industry in 1991 and subsequently. As a result, the Indian
Summiya Yasmeen economy leapt out of the 3.5 percent annual GDP growth groove in which it
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR was mired for half a century after independence and has averaged 6-7 percent
Sundar Anand ever since.
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi Similarly, when I switched from business to education journalism with the
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) promotion of EducationWorld on the eve of the new millennium, one of our
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) early initiatives was to launch the annual EducationWorld India School Rank-
9500506102 ings (EWISR) in 2007, to introduce an element of inter-school competition so
CHIEF EXECUTIVE that they would strive for holistic education excellence. Since then, the annual
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 EWISR has become increasingly sophisticated and evolved into the largest and
MARKETING most comprehensive national schools ratings and ranking initiative worldwide.
Vice President — Sales: Tejas Pattni 9022487997 The next logical step towards improving national education standards is
West: Aasana Jain 9820319127 to evaluate how competitive our children are internationally following the
South: Poonam Shah 9731966373
North: Hannan Ahmed 9810302768 example of our cricket, hockey and sports contingents. That is why the Union
E-mail: marketing@educationworld.in government’s decision to opt out of PISA (Programme for International
GRAPHICS Student Assessment) 2022, a global reading, science and math attainments
Chandrashekar L. test for 15-year-olds, is disappointing. Especially as in 2019, the BJP govern-
Kotresh Y
ment at the Centre had expressed firm resolve to participate in this global
SUBSCRIPTIONS test designed by developed OECD countries in which teens from 81 countries
Mithun Jadhav: 9108225694/ participated. The causes and consequences of non-participation are discussed
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sub@educationworld.in in our cover story.
The second lead feature of this first issue of 2024 is also about infusing
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establish campuses in India. But the terms and conditions of entry are onerous
EDITORIAL and discretionary, and unlikely to enthuse top-ranked universities, especially
C3-36, 3rd Floor, Devatha Plaza in the US, to accept this half-hearted invitation. They tend to take the issue of
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E-mail: editorial@educationworld.in There’s a lot else in this content-rich first issue of 2024. Check out the first
Printed and published by Dilip Thakore on behalf of our new series of despatches written by Dr. Larry Arnn from the US. Also
of DT Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. the Expert Comment essay by veteran columnist Sudheendra Kulkarni just
Printed at Rajhans Enterprises, 134, 4th Main, In- back from a lecture tour of China, interview with Nitish Jain, promoter-CEO
dustrial Town, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-44. Published of the transnational SP Jain School of Global Management, and review of Arun
at C3-36, 3rd Floor, Devatha Plaza, 131 Residency
Road. Bangalore 560 025. Shourie’s latest book.
Editor Dilip Thakore. Very best wishes for 2024!
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