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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, DELHI EDUCATION NEWS
LEFT IDEOLOGIES ALIVE Delhi: Chitkara
IN INDIA'S MOST University's research
breakthrough
REPUTED LIBERAL ARTS
Maharashtra:
UNIVERSITY Bullying tradition
Over a decade after the BJP blowback
swept to power in Delhi and Karnataka: Freebies
put all its weight behind its
student wing — ABVP — Left opportunity cost
Unity, an alliance of several
leftist students unions Telangana: Great
affiliated with Left national education race
parties including CPI-M, won a
sweeping victory in the latest West Bengal:
JNUSU election Nihilistic narratives

84 SIX-YEAR PLAN TO UNIVERSITY
ADMISSION SUCCESS

88 What we call 'overnight success' in
university admissions is really the visible tip of a very long
below-deck iceberg. Universities investigate a multi-year
pattern of growth and achievement— Sheila Bauer & Ray
25 BOOKS ALL EDUCATORS Ravaglia
SHOULD READ WHY HIGHER EDUCATION REFORMS ARE STALLED

As education systems worldwide India has 52,000 colleges, 1,338 universities, 43
gravitate from memory-based million students and certifies 1.5 million engineering 44
rote learning towards interactive, graduates annually. The rankings whisper a
inquiry-based pedagogies, a different story: India is a factory of credentials not of
widening gap in teachers’ extra- breakthrough thinking and innovation —
curricular reading and general Roy Aniruddha
knowledge is becoming increasingly
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evident in India’s schools IN THIS ISSUE

YOUNG ACHIEVERS Editorial 14 People 70
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International News
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40 Aarna Om Singh Education News 20 Teacher-2-Teacher 84
Renee Noronha
Education Notes 32 Special Report 88
INVENTURE ACADEMY, BENGALURU Special Essay 95
INDIA'S 1 CO-ED DAY SCHOOL Education Briefs 36
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Young Achievers 37 Books 99
Currently celebrating its 20th
anniversary, this K-12 school was Institution Profile 40 Postscript 100
ranked India's #1 co-ed day school
in the EducationWorld India School Expert Comment 44 Schools of Eminence:
Seth Anandram Jaipuria School,
Rankings 2025-26 for the second Ghaziabad 46
year consecutively Cover Story 54 Sunbeam School, Sarnath 62

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