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cum-Boarding, Residential and Inter-                              First, they stimulate school manage-
         national schools. Unlike aggregated                               ments to focus on areas – parameters
         scores in other categories, the small                             – under which they are awarded un-
         number  of  repeatedly  high-ranked                               satisfactory scores. This has had the
         primary-secondaries elevated to the                               beneficial outcome of schools improv-
         Ivy  League  category  are  ranked  by                            ing across the board which is reassur-
         grade points and awarded stars (1-5)                              ing for parents. Also for alumni, do-
         to differentiate them inter se. For fur-                          nors and supporters. Secondly, high
         ther and better evaluation methodol-                              ranked schools attract the brightest
         ogy particulars see page 40.                                      students and best teachers. This en-
            Since the annual EducationWorld                                sures improved institutional learning
         India  School  Rankings  were  intro-                             outcomes. All this is very much in the
         duced in 2007, several other publi-                               national interest,” says Singh
         cations including some heavyweight                                  In this (September) Part I issue, we
         national  newspapers  have  jumped                                present city, state, national and pa-
         aboard  the  schools  ranking  band-                              rameter league tables of Day schools
         wagon,  with  many  of  them  having   Singh: national interest survey  (co-ed day, boys, girls and day-cum-
         transformed institutional evaluation                              boarding)  and  Vintage  Legacy  Day
         into undisguised quid pro quo com-  Sanawar  and  Daly  College,  Indore   schools (over 90 years vintage) within
         mercial transactions. As a result some   and currently a busy Punjab-based   these  sub-categories.  The  next  EW-
         education stakeholders are inclined   education consultant, declines to be   ISR 2025-26 Part II issue (October)
         to question the role and purpose of   numbered among cynics.      will feature Boarding, International,
         rating and ranking education institu-  “Schools ranking surveys conduct-  Vintage Legacy Residential, Govern-
         tions. However Sumer Singh, the   ed and published by high credibility   ment,  Special  Needs,  Philanthropy
         highly-experienced former principal   publications, especially  Education-  and Super 30 Budget private schools
         of the top-ranked Lawrence School,   World, serve a very useful purpose.   league tables.



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