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stints in academia and government,
is delighted by VVS’ elevation into
the select Ivy League category of day
schools. She is especially satisfied
with the top scores awarded to VVS
on the “cause-and-effect parameters”
of teacher welfare and development,
faculty competence and academic
reputation.
“I am most pleased with our top
score under the teacher welfare and
development parameter because we
accord highest importance to this
obligation. For over a decade we
have been running a weekly Return
to School programme for teachers to
upgrade their skills and learn about
best practices worldwide. Happy
teachers learning continuously
is the prime cause of our highest CHIREC’s Vanapalli Katyayini: ecosystem validation
score under individual attention
to students, children’s excellent high scores. CBSE, Cambridge International and
learning outcomes, and high scores “The distinguishing characteristic IB (Geneva)-affiliated CHIREC has
under academic reputation and of CHIREC is our culture of care with an aggregate enrolment of 6,253
mental and emotional development great emphasis on students’ social students mentored by 825 faculty
services. I’m also pleased with our and emotional well-being. Therefore spread across four campuses in
top score under the parameter of our elevation to the select club of Hyderabad.
co-curricular education and inter- Ivy League schools and high scores The league table of day schools
nationalism. In VVS the education under the parameters of curriculum elevated to Ivy League status com-
experience is divided into academic and pedagogy, co-curricular educa- prises 12 highly-reputed schools
and non-academic with co-curricular tion, individual attention to students from across the country with older,
and sports education integrated and mental and emotional well-being well-established institutions domi-
into non-academic learning which is services is validation of our teaching- nating. They include the vintage Ca-
accorded equal priority. Our prime learning ecosystem and supportive thedral & John Connon School,
objective is children deriving holistic of our tag line — ‘CHIREC gives Mumbai (estb.1860); J.B. Petit
education and learning joyfully. Our chance to children’,” says Katyayini, High School for Girls, Mumbai
top scores under all these impor- a clothing and textiles postgrad of (1860); Heritage School, Kolkata
tant parameters as reflected in your the Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricul- (2001); the Sir Padampat Singha-
survey, is reassuring endorsement tural University, Hyderabad, who nia Education Centre, Kanpur
that we are moving in the right signed with CHIREC in 2004 after (1982) and NASR School, Hyder-
direction,” says Bakshi, appointed a teaching stint at her alma mater abad (1965).
principal earlier this year. Currently (1996-2004) and was appointed However the inaugural league
the CBSE-affiliated VVS has 1,465 principal in 2023. Currently the table of Ivy League day schools also
children mentored by 325 teachers includes the new-age Heritage
on its muster rolls. Xperiential School, Gurugram
Although she is non-committal The inaugural Ivy League (estb.2003), and Gurukul, The
about the sagacity of creating a day schools league table School Ghaziabad. Although
new Ivy League category of repeat- these excellent, globally comparable
edly high-ranked schools, Vana- comprises 12 highly-reputed schools are ranked inter se by way
palli Katyayini, Principal of the schools from across the of star ratings and grade points, it’s
CHIREC International School, pertinent to note that they are all
Hyderabad routinely ranked country with older, well- ranked #1 and these differentiation
among The Top 10 nationally, is glad established institutions markers are insignificant, awarded
about the combination of parameters dominating to encourage them to continue to
under which CHIREC has received strive for betterment and excellence.

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