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N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla his issue of EducationWorld is the second instalment (Part-II) of
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan the EducationWorld India School Rankings (EWISR estb. 2007)
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, 2025-26. Over the past 18 years of uninterrupted publication,
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); the annual EWISR has evolved into the world’s largest and most
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. comprehensive rankings survey of primary-secondary schools.
Parth Shah, Dr. C. Raj Kumar (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); Every year it rates 4,000-4,500 most well-reputed of India’s 1.4 million
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta schools under 14 parameters of excellence including teacher welfare & devel-
(Bhubaneswar); Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); opment, teacher competence, academic reputation, leadership, co-curricular
Shyama Thakore (London)
and sports education, individual attention to students, mental and emotional
EDITOR well-being services special needs education, community service, among oth-
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ers. The scores awarded to schools under these parameters are totaled to rank
MANAGING EDITOR them in three major — day, boarding and international — categories and 14
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CHIEF SUB-EDITOR Although 18 years on the EWISR methodology is well and widely known,
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