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demic reputation, and infrastructure,
and top score under sports education.
Sudeshna Chatterjee, TGS’ head
of school (HOS), is elated about this
Cambridge and IB-affiliated school’s
Hyderabad and Telangana top rank.
“During the past decade there has
been a focused effort to continuously
learn, adopt and implement global
best practices. While continuous pro-
fessional development and academic
rigour are embedded into our institu-
tional culture, we have invested heav-
ily in sports education and infrastruc-
ture. Our 27-acre campus features an
Olympic-size swimming pool, soccer
fields, an athletics track, basketball,
badminton, tennis courts, and gym-
nastics academies. Therefore, it’s very
satisfying that we have been awarded
JBCN, Mumbai’s Kunal Dalal: high-quality faculty outcomes the highest score under the param-
eter of sports education. However, I
with JBCN, Parel’s top score under Bengaluru (7) and Podar Inter- am disappointed with our score under
the parameter of curriculum and national School, Santacruz (W), the parameter of individual attention
pedagogy and high scores for teacher Mumbai (5) — all ranked #5 — com- to students and we intend to intensify
welfare and development, teacher plete top table. our efforts to personalise and indi-
competence, academic reputation and Promoted in 2014 by K. Kirthi vidualise learning,” says Chatterjee,
mental and emotional well-being. “A Reddy, a Rutgers University alumna an alum of Mumbai University and
critical factor behind our success is who “belongs to the promoter group former principal of Jamnabai Narsee
our high quality faculty. Over 60 per- of Aurobindo Pharma” (according to School, Mumbai and EuroSchool, Ai-
cent of our teachers are IB examiners the school’s website), The Gaudium roli, appointed HOS at Gaudium in
and/or workshop leaders, bringing School (TGS) has debuted in top 2022. Currently, TGS has 4,500 stu-
global expertise into their classrooms. table with high scores under the pa- dents mentored by 400 teachers on its
This explains our top scores under rameters of teacher competence, aca- muster rolls.
faculty competence and curriculum TGS, Hyderabad’s Sudeshna Chatterjee (right): highest sports education score
and pedagogy. Our high score under
the parameter of individual attention
to students has resulted in person-
alised career counseling and fantastic
university placements. For the past
four consecutive years, our students
have secured admissions into Ivy
League universities in the US and
London School of Economics in the
UK. But my greatest satisfaction is
our children learning joyfully. There-
fore I am delighted with our highest
score under the parameter of mental
and emotional well-being services,”
says Dalal.
JBCN, Parel is followed by an-
other Mumbai institution, the Utpal
Shanghvi Global School promoted
to #4 (5). The Gaudium School,
Hyderabad (7), Legacy School,

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