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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

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BOARD OF ADVISORS T his issue of EducationWorld marks the culmination of several
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla months of mountainous labour in our Bangalore and Mumbai of-
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan fices. The EW team has been burning the proverbial midnight oil
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, compiling, checking and rechecking the EducationWorld India
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); School Rankings (EWISR) 2024-25 league tables published in
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. our September and current issue.
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); When school leaders, advertisers and sponsors are informed that the an-
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta nual EWISR is the world’s largest and most comprehensive schools ranking
(Bhubaneswar); Yogi Kochhar (Dharamshala); survey, their eyes tend to glaze and the subject is swiftly changed. Yet the plain
Shyama Thakore (London)
truth is that the entire process kick-started by our new field research agency
EDITOR -- AZ Research Partners who stepped into the breach after our long-standing
Dilip Thakore
research partner C fore abruptly terminated our contract (further comment is
MANAGING EDITOR proscribed as the issue is sub judice) — initiating one-on-one interviews with
Summiya Yasmeen
8,700 sample respondents (educationists, principals, teachers and parents)
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR countrywide and ending with the editorial team finalising the EWISR league
Sundar Anand tables which rank day, boarding and international schools divided into 14 sub-
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi categories under 14 parameters of primary-secondary education excellence,
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi)
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) spanned almost six months. Strenuous additional effort was simultaneously
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) invested by our marketing and sales office personnel in Mumbai to alert and
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provide opportunity to advertisers and sponsors to participate in our follow-
CHIEF EXECUTIVE up EWISR Awards event scheduled to be staged in Gurgaon, Delhi NCR on
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October 17-19 when leaders of India’s top-ranked schools will be felicitated
MARKETING and celebrated.
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South: Poonam Shah 9731966373 volved in publishing the annual EWISR is time well spent. Because the 4,000
North: Hannan Ahmed 9810302768 (out of 1.6 million) schools ranked in the EWISR league tables are engaged
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in providing model nation-building service to the public. We don’t subscribe
GRAPHICS to the cynical opinion of cribber socialists and armchair critics that promot-
Chandrashekar L. ers, principals and managements of private schools that dominate the league
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tables, are solely — or substantially — driven by the profit motive.
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Printed and published by Dilip Thakore on behalf of public opinion to make education the #1 item on the national agenda”, have
of DT Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. also begun printing and publishing slap-dash plagiarised versions of the an-
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dustrial Town, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-44. Published
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