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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XIII No.4

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan N
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, ot a few academics and pundits tend to be derisive of educa-
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, tion institution rankings. The main criticisms are that they are
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma (Mumbai); Dr.
Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Dr. Geeta Kingdon shallow and compare dissimilar institutions, and sample sizes
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio are too small to provide an accurate assessment of the relative
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); merits of education institutions, each of which is unique in its
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta own right. Critics are also unanimous that media publications publish institu-
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama akore (London)
tional ranking league tables to rake in advertising revenue and that inevitably,
EDITOR there’s a quid pro quo.
Dilip akore Now in their tenth year, the annual EducationWorld India Higher Educa-
MANAGING EDITOR tion Rankings, are designed bearing these criticisms in mind. First, higher
Summiya Yasmeen education institutions are carefully divided into separate silos to ensure that
CHIEF SUB EDITOR apples with oranges-type comparisons are eliminated to the maximum extent
Sundar Anand possible. Thus Arts, Science and Commerce undergrad colleges are not only
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi ranked separately but sub-divided into private autonomous, government au-
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi) tonomous and private non-autonomous colleges.
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata)
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) Re sample size, the field surveys for EW preschools. schools and higher ed-
9500506102, Dipta Joshi (Mumbai) 9920243111 ucation institutions are conducted by the Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting
CHIEF EXECUTIVE & Research Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb. 2000), the highly reputed market research
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 and opinion polls company whose clients include several political parties. In
MARKETING its judgement, the sample size of over 4,000 faculty, senior college students
West: Tejas Pattni (General Manager) 9022487997 and industry representatives is more than sufficient, especially because sample
E-mail: marketing@educationworld.in respondents are carefully selected. “We interview a lesser number of respon-
South India: Poonam Shah 9731966373
North: Hannan Ahmed 9810302768 dents to forecast election outcomes in states with populations running into
millions,” says Premchand Palety, the founder-director of C-fore.
GRAPHICS
Suresh K. Apropos the charge that media publications tend to rake in high revenue
SUBSCRIPTIONS from issues publishing academic institutional rankings, it’s true because after
investing money and huge effort, we deliver a valuable service to school leav-
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EDITORIAL
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higher ed, are likely to become redundant in the near future. The National
Printed and published by Dilip akore on behalf Education Policy 2020 proposes that all undergrad colleges should gradually
of DT Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
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dustrial Town, Rajajinagar, Bangalore-44. Published summation devoutly to be wished.
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Editor Dilip akore.
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