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a rain harvesting unit and solar student to ensure that no child is left
power panels generating 300 KVA ADMISSION & FEES behind and conduct regular remedial
of electricity. Campus highlights are classes,” says Sriram.
memorabilia of the Vijayanta tank Admission into classes I-IX is based The TMS management’s unwav-
of the 1971 war, RCL gun and a jeep on aptitude tests. Class X admis- ering commitment to delivering
used by martyr Param Vir Chakra sions are only under special circum- 21st century education grounded in
Havildar Abdul Hamid in the 1965 stances with permission from CBSE. relevance and innovation has won
Indo-Pak war, displayed at the en- For class XI, the admissions are the school numerous encomiums
trance to the school’s imposing main based on marks obtained in class and awards. Among them: the Brit-
block. ish Council’s International School
“In TMS, we attach great impor- X. The school admits boarders from Award 2018-2021, 5 Star Rating of
tance to character-building primary- class I onwards. the Noida-based Centre for Edu-
secondary education to nurture Fees (per year): Day scholars: Rs.1 cational Development Foundation
disciplined, knowledgeable youth lakh; boarders: Rs.4 lakh and Standalone School of the Year
who will mature into national assets. For further information, contact Award 2016 of the Indian Education
We have taken great pains to design 91-7777041041; e-mail: info@ Congress.
a balanced curriculum delivered themannschool.com; website: www. Despite the disruption of its mis-
through contemporary pedagogies to sion and education programmes
develop critical thinking, collabora- themannschool.com caused by the pandemic, founder
tion, communication and creative Joginder Mann is confident that
skills of our children. These are pandemic in March 2020 and TMS is fully ready to restart on-
supplemented with a wide range of government-mandated closure of all campus classes. “We are prepared
sports and co-curricular activities to schools and education institutions with all safety protocols and eager to
enable them to develop their sports countrywide, TMS has successfully welcome students back on campus.
and artistic intelligences,” says moved academic and co-curricular The silver lining of the pandemic
Srinivasan Sriram, an alumnus of programmes online. “Over the past is that TMS is now a contemporary
Madras University who taught at the year, we have provided intensive ICT-enabled school. This develop-
top-ranked Mayo College, Ajmer, for training to our teachers to master ment combined with our tradition of
three decades before he was appoint- 21st century information com- providing balanced all-round educa-
ed principal of TMS in July 2020. munication technologies to de- tion that develops sound mind, body
According to Sriram, following liver effective online learning. We and soul augurs well for the future,”
outbreak of the global Covid-19 carefully map the progress of every says Mann.

Durham University, UK

The third oldest in Britain after Oxford and
Cambridge, this low-profile university has
acquired an enviable global reputation for
higher education excellence

ITED IN THE EPONYMOUS HISTORIC CITY
of north-east England, the low-profile Durham
University (estb.1832) has acquired an enviable
Sglobal reputation for higher education excellence.
The Guardian University Guide 2021 ranks it #4 in the UK
while in the QS World University Rankings 2022 Durham
is ranked #82 worldwide. Moreover, for 16 subjects it is
ranked in the Top 100 of QS World Rankings by Subject
2021 with archaeology rank #4 and theology and religion
#5. Durham University vista: enviable global reputation
Founded 189 years ago, Durham is the third oldest uni-
versity in Britain after Oxford and Cambridge and like them Snow, Josephine Butler, St. Aidan’s, St. Chad’s, St. Cuth-
is a collegiate institution, i.e, every student is admitted into bert’s Society, College of St. Hilda and St. Bede, St. John’s,
one of its 17 colleges — Collingwood, Grey, Hatfield, John St. Mary’s, South, Stephenson, Trevelyan, University, Usti-

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