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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XI No.12

BOARD OF ADVISORS I nitiated in 2007, the annual EducationWorld India School Rank-
ings (EWISR) survey which rates and ranks the country’s most
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan, Anand reputed primary-secondary schools segregated into three main
Sudarshan (Bangalore); Dr. F.C. Kohli, Mala categories — day, boarding and international and ten sub-cate-
Ramadorai, Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto,
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, gories: Day (boys, girls, day-cum-boarding and co-ed); Boarding
Kirit Mehta (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); (boys, girls and co-ed), and International (day, day-cum-boarding and resi-
Dr. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. dential) — to ensure level playing fields, has since evolved into the world’s
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida, Premchand Palety
(Delhi); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); Sanjeev Bolia largest and most comprehensive schools ranking survey. Unlike league
(Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta (Bhubaneswar); tables in Western countries which rank schools according to their students’
Shyama Thakore (London)
average scores in major school-leaving board exams, the annual percep-
EDITOR tions-based EWISR rates schools under 14 diverse parameters of primary-
Dilip Thakore secondary education, including academic reputation. The scores awarded
MANAGING EDITOR by sample respondents (over 11,000 parents, educators, principals, teachers
Summiya Yasmeen and senior students) under each parameter, are totalled to rank schools in
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR each sub-category. Moreover, average scores in school-leaving examinations
Sundar Anand of national boards are included in the league tables, if provided.
Paromita Sengupta, Gopi Chand N, (Bangalore), With the passage of time and rising popularity of the annual EWISR,
Autar Nehru (Delhi) 9868256512, Baishali
Mukherjee (Kolkata) 9836491981, Shivani we have been subjected to pressure to also rate and rank schools in other
Chaturvedi (Chennai) 9500506102, Dipta Joshi categories. Therefore in recent years, we have widened our coverage to rate
(Mumbai) 9920243111 and rank the country’s most reputed government day and boarding schools,
CHIEF EXECUTIVE schools for special needs children, and budget private schools in the annual
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 EWISR. Moreover to acknowledge and felicitate pre-primaries aka pre-
MARKETING schools and higher education institutions, for the past decade we have been
West: Tejas Pattni (General Manager) 9022487997 publishing dedicated surveys rating and ranking them separately.
E-mail: marketing@educationworld.in However with the number of primary-secondary schools in the annual
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South India: S. Vijaya Lakshmi 98456 80696 EWISR 2020-21 survey (conducted ab initio by our trusted partner, the Del-
Poonam Shah 9731966373 hi-based, highly-reputed market research and opinion polls company Centre
North: Hannan Ahmed 9810302768
for Forecasting Pvt. Ltd (C fore, estb.2000)) having increased exponentially
GRAPHICS to over 2,500, we have had to spread the EWISR 2020-21 league tables over
Suresh K.
our November and December issues. Moreover, because of the disruption
SUBSCRIPTIONS
caused to schools and our own schedules by the Covid-19 pandemic, we are
Ajay Kumar: 9108225694/ obliged to include abridged versions of the hitherto independent Preschools
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E-mail: editorial@educationworld.in Like I said, the annual EWISR is the world’s largest and most comprehen-
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