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the school’s 173 students who wrote of education best practices including
the class X ICSE exam, 121 averaged ADMISSION & FEES innovative teaching, life skills devel-
more than 90 percent with the school opment, brain-based pedagogy and
topper ranked #2 nationally. And of Prospective parents should submit classroom management.
56 students who wrote the class XII admission applications online: www. Looking ahead, Saini expects the
school-leaving ISC exam in 2020, nldalmia.co.in online and offline blended education
the average score awarded was 82.17 Admission is based on parent/child model to become the new normal
percent. The school topper ranked interaction. and believes that the management
#3 nationally. Fees (annual): Rs.82,250 has developed blended learning sys-
Following the outbreak of the tems and assessment tools to make
Covid-19 pandemic, in line with the For further information call 022 the best of hybrid learning. “In con-
lockdown of all education institu- 42990000 (100 lines) or email: info. sonance with the National Education
tions nationwide since March 2020, school@nldalmia.co.in Policy (NEP) 2020, the school has
NLDHS has also been shuttered for drawn up plans to enhance digital in-
the past 16 months with children frastructure by setting up additional
learning from home. experienced significant learning virtual labs and intensifying usage of
“With the school management disruption during the pandemic. technology-driven pedagogies such
committed to readily experimenting On the contrary, we believe that our as AR/VR, conduct virtual field trips,
with new technologies enabled learn- students’ learning outcomes have lab experiments etc. We intend to
ing since the early years of the new improved during the lockdown,” says bridge the gap between offline and
millennium and our teachers using Saini. online learning and continue to pro-
digital tools and programmes since Teacher training sessions focusing vide a nurturing environment to our
2017, we have smoothly switched on new learning strategies as well as students to develop their unique in-
to using latest technologies such as skills enhancement are instrumental tellectual, social, emotional, physical
Google Classroom and Zoom. More- to NLDHS’ educational excellence. and creative potential in preparation
over, with our students also familiar Ongoing compulsory in-house teach- for lifelong learning and success,”
with digital learning, we haven’t er workshops cover a whole gamut says Saini.

Curtin University, Western Australia

Widely acknowledged as one of the sixth
continent’s premier teaching and research
universities, CU has established a stellar
reputation for exporting its higher education
around the world

ITED ON A SPRAWLING 286-ACRE CAMPUS in
Perth, the nearest Australian city to Asia, Curtin
University (CU, estb.1966) is widely acknowledged
Sas one of the sixth continent’s premier teaching
and research universities. In the latest QS World University
Rankings 2022, this 54-year-old varsity is ranked among
Australia’s Top 15 and among the Top 200 universities
worldwide. Notably, it is ranked #2 worldwide for its min-
eral and mining engineering programme in the QS World
University Rankings by Subject 2021.
Beginning its innings as the Curtin University of Tech- Curtin University vista: stellar reputation
nology and Western Australian Institute of Technology, CU
was conferred university status by the Western Australia engineering to over 50,000 students mentored by 3,000
parliament in 1986 and named after John Curtin (1885- faculty and staff.
1945), former prime minister of Oz. Currently, the univer- Within Australia, CU has established a stellar reputa-
sity offers a wide range of undergraduate, postgrad and tion for exporting Oz higher education around the world. It
doctoral programmes in its faculties of aboriginal studies; has established full-fledged offshore campuses in Malaysia,
business and law; health sciences; humanities; science and Singapore, Dubai, and Mauritius. In addition, it has signed

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