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Cover Story EW INDIA SCHOOL RANKINGS 2021-22

company. However, less than 15 per- Raj Mohindra Consultants, one of the Mahindra United World College, Pune
cent of the 3,000 schools included in country’s most respected education (estb.1999) — and whose client list in-
EWISR 2021-22 wrote the CENTA consultancy firms. cludes several nationally top-ranked
test. In the prevailing circumstances, “The annual EWISR surveys have schools.
the EWISR survey methodology is the conferred a huge public benefit by Against this backdrop, in the con-
best available option. These annual generating healthy competition be- cluding Part II of EWISR 2021-22, we
surveys are pragmatic and their great tween schools to strive for continuous present detailed league tables rating
merit is that we have ideated over a improvement under 14 parameters of India’s most admired legacy Board-
dozen benchmarks for holistic school primary-secondary education excel- ing schools (co-ed, all-girls and boys);
education, and generated extensive lence. Every school including the top- International (day, day-cum-boarding
nationwide awareness of the vital im- ranked has scope to improve under and fully residential) schools affiliated
portance of well-rounded, balanced one parameter or another. Criticism with offshore international examina-
education,” says Palety. of the perceptions-based methodology tion boards; Budget Private schools
Palety’s defence of the annual EW- of EWISR is unwarranted. Facts and and pre-primaries.
ISR which during the past 14 years data-based methodology is impos- Moreover, in the year of the Covid
since it was instituted has aroused sible in a large universe of 1.5 million pandemic during which all schools
huge response within the K-12 educa- schools. The rankings methodologies countrywide were under government
tion stakeholders community — the utilised for evaluating a few thousand imposed lockdown for over 60 weeks,
EWISR Awards function staged an- universities cannot be used to rate and two new parameters — ‘online educa-
nually at the Leela, Gurugram, Delhi rank schools operating in a much larg- tion effectiveness’ (maximum score:
NCR attracts over 1,000 of the coun- er universe,” says Mohindra, whose 150) and ‘mental and emotional well-
try’s most reputed K-12 education firm was instrumental in establishing being services’ — have been added
leaders — is seconded by R oh it M o - India’s first International Baccalaure- replacing ‘pastoral care’ and ‘sports
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h i dra , director of Mumbai-based ate (Geneva)-affiliated school — the education’.

EWISR 2021-22 COUNTRYWIDE SURVEY

Metro cities

Tier l, ll, lll & lV cities
(351 cities)

CENTA Test (112 cities)

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