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Cover Story EW INTERNATIONAL DAY CUM BOARDING SCHOOLS RANKINGS 2021 22

INDIA’S MOST ADMIRED INTERNATIONAL

DAY-CUM-BOARDING SCHOOLS

Normatively sited on
sprawling campuses on
the outskirts of metros and
big cities, international
day-cum-boarding schools
offer globally benchmarked
curriculums, new-tech
enabled pedagogies, state-
of-the-art academic, sports
and co-curricular education
facilities and high-quality
teachers, including
expatriate faculty

ndia’s international day-cum-
boarding schools affiliated with IIS-Bangalore’s Lt. Gen. Arjun Ray & Sarojini Rao: reinvented curriculums & pedagogies
globally respected examination
Iboards are sui generis — in a of nuclear households with working campus in suburban Bengaluru, this
class by themselves. Normatively sit- parents. Cambridge International and IB-af-
ed on sprawling campuses bristling Ever since 2013 when the annual filiated K-12 school provides its 1,100
with state-of-the-art infrastructure EW India School Rankings were di- students from 33 countries a stimu-
on the outskirts of metros and other vided into three principal categories lating, globally comparable academic,
big cities, they admit day scholars — day, boarding and international — sports, co-curricular and performing
and boarders, providing globally and further sub-divided into ten sub- arts education.
benchmarked curriculums, new-tech categories to eliminate apples with or- “We are thrilled that IIS-B is ranked
enabled pedagogies, state-of-the-art anges comparisons, the international India’s #1 international school for the
academic, sports and co-curricular day-cum-boarding schools national tenth year in a row. This is validation
education facilities and high-quality league table has been dominated by that the IIS brand of innovative, en-
teachers, including expatriate faculty. the brilliantly conceptualised I n du s riched all-round education has been
While day scholars benefit from the I n te rn a tion a l S c h ool , B e n g a l u ru successful. I am especially happy that
excellent infrastructure and facilities (IIS-B, estb.2003). IIS-B is ranked #1 under the param-
built for boarders, the latter benefit by This year too, 11,458 sample re- eter of online education effectiveness
way of student body diversity. spondents polled by the Delhi-based and curriculum and pedagogy as over
In addition, flexible residential Centre for Forecasting & Research the past pandemic year, we have cre-
plans including weekly board and (C fore) have voted IIS-B India’s atively reinvented curriculums and
lodging options, allow students to #1 international day-cum-boarding pedagogies to deliver highly effective
spend weekends at home or with school with top scores under the pa- online learning. I also want to congrat-
friends and relatives. Given this wide- rameters of leadership, community ulate EducationWorld for introducing
ranging menu of academic and co- service, teacher welfare and develop- the CENTA Subject Competency Test
curricular options, it’s unsurprising ment, online education effectiveness, which our teachers enjoyed writing as
that international day-cum-boarding and curriculum and pedagogy across it tested their subject knowledge as
schools are becoming particularly all sub-categories of international well as application skills. Now as we
popular with the expanding number schools. Set within a 40-acre green reopen for all classes, we are focusing

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