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Cover Story EW INDIA SCHOOL RANKINGS 2020-21

solation that education, i.e, “diffusion
and sharing of knowledge — the pub-
lic good par excellence” – according to
best-seller French economist Thomas
Piketty (Capital in the Twenty-First
Century (2014)), has moved from
outer periphery to the near centre of
public discourse, if not to the top of
the national development agenda. In
EducationWorld, we believe that as
the country’s pioneer education news
magazine with a national readership
estimated at over 1 million, we have
played a substantial role in raising
awareness about the critical impor-
tance of developing India’s abundant,
high-potential human resource.
B E THAT AS IT MAY, THIS Palety (left) & C fore team: varying parameter weights

year because of disrup-
tion of the academic
calendar, business and ing academic reputation, competence Undoubtedly despite the con-
industry by the Covid global pan- of teachers, co-curricular education, straints of conducting this year’s sur-
demic, the 14th edition of our most sports education, infrastructure, cur- vey during Covid times, C fore’s 118
successful initiative — the annual riculum and pedagogy, leadership etc. field staff pulled out all stops to en-
EducationWorld India School Rank- They also interviewed parents in the sure that EWISR 2020-21 is the most
ings 2020-21 is presented in our 21st SEC ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ categories to rate detailed and comprehensive primary-
anniversary issue. Although the pan- the best government schools sepa- secondary schools rankings survey
demic necessitated postponement rately. The score awarded to schools worldwide. In the pages following, we
of EWISR 2020-21, Premchand under each parameter by sample re- present comprehensive league tables
Palety, promoter-director of the spondents were totaled to arrive at rating and ranking the country’s 2,300
Delhi-based Centre for Forecasting & every school’s national, state and city most respected day schools divided
Research Pvt. Ltd (estb.2000) which rankings,” says Palety. into co-ed day, day-cum-boarding,
has partnered with us to conceptualise Moreover, this year in a departure all boys and all-girls schools; govern-
and design the uniquely broad-based from previous practice after conduct- ment day and boarding schools, and
EWISR ab initio, is confident that the ing a prior mini-survey of parents, C special needs schools. Moreover this
2020-21 league tables are “robust and fore has assigned varying weights to year EWISR 2020-21 rates and ranks
uncompromising” and “indeed an im- some parameters while retaining the schools in an unprecedented 311 cities
provement” over past C fore-EW sur- highest weightage (200) for teacher and towns across India.
veys. competence. Hitherto, all parameters League tables of traditional/legacy
“As usual, our sample respon- except teacher competence were given boarding schools (co-ed, all boys, ex-
dents’ database for this year’s survey equal weightage (100). clusively girls), new genre interna-
comprised fees-paying parents in the “I am confident the EWISR 2020- tional schools (day, day-cum-boarding
SEC (socio-economic category) ‘A’, 21 is an unprecedentedly robust and and wholly residential) and budget
teachers, principals, educationists high-integrity survey which is truly private schools will be published in
and senior school students aggregat- reflective of informed public opin- our next (December 15) issue.
ing 11,368 individuals in 28 cities and ion,” says Palety, an alum of Punjab We believe the comprehensive EW-
towns countrywide. These sample re- Engineering College, Chandigarh and ISR league tables set out in the pages
spondents were interviewed over four Fore B-School, Delhi, who worked following will enable parents to choose
months by 118 C fore field personnel with ORG, India’s pioneer retail mar- the most suitable day schools for their
who persuaded them to award schools kets research firm for over a decade children and also provide institutional
in their regions — east, west, south prior to promoting C fore in the new managements insights into ways and
and north with which they are more millennium. C fore’s clientele includes means to continuously raise teaching
familiar — scores under 14 parameters the Congress party, Nestle and Hindu- learning-standards for the greater
of K-12 education excellence includ- stan Times. good of community and country.

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