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the class XII board exam averaged ADMISSION & FEES Board, White Board, Padlet, AWW
over 90 percent. App, Chat Bot, WACOM, Microsoft
In keeping with the promoters’ Indus Valley World School is a Make Code Editor, Kahoot Quizzes,
mandate to provide students well- CBSE-affiliated K-12 co-ed day Bamboo Paper App, Loopy & Google
rounded education, participation in school. Admissions into nursery are Lenses, and Kami to ensure teach-
sports and games and co-curricular through an interview process. From ing-learning continuity.
activities is compulsory. Facilities are class III onwards, admissions are With restart of in-school edu-
provided for playing cricket, basket- against vacancies, and from class V cation still uncertain, the IVWS
ball, football, billiards, swimming, onwards, writing an entrance exam management and faculty have
lawn tennis, badminton, squash, is mandatory. developed robust hybrid teaching-
karate and chess. Co-curricular edu- Tuition fee: Rs.9,500 per month. learning capabilities. “Our teachers
cation facilities include music and For further information, contact Indus are regularly trained to use new
dance, and yoga halls with students Valley World School, Tel: 033- digital technologies through capacity
encouraged to become active mem- 71205250; e-mail: admin@ivws.org building workshops. Moreover, we
bers of any of the 21 student clubs for have budgeted remedial classes for
gardening, debate, quiz, mime, choir education has been under lockdown children who fall behind. We believe
singing, theatre, nature, pottery, cu- for 16 months. However, online edu- our hybrid teaching-learning system
linary, photography, film making & cation of all students was initiated which is being continuously up-
videography. In 2020, the school was in April, 2020 and has continued graded, will develop creativity, com-
certified as a ‘Fit India School’ by the since. Apart from using audio-visual munication, collaboration, critical
Union ministry of youth affairs and aids such as PowerPoint presenta- thinking and problem solving skills
sports. tions and educational videos from of our students, and prepare them
Following directives of the Central YouTube, IVWS teachers are em- for 21st century higher education and
and state governments, on-campus ploying innovative tools such as Jam workplaces,” says Prasad.

University of Dundee, Scotland

Currently UoD’s ten schools offer a range of
undergraduate and postgrad programmes to
15,000, including 3,000 international students
from 145 countries worldwide

COTLAND, A COUNTRY (POP.5.5 MILLION)
with its own parliament, which with England,
Wales and Northern Ireland is known as the
SUnited Kingdom, has 15 well-reputed universi-
ties — Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews and Aberdeen
among others. To this list, add the University of Dundee
(UoD, estb.1967) which over the half century past, has ac-
quired an excellent reputation for teaching and research. A
public research university, UoD is ranked #23 in the UK in Serene UoD campus: 3,000 international students, 145 countries
The Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021,
#28 in the Complete University Guide 2022 and #31 in the St. Andrews for several decades. Following significant ex-
Guardian University Guide 2022. Moreover, it is ranked pansion, it was conferred independent university status in
#33 among British universities for ‘overall student satisfac- 1967 by royal charter.
tion’ in the National Student Survey 2021. Currently, UoD’s ten schools — business, dentistry, edu-
Founded as an undergrad college in 1881 with a hand- cation and social work, humanities, life sciences, medicine,
some donation from the Baxter family of textile manufac- health sciences, science and engineering, social sciences,
turers, UoD was a constituent college of the University of and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design —

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