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Volume X XII No.5

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, S ince EducationWorld was launched as India’s pioneer sui
Krishan Khanna, Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, generis education focused news magazine on November 1, 1999
Kirit Mehta, Balkishan Sharma (Mumbai); Dr.
Ramdas Pai (Manipal); Dr. Geeta Kingdon with the mission to “build the pressure of public opinion to make
(Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Jeroninio education the #1 item on the national agenda”, it’s a matter of
Almeida, Premchand Palety (Delhi); Dr. Kannan
Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra Subba (Kurseong); pride and achievement that despite suffering fire, floods, riots,
Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. Achyuta Samanta the pangs of disprized love, insolence of office, the proud man’s contumely,
(Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore (London)
force majeure, acts of God and inevitable accidents, we have never failed to hit
EDITOR the newsstands on or near the scheduled date.
Dilip Thakore The utter mismanagement of the Covid crisis which is devastating the
MANAGING EDITOR economy and society makes it especially important for us to aid, enable and
Summiya Yasmeen advise our core constituency — educators, parents and students — on ways
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR and means being employed by the Republic’s most respected schools, col-
Sundar Anand leges and universities to ensure that children and youth continue learning in
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi spite of the ill-advised shut down of all education institutes since mid-March
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi)
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) 2020. Although children of the urban middle class have switched to digitally-
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) enabled online learning with a fair measure of success, the vast majority
9500506102, Dipta Joshi (Mumbai) 9920243111 from low-income and rural homes have been left in the lurch, to learn best as
CHIEF EXECUTIVE they can from an alphabet soup of one-way online and televised government
Bhavin Shah +91 9867382867 programmes. It’s a matter of deep regret that mitigating the learning loss of 80
MARKETING percent of India’s 500 million children and youth has received so little atten-
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E-mail: marketing@educationworld.in Nevertheless, for school-leavers making up for learning loss in the year
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North: Hannan Ahmed 9810302768 to carefully choose colleges which are in sync with their aptitudes and aspira-
GRAPHICS tions. As usual our league tables ranking India’s most respected ASC (arts,
Suresh K. science and commerce) and private engineering colleges are based on field
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