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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

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N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla fter negotiating twists and turns, backstabs and betrayals, ups
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan and downs for 26 years in a society that foolishly pays scant
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, attention to education – especially public education — your
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma, Manjeet Kripalani (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas editors can justifiably derive some pride for having moved the
Pai (Manipal); Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); needle of public policy in all sectors of Indian education.
Rajiv Desai, Dr. Parth Shah, Dr. C. Raj Kumar
(Delhi); Vivek Shukla (Kolkata); Yogi Kochhar For instance, in the primary-secondary school sector our annual EW India
(Dharamshala); Shyama Thakore (London) School Rankings (EWISR, estb.2007) has evolved into the world’s largest and
most comprehensive schools ranking survey. The annual EWISR has had the
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Dilip Thakore socially beneficial effect of stimulating competition among schools and arous-
ing institutional pride while simultaneously enabling parents to choose the
MANAGING EDITOR most suitable schools for their progeny.
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Secondly, by continuous propagation of the importance of skills education
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR and advocating greater academy-industry cooperation and integration, Educa-
Sundar Anand tionWorld has generated widespread awareness that the 10 million graduates
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi streaming out of the country’s 52,000 colleges and 1,338 universities every
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi)
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) year, should hit the ground running.
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) Yet perhaps the greatest achievement of all is to have generated nationwide
9500506102 awareness of the importance of professionally administered early childhood
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