New Delhi, Delhi, September 18, 2011 / --To felicitate the country's top Day, Boarding and International Schools, which topped the EducationWorld-C fore Survey of India's Most Respected Schools 2011, EducationWorld hosted a celebratory Awards Dinner Nite on September 17 at The LaLit, New Delhi attended by the principals, trustees, promoters and teachers of India's most respected K-12 schools.
Every year in September EducationWorld publishes its annual EW-C fore Survey of India's Most Respected Schools league tables rating and ranking India's top schools on 14 parameters including academic reputation, faculty competence, leadership quality, sports education, disabilities friendliness, community services etc (see www.educationworldonline.net). The all-India survey which polled 2,044 parents, educationists, teachers and principals across 16 cities was conducted by the well-known Delhi-based market research and opinion polls agency, C fore.
The The Shri Ram School, Delhi, Rishi Valley School, Chittoor and the Woodstock School, Mussoorie were rated India's most respected day, boarding and international schools respectively in the EducationWorld-C fore Schools Survey 2011.
Among the school principals and education leaders who received awards on the occasion were Praveen Vasisht of The Lawrence School, Sanawar; Roy Robinson of Bishop Cotton School, Shimla; Komal Sood, Manika Sharma and Mark Parkinson of The Shri Ram School, Delhi; Jyoti Bose of Springsdales School, Delhi; D.R. Saini of DPS RK Puram; Philip Burret of The Doon School, Dehradun, Lt. Gen. Arjun Ray of the Indus International School Bangalore; and Valli Arunachalam of Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, Chennai.
Speaking on the occasion Mark Parkinson, Director, Sri Ram School expressed delight that The Shri Ram School had been voted India's top-ranked day school. "At a deeper level our consistently high ranking of the past four years is indicative of a shift in the public mindset in favour of quality holistic education. Parents are now well aware that the quality of teachers and their continuous in-service training and development is critical to academic excellence. Therefore it's very satisfying that The Shri Ram School has been ranked the country's No.1 school on the parameters of teacher welfare and development and competence of faculty," said Parkinson.
Under a new category of awards - Best in States - top-rated day schools in 22 states were conferred with awards. Among them: DAV Public School, Chandrashekarpur (Orissa); DPS Jammu (Jammu & Kashmir); St. Michael's School, Patna (Bihar); Sharda Vidya Mandir (Goa); St. John's High School (Haryana); Sacred Heart Convent, Jamshedpur (Jharkhan); DPS, Bhilai (Chattisgarh) and Modern High School, Kolkata (West Bengal). All the top-ranked schools were awarded trophies and certificates.
Among the top educationists from India and abroad present on the occasion were Jeremy Williams, the Singapore-based chief academic officer of Knowledge Universe, one of the world's largest private education companies with over 400,000 students and 50,000 employees worldwide; Sanjeev Sehgal, chief financial officer of Pearson India; Premila Paulraj, territory manager of EdExcel, UK's largest school leaving certificate examination certification board; and Sanjiv Pande, managing director, SMART Technologies, the world's leading provider of technology enabled learning solutions and global leader in interactive whiteboards.
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About EducationWorld -
EducationWorld bills itself as India's sole education news and analysis monthly magazine reporting on the entire education spectrum from kindergarten to Ph D. Promoted in 1999 with the mission to "build the pressure of public opinion to make education the no.1 item on the national agenda", EW is currently celebrating 11 years of uninterrupted publishing and claims a national readership of 1 million. Its promoter editor is Dilip Thakore, the former founder editor of Business India and Businessworld.
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