Top Schools of India Ranking 2018

Thinking of any school means mentioning it in terms of the goodwill it enjoys and the legacy it has built over the years in the education fraternity.

Schools build a name for themselves in a region or State after delivering quality education, teachers, and impressive results for years. Besides education, the schools are also looked upon for imparting other essential training and skills as part of an endeavour to develop a generation which can be enabled to survive in global competitive.

Maintaining such standards over a period of time helps a school build up on its goodwill front in terms of perception of education stakeholders.

Why digitalLEARNING considered “Goodwill and Legacy” as a parameter for Top Schools of India Ranking – 2018?

As goodwill and legacy automatically reflect the quality of any school, it is among the first and foremost criteria of consideration for parents while selecting a school for kids. digitalLEARNING magazine considered following factors under Goodwill and Legacy parameter for acquiring detailed information of a school before ranking it.

Unbiased environment: A good school is disruptive of bad cultural practices. These include intolerance based on race, income, faith, and gender preference and apathy towards the environment.

Safe and secure environment: Safety is about how much one is protected. It is extremely important to provide the child with a safe and secure environment predominantly at the school level, as the child is most vulnerable to various forms of physical or mental abuses.

Good Alumni feedback: Alumni relations or engagement are a stand-alone activity which needs to be valued by every school. A good alumni network is very important for a school, as it is the best way to consolidate a genuine and influential report of school’s reputation

Largely viewed as the demonstrated ability to perform, achieve, or excel in scholastic activities, it has been identified with achieving high grades and better performance. But academic excellence is not just restricted to making good grades. It is the maximum development of a person’s intellectual capacities and skills.

Importance of Academic Excellence

Academic excellence is more than achieving top exam results. It’s an ability to master a commitment and dedication to learning and growing. Academic excellences help one to embrace knowledge and new experiences in everyday life and to apply this philosophy to an area of study.

Academic excellence and professional skills are pivotal in shaping up the future of a student but it is also important for schools to manage the holistic development. Society is going through a transition and for making the students future ready academic excellence in the current scenario has taken a holistic approach.

Achieving academic excellence is a process of both formal and informal education, which is a limitless and unending process to be enjoyed for a lifetime.

Why digitalLEARNING considered “Academic Excellence” as a parameter for Top Schools of India Ranking – 2018?

While laying emphasis on the overall develop of student, academic excellence features as a key part of it. The ability to understand, explore and embrace new concepts of knowledge and approaches makes or mar a student’s prospects. digitalLEARNING Magazine’s Top Schools of India Ranking – 2018 considered “Academic Excellence” as a parameter to acknowledge the best schools that have also adapted the best practices with an aim to ensure overall development of students without compromising on a student’s academic brilliance.

Increasingly, apart from teaching pedagogy employed and the overall brand value of school, the concept of future-ready infrastructure as exhibited by various schools has also emerged as a key factor in shaping a positive image of educational institutions.

Keeping this factor into account, we have analysed the utility of future-ready infrastructure and how it’s creating value for educational institutions across the country.

Under this, the following parameters were factored in.

Robust, Digitally-enabled Infrastructure

These days, harnessing the power of digital tools and techniques has become the new norm by schools across the country. Coupled with that, digital classrooms have transformed the whole concept of educational content delivery and have brought the very concept of “Show me and I understand” closer to reality.

Also with regard to instruction and assessment, nowadays, many schools are employing digital tools and software that enable teachers to assign assignments, keep a record on them and of each student’s performance, while at the same time enabling students to organise their activities, do their assignments and submit them to the teachers online too.

Personalised Professional Learning:Here we looked at the market ready curriculum of various schools and how effectively they are imparting professional training to their students. The higher the focus on the ‘Personalised Professional Learning’, the higher is the ranking accorded to it.

Why digitalLEARNING considered “Future-Ready Infrastructure” as a parameter for Top Schools of India Ranking – 2018?

In our analysis, given the increasing usage of IT in academic assessment and curriculum formation, we ranked the school in terms of its efforts towards digitisation of its curriculum, instructions and assessment. The more the digitisation of such aspects by any specific school, the higher is the ranking accorded to it.

A good learning experience can make any school a home away from home. The learning experience does not only include study of books but also participation in sports and other extracurricular activities.

Such activities help in students’ holistic development and lead to inculcating traits like team-work, leadership and creative thinking among them.

To benefit students and make them future ready, education sector is undergoing a paradigm shift from traditional teaching methods to innovative learning processes that can be understood in various ways.

Traditional Teaching: The Chalk-and-Talk Method

Today, teachers are more of a felicitator helping students to acquire knowledge using technology and other practical tools. The traditional chalk-and-talk method has been basically about passing the knowledge from one person to another. Today, audio visual tools, videos and infographics help students to learn a concept of any subject practically.

These formats act as an integrated multi-sensory interactive applications or presentations to convey information to students.

Innovative Learning Process: The New-age Learning:“Learning by doing” can be considered as the basis of all the practices on which various schools are focusing nowadays. Multimedia is the greatest enabler for all such methodologies.

Why digitalLEARNING considered “Learning Experience” as a parameter for Top Schools of India Ranking – 2018?

Traditional educational approaches have resulted in a mismatch between what is taught to the students and what the industry needs. Many institutions are heading towards the learning focused on finding solutions to problems. Such learning nurtures students who are creative, critical thinkers and analytical to solve problems.

digitalLEARNING magazine considered “Learning Experience” as one of the parameters for its Top Schools of India Ranking-2018 because the cognitive experience of a student should be fun rather than burden and boredom.

An organisation’s website is actually a window of its reputation and people associated with it. It also applies to the organisation’s social media or digital presence.

According to IMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India), 65 percent of the population prefers online search for educational content.

Offering a deep insight about any school, a website helps in deriving an impression of a school’s various activities and environment as well.

Institutes with more online or social visibility seem to enjoy a marked advantage in terms of being more accessible and being popular among students.

The website also lists schools’ key differentiators and how its key strengths stack up with the rest of the players. All this helps parents to decide about a school.

To analyse a school website, following features were considered:

Utility and User Friendly Website

Apart from analysing how user-friendly, aesthetically pleasing/ appealing a particular school website is, technical robustness is also taken into account. Further, the kind of information available on the homepage, placing of information about the school, and navigation styles of the website are also considered.

Social Connectivity and Community Building:It serves to check how effectively the institution is reaching out to potential students, professionals and harnessing the power of social media in networking with different edu-stakeholders including bolstering parental involvement.

Why “Online & Social Presence” was a parameter for Top Schools of India Ranking – 2018?

Just like a school’s edifice, it is the website that determines its introduction. Be it parents or students, they look at a school’s website as one of its original reflections. More and more schools today use the power of digital technology and reach out to the target audience, taking its surging importance digitalLEARNING magazine has considered “Online & Social Presence” as a key parameter of its “Top Schools of India Ranking 2018”.