World’s Best School: 5 from India in list

London, June 9: Five inspirational Indian schools were on Thursday named in the top 10 shortlists across different categories for the inaugural $2,50,000 World’s Best School Prizes, launched in the UK to celebrate schools worldwide for their enormous contribution to society’s progress.

SVKM’s CNM School in Mumbai and SDMC Primary School, Lajpat Nagar III in New Delhi have both been named in the top 10 shortlist for World’s Best School Prize for Innovation. Khoj School in Mumbai and PCMC English Medium School, Bopkhel, in Pune are among the top 10 schools shortlisted for the prize in the Community Collaboration category. The World’s Best School Prize for Overcoming Adversity includes Samaritan Mission School (High) in Howrah on its shortlist.

“With over 1.5 billion learners impacted by school and university closures, Covid has greatly exacerbated a global education crisis in which, even before the pandemic, the UN warned progress was already too slow to achieve universal quality education by 2030,” said Vikas Pota, Founder of T4 Education and the World’s Best School Prizes.

The winners of the World’s Best School Prizes will be announced in October this year at World Education Week, when a prize of $2,50,000 will be equally shared among the winners of the five prizes, with each receiving an award of $50,000.

Under the format, all 50 shortlisted schools across the five prizes will share their best practices through toolkits that showcase their innovative approaches and step-by-step instructions on how others can replicate their methods to help improve education everywhere.

THE WINNERS of the World’s Best School Prizes will be announced in October this year at World Education Week, when a prize of $2,50,000 will be equally shared among the winners of the five prizes, with each receiving an award of $50,000.