{"id":70,"date":"2012-01-30T14:10:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T14:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-10-14T20:38:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T20:38:54","slug":"highlighted-article-mumbais-new-genre-international-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/highlighted-article-mumbais-new-genre-international-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlighted article: Mumbai\u2019s new genre international schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We found an interesting article around the international school community in the city of Mumbai.\u00a0 It discusses the business side of the international school, the big business sometimes international schools can be to a community.\u00a0 We have read before that the future of international schools are ones that are actually For-Profit ones.\u00a0 Why is that a fact for the future of international schools?<\/p>\n

Why might there be a resurgence of international schools in a community?\u00a0 It could be very much related to the new upwardly mobile middle class in a society like as in the case of Mumbai.<\/p>\n

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Another issue with a resurgence of international schools is finding highly qualified teachers to work at them.\u00a0 Hiring international teachers can be a big business as well with sometimes many international schools fighting over to get first pick at finding suitable candidates.<\/p>\n

Currently there are 9 international schools in Mumbai India on International School Community<\/a>.\u00a0 They are: American School of Bombay<\/a>, RBK International Academy<\/a>, Dhirubhai Ambani International School<\/a>, B.D.Somani International School<\/a>, Oberoi International School <\/a>, Podar International School<\/a>, \u00c9cole Mondiale World School<\/a>, NES International School (Mulund)<\/a> and Singapore International School (Mumbai)<\/a>.\u00a0 Overall, we have 39 international schools listed in India.<\/p>\n

According to the article, Dhirubhai Ambani International School<\/a> is the first of this new genre of international school.<\/p>\n

Highlights from the article:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although globally famous as resurgent India\u2019s commercial capital, synonymous with Bollywood, the stock exchange, premier corporates and fashion houses, perhaps because of prohibitive real estate prices, the island city of Mumbai (pop. 13 million) is less than renowned for quality education institutions, particularly its schools. The city\u2019s handful of vintage high profile schools such as Cathedral & John Connon (estb.1860), St. Mary\u2019s (estb.1540), Campion (estb.1943) etc have reigned as Mumbai\u2019s most difficult-to-access secondaries for half a century. Now somewhat belatedly, the city of gold\u2019s school education scenario is about to experience a radical makeover.<\/p>\n

During the past four years India\u2019s commercial and entertainment capital has witnessed the promotion of over 35 new genre international schools. Launched with massive budgets ranging from Rs.10-50 crore, Mumbai\u2019s latter-day five-star schools which offer fully-wired campuses bristling with hi-tech equipment and teaching aids, expat headmasters and affiliation with highly reputed offshore examination boards, are beginning to eclipse the city\u2019s vintage secondaries as the first choice of the new upwardly mobile middle class.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s first new genre international school the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, promoted by Nita Ambani (wife of Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries (annual sales revenue: Rs.110,886 crore) admitted its first batch of students in 2003. Since then on average in this city of fast-track private enterprise, ten new genre international schools have been promoted every year, dizzy real estate prices and land scarcity notwithstanding.<\/p>\n

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Indeed, somewhat belatedly some of Mumbai\u2019s most well-known business families the Goenkas, Podars, Somanis, and Ajmeras as well as other private entrepreneurs have hopped aboard the school education bandwagon. Among them: the Podar World School (estb.2004) and B.D Somani International School (estb.2006). Next year, two high profile international schools the Aditya Birla Group promoted New Era School (Cambridge) in South Bombay and Oberoi International School in Goregaon are scheduled to admit their first batches, and in 2009, industrialist and page 3 celebrity Yash Birla intends to open the doors of the Sunanda Birla International School on South Bombay\u2019s plush Napean Sea Road. According to the state government\u2019s directorate of education in Mumbai, over 90 proposals for inaugurating new schools have been submitted in the past two years (2005-2007) and are pending clearance.<\/p>\n

Coterminously with the boom in international schools, India\u2019s commercial capital, which is receptive to new ideas including education philosophies, is also witnessing the promotion of alternative schools which abhor conventional school education practices crowded classrooms, uniforms, competitive exams, and authoritarian, omniscient teachers. Started by four parents disillusioned with conventional schools, the Tridha School (estb. 2001) subscribes to the alternative education philosophy developed by Rudolf Steiner, the late 19th century Austrian philosopher and educator. Steiner schools aka Waldorf schools, focus on educating and developing the whole child, not just her intellect. In consonance with the Waldorf system, Tridha provides its students a stress-free environment striving for a balance between academics, arts and crafts, music, dance and environment awareness. Tridha is one of three Waldorf schools in India (the other two are in Hyderabad) with an enrollment of 233 students who pay annual tuition fees ranging from Rs.29,000-33,000.<\/p>\n

While Mumbai\u2019s international schools are perceived as rendering valuable service by offering students much sought after international certifications, all\u2019s not well with them. Most admit to being confronted with severe shortages of high-quality teachers, a pre-requisite of delivering the globally-reputed syllabuses and curriculums of the CIE, UK and IBO, Geneva. Given their academic rigour and broad-based life skills content, these international curriculums mandate stringent in-service teacher training and continuous skills upgradation programmes. Therefore recruiting, motivating and retaining best teachers has become a top priority of Mumbai\u2019s five-star school managements. And it\u2019s hardly a secret that most of them have signed up recruitment firms and headhunters to poach, purloin and entice the best teachers from schools across the country with unprecedented pay packages, including housing and other perks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a drought of quality teachers globally and a severe shortage of new blood in the teaching profession. Therefore international schools are experiencing considerable difficulty in recruiting and retaining high quality teachers. Indian teachers trained in India\u2019s new international schools are now being offered jobs abroad and tend to jump ship as soon as opportunity knocks. Therefore the attrition rate in five-star schools is very high. The only option for them is to hire expat teachers, but the government is creating hurdles to importing them. This is to India\u2019s disadvantage,\u201d says Capt. Raj Mohindra.<\/p>\n

If you would like to read the whole article, check it out here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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We found an interesting article around the international school community in the city of Mumbai.\u00a0 It discusses the business side of the international school, the big business sometimes international schools can be to a community.\u00a0 We have read before that the future of international schools are ones that are actually For-Profit ones.\u00a0 Why is that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[219,221,222,220,56,29,32,57,223,224,225,226,227,228,60],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlighted-articles","tag-american-school-of-bombay","tag-b-d-somani-international-school","tag-dhirubhai-ambani-international-school","tag-ecole-mondiale-world-school","tag-international-educators","tag-international-school","tag-international-schools","tag-international-teacher","tag-nes-international-school-mulund","tag-oberoi-international-school","tag-podar-international-school","tag-rbk-international-academy","tag-singapore-international-school-mumbai","tag-teach-in-india","tag-teaching-abroad"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2flVT-18","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":170,"url":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/highlighted-article-international-schools-in-mumbai-are-effected-by-new-regulation\/","url_meta":{"origin":70,"position":0},"title":"Highlighted article: International schools in Mumbai are effected by new regulation.","author":"ISCommunity","date":"December 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Are the costs of sending your children to an international school too much for families in the middle class?\u00a0 Are their too high in general for everyone?\u00a0 A new regulation in Mumbai is effecting international schools there as it has been applied to all schools in the area: to limit\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Highlighted Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Highlighted Articles","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/category\/highlighted-articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/img_8007.jpg?w=350&h=200&crop=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":133,"url":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/highlighted-article-indias-most-admired-international-schools\/","url_meta":{"origin":70,"position":1},"title":"Highlighted article: India\u2019s most admired international schools","author":"ISCommunity","date":"December 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Within the hearts and minds of the uninformed, there is considerable prejudice against India\u2019s small but growing number of new genre international schools. 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