Bhubaneswar: City-based SAI International School has once again been adjudged the third-best school in India in the ‘co-ed day-cum-boarding school’ category by EducationWorld India for 2019.
SAI International Education Group-run SAI International Residential School (SIRS) in Cuttack has also been adjudged the best ‘co-ed boarding school’ in Odisha. The school was established last year.
SAI International Education Group founder Bijaya Kumar Sahoo, who was felicitated on Sunday for the achievement, congratulated the students, parents, teachers and staff for the recognition. “The awards give us the encouragement to work more, discover and invent new learning pedagogies for shaping our students as global leaders,” he said.
A statement issued by the group said the result was the outcome of a comprehensive survey carried out this year. The survey was undertaken by 122 field personnel from Delhi-based C-fore group. More than 4,300 interviews of educationists, principals, teachers and 7597 parents were conducted during the exercise. Besides, students from Class I to XII in 28 major cities and education hubs were interviewed.
In all, 14 parameters which were taken into consideration for the exhaustive survey. Some of them are:
- Teacher welfare and development
- Academic reputation
- Teacher competence (given double weightage)
- Leadership
- Infrastructure
- Life skills,
- Co-curricular and sports education
About SAI International School:
In recent past, SAI International School has been bestowed with several national-level awards including the prestigious D.L.Shah Quality Award by Quality Council of India (QCI), for two successive years. It also received the Emerging School of The Year Award 2019 at Global Education Awards 2019, Udaipur, and was listed among the Future 50 Schools of India by Fortune India successively for 2017 and 2018.
It also received the World Education Award 2018 for educational excellence and innovation in global collaborative learning; the SKOCH 2018 Award for achieving excellence through monitoring, among others. It also received the coveted ELITE Award 2018, based on a globally-bench-marked assessment designed by the alumni of Stanford, Harvard and Yale University.
As part its efforts to adapt the best educational global practices and provide wider exposure to the students, the school has partnered with UNESCO, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) for India and Bhutan, British Council, United Kingdom, Round Square, USA, AFS, USA and Cambridge University. SAI International Group’s learning partners include Microsoft, Google and Adobe.