World Best School Prizes: Five Indian schools shortlisted

Five Indian schools have been shortlisted for the inaugural $250,000 World’s Best School Prizes.

World’s Best School Prizes has been founded in the United Kingdom to honor educational institutions around the world for their significant contributions to society’s advancement.

CNM School of SVKM in Mumbai and SDMC Primary School Lajpat Nagar III in New Delhi have been among the top ten shortlisted institutions.

The top 10 schools shortlisted for the honor in the Community Collaboration category include Khoj School in Mumbai and PCMC English Medium School, Bopkhel in Pune.

Samaritan Mission School in Howrah is shortlisted for the World’s Best School Prize in Overcoming Adversity.

T4 Education, a UK-based digital media platform, developed the World’s Best School Prizes in collaboration with Accenture, American Express, Yayasan Hasanah, Templeton World Charity Foundation, and the Lemann Foundation.

Community Collaboration, Environmental Action, Innovation, Overcoming Adversity, and Supporting Healthy Lives will each have three finalists announced later this year. The winner in each category will be determined by the Judging Academy, which is comprised of notable leaders from throughout the world, following a public advisory vote.

The winners of the World’s Best School Prizes will be announced in October during World Education Week, with a prize pool of $250,000 split equally among the five winners, each receiving a $50,000 prize. All 50 chosen schools for the five prizes will share their best practices through toolkits that display their unique ideas and step-by-step instructions on how others can imitate their methods to help enhance education everywhere, according to the framework.

All 50 shortlisted schools across the five prizes will share their best practices through toolkits that display their unique ideas and step-by-step instructions on how others can copy their methods to help enhance education everywhere, according to the framework.