CM Rise School, Kalyanpura, Jhabua named in top 10 shortlist for World's Best School Award for supporting healthy living.

• Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj named in top 10 shortlist for World's Best Schools Award for Environmental Action

• CM Rise School Vinoba, Ratlam named in Top 10 shortlist for World's Best School Award for Innovation • Kalvi International Public School named in Top 10 shortlist for World's Best School Award for Community Collaboration

• Mumbai Public School L.K. Waghji International (IGCSE) named in top 10 shortlist for World's Best Schools Award to Support Healthy Lives

Five inspirational Indian schools have been named in the top 10 shortlist for the World's Best Schools Awards 2024 – the highest number of any country globally along with the UK. The five World's Best Schools Awards, established by T4 Education in collaboration with Accenture, American Express and Lemon Foundation, are the world's most prestigious education awards and this year's winners will share the prize money of $50,000. CM Rise School, Kalyanpura, Jhabua, India A government school in Jhabua, which is integrating health education, nutritious food and community participation to lift Scheduled Tribe children out of poverty, has been named in the top 10 shortlist for the World's Best School. Awards to support healthy living.Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj, an independent kindergarten through secondary school in New Delhi, India, which tackles water scarcity and pollution through innovative projects such as hydroponics and biogas plants, has been awarded the World's Best Schools for the Environment award. Has been named in the top 10 shortlist for. Action.

CM Rise School Vinoba, Ratlam, a state kindergarten through secondary school in Ratlam, India, an icon of innovation in public education, originally established for tribal girls in an urban slum community hesitant to embrace formal education has been named in the top 10 shortlist for the World's Best Schools Award for Innovation. Kalvi International Public School, an independent school in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, that transforms lives through education and sports , which empowers students from disadvantaged backgrounds to excel, has been named in the top 10 shortlist for the World's Best Schools Award for Community Collaboration. ,

Mumbai Public School L.K. Waghji International (IGCSE), a state kindergarten and primary school in Mumbai, India, which has made significant progress in promoting healthy lifestyles among its students by eliminating junk food, has been named in the top 10 shortlist for the World's Best Schools Award. Has been named in.Supporting healthy living.

Vikas Pota, founder of T4 Education and the World's Best Schools Awards, said: “Until we address the urgent challenges facing global education – from learning loss caused by COVID to chronic shortages and rising teacher shortages, From welfare to recruitment and retention crisis – we will fail the next generation.

“Leading Indian schools like CM Rise School, Kalyanpura, Jhabua; Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj; CM Rise School Vinoba, Ratlam; Kalvi International Public School; And Mumbai Public School L.K. Waghji International (IGCSE), which has developed a strong culture and is not afraid to try something new, shows the difference it can make to the lives of many people. Schools everywhere can now learn from their solutions, and it's time for governments to do the same.”

Jill Huntley, Managing Director of Global Corporate Citizenship at Accenture, said: “Congratulations to Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj in India on being named among the top 10 shortlisted schools for the World's Best Schools Award for Environment Action 2024.Your important work brings hope that solutions to some of the biggest challenges we face today can be found. , Through the platform of the World's Best Schools Awards, your solutions will now inspire countless others from classrooms to administrations across the world.

“Accenture is proud to be part of T4 Education’s initiative to empower the next generation to tackle global sustainability challenges by increasing access to and use of the latest technologies and innovative practices.”

The World's Five Best Schools Awards – for community collaboration, environmental action, innovation, overcoming adversity and supporting healthy living – were established in 2022 in the wake of COVID to give a platform to schools that are improving their classrooms. And changing lives far beyond that. Walls is sharing its best practices to help improve education everywhere.The winners of the five awards will be selected by an expert judging academy based on rigorous criteria. Additionally, all 50 schools shortlisted for the five awards will also participate in the public voting, which began today. The school with the most public votes will win a Community Choice Award and membership of T4 Education's Best Schools to Work program to support teacher wellbeing and address the teacher recruitment and retention crisis.

The top 3 finalists for each of the five World's Best Schools awards will be announced in September 2024 followed by the winners in November. The winner of each award will be selected based on rigorous criteria by a judging academy comprising eminent leaders from across the world including academicians, teachers, NGOs, social entrepreneurs, government, civil society and the private sector.The prize of US$50,000 will be shared equally among the five prize winners, each receiving a prize of US$10,000.

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