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Time of India
02-07-2025
- General
- Time of India
School education improving in Maharashtra, show Centre's surveys; Kolhapur district shines, Mumbai ranks 6th in Performance Grading Index report
Kolapur: Maharashtra's school education improved in 2023-24 compared to the previous year, according to the Union ministry of education's Performance Grading Index (PGI) report for 2023-24. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Kolhapur district claimed the top spot in Maharashtra in learning outcomes in the Centre's PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan report released on Tuesday and it also secured the first rank among 22 districts in the state in Prachesta-I category, while Mumbai ranked 6th. In 2022-23, 13 districts in Maharashtra had achieved this grade. Nationwide, a total of 107 districts achieved the Prachesta-I grade in 2023-24, stated the report. Kolhapur district scored 345/600 in PGI 2023-24 placing it first in Prachesta-I category (meeting 51-60% of the set targets), followed by Satara, Solapur, Sangli, Ahilyanagar, Mumbai, Nagpur, Washim, Pune, and Jalgaon. The PGI report evaluates public schools based on 600 marks across five parameters — outcomes, classroom transactions, infrastructure, digital learning and governance. The Prachesta-I category is one of the nine grades in the PGI framework, indicating a decent level of performance and efforts towards improvement. Districts in this category are working towards achieving higher grades, such as Uttam and Utkarsh. Kolhapur ZP chief executive officer S Karthikeyan said, "We studied the shortcomings based on the marks obtained in PGI 2020-21 and 2021-22, and framed a time-bound programme for improvement. Mission Utkarsh was one such programmes that we implemented. We made the funds available for the repairs of the school toilets, buildings, ramps and set up purified water units," Among the five parameters, outcomes have a total score of 290, including learning outcomes, quality and teacher availability. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Kolhapur district received 161 marks in the outcomes, the highest in the state. Among the lowest-performing districts are Parbhani, Mumbai (suburban) and Gadchiroli in Maharashtra. There are 14 districts in the Prachesta-II grade for 2023-24. Karthikeyan said, "Centre's PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan report also showed Kolhapur topping in learning outcomes. Last year, a central team conducted random exams. Through Mission Utkarsh, we prepared students with mock tests, teaching language, math, and general knowledge via digital mode, and even taught them math-solving tricks." Kolhapur-based education expert Shankar Yadav said, "The eventual aim of the PGI is to find out the shortcomings, overcome them and ensure the students perform well at the end. The schools require infrastructure and various educational aids for effective learning. The activity-based learning needs a focus, as shown by the survey results. Schools from Maharashtra are performing well, but we need to inch closer to achieving Uttam and Utkarsh grades. " Kolapur: Maharashtra's school education improved in 2023-24 compared to the previous year, according to the Union ministry of education's Performance Grading Index (PGI) report for 2023-24. Kolhapur district claimed the top spot in Maharashtra in learning outcomes in the Centre's PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan report released on Tuesday and it also secured the first rank among 22 districts in the state in Prachesta-I category, while Mumbai ranked 6th. In 2022-23, 13 districts in Maharashtra had achieved this grade. Nationwide, a total of 107 districts achieved the Prachesta-I grade in 2023-24, stated the report. Kolhapur district scored 345/600 in PGI 2023-24 placing it first in Prachesta-I category (meeting 51-60% of the set targets), followed by Satara, Solapur, Sangli, Ahilyanagar, Mumbai, Nagpur, Washim, Pune, and Jalgaon. The PGI report evaluates public schools based on 600 marks across five parameters — outcomes, classroom transactions, infrastructure, digital learning and governance. The Prachesta-I category is one of the nine grades in the PGI framework, indicating a decent level of performance and efforts towards improvement. Districts in this category are working towards achieving higher grades, such as Uttam and Utkarsh. Kolhapur ZP chief executive officer S Karthikeyan said, "We studied the shortcomings based on the marks obtained in PGI 2020-21 and 2021-22, and framed a time-bound programme for improvement. Mission Utkarsh was one such programmes that we implemented. We made the funds available for the repairs of the school toilets, buildings, ramps and set up purified water units," Among the five parameters, outcomes have a total score of 290, including learning outcomes, quality and teacher availability. Kolhapur district received 161 marks in the outcomes, the highest in the state. Among the lowest-performing districts are Parbhani, Mumbai (suburban) and Gadchiroli in Maharashtra. There are 14 districts in the Prachesta-II grade for 2023-24. Karthikeyan said, "Centre's PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan report also showed Kolhapur topping in learning outcomes. Last year, a central team conducted random exams. Through Mission Utkarsh, we prepared students with mock tests, teaching language, math, and general knowledge via digital mode, and even taught them math-solving tricks." Kolhapur-based education expert Shankar Yadav said, "The eventual aim of the PGI is to find out the shortcomings, overcome them and ensure the students perform well at the end. The schools require infrastructure and various educational aids for effective learning. The activity-based learning needs a focus, as shown by the survey results. Schools from Maharashtra are performing well, but we need to inch closer to achieving Uttam and Utkarsh grades. "
Business Wire
05-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
AM Best to Join Panel Discussion at Annual Bermuda Captive Conference
OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AM Best Managing Director Maura McGuigan will participate in a panel discussion at the Bermuda Captive Conference, which will be held in Hamilton, Bermuda, from June 9-11, 2025. The panel session, titled, 'Strategic Decisions: Optimising Portfolios and Structures in the Captive Insurance Sector' will be held on Wednesday, June 11, from 10:45-11:30am. McGuigan and the other panelists will share their expertise on various captive structures, asset allocation and risk management. During the session, McGuigan will explore AM Best's proposed changes to its captive- and alternative risk transfer-related criteria procedure. The panel also will discuss the impact of regulatory changes and market conditions on investment decisions. McGuigan joined AM Best in 2016, and is responsible for the development, testing and review of AM Best's credit rating methodology and criteria, models and tools, and economic and country risk. Joining McGuigan on the panel will be Hugh Barit, chairman and CEO, Performa; Ebenezer Ikediashi, solutions strategist, HSBC Global Asset Management; Jack Meskunas, executive director, investments, Oppenheimer & Co.; and Kevin Yousif, president, Yousif Capital Management. AM Best is a gold sponsor of the event. The three-day conference, which will be held at The Fairmont Hamilton Princess & Beach Club, is Bermuda's largest and longest-running industry event and attracts more than 800 delegates. More information is available at the event website.
New York Times
24-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Performa 2025 Biennial Announces New Commissions
Every two years the nonprofit Performa Biennial commissions a global mix of established and up-and-coming visual artists to mount live spectacles all over New York City. Performa plans to announce this week that the eight premieres in this fall's edition, Nov. 1-23, will include a musical written by the French artist Camille Henrot, whose oversize bronze children's toys are on display through April 12 in Chelsea at Hauser & Wirth, in addition to a theatrical interpretation of a 1923 meeting between two trailblazing figures of the Harlem Renaissance, Alain Locke and Claude McKay, as imagined by the Los Angeles artist and writer Aria Dean. Henrot's musical will feature anthropomorphic animals and nod to commedia dell'arte; Dean's performance will use a virtual reconstruction of Tiergarten Park in Berlin. In addition to performing, the New York City-based video artist Diane Severin Nguyen is planning to cut an album with a new band, and Ayoung Kim, coming in from Seoul, will use close-quarters martial arts choreography to examine female relationships. The Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury will combine sculpture, movement and sound in a series of tableaux vivants, and Tau Lewis, the Brooklyn-based artist, will draw inspiration from well-loved music for her first live performance. Representing Lithuania for this year's 'pavilion without walls' will be the artist and musician Lina Lapelyte, who staged 'Sun & Sea,' a performance-opera about climate change on an artificial beach at the Venice Biennale in 2019. In New York she'll have a group of middle and high school students doing animal imitations. Performa also plans to announce that the Lithuanian duo Pakui Hardware, known for exploring the intersection of technology and the human body, will stage an artificial intelligence-led 'therapy session structured as a Classical Greek drama.'
