By TCN News,
Bhopal: The Eastern Public School (EPS) in Bhopal was awarded with highly coveted Global Good Governance (3G) Education Award by Cambridge Analytica, UK. The award was conferred during a ceremonious program held last week in Istanbul, Turkey.
The annual 3G Education Award is conferred to honour path breaking educational initiatives for improving the quality of and access to Education that enhances the well being of students and promote education as a lifelong process with sustainable, long term benefits.
For being the world’s lowest fees IB World School, EPS was among the four unique institutions from Asia and Europe nominated for this prestigious Award. The other three nominees were Ancora Foundation Indonesia, Albukhary Foundation Malaysia and Turkey’s Sabahattin Zaim University. EPS, the winner, was selected through a month-long global on-line poll. Of the four contestants, EPS received the maximum votes.
Nail Olpak, the President of Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry presented the Award to Mansoor Durrani, the Founder & Chairman of EPS at a ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey last week. It was attended by a large number of political, social and pedagogical leaders from more than 30 countries, including the First Lady of Malaysia, Ms Rosmah Mansor, Princess Aisha Al Thani of Qatar, Malaysian Ambassador to Turkey Mr Amran Mohamed and Imam Malik Mujahid of US.
On receiving the award, Mansoor Durrani underlined the urgent need to restructure educational landscape. He said “The humanity is at dangerous crossroads. Massive economic disparities, political and social unrest are staring at us. No society is immune from these threats – including those that seem “peaceful and stable” at the moment. This situation has not come to pass overnight. It has been a result of decades-long neglect of how we schooled ourselves in the past. This is merely a harvest time of what we sowed”.
“We feel our efforts are now showing early signs of success in transforming our coming generations. And receiving the 3G Award is also a part of that evidence!” he added.
Umar Jaffar, EPS Director said “After having received The Best International School in India for Service to the Community Award last year in New Delhi, this 3G Award will surely put EPS and Bhopal on the International Education map. EPS develops crucial social and professional skills within spiritual settings which is a critical 21st century need. This award puts additional responsibility on us to keep improving our quality”.
Eastern Public School (EPS) has 450-odd students in all grades from nursery till class XII. The school also offers IB’s globally respected Diploma Programme after class X. The unique thing about this school is that as against private schools offering IB courses, the fees charged by EPS is very less, possibly one of the lowest in the world for IB course.
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