Ryan International Group of Institutions

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Ryan International Group of Institutions
Location
Mumbai
Information
School typePrivate sector
Motto"Excellence in Education & All Round Development"
Established1976 (1976)
FounderDr. Augustine Francis Pinto
School board CBSE, IB, CISCE, IGCSE, HSC, ICSE, SSC, GSEB
ChairmanDr. Augustine F. Pinto [ citation needed ]
DirectorDr. Snehal Pinto and Dr. Sonal Pinto
Campus DirectorGrace Pinto
CEORyan Pinto
Language English
Website www.ryaninternational.org

Ryan International Group of Institutions is a group of private educational institutions in India and other countries. The group was founded in 1976 by Augustine Francis Pinto. The group started its first school in Mumbai in 1976 and currently has more than 135 schools in India and other countries including significant locations in Maharashtra, Delhi-NCR, and Karnataka. [1] [2] The group collaborates with universities in the US to enhance education globally. [3]

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The group employs over 18,000 faculty members and over 30,000 students pass from Ryan schools annually. [4] Students of Ryan International Schools are commonly known as "Ryanites." [5]

Origins

In the initial attempts to set up an English-medium school for the middle class in Mumbai, Dr. Pinto, the founder-promoter and chairman of RIGI, set up a small school in 1974 that failed to take off. However, he and Grace Albuquerque, a teacher at that time, eventually established St. Xavier's High School in Borivali East, a Mumbai suburb, with the help of Anthony Silva Pinto, the new head of OLPS School, Chembur. [4] [6]

Ryan International School lists

Ryan International School, Malad

Ryan International School has two schools in Malad under CBSE and ICSE affiliations. The ICSE school in Malad was awarded the Quality School Governance Accreditation by the National Accreditation Board for Education and Training in 2014. Sonal Naik is the principal of the school. [7]

Ryan International School, Noida

Ryan International School Noida was established in 1992 in sector 39, Noida.

Ryan International School, Greater Noida

Ryan International School Greater Noida was established in 2003 and had 3,200 students as of 2019. [8]

Ryan International School, Nerul

Ryan International School is a school in Nerul which is affiliated with the ICSE. It was established in 2005 and has won over a thousand awards in India and abroad for excellence in education and social service. Janet Aranha is the principal of the school. [9]

Ryan International School, Bannerghatta

RIS Bannerghatta established in 2007 was inaugurated by the then Governor of Karnataka it is affiliated to ICSE and has won several awards in the field of education in India. Preeti Seth is the principal of the school

Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj

Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj established in 1991, The school located in Vasant Kunj, South Delhi is affiliated to the Central Board Of Education and caters to students from Preschool to class 12.

Ryan International School, Kundalahalli

Established in 1999, Ryan International School, Kundalahalli is a leading co-ed educational institution in Bengaluru. The school is helmed by Principal Vidya Guruprasad

Academics

In 2019, students of Ryan International Group secured top ranks at the district, school and national levels in both the ICSE and CBSE formats. [10]

The schools in Sharjah, Sanpada, Mangaluru, Bengaluru, and Abu Dhabi have adopted the Tata ClassEdge technology. [11]

Awards and recognition

Management

Extracurricular activities

International Children's Festival of Performing Arts

The school holds a yearly International Children's Festival of Performing Arts. [21] The 14th occurrence of this event was held in January 2016 in Mumbai with the theme 'Celebrating Diversity.' The event attracted over 40,000 students including notable individuals from India and 17 different countries. [22] [23] [24]

Controversies

Tax evasion

The school has been accused of tax evasion by means of 'trusts' that students' parents have been asked to pay on various occasions. In February 2007, parents filed a complaint against RIS, Ludhiana for fraudulently collecting around Rs 4 crore from them by way of donations (over and above roughly Rs 10 crore for tuition and admission fees). [25]

The founders have been accused of money laundering by investing in a dubious finance company and manipulating its share price illegally. [26]

Pradyuman Thakur murder case

On 8 September 2017, Pradyuman Thakur, a student at the Ryan International School in Gurugram, was murdered. The killing was planned by a class 11 student in order to postpone exams and parent-teacher meetings. [27] Other students of the same school and their parents told that violence and bullying are common at the school [28] and that school authorities act to hide the incidents rather than take steps to control them. [29] After this murder case the principal, Neerja Batra, was suspended and there was a case filed against Ryan Group and Pinto family. [30]

Alumni

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