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Candor Group of Schools: Fostering Excellence Through Holistic Education

Candor Group of Schools

In today’s vast landscape of educational options, it’s still a challenge to find schools that prioritize student’s holistic development. The era of rote learning is long gone; today’s learners seek environments that fuel their curiosity and ignite their passions. It is in the best interest of the students that they study in a school that nurtures them intellectually, stimulates their curiosity, and builds their passion.

One school that provides comprehensive facilities to its students to ensure that the future leaders receives nothing short of excellent educational resources is Candor Group of Schools. With campuses like Candor International School in Bangalore and Candor National Public School in Tirupathi, they aren’t just institutions—they’re communities committed to nurturing each student’s growth. As the authorized school for International Baccalaureate and Cambridge, the school focuses on the child’s holistic development as an inquirer, both in school and the world beyond. Its program provides an engaging, relevant, challenging, and significant education.

An All-round School

Candor offers an on-campus residential facility, with both weekly and regular boarding, for students from Grade 5 to Grade 12. Weekly boarders reside at the school from Monday to Friday and return home for the weekends, while regular boarders live on campus through the academic year. Its hostels are spacious and comfortable and are allocated on a shared basis (two to three per room) to encourage socialization and emotional and mental well-being.

The residential facility also houses a TV room and a common study area; dinner is served in the dining hall, which offers healthy and in-house cooked meals with a varied menu to cater to international and Indian boarding students.

Candor offers facilities like CCTV cameras installed at all strategic locations and Security – 24×7 Security personnel on campus. The school undertakes extra measures such as Background Verification for all staff, Emergency Response Team, Infirmary, In-House Nurse 24×7, Doctor on call, and many more—sports fields like Artificial Turf Tennis, Basketball, Football, and a hi-tech French swimming pool.

Aim Transcending Excellence

Candor International School aims to nurture lifelong learners who, through respect and intercultural understanding, technology, creativity, collaboration, and active community service, become citizens of the world to contribute and make a difference to their generation.

Candor International School also aspires to nurture young adults who will be catalysts for positive change both nationally and internationally, ensuring the protection of the environment and the preservation of ethical and moral values in an age of constant social, political, economic, technological, and environmental change. The vision is articulated through the core values of:

  • Love of learning through lifelong inquiry
  • Respect for diversity of people, faith, culture, and ideas
  • Concern for the community at all levels
  • Integrity of thought, speech, and action
  • Openness to adopting the best models
  • Transparency of standards and practices

 

Catalyst for Change

Dr. Suresh Reddy, Founder, and Chairperson (of Candor Group of Schools), possesses an extraordinary vision and unceasing optimism that helped him to turn adversity into opportunity when he was in the USA a decade ago. Dr. Suresh’s vision is to provide ‘International Education’ that is affordable, accessible, and holistic and teaches children real-world skills.

His inspiration has been the children themselves, and he believes they must learn more moral and ethical integrity and leadership skills for the children to succeed. They should help their parents to understand that the world is changing, and children must open up to new and innovative ideas.

Dr. Suresh says, “As the contemporary age of globalized village demands preparedness for future challenges, the conventional mode of schooling and educational practices cannot be promising enough. Hence, I felt that nurturing children to become global citizens is a necessity.

He continues, “I also realized that there is a rising trend where parents opt for an overall learning experience rather than just academic excellence.”

Dr. Suresh believes the path to success is easy only if one has principles like aspiration, desire, dedication, determination, concentration, and the will to learn. Candor takes the lead by teaching students beyond the textbooks and beyond classrooms.

Leveraging Holistic Student Outcome

Candor Group of Schools’ priorities begin with helping students feel that each one of them is known and valued as individuals in their own right and that school life has a meaning and purpose for them. This is achieved in various ways, the cumulative effect of which can profoundly influence students’ sense of well-being.

Candor provides students with reliable information and deepens their understanding of their challenges. Students are also provided with the intellectual skills required to reflect critically on these challenges and the influences society brings to bear on them, including peer pressure, advertising, social media, and family and cultural values.

Facilitating Superlative Educational Standards

Candor follows an international curriculum or has elements of international education woven into their teaching and learning experience. Candor has introduced the IB and Cambridge curricula for the students. The Boarding schools provide state-of-the-art student support facilities such as academic counselors, sports and art areas, safe and comfortable study spaces, and home-like living arrangements.

These together provide the same facilities as any international institution would to its students, and thus, the students gain by studying in vibrant and intellectually challenging setups. Even the teachers in a boarding school are selected from among the best in the country. Many have international teaching experiences, too, that bring a varied perspective to the pedagogy.

Ensuring Maximum Student Engagement

Teaching is not a spectator sport, neither is learning. Candor teachers keep their students engaged in their course or the classroom. Students can never learn enough just by sitting in the classroom and listening to their teachers, as well as spitting out prepared answers or memorizing pre-defined assignments.

Dr. Suresh states, “I feel that there is a need to introduce the modern teaching method, which is activity-based and centres around the learner’s mind, which involves them entirely in the process of learning. The learner is the main focus of our curriculum preparation and teaching in the modern teaching approach. In this manner, students actively engage in the entire process to increase their knowledge and develop their abilities.”

One of the key factors of a learning project’s success is engagement.

Candor’s student engagement model is:

  • Creative: Drama, Model United Nations, and Young Entrepreneurship Program
  • Clubs: Dance, Robotics, CANMUN, Gardening, Literacy, Science/Environment, Karate, Needle Work/Sewing, Music, Joy of giving, Labour Day, Community Service, and a few more are all part of the curriculum and real-world applications
  • Tap into student’s prior knowledge
  • Learn students’ interests
  • Organize classroom discussions
  • Design highly relevant learning activities
  • Integrate Modern Technology
  • Provide Timely and Regular Feedback in Terms of Progress

 

After all, a good learning pattern benefits both the teachers and students, and Candor brings positive outcomes for everyone associated with the course.

Glorious Achievements

Candor Group of Schools has bagged numerous prestigious awards to its name because of its pedagogical excellence. Some of them are:

  • Candor International School is ranked No.7 in India.
  • Ranked #2 in Karnataka & Ranked #2 in Bengaluru.
  • #4 in India | #1 in Karnataka & Bengaluru for Excellence In Blended Learning in the EducationWorld.
  • Grand Jury India School Rankings 2021-22.
  • India’s #1 for Academic Reputation (Education Today 2020-21).
  • #5 in India | #2 in Karnataka & Bengaluru | Category- ‘India’s.
  • Top 20 Day-Cum-Boarding Schools’ in a survey conducted by Education Today Ranked #1 in Innovation in Education and Best Curriculum Design by Education Today 2021-22.
  • Category- ‘India`s Top 20 International Schools’ in a survey conducted by Education Today.
  • Forbes Great Indian School (2018-19) & featured in 13th Anniversary Special, Forbes India, 2022.
  • Top International Day cum Boarding School (TOI, EW, Careers360).
  • Ranked #1 in India for Safety & Hygiene.
  • Ranked #3 in India for Campus & Architecture.

 

Empowering Learners for Tomorrow

Candor is committed to helping every learner develop as a whole person, fulfill their potential, and help shape a shared future built on the well-being of individuals, communities, and the planet. Candor’s curriculum teaching and learning already extend well beyond the classroom and will continue to do so. As education changes to suit the future’s needs, the school is responsible for empowering students to take risks, be innovative, and seize any opportunity thrown their way.

There are two factors to help and empower the learners. First is a personalized learning environment that supports and motivates students to nurture their passions, make connections between different learning experiences and opportunities, and design their own learning projects and processes in collaboration with others. The second is building a solid foundation: literacy and maths remain crucial.

“The change I would like to bring is to bridge the gap between academics and industry needs. I would like the primary objective of an educational ecosystem to pave the way for the holistic development of each and every student,” concludes Dr. Suresh.