Enquire Now
At the turn of the millennium, Mr. Pramod K. Jain and his family set out to build a school unlike any then in the region. They spent two years in search of a clear purpose: visiting schools in India and abroad, meeting educators, and studying how children learn. Two questions guided that search.
Is it simply to help a student reach the all-important score that opens the door to university? If so, why are the most meritorious students not always the ones who go on to lead the most successful lives?
Many of the remarkable schools the founders visited, in India and abroad, had been built decades or even centuries earlier. A school created for the future, they reasoned, could not take its measure only from the past. It would have to look ahead, to the world its students would one day enter.
Their answer was the International Baccalaureate, and the reason went beyond its syllabus. The IB stood for what the founders already believed a school should be: one that values inquiry over memory, educates the whole person, and looks outward to the world. It was a meeting of convictions, and the curriculum followed from it.
In 2003 Pathways World School opened on thirty-two acres in the Aravali foothills as the first IB school in North India, and the first in the region to offer the IB as a continuum, from a child’s earliest years to graduation. The programme was new to most Indian families at the time. The decision set the course for everything the School has since become.
More than two decades and many graduating classes later, Pathways World School remains the flagship campus of Pathways Schools: the place where its standards were first set, and where they continue to be raised.
Pathways World School is led today by Mr. Prabhat Jain and his children, Mr. Pranay Jain and Ms. Pratiti Jain. Together they carry forward the vision on which the School was founded, and the questions that first gave it shape continue to guide its course.
With more than thirty-two years of experience leading businesses across education, infrastructure and mining, he brings to Pathways a particular focus on strategic planning and the building of enduring institutions.
His contribution to education extends well beyond Pathways. He was a founder of the FICCI Alliance for Reimagining School Education (FICCI ARISE), has served on the Governing Board of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), and has been a member of the management committees of several established schools.
Pranay is a business leader with over eleven years of experience across India, Europe and Africa. A graduate with highest honours from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, he has previously worked with Accenture, Ernst & Young and Prosiris Capital Management.
At Pathways, Pranay focuses on digital transformation, business development and expansion into new markets, helping strengthen the institution’s position as a leading provider of globally benchmarked IB education.
A graduate in Strategic Design and Management from Parsons School of Design in New York, Pratiti developed there her interest in creative entrepreneurship and innovation. Working with Audemars Piguet in New York, she saw how the story of an institution, and the experience built around it, earns lasting trust.
At Pathways she leads brand, communications and admissions, with strategic oversight across the School.
