The Hindustan Times has today published an excellent article about the latest exam results of the Maharishi School in Skelmersdale on their UK website. The article appears with a colour picture of all the pupils and teachers at the school.The Hindustan Times of one of the main media read by the Asian community in India and all around the world. There are also likely to be further reports on the Maharishi School in the coming days in major UK media - we will keep you posted.

The following is the web address for the article, and the full text is reproduced below. http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5983_149479,00430005.htm

A unique primary and secondary school in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, is regularly placed at the top of the county and national school league tables.

This school, which teaches the usual national curriculum, but adds the programmes of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Consciousness-Based Education, including Transcendental Meditation (TM), is notching up remarkable achievements, that other schools can only dream of.

With a total of 93 students the school saw all its GCSE pupils gaining more than five A* to C grades.

"A programme of meditation has helped the Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment hold its position at the top of the table for the 7th time in eight years," claim its management. Even the Liverpool Daily Post, after reviewing the newly released British government league table figures for schools, said that. It also carried a full-page colour photograph of pupils practising Transcendental Meditation in their classroom.

"Meditation is built into the school day and the children take their pulse at regular intervals to monitor their nervous system. Phil Mitchell, school bursar, said: "The pupils have achieved these grades as a result of hard work in a stress-free learning environment. I hope they will continue to achieve their full potential through Transcendental Meditation.'"

The ongoing academic successes highlighted in the article, and other regional press coverage, is all the more extraordinary in a non-selective school. The Maharishi School heads the Lancashire league tables this year, and is in the top percentages of all British schools.

Head teacher Derek Cassells explained the principles of Maharishi's Consciousness-Based Education, and emphasised that the results don't just stop with examination grades. He was proud of the academic achievements, he said, but added that "in many ways the most valuable prize for the children from Maharishi's system of education, and the most fulfilling result for the parents, is the way that it allows pupils to develop self-confidence, emotional maturity, creativity, a sense of purpose, inner happiness - all the more elusive qualities that are prized by conventional educators, but which are not an automatic result of conventional education, which fails to fully develop the brain of the student."

Creating a peaceful society and a peaceful world is perfectly feasible, Cassells explained, if Maharishi's system of education becomes widespread - and many British educators are already intrigued and impressed by the success of the Maharishi School.

Cassells told the media that he emphasises to educators that Consciousness-Based Education "can be adapted to any school environment. Every school has things it values about itself, about the teachers, about the pupils - and all those values are maintained. Consciousness-Based Education enhances the individual, so a school doesn't have to change being the school it is, it can become more the school it wants to be. All that's needed is a few minutes of Transcendental Meditation morning and evening, and some study each week of the principles of Maharishi's Science of Creative Intelligence."