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Unsung
heroes, untold stories
by S.Giridhar, Head - Advocacy and Research
Deccan Herald, February 26, 2004
The Government
Lower Primary School in
Vaddarahatti has a single room housing all 5 classes; no toilets; no
play ground; no compound wall. Yet, children here are happy and have
mastered concepts and fundamentals prescribed for their age. More
2003
>> Union
budget 2003-04 in the context
of elementary education
by
Mandira
Kala, Member-Research & Documentation, Azim Premji Foundation
The 93rd Amendment Bill
(amended to 86th) passed in December 2002 guarantees free and
compulsory Elementary Education as a fundamental right to all children
in the age group of 6-14 years. More 
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Where
hope is born
by
S.Giridhar, Head - Advocacy and Research
The Hindu, February 8, 2003
When you see a child working remember that he/she should actually be in
school. And helping them do this is the M.V. Foundation and Azim Premji
Foundation.
If you take the National Highway No. 9 from Hyderabad and drive
south-east towards Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh you will hit Suryapet
in three hours. A town like most towns in India. On a street away from
the highway is the office of M.V. Foundation led by their coordinator
Venkatesh. More
2002
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Password
for Progress
by
S.Giridhar, Head - Advocacy and Research
Deccan Herald, November 22, 2002
Poojashree is a sparkling
and mischievous 12-year-old. Pratap, small for the same age is a bit
worldly wise and has a burning ambition to be a police inspector.
Nandini the tallest of the three is quiet and smart as well. All three
are from Class 7 at the Hemmanahalli Government Higher Primary
School.These are the protagonists of the story that we narrate here. A
story of rural government school children who use educational software
content on the computers in their school with great
ease. More
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Digital Divide: Concern for Equity
and Social
Justice
by C.
V. Madhukar, Head - Technology Initiatives, Azim Premji Foundation
Paper presented at a
workshop at NIEPA (National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration) in October 2002. More
>> Evaluation of
Social Service Delivery:
A Practitioner’s
Perspective
by C. V. Madhukar, Head -
Technology Initiatives, Azim Premji Foundation
Paper presented at the
conference organized by Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard
University,
USA, October 2002
The issue of evaluation
raises two further important questions: Evaluation by whom? Evaluation
for what? These critical questions need to be well understood, because
the answers to these questions can provide us with important political
and Programmematic insights in the delivery of the social
good. More
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Teachers
Education: Reformisms, Reforms and
Transformation
by
Sharad Chandra Behar, Former Chief Secretary, Government of Madhya
Pradesh and Board Member, Azim
Premji Foundation
Teacher Education scenario
today is a cause for serious concern. I am making this statement today.
It could have been equally true in the year 1959 when I had my first
close encounter with formal Teacher Education
programme. More
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Primary
Concern
by S.Giridhar, Head - Advocacy and Research
Deccan Herald, August 30, 2002
Universalisation of
elementary education simply put is “Every Child in School and every
child learning”. Universalisation of elementary education in the rural
context can be given a great fillip with the active involvement of
every member of the village community such as the parents, teachers,
children, village leaders, elders and the
youth. More
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Moin
is back in school
by
S.Giridhar, Head - Advocacy and Research
Deccan Herald, July 12, 2002
Chinnara Angala is the
bridge school run by the Government of Karnataka for children who are
out of school (or have dropped out) so that they are in a position to
join main stream schools when the new academic year begins in June.
In May, I visited the
Chinnara Angala [Bridge School] at the Government
Higher Primary School in Maddur. In a class of about 23 children that
day, one boy stood out. More
2001
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Elementary
Education and Information Technology ( IT )
by Dileep K
Ranjekar, Chief Executive Officer, Azim Premji Foundation
December 24, 2001
About 8 years ago, I was
amused to see a string of Wipro computers surrounded by many people, in
a departmental store at Churchgate in Mumbai. When I asked the counter
person what was happening, he informed me that they had started
providing the facility of computer based "horoscope". All that you have
to give is the birth time, date and place after which the computer was
able to dish out the horoscope, which was fairly accurate.
About
a year ago, when we floated inquiries, looking for 10th or 12th
standard pass local youths in about 20 villages where we wanted to set
up community learning centers in equal number of villages, we were
flooded with
applications. More
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The Illusory World Of Education : A
Case For Soul Searching
by
Sharad Chandra Behar, Former Chief Secretary, Government of Madhya
Pradesh and Board Member, Azim Premji Foundation
Education is an integrated enterprise.
Unfortunately the society at large as well as the Government look at it
in a segmented way – Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Higher
Education, General Education, Technical Education, Vocational Education
etc. More
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