The Dharampal Fellowship Program is aimed at empowering affordable/budget private school teachers through training, networking sessions, and one-on-one interactions with education experts. It is an endeavour to provide teachers with the right techniques, skill set, and pedagogical tools for ensuring quality education to children in India.
The Centre for Civil Society has been running project Bolo English to promote the knowledge of the English language and speaking ability among students enrolled in low-cost private schools in India as this unfolds economic opportunities and accelerates social mobility.
Very few STEM research institutions in India have dedicated assistance mechanisms for efficient management of their research projects. The field of Research Management (RM) has emerged as a tool to create an enabling research environment in this context.
“Enabling Research through Research Management: The Case of India” is a timely report produced by the Centre for Civil Society (CCS) in conjunction with the Manipal Foundation. It addresses some important questions about research management support available at institutions for researchers in India.
A working paper based on a study from Delhi on the importance of private schools in reaching the poor and satisfying their educational needs.
Author / Edited by:
James Tooley and Pauline Dixon
A comprehensive analysis highlighting the lacunae in the current framework for 25% reservation for weaker and disadvantaged groups in unaided private schools, and providing inputs on effective implementation of the same.
Author / Edited by:
Shekhar Mittal and Parth J Shah
A comprehensive analysis of the reservation in private schools under the Right to Education Act, providing a seven-step model for 25% implementation.
Author / Edited by:
Shekhar Mittal and Parth J Shah
James Tooley's research is a journey into the history of Indian education, drawing comparisons between the shutting down of indigenous schools then, on Macaulay's recommendations, and the closure of budget private schools today under the RTE, for being “not good enough”. He explores the well-intentioned policies, and their faulty premises - that people cannot be trusted to make judgements about what is better or worse for their own children; and suggests that we take a leaf out of Gandhi’s book and resist the closures, to win our educational independence.