Liberty & Society Series 8: Education in India: Voice, Choice & Incentives
18 Oct 2022 1 Min Read

Who has what degree of voice and choice in our current education system? Independent learning achievement surveys such as the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2014 or Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) show that learning outcomes are very low in India, especially when compared with global standards.

Delhi School Voucher Project
Tue, 10/18/2022 - 14:33 5 Min Read

India 's first School Voucher Project was launched in Delhi on 28 March 2007 by the Centre for Civil Society as part of the School Choice Campaign. To demonstrate the power of school choice, we awarded school vouchers worth up to Rs. 3600 per year to 408 students in 68 wards of Delhi.

School Education
Thu, 10/06/2022 - 12:41 5 Min Read

India is home to over 25 crore students belonging to different regions, cultures, and socio-economic backgrounds. Our work aims to reform education policy to make it more responsive to the needs of each student and give parents the choice to decide what is best for their child.

Vijay Chandru

Vijay Chandru (Ph.D., MIT) is a computer scientist and a healthcare entrepreneur. Recognized as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, he has served on the WEF’s Industry Agenda Council on the Future of the Health Sector.

Venkatesh ‘Venky’ Narayanamurti

Venkatesh Narayanamurti is the Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Emeritus at Harvard. He was formerly the John L. Armstrong Professor and Founding Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Professor of Physics and Dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard. In his capacity as an American scientist, public policy leader and academic administrator, he has served on numerous advisory boards of the federal government, research universities, and industry.

Thomas Barlow

Thomas Barlow serves as a distinguished adviser on knowledge investment, research policy, and analytics to a range of technology-intensive companies, government agencies, and universities globally.

He is the author of three books on science and innovation, and publisher of the Barlow Report, a biennial resource for higher education institutions in Australia and East Asia. He has also been the science policy adviser to the Minister for Education, Science and Training in the Australian Government.

Professor Swaminathan Sivaram

Dr. Sivaram, a distinguished alumnus of IIT-Kanpur (MSc) earned his PhD in Chemistry and DSc (h.c) from Purdue University, USA and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio. Currently, he is an Honorary Professor and INSA Senior Scientist of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.

Sanjay Sarma

Sanjay Sarma is the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He is the Vice President Open Learning at MIT. He co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide.

Samir K. Brahmachari

Professor Samir K. Brahmachari completed his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He served as the Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which is the largest publicly funded organisation involved in scientific and industrial research with 37 constitutional laboratories across India.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Senapathy ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan is one of the seven founders of Infosys and served as the Vice Chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014, and as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from 2007 to 2011. In 2014, Kris co-founded Axilor Ventures, a venture capital platform for young entrepreneurs.

Kris is recognized as a global business and technology thought leader and was voted the top CEO (IT services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives. Kris was also selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, in 2009.

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