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RTE a smoke screen for India's real education problems

Vishy KurugantiJuly 10, 20124 mins

Earlier today, I caught a tweet with the intriguing title RTE: The Unasked Question. Glad I clicked on it because the linked article (by Jaideep Prabhu) made for a very interesting read. Prabhu is a…

Acara Summer Institute 2012 – Nine Impressive Teams

Vishy KurugantiJuly 02, 20124 mins

Acare Institute 2012 – Students & Faculty (Pic: courtesy their Facebook page) [Editor’s Note: Last Friday I attended the final presentations of nine teams that made it to Acara Summer Institute 201…

Samhita Academy: trailblazing the RTE path years before it became a law

Vishy KurugantiJune 17, 20125 mins

[Editor’s Note: Back in October, 2011 I visited the campus of an innovative Bangalore school (Samhita Academy) and learnt about Samhita’s unique model from Aparna Goenka. Aparna (Infosys alumnus) is…

Ten Tips for Indian Edupreneurs

Vishy KurugantiMay 07, 20124 mins

Primary school education in rural India (Pic: courtesy technorati.com) Aspiring MBA students in urban India (Pic: courtesy mbaindia.net) [Editor’s Note: Srikanth Jadcherla is the CEO of California and…

PPP in Education and other Insights from Krupakar Manukonda

Vishy KurugantiApril 04, 20124 mins

Most schools in India DO NOT look like this! (Pic: courtesy dooneducation.com) Yesterday, just as I was getting off the Twitter grid, saw this tweet from Nitin Pai: https://twitter.com/#!/acorn/status…

UC Berkeley Brings Continuing Education to India via Partnership with Seer Akademi

Vishy KurugantiDecember 18, 20114 mins

Logo courtesy: seerakademi.com Logo: courtesy extension.berkeley.edu Last week I was privileged to attend a special event on continuing education hosted by Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA). The…

Peer Instruction Lessons from a Top Harvard Physics Professor

Vishy KurugantiDecember 15, 20115 mins

Last week I attended an interesting event on continuing education hosted by the Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA). Speakers at the event included the vice-chancellors of UC Berkeley and Gujarat…

Global Online Education Trends and its import for India

Vishy KurugantiNovember 28, 20115 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is the first of a 2/3-part series on online education trends and what it means for India. Part 2 will look at trends in the online high school and higher education verticals.] A…

Operation Magic Carpet and what it can teach us about reengineering education

Vishy KurugantiOctober 06, 20112 mins

Ethiopian Immigrants Waiting In A Camp Before Immigrating To Israel (Pic: courtesy www.israelimages.com) In Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s book Poor Economics, they describe a remarkable social…

Elitist School Systems – teachers with high ambition and parents with low expectations (double-whammy)

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 21, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: This is the sixth in a series of excerpts from chapter 4 (education policy) of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Poor Economics.] Parents are not alone in focusing their expectations…

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