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Stuart Hart is in town and IISE will open its doors shortly. Apply soon!

Stuart Hart is in town and IISE will open its doors shortly. Apply soon!

Vishy KurugantiJuly 17, 20122 mins

[Editor’s Note: I was alerted to the existence of the Indian Institute for Sustainable Enterprises (IISE) by Priya Naik, CEO of Samhita Social Ventures (IISE’s outreach partner). If you are thinking…

Dasra Social Impact: Executive Education for Cohort #7 of Social Entrepreneurs

Dasra Social Impact: Executive Education for Cohort #7 of Social Entrepreneurs

Vishy KurugantiJuly 13, 20122 mins

Last month, we wrote about Chennai-based Villgro’s announcement of its new high-touch training program for social entrepreneurs. Dasra Social-Impact (DSI) is a grand daddy when it comes to “executive…

Master of Social Entrepreneurship from Deshpande Education Trust

Master of Social Entrepreneurship from Deshpande Education Trust

Vishy KurugantiJuly 11, 20121 mins

The Deshpande Education Trust (DET) feels that it isn’t doing enough to further the cause of social entrepreneurship in India. I’m so glad they felt that way. A week ago, DET announced the launch of…

RTE a smoke screen for India's real education problems

Vishy KurugantiJuly 10, 20123 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, 20123 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, 20124 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, 20123 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, 20122 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, 20113 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, 20114 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…

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