South Asia Conference on Higher Education
by
Prasad Krishna
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last modified
Jul 30, 2013 08:13 AM
The Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA), Centre for Study of Culture and Society is hosting the South Asia Conference on Higher Education at the Ford Foundation office in New Delhi from August 5 to 7, 2013. Sunil Abraham will participate in this conference.
The Pathways to Higher Education Programme (2009 -13)
Day 1
| Title | Moderators & Resource Persons | Timings |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction |
|
10.30 11.15 |
| Tea Break | 11.15 11.30 |
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| Presentation by Ford Grantees | ||
|
Pramod Bhatta |
11.30 |
|
| Bhasha Research and Publication Centre | Vipul Kapadia Respondent: Uma Bhrugubanda |
12.15 13.00 |
| Lunch Break | 13.00 14.00 |
|
| Pukar | Anita Patil-Deshmukh Respondent: Janaki Nair |
14.00 14.45 |
| Insight Foundation | Anoop Kumar Respondent: Sitharamam Kakarala |
14.45 15.30 |
| HEIRA, CSCS | Tejaswini Niranjana Respondent: Pawan Agarwal |
15.30 16.15 |
| Roundtable Discussion | Initial Responses: Ravina Aggarwal, Dilip Chavan, Shivali Tukdeo |
16.15 |
Day 2
| Presentation by Sub-grantees of HEIRA, CSCS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Maharashtra Cluster Chair: Dilip Chavan |
Faculty Coordinators, Pathways to Higher Education Programme, HEIRA-CSCS |
10.00 10.45 |
| Karnataka Cluster Chair: Tharakeshwar V.B |
Faculty Coordinators, Pathways to Higher Education Programme, HEIRA-CSCS |
10.45 11.30 |
| Kerala Cluster Chair: Rajan Gurukkal |
Faculty Coordinators, Pathways to Higher Education Programme, HEIRA-CSCS |
11.45 12.30 |
| Tea Break | 11.30 11.45 |
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| Lunch Break | 12.30 13.30 |
|
| Panel Discussion on Social Justice and Indian Languages Chair: Satish Deshpande |
Panelists: Gopal Guru, Apoorvanand, K. Sathyanarayana, M.G. Hegde |
13.30 15.30 |
| Tea Break | 15.30 15.45 |
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| Roundtable Discussion Chair: Krishna Kumar (TBC) |
Initial Responses: Rajeev Bhargava, Sasheej Hegde, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Aarti Srivastava | 15.45 16.30 |
| Conference Dinner | 18.30 | |
Day 3
| Higher Education in the Age of Globalisation: Rethinking Social Justice | ||
|---|---|---|
| Session 1: Technology Chair: Nivedita Menon |
Anita Patil Deshmukh | 10.00 10.45 |
| Session 2: Critical Humanities Chair: Aditya Nigam |
Anup Dhar Ashwin Kumar |
10.45 11.30 |
| Tea Break | 11.30 11.45 |
|
| Session 3: Science Education Chair: Mary John |
Geeta Venkataraman Gita Chadha |
11.45 12.30 |
| Roundtable Discussion | Initial Responses: Satish Deshpande, Anoop Kumar, Uma Bhrugubanda, Pramod Bhatta | 12.30 13.00 |
| Closing Remarks | Tejaswini Niranjana and Ravina Aggarwal |
13.00 13.15 |
TBC – To be confirmed
Please note that the schedule is tentative as speakers are yet to confirm; the final programme schedule shall be sent out by e-mail a week before the conference.
