Azim Premji Foundation

Journey of Change: A story from Uttarakhand

Changing an institution is like trying to move a mountain but it would be a great disservice to the people trying to make it happen if we succumb to the temptation that real change depends on messianic leaders. It might be useful instead to turn the spotlight on others, to see how ordinary, unseen and unsung folks within the system are trying to show us the way.

Public-Private Partnerships in Education

Recently there has been an increasing push by the Government towards engaging the private sector as partners for achieving the goal of universalization of elementary education. This move has generated a rousing debate between those who believe in its merits and those who oppose it on philosophical and practical grounds.

Private Schooling: Boon or bane?

The ASER 2009, released earlier this year has prompted another flurry of arguments for and against private schooling, a subject already generating much heat after the passageof the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education bill in 2009. Click here and here to read views from both sides of the fence.

Schools in the fast lane

Offbeat, an e-zine covering development issues in India has profiled the Foundation's schools for children of migrant labour in its first issue. In it, read about the the pedagogical and operational challenges of attempting to educate children whose parents frequently migrate for work.

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