Programme

The Fellowship Journey

  • You will be placed in a school in one of our locations where you will engage with teachers, community and education functionaries.
  • You will be teaching in a dedicated classroom for atleast 150 days. You will also get to experience our work throughout the year. [Learn more about our work here]
  • You will build your understanding by reading and discussing on the issues of education.

Eligibility criteria

We welcome passionate people from a variety of backgrounds. Individuals are eligible to apply if they have:

  • 4 to 10 years of work experience.
  • Degree in any discipline.
  • Proficiency in English and any one of the local languages (Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu).
  • Applicants need to be below 35 years of age, willing to travel within the district and ready to be posted in the districts we work in.

To know more about the Programme we encourage you to read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

Post Fellowship

  • Post completion of the Fellowship, Fellows can continue to work with the Azim Premji Foundation in various capacities.

  • We need passionate and committed individuals to work with us towards our vision of a just and equitable society. In the past more than 80% of our Fellows have decided to stay back with Azim Premji Foundation and contribute to the public education system. They have been placed in one of our District Institutes.

  • Many who decided to part ways continue to contribute to the development sector by either working for a not-for-profit or supporting a cause while pursuing their corporate career.

Contact Us

Azim Premji Foundation
# 134, Doddakannelli
Next to Wipro Corporate Office
Sarjapur Road
Bangalore – 560 035
Karnataka, India

Phone: 1800 274 0101 (Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 6:00 pm)(except on public holidays)
Website: http://azimpremjifoundation.org

Inspiring stories from the government school system in India

Good Schools - Government Primary School, Ganeshpur, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand

Good Schools - Government Primary School, Ganeshpur, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand
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Our Fellows

Rachana Patwardhan
Programme Manager, Field Institutes

Education: M.Sc. in Zoology, Manasa Gangotri, Mysore

Previous role: Research assistant in Centre for Wildlife studies, Bangalore

Fellowship changed my perspective towards society and showed me how to be part of solution. It has helped me grow personally and professionally by exploring the depth of my potentials. Anyone with a desire to be part of a social change should experience the Fellowship Programme.
Ankush Jindal
District Institute Nainital, Uttarakhand

Education: Master’s Degree in International Hospitality Management from Institute Vatel, Nîmes, France

Previous Role: English Teacher, Society for Motivational Training and Action (SMTA) Primary School, Dehradun, Uttarakhand

The First month has been like a roller coaster ride. It has been eye opening to meet the teachers, the functionaries, engaging with the community. It made me realize that two government schools a few kilometers away from each other can differ in so many ways –whether it is infrastructure, teachers, appearance, children –everything. And the most important factor that causes this difference is the teacher. For me personally that was the highlight, to understand the centrality of a teacher’s role. It has been a learning journey so far and I look forward to the next one year.
 
Madhubanti Das
District Institute Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh

Education: Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Calcutta, West Bengal and a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, West Bengal.

Previous Role: Senior Research Analyst at Nielsen India Pvt Ltd

I believe in the power of ideas and each time a child is eliminated from the access to quality education, new ideas get silenced before they can bloom. I joined the Fellowship in a quest to understand the nature of this ‘quality’ and how we can attain it through creating alternative learning spaces within the mainstream of Government Primary School Education. The Fellowship programme is rigorous, robust, and relevant in its structure. It has given me a space where I can read and discuss theories and my own set of ideas and opinions with my peers within the Foundation, take those to the ground, re-examine them during actual experiences, defend them when presented with counter-arguments, and many a time, reject my opinion to form a new one.
 
Yogesh G R
District Institute Sangareddy, Telangana

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Applications, Post Graduate Diplomas in Rural Management and Business Administration from SCDL, Pune

Previous Role: Senior Delivery Manager at Wipro Technologies, Chennai.

I joined the Fellowship on a quest to find answers about Education. The journey showed me how irrelevant those questions were! New questions arose. Various platforms in the field such as teaching practices, school visits, workshops, interaction with children, teachers and community gave me an insight into education. Reflecting on those experiences, helped me not only in developing various views on teaching learning processes but also understand myself better.
 
Sumithra Vasudevan
District Institute Puducherry

Education: B.Tech in Biotechnology, VIT

Previous role: Value educator instructor in Chinmaya International School, Coimbatore

For anyone who is passionate to work for the society through education, the Fellowship is the right platform to learn and grow. It is after joining the Foundation that I began to recognize the role of a Government school teacher as that of a social change agent. Having interacted with the children, the need has become very clear. Knowing that my work can benefit them is my source of motivation.