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South Asia Conference on Higher Education

By Prasad Krishna · Published

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

TitleModerators & Resource PersonsTimings
Introduction
    Tejaswini Niranjana, HEIRA- CSCS, Ravina Aggarwal,  Ford Foundation and Ashish Rajadhyaksha, CSCS
      		10.30
      11.15
      Tea Break11.15
      11.30
      Presentation by Ford Grantees
        Martin Chautari

          Pramod Bhatta
          Respondent: Milind Wakankar

          11.30 
          12.15

          Bhasha Research and Publication CentreVipul Kapadia
          Respondent: Uma Bhrugubanda
          		12.15 
          13.00
          Lunch Break13.00
          14.00
          PukarAnita Patil-Deshmukh
          Respondent: Janaki Nair
          		14.00
          14.45
          Insight FoundationAnoop Kumar
          Respondent: Sitharamam Kakarala
          		14.45
          15.30
          HEIRA, CSCSTejaswini Niranjana
          Respondent: Pawan Agarwal
          		15.30
          16.15
          Roundtable DiscussionInitial Responses:
          Ravina Aggarwal, Dilip Chavan, Shivali Tukdeo

          16.15
          17.00

          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 Break11.30
          11.45
          Lunch Break12.30
          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 Break15.30
          15.45
          Roundtable Discussion
          Chair: Krishna Kumar (TBC)
          		Initial Responses: Rajeev Bhargava, Sasheej Hegde, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Aarti Srivastava15.45
          16.30
          Conference Dinner18.30

          Day 3

          Higher Education in the Age of Globalisation: Rethinking Social Justice
          Session 1: Technology
          Chair: Nivedita Menon

          		Anita Patil Deshmukh10.00
          10.45
          Session 2: Critical Humanities
          Chair: Aditya Nigam

          		Anup Dhar
          Ashwin Kumar

          		10.45
          11.30
          Tea Break11.30
          11.45
          Session 3: Science Education
          Chair: Mary John
          		Geeta Venkataraman
          Gita Chadha
          		11.45
          12.30
          Roundtable DiscussionInitial Responses: Satish Deshpande, Anoop Kumar, Uma Bhrugubanda, Pramod Bhatta12.30
          13.00
          Closing RemarksTejaswini 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.