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Student First Dialogue: School Admission Reforms: Why, What, How?

Event Date: 14 Oct 2009; Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Casurina Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

The School Choice Campaign (SCC) hosts a panel discussion on School Admission Reforms in order to address the acute problems faced by the parents and well as the grievances of the schools in order to evolve long-term solutions to existing problems in school admission process in Delhi.

Student First Dialogue: Right to Education: Will it be enough?

Event Date: 09 Sep 2009; Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Casurina Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

The School Choice Campaign (SCC) hosts a panel discussion on The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2009, which guarantees education as a fundamental right to children between the ages of 6 to 14. The panel of experts represented the fields of education, development work and public policy to provide a multidimensional perspective on the issues surround the Right to Education.

Student First Dialogue: School Fee Hike: What is the real problem?

Event Date: 08 Aug 2009; Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

School Choice Campaign brought together the fiercest of the spokespersons of the two major parties concerned- the parents and the schools- Mr Surinder Gupta, President, Unrecognised Schools Association, Mr Ashok Aggarwal, Advocate and Advisor, Social Jurist and Mr S L Jain, President, National Progressive Schools Conference to discuss representation of parents on the schools’ Management Committees (SMCs) as well as more transparency in the management of private schools.

Student First Dialogue: School Board Exams: Assessment or Harassment?

Event Date: 08 Jul 2009; Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

The School Choice Campaign hosted a dialogue on “School Board Exams: Assessment or Harassment?” following the recent announcement made by Mr Kapil Sibal to scrap 10th board exams as one of the innovative reforms in the education sector. The brings together two prominent educational experts representing the government and private perspectives- Mrs Gauri Ishwaran, Founder and Principal of Sanskriti School and Dr Janaki Rajan, former Director of SCERT Delhi and Professor of Education Jamia Milia University.

Book Launch: Ward Power: Decentralised Urban Governance

Event Date: 02 Mar 2006; Time: Not Available
Venue: Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA)
Centre for Civil Society introduces a new publication, Ward Power: Decentralised Urban Governance. The book is being released with the company of Dr. P.L. Sanjeev Reddy, Director, IIPA, and Mr. T.S.R. Subramanian, former Cabinet Secretary of India. The book is edited by Dr. Parth J Shah, President of Centre for Civil Society, and Makarand Bakore, a Research Associate at the Centre.