The State of School Education in India

The State of Education – #EducationDialogue with Prof Muchkund Dubey on The State of School Education in India

On the occasion of India@75: Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, #IMPRI Center for ICT for Development (CICTD), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to an IMPRI #WebPolicyTalk series:

The State of Education – #EducationDialogue

A Special Deliberation on

The State of School Education in India

Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:

Date: August 20, 2022
Time: 4:00 p.m. IST
Platform: Zoom | Facebook Live | YouTube | Spotify | Google Podcasts

Keynote Speaker:

Prof Muchkund Dubey
President,
Council for Social Development (CSD), New Delhi;
Former Foreign Secretary of India

Muchkund Dubey, currently President of the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, has Master’s degree in economics from Patna University and studied economics in Oxford and New York universities. Has a D.Litt degree (Honoris Causa) from the University of Calcutta. He started his career as a lecturer in economics and later joined the Indian Foreign Service. He served as the High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh and the Permanent Representative of India to U.N. Organizations in Geneva. He also worked as an international civil servant in the U.N. and UNDP for five years. He retired from the Foreign Service after serving as the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. He then joined the Jawaharlal Nehru University as Professor, where he taught for close to eight years.

            He was the Indian Member on the Executive Board of UNESCO, Chairman of the Common School System Commission, Bihar, and the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of Sikkim.

Professor Dubey has written a large number of papers, chapters of books and articles on international security and disarmament matters, international development cooperation, world order issues, and social and economic development in India. He has edited three books, including Indian Society Today: Challenges of Equality, Integration and Empowerment; co-edited six books; and is the author of three books “Unequal Treaty: World Trading Order after GATT” (1966), “India’s Foreign Policy: Coping with the Changing World” (2013) and Lalan Shah Fakir Ke Geet (2017).

Chair:

Prof Jandhyala B. G. Tilak
ICSSR National Fellow;
Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi;
Former Professor & Vice-Chancellor, National University of Educational Planning and Administration

Discussants:

Prof Poonam Batra
Professor of Education;
Co-Investigator, TESF India;
Formerly with Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi

Dr Hem Borker
Assistant Professor,
Department of Social Work,
Jamia Millia Islamia

Dr Manish Jain
Associate Professor,
School of Education Studies,
Ambedkar University Delhi

Moderator:

Dr Simi Mehta
CEO and Editorial Director, IMPRI

Live Video YouTube: https://youtu.be/fINZPjkOhs4

Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/100064599346221/videos/5507136615996900

YouTube HQ Video: https://youtu.be/0VEpasfjrEc

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