Harnessing India's Human Capital Through Educational Opportunities

Submitted by Nitin Rao on April 28, 2008 - 06:05.
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India's growth depends on its ability to significantly revamp its dismal education sector, which suffers from problems of outreach and quality. A recent study shows that the public education sector may be beyond saving.

A possible solution comes in the form of sustainable investments in a vast network of private schools delivering standardized, high quality education at an affordable price to the low income mass market (base of the pyramid) customer.

The investments in schools would take the form of financial resources, organizational support and value-added services to help these schools become efficient and effective educational institutions.

Harnessing India's Human Capital Through Educational Opportunities, published in the MIT International Review, presents one possible solution. (Full disclosure - I am one of the paper's co-authors.)

Read the paper at http://web.mit.edu/mitir/2008/spring/harnessing.pdf

(Photo by McKay Savage, used under Creative Commons License.)

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Other Innovative Educational Models - In the Same Context
Submitted by A on May 1, 2008 - 00:03.
The proposed solution seems viable and innovative. I should highlight here other innovative education models that has been notably successful...the one being a Foundation that has been providing a robust platform for upliftment of the less privileged slum kids in Mumbai region, India. It runs its several centers across the region and has been providing high-quality education and leadership programs to the children living in slums. Additionally this model has been successful in: providing the civic participation access to learning; creatively using existing school and other resources; and development of Teaching Aids for the kids. (I've been involved in one of its novel program where they help flourish mentor relationships between kids and professionals from corporate world). I guess we need more such models at the grass-root levels... +Keep The Faith.
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