Inc-Q, a diversity workshop for organizations

We, at Anekataa, are very excited to invite nominations for Inc-Q - Leveraging Diversity | Building Inclusion, an open program for team leads/supervisors/managers in Bangalore on Oct 9th, 2018 at Palm Meadows Club, Whitefield. Most organisations today are aware of the need for diversity and its positive impact on individual and team performance as well...

Call for papers: Afro-Asian Education Systems: Post Colonial Experiences and Perspectives

Date:  February 7, 2019 to February 10, 2019 Location:  India Subject Fields:  African History / Studies, Asian History / Studies, Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies, History Education, Literature A Historical Perspective on Modernity, Colonialism Social Inequality and Education in the 19th and 20th centuries in the Afro-Asian Countries Details here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/2361437/cfp-conference-panel-historical-perspective-modernity

Sustainable and Just Jobs for All

First published here: https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/CM0USHZoSjrJ083yMUgzTM/Opinion--Sustainable-and-just-jobs-for-all.html Anurag Behar For many years, I was responsible for a business with manufacturing facilities in India and across the world. In that period the business grew manifold, generating equivalent growth for our suppliers. But the growth in employment was a fraction of the volume growth in the entire supply chain. This...

Here’s the Conversation We Really Need to Have About Bias at Google

First published here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/technology/bias-google-trump.html That’s why, in the view of researchers who study the issue of algorithmic bias, the more pressing concern is not about Google’s deliberate bias against one or another major political party, but about the potential for bias against those who do not already hold power in society. These people — women, minorities...

Positions at Centre for Education Innovation and Action Research (CEIAR)

The CENTRE FOR EDUCATION INNOVATION AND ACTION RESEARCH (CEIAR) is an Independent Centre at TISS Mumbai which was established in 2015 to engage with and promote innovation in school curriculum, teacher education and higher education curriculum and pedagogy.  The Centre incubates and promotes innovations that address the needs of India education to raise quality and...

Poem on Field Immersion Experience

ऐ विकास तू रहता कहाँ ज़रा मुझे तू अपना पता बता चला था मै कुछ अनसुलझे सवालों के जवाब ढूंढने इस बात से बेखबर कि इस सफर मे कुछ नए सवाल ही खड़े हो जायेंगे | चला था मै कुछ अनसुलझी पहेलियाँ सुलझाने के लिए इस बात से अनजान कि कुछ नई पहेलियाँ ही मेरे...

Exploring Sustainability in the Indian Context | Oct 12 – Dec 15, 2018

Oct 12 - Dec 15, 2018 An online course for students and development practitioners Azim Premji University is happy to announce the next batch of the Certificate Online Course on Exploring Sustainability in the Indian Context. About the course This interdisciplinary, multi-instructor course provides an introduction to sustainability within the context of development in India....

Gandhi week : 27th Sept- 5th Oct

Please find attached a schedule of activities lined up by APU students to celebrate and remember Gandhi. [ Gandhi week ] Specific queries can be addressed to Varsha (varsha.shukla17_mae@apu.edu.in) who has been working hard and behind the scenes to coordinate volunteers and logistics. This year had it not been for the untimely tragic demise of Ankit Chaddha,...

Course: Women Workers in the Labour Movement: Challenges and the Way Forward

Women Workers in the Labour Movement: Challenges and the Way Forward A 1-week residential course for urban and social policy practitioners. 29 October to 4 November, 2018. Mumbai/Navi Mumbai. Last date to apply: October 10, 2018 (midnight) Click here for details: https://www.actionaidindia.org/?p=5147 [ Call-for-Application_URBAN-ACTION-SCHOOL-MUMBAI ]