[Reader-list] CSCS Workshop on The Future of Higher Edn.

[T. Vishnu Vardhan]

Hi,

CSCS is organizing a two day workshop on The 
Future of Higher Education in India.  The 
following gives you some details.  Do forward it 
to those who will be interested in attending it.

best,
Vishnu Vardhan .T

Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore
and
Bangalore University
in partnership with
Sir Ratan Tata Trust, Mumbai

announce a two-day workshop on

The Future of Higher Education in India

The workshop will bring together eminent scholars 
working in the field of education, academics from 
universities, professional colleges and science 
institutions, education administrators and policy 
makers for a series of panel discussions on the 
theme of higher education in India, with a 
specific focus on the context of Karnataka. The 
workshop will take stock of the changes in the 
field of education in concrete terms by looking 
at global pressures, inherited legacies and projected futures.

The main objectives of the workshop are

-          to seek clarity on the nature of 
transformations taking place in the field of 
higher education, including the functioning of 
institutions, the formulation of policies, the 
hierarchization of disciplines, and the modes of financing and revenue;
-          to suggest ways in which  disciplines 
can be reconceptualized to meet the challenges 
posed by our changing society without 
compromising their commitment to comprehensiveness and critical rigour;
-          to imagine new models of institutions 
of higher education, and craft innovative forms 
of collaboration between older and newer institutions.

Panelists include:

V.K. Natraj (Former Director, MIDS, Madras)
K. Sudha Rao (VC, Karnataka Open University)
B.K. Bhattacharya (Former Chief Secretary, 
Karnataka and Senior Fellow, IIM, Bangalore)
Sudhir Krishnaswamy, (National Law School of India University, Bangalore)
J.B.G. Tilak (Educational Finance Unit, NIEPA)
Ambrose Pinto (Principal, St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore)
Rishikesha Krishnan (IIM, Bangalore)
Ronnie Prabhu (Coordinator, Higher Education, 
Karnataka Jesuit Educational Society)
B.N. Betkerur (Executive Secretary, JSS Mahavidyapeetha, Mysore)
H. Vinod Bhat (Registrar, MAHE, Manipal)
Thomas C. Mathew ( Principal, Christ College, Bangalore)
Ashish Rajadhyaksha (CSCS)
Geetha Narayanan (Director, Srishti School of 
Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore)
Sandeep Shastri (Director, iACT, Bangalore)
A.S. Seetharamu (Education Unit, ISEC, Bangalore)
Sashi Kumar (Chairperson, Media Development Foundation,Chennai)
Susie Tharu ( formerly CIEFL, Hyderabad)
Dhruv Raina, (JNU, New Delhi)
Raghavendra Gadagkar (Centre for Ecological Sciences, IISc, Bangalore)
Padma Sarangapani (NIAS, Bangalore)
Anirudh Paul (Director, KRVI Institute for 
Architecture and Environmental Studies, Mumbai)
Valerian Rodrigues (Jawaharlal Nehru College, New Delhi)
Praveen Chandra Pandey  (Registrar, Kuvempu University)
Peter Ronald deSouza (Lokniti, CSDS, Delhi)

Venue: Seminar Hall,
             Canara Bank School of Management Studies,
             Bangalore University Central College Campus,
             B.R. Ambedkar Veedhi, Bangalore – 560 001

Date: 20th and 21st February 2006
Time: 10 AM – 6 PM


T. Vishnu Vardhan
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society,
466, 9th Cross, 1st Block, Jayanagar,
Bangalore - 560011.
e-mail: vishnu at cscsban.org
         thvishnu_viva at yahoo.com
Tel. no. 080-26562986
mobile no. +919845207308
fax no. 080-26562991  
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