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

[Gabriela Vargas-Cetina]

Dear Vishnu,

I hope you can share with us some of the results of this event.  We are all
dealing with major changes in higher education in practically every country.

Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
Merida, Yucatan, Mexico


On 2/15/06 12:49 AM, "T. Vishnu Vardhan" <vishnu at cscsban.org> wrote:

> 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. Joseph¹s 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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