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

[Jeebesh Bagchi]

After the invention of the term `human resource`, does the 19th C  
idea and national projects of education has any value left? My  
feeling is that this term has exhausted it's  meaning and now stand  
in as just a cover for `training` for exchange value addition fueled  
by bizarre imaginaries of unlimited wealth.

best, j

On 15-Feb-06, at 6:56 PM, Gabriela Vargas-Cetina wrote:

> 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. 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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