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| School Choice Campaign: Improving Access to Quality Education |
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| Demanding school vouchers for 9000 out of school slum children |
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Empowering parents to participate in the campaign in Jharkhand Jharkhand:
School Chayan Abhiyan Groups identified parents who would take
interest to represent others to work for school choice issues in their
respective areas. Eighteen such groups at the block level and 6 such
groups at district level has been formed. The enthusiastic parents are
confident that they would be able to run their own school choice campaigns
effectively. We have also formed four district advisory boards. Well
known personalities from the districts have joined the campaign to provide
assistance to parents and partners to archive the campaign goals. |
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| A study on tribal and migrant children an advocacy tool in Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh:
Our partner in Sonbhadra district has conducted a study on 'need for
school choice for the tribal children of Sonbhadra'. In Shankar Garh
of Allahabad district a partner has conducted a study on migrant child
labour. These studies will be used for advocacy purposes on school choice
for these children. |
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| Unrecognised schools: help or hurt the poor?
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| Developing New Leaders by Awakening Youth |
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| Liberal Youth Forum of India launched  |
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| Summer research interns for the year 2008 selected
For the summer research internship we received 183 applications from
89 colleges/universities from 75 cities in India and Singapore, France
and USA. With much difficulty 24 students from various streams of studies
from 20 colleges/universities are been selected for internship from
12 May to 12 July. Many equally good candidates have been put in touch
with other orgnisations like CHRI, Nya Mitra. |
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| 35 students in Ranchi attend skill training workshop
35 students from Ranchi Friends of Freedom were trained on various skills
and public policy review on March 29-30 by Swati Chawla and Mr. Rajan
Kumar Singh. Different sessions helped participants to think about the
role freedom plays in their lives. Open-house discussion on dimensions
of freedom-personal, economic, political helped the participants to
understand the importance of reform and public policies. The students
also made plan of action for the year focused on School Choice Campaign
and advocacy of livelihood freedom issues through film festivals. |
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| School choice campaign at Tycoons 2008 Tycoons 2008 is a nation-wide event to select future business barons of the country spearheaded by Career Launcher. After nearly 2 months and 10 grueling rounds later, 49 delegates were selected. On 12 March the final participants at the Management Development Institute in Gurgaon had an opportunity to understand the School Choice Campaign through the presentation of Parth Shah and from the information desk established in the venue. The CCS team of Sayantani Das, Amit Chandra, Praveena Lakshmanan and Manoj Mathew interacted with students and learned about the school choice campaign and programs of CCS. |
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| Advanced Liberty for Change Seminar (ALCS) in Mumbai
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| Liberty and Society Seminar in Cochin
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| Contracting out schools: A global experience Praveena Lakshmanan, an intern with the Centre for Civil Society has just completed a paper which provides international examples where governments contract with the private sector for the delivery of educational services including the provision of school infrastructure. These are the new ways of developing PPP model of education delivery. |
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| Amnesty International consultation on the dignity campaign Amnesty International (AI) is launching a new global campaign on poverty and human rights in December 2008. Ritwik Patra and Manoj Mathew from CCS participated in this consultation on 18 March. |
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Orissa: On 28th February 2008, 3 members
of Orissa Alliance for School Choice headed by Ms. Lopamudra Mohanty
met the Minister of School and Mass Education of Orissa, Shri Sanjeev
Kumar Sahu and submitted a memorandum and proposal on behalf of the
people of Salia Sahi demanding school vouchers for 9000 out-of-school
children of the slum area. Salia Sahi is the biggest slum of the capital
and it has no school other than a single room project primary school.
On the same day morning more than 200 people from Saliha Sahi Slum march
in a rally to OPEPA (Orissa Primary Education Programme Authority) and
submitted a memorandum demanding school vouchers as there were no schools
in their area. 
New Delhi: In February 2008 the Delhi High Court ordered
all private unrecognised schools to either seek recognition or shut
down. There are 10,000 such schools in the capital catering to about
6 lakh children between the age group of 2 to 18 years. To understand
the impact of the High Court order on school education in Delhi, CCS
organised a panel discussion on 27 March 2008 at the Constitution Club,
New Delhi on the theme 'Unrecognised Schools: Help or Hurt the
Poor?' 
Advanced Liberty for Change Seminar (ALCS) took place in Navi Mumbai
from 7-10 February. Participants came prepared with concrete research
proposals and were given inputs on writing and publishing research papers
by experts like Parth Shah, Sachin Rao, Ajay Shaw, Gautam Bastian and
Niranjan Rajadhyaksha. Each day started with a guided tutorial and was
followed by lecture, thematic workshop and one-on-one with facilitators.
The participants presented their research timeline and plan of action
on the final day. CCS graduates Dipayan Baishya, Pravesh Saha and Swati
Chawla acted as guides for research projects.
Thirty three participants from India and Sri Lanka came together for
the Liberty & Society Seminar in Cochin, January 24 to 27. The various
sessions enriched the participants, they were 'New Architecture of International
Order' by Dr. Mohan Varghese, lecturer from Mar Thoma College, 'Environment:
The Tragedy of the Collective' by Dr. Parth Shah, 'Is Socialism Dead'
by the prominent journalist Mr. K M Roy, Liberalism in Context of Kerala
by Prof. Babu Joseph, President Liberal group Kerala, 'Special Economic
Zones: Good, Bad & Ugly' by Prof. Alex Thomas, lecturer in Govt. Arts
College Trivandrum, 'Freedom & Security' by Mr. Jacob Punnoose, the
Additional Director General of Police, Kerala. The participants also
had a field research afternoon experience when they went out to different
corners of the city to understand what real life is and participated
in documentary screenings and group dynamics to break stereotype viewpoints.