After over 10 years of research and advocacy in the field of education, the Centre for Civil Society launched its School Choice Campaign on 29 January 2007. 

School Choice is achieved through education vouchers, cash transfers, tuition fee reimbursement schemes - schemes where funds follow students and not schools. 'School Choice' has emerged winner amongst all approaches to address the problems of illiteracy and low quality education faced by the poor in different parts of the world.   

In the next one year, the Campaign aims at spreading awareness about school choice among all elected representatives of the government and at least 50% of parent with children in State schools, besides establishing five demonstrative projects in India.

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The School Choice Campaign team

        Shankar Das, proud recipient  of India's first education voucher

Commentary

Give education vouchers to poor parents  Infosys CEO, Nandan Nilekani

State funds, Private role for schools Parth J Shah

Address legality of for-profit education Parth J Shah

A matter of choice but whose? Anisha Gupta in an Education Debate

Jharkhand Citizen Handbook released

CCS' Citizen Handbooks continue to generate critical discussions on issues of governance. The Centre brought out the second Citizen Handbook from the State of Jharkhand in collaboration with the popular newspaper, Prabhat Khabar. While the first handbook focused on detailed analysis of individual departments of the government, the second Handbook focuses on top ten areas of concern (water, forests, food security, Right to information etc) and analyses the respective departments. Read more about the Handbook in The Telegraph.

Commentary

Big questions about small money Ali Mehdi takes on Delhi's chit fund department

Livelihood issues of South Asia reach the London School of Economics

Over 300  students of the the London School of Economics (LSE) watched and discussed livelihood issues of South Asia following the screening of Jeevika films in their campus. This was one among the many screenings organized to educate students on how lack of economic freedom resulted in poverty and how students as future leaders could bring about change. Apart from LSE, another 300 students of various media, journalism and film-making institutes across India have been part of these screenings so far.

Infusing new energy in youth leaders

An Advanced Liberty for Change Seminar (ALCS) was organized to add fuel to the flame of freedom that was ignited by CCS in the minds of 30 young people. The four-day seminar held from 21-24 December in Mumbai aimed to provide  graduates of past seminars a deeper and advanced understanding of public policy issues besides providing them a platform to learn from each other, making them better change agents. To know more about our graduate programs, click here.

CCS encourages youth to spread the libertarian philosophy, not just in India but also in other countries. Krishna Neupane, who wants to start  a libertarian think-tank in Nepal, spent  a month and a half at the Centre learning different aspects of think-tank management. He was also part of the Advanced Liberty for Change Seminar , where he shared his experiences and learning with the other participants.

Krishna (centre) in a group discussion at ALCS

Making more friends of freedom

Hundreds of youth continue to join the CCS movement to spread the message of individual and economic freedom and public policy reforms. Friends of Freedom (graduates of CCS seminars) Amritsar, organized a festival titled Know your City. The event which a saw a participation of over 300 students, included presentations, film screenings and discussions on issues of public policy, Right to Information and education choice . To know more about our student activities, click here.

Internships 2007  Application closes on 7 March 2007!

Liberalism in Life Competition for seminar graduates: application closes on 28 February 2007

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