Nandini Manjrekar
Since 2010, CESI has emerged as an important platform for scholars engaged in interdisciplinary research in Education. It has been heartening to see how over the years CESI has reached out to non-metropolitan universities and worked to establish a presence in different regions of the country. Equally significant is CESI's focus on high academic standards, while working against binaries of university-based scholarship and research coming from grassroots-level engagements. As the themes of its annual conferences suggest, this is in keeping with CESI's consistent commitment to promote academic debates on educational theory and praxis and the multidimensional and complex linkages with equality, social justice and democracy.
also enabled dialogue between university scholars across disciplines interested in education and those working with communities It has been CESI conferences and seminars have enabled collaborations across colleges and universities
Since 2010, CESI has emerged as an important platform for scholars engaged in interdisciplinary research in Education. It has been heartening to see how over the years CESI has reached out to non-metropolitan universities and worked to establish a presence in different regions of the country. Equally significant is CESI's focus on high academic standards, while working against binaries of university-based scholarship and research coming from grassroots-level engagements. As the themes of its annual conferences suggest, this is in keeping with CESI's consistent commitment to promote academic debates on educational theory and praxis and the multidimensional and complex linkages with equality, social justice and democracy.
also enabled dialogue between university scholars across disciplines interested in education and those working with communities It has been CESI conferences and seminars have enabled collaborations across colleges and universities
Prof. Jandhyala B.G. Tilak
(President CESI, 2010-2012)
former Professor and Vice-Chancellor, National University of Educational Planning & Administration, and ICSSR National Fellow, and currently Distinguished Professor at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, and Visiting Professor, Kautilya School of Public Policy, GITAM, Hyderabad, is an economist of education and an eminent education policy analyst. Author of several books including Economics of Inequality in Higher Education (Sage, 1987), Education for Development in Asia (Sage, 1994), Higher Education, Public Good and Markets (Routledge, 2018), Education and Development in India: Critical Issues in Public Policy (Springer/Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Dilemmas in Reforming Higher Education (Orient BlackSwan 2018), Economics of Engineering Education in India (Routledge 2023), and more than 300 research articles in journals of high repute, Prof Tilak served as the Editor of Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, and is on editorial boards of several national and international journals. Recipient of several honours and awards including Swami Pranavananda Saraswati National Award of the UGC (1999), Dr. Malcolm Adiseshiah Award (2003), Inspirational Teacher of the Year Global Education Award (2012), and Devang Mehta Award (2015) for outstanding contributions to education. Among many other honours, he had the privilege of delivering a keynote address in a meeting of the Nobel laureates in Barcelona in 2005.
Gold medalist in M.A. in Economics from Andhra University and Doctorate from the Delhi School of Economics, Dr Tilak taught, besides at the National University/Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, at the University of Delhi, the Indian Institute of Education, and as a Visiting Professor, at Centre for International Cooperation in Education, Hiroshima University, School of Education, Virginia University, and Department of Economics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning. Prof Tilak was also on the research staff of the World Bank, Washington DC.
(President CESI, 2010-2012)
former Professor and Vice-Chancellor, National University of Educational Planning & Administration, and ICSSR National Fellow, and currently Distinguished Professor at the Council for Social Development, New Delhi, Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, and Visiting Professor, Kautilya School of Public Policy, GITAM, Hyderabad, is an economist of education and an eminent education policy analyst. Author of several books including Economics of Inequality in Higher Education (Sage, 1987), Education for Development in Asia (Sage, 1994), Higher Education, Public Good and Markets (Routledge, 2018), Education and Development in India: Critical Issues in Public Policy (Springer/Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Dilemmas in Reforming Higher Education (Orient BlackSwan 2018), Economics of Engineering Education in India (Routledge 2023), and more than 300 research articles in journals of high repute, Prof Tilak served as the Editor of Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, and is on editorial boards of several national and international journals. Recipient of several honours and awards including Swami Pranavananda Saraswati National Award of the UGC (1999), Dr. Malcolm Adiseshiah Award (2003), Inspirational Teacher of the Year Global Education Award (2012), and Devang Mehta Award (2015) for outstanding contributions to education. Among many other honours, he had the privilege of delivering a keynote address in a meeting of the Nobel laureates in Barcelona in 2005.
Gold medalist in M.A. in Economics from Andhra University and Doctorate from the Delhi School of Economics, Dr Tilak taught, besides at the National University/Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, at the University of Delhi, the Indian Institute of Education, and as a Visiting Professor, at Centre for International Cooperation in Education, Hiroshima University, School of Education, Virginia University, and Department of Economics, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning. Prof Tilak was also on the research staff of the World Bank, Washington DC.
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Prof. Geetha B NambissanIn the last twelve years CESI has been able to create a critical institutional space to engage with educational studies from diverse disciplinary perspectives. The Society has been able to build networks among young researchers who now have a forum for interaction and dialogue and to share their scholarship and research interests. This is important in order to understand and address the complex challenges for education in contemporary times and envision possibilities for the future. For me being a part of CESI's journey has been professionally and personally deeply enriching.
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