About CESI

The Comparative Education Society of India was established in 1979 and affliliated to the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) in 1980. The decision to form CESI was made in the late 1970s during a meeting in Allahabad of the Indian Association of Professors of Education.

The Society was registered in 1982 with the following objectives:

1. To promote the comparative study of education and to make social scientists and others conscious of the importance of comparative education as a science and as a subject.
2. To provide a forum for exchanging ideas on national, regional, and international aspects of education and further new research in their comparative aspects for improvement in the standard of teaching, policy making and administration of education, by organizing academic discussions, and symposia, field visits, excursions, and conferences, and by publishing journals and monographs, reviews, pamphlets and other literature.
3. To cooperate and collaborate with other societies with similar objectives in India and abroad, with official agencies and departments of Government of India and of the United Nations (including UNESCO, UNICEF, etc) and other organizations for the study of and research in comparative education and generally for advancement of the subject.