International Seminar on
Diversity and Inclusion
in Higher Education
INDIA HABITAT CENTRE
New Delhi
16-17 February 2023
Jointly Organized by
Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE)
National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA)
and
British Council
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Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
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Contents
Introduction to the Seminar .................................................................................................................... 01
Programme ................................................................................................................................................ 05
Inaugural Session: Proles ....................................................................................................................... 11
Session 1 ..................................................................................................................................................... 17
State, Market, and Equity in Higher Education
Session 2 ..................................................................................................................................................... 25
Higher Education Access, Diversity, and Social Inclusion
Session 3 ..................................................................................................................................................... 35
Equity and Excellence in Higher Education
Session 4 ..................................................................................................................................................... 43
Higher Education and Equitable Employment Outcomes
Session 5 ..................................................................................................................................................... 53
Institutional Leadership, Equity Policies, and Institutional Practices to
Support Student Success
Session 6 ..................................................................................................................................................... 63
Future Perspectives on Strategies for Equity in Higher Education
List of Participants ................................................................................................................................... 66
Organizing Committee .......................................................................................................................... 76
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International Seminar on
Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
16-17 February 2023
Introduction
e Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE) of the National Institute of Educational Planning
and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi, and the British Council India are jointly organizing an International
Seminar on ‘Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education’ from 16 to 17 February 2023. e seminar will bring
together educationists and policymakers from dierent countries.
Background
e fast expansion of higher education is a global phenomenon in this century. e worldwide enrolment in
higher education doubled from 100 million to 220 million between 2000 and 2017. e increase in school
enrolment as a result of “Education for All” initiatives and enhanced demand for higher skills in the knowledge
economy are, no doubt, inuencing factors promoting increased social demand and the resultant expansion of
higher education. Higher education is massied, if not universalised, in a majority of the countries in the world.
e expansion of the higher education system was accompanied by diversication of the sector. Diversication
was in terms of institutional arrangements for provision, study programmes, funding sources, and students.
e empirical evidence shows that those systems which are more diversied have expanded faster than others.
e expansion of higher education in most developed countries oers institutional diversication. e binary
and ternary systems in the United Kingdom, the University Institutes of Technology (IUTs) of France, and the
Community Colleges in the USA are examples of institutional diversication.
Higher education attainment is one of the signicant determinants of inter- and intra-generational equity
and advancing human well-being. erefore, how higher education opportunities are distributed across the
population and to what extent the underprivileged and marginalized population can access and succeed in
higher education are crucial for achieving the goals of sustainable equity and inclusion in the future. Armative
action policies and incentive schemes are the most commonly found policy interventions across countries to
promote equity and inclusion in higher education. Among these measures, the quota system for disadvantaged
students is widely relied on for ensuring equity in access in many societies.
e reservation policy has a long history in India and is part of its Constitutional provisions. e quota for
disadvantaged groups in admissions to higher education is close to 50 percent. To expand access, India also
followed a policy of establishing institutions in under-served regions that have, very oen, a high concentration
of people belonging to disadvantaged groups. In addition to creating facilities, various incentive schemes such
as scholarships, hostel schemes, nancial assistance, and remedial courses are in operation to promote students
from marginalized socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. ese measures have, indeed, helped many
disadvantaged students to overcome social, economic, emotional, and academic barriers to entry and excel in
higher education.
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Evidence suggests that while diversication can facilitate the faster expansion of the system, it can also lead
to increased inequalities in the nature and quality of higher education received by dierent segments of the
population. erefore, it is argued that diversication is a process of diversion to channel children from
disadvantaged backgrounds to lower-status post-secondary education institutions and programmes. In other
words, diversication while increasing access to higher education may contribute to widening inequalities in
success in higher education and the employment market. It is also essential to understand how technological
advancement and the emergence of new frameworks and modalities for credit accumulation can contribute to
achieving equity and inclusion.
Recently announced, National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) placed signicant emphasis on equity and
inclusion and is committed to Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), which promotes “inclusive and
equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all .”e NEP 2020 aims to increase the GER
to 50 percent by 2035. Along with structural transformation in academic programmes such as four-year degree
courses, one-year master’s, and new credit accumulation frameworks such as Academic Bank of Credits, NEP
2020 emphasized the education of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Groups (SEDGs). More exibility in
learning and credit accumulation, integration of curricular and co-curricular activities, and promotion of Indian
languages are expected to promote equity and inclusion in higher education.
Many empirical studies, including the studies by the CPRHE/NIEPA, indicate the need for further empirical
analysis and designing of intervention strategies to make higher education and employment markets more
inclusive. is forms the context for organizing an International Seminar on Diversity and Inclusion in higher
education. e present seminar is jointly organised by CPRHE/NIEPA and the British Council. e seminar will
bring together academics, policymakers, and administrators from India and abroad to discuss and debate issues
of diversity and inclusion in the changing landscape of higher education globally and India.
Objectives
e International seminar has the following objectives:
1. To advance the understanding of student diversity and inclusion issues in higher education.
2. To provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to share and learn from their experiences.
3. To deliberate upon equity policies and intervention strategies to widen access to and enable student success
in higher education.
emes
1. State, Markets, and Equity in Higher Education Development
2. Higher Education Access, Diversity, and Social Inclusion
3. Equity and Excellence in Higher Education
4. Higher Education and Equitable Employment Outcomes
5. Equity Policies and Institutional Leadership
Venue and Date
e seminar will be organised at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, on 16 and 17 February 2023.
Participation
e International Seminar will bring together key experts worldwide, policymakers, and policy analysts. More
than 150 delegates from India and abroad are expected to participate in the seminar, and the delegates will be
academics, policymakers, and senior managers of HEIs.
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Expected Outcome
e insights and analysis presented in the seminar will provide a critical understanding of the issues of diversity
and inclusion. e seminar also aims to develop a more robust global network of researchers, teachers, and
policymakers working to advance international and national higher education systems. e seminar also expects
to bring out a publication based on the papers presented in the seminar and to promote research and practice of
equity in higher education.
Organization
e Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE/NIEPA), New Delhi, in collaboration with British
Council, India oce, will organize the seminar as has been the practice in the past several years. is seminar on
‘Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education’ is the seventh in the series of collaborations between the British
Council and CPRHE/NIEPA.
For more details, please contact
Contact Persons
Professor Pradeep Kumar Misra
Director,
CPRHE/NIEPA
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg,
New Delhi-110016
Dr. Rittika Chanda Parruck
Director, Education & Society
British Council India
17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi-110001
rittika.chandaparruck@britishcouncil.org
Dr. Nidhi S. Sabharwal
Associate Professor
CPRHE/NIEPA
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Ms. Vishu Sharma
Senior Project Manager
Student Mobility and Alumni Development
British Council India
17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi-110001
vish[email protected]ritishcouncil.org
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Day 1: ursday, 16 February (Venue: Jacaranda Hall)
9:00 Registration
9:30-10:45 Inaugural Session
Chairperson: Professor Sudhanshu Bhushan, Vice-Chancellor (I/c), Professor and
Head, DHPE, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India
Welcome Address: Professor Pradeep Kumar Misra, Director, CPRHE, NIEPA
Opening Remarks: Mr. Michael Houlgate, Deputy Director, British Council, India
Keynote Address: Professor Graeme Atherton, Director, National Education
Opportunities Network, United Kingdom
Release of CPRHE/NIEPA Publication
India Higher Education Report 2021, Routledge
Programme Highlights: Dr. Nidhi S. Sabharwal, Associate Professor, Centre for
Policy Research in Higher Education, NIEPA, India
Vote of anks: Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee, Registrar, National Institute of Educational
Planning and Administration, India
Rapporteur: Dr. Garima Malik, CPRHE/NIEPA, India
10:45-11:15 Coee and Networking (Venue: Pre-function Area)
11:15-13:00 Plenary Session 1: State, Market, and Equity in Higher Education
Chairperson: Amitabh Kundu, Distinguished Fellow, Research and Information
System for Developing Countries, India
11:15 - 11:30 Keynote Address: N.V. Varghese, Former Vice-Chancellor, National Institute of
Educational Planning and Administration, India
11:30-12:30 Speakers
1. Brigid Freeman, Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne and
Matt Brett, Deakin University, Australia
2. Suma Scaria, Central University of Karnataka, India
3. Protiva Kundu, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, India
4. Manika Bora, O.P. Jindal Global University, India
Discussant: Mohammad Muzammil, Former Vice-Chancellor, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
University, India
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12:30 - 13:00 Open for Discussion
Rapporteur: Sangeeta Angom, Department of Higher & Professional Education,
NIEPA, India
13:00-14:00 Lunch (Venue: Pre-function Area)
14:00-15:45 Plenary Session 2: Higher Education Access, Diversity, and Social Inclusion
Chairperson: Pankaj Mittal, Secretary General, Association of Indian Universities,
India
14:00-14:15 Keynote Address: Odile Henry, Director, Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH),
India
14:15-15:15 Speakers
1. Jakob Williams Ørberg, Novo Nordisk Foundation, India
2. Surajit Deb, Aryabhatta College, India
3. Ankit Kawade, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
4. Nidhi S. Sabharwal, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education, NIEPA,
India
Discussant: Sachidanand Sinha, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
15:15-15:45 Open for Discussion
Rapporteur: Eldho Mathews, Unit for International Cooperation, NIEPA, India
15:45 - 16:00 Coee and Networking (Venue: Pre-function Area)
16.00 Heading to British Council for the Session on Gender Equality in Higher
Education and Reception Dinner (Venue: British Council India, 17 Kasturba
Gandhi Marg, New Delhi – 110001)
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Day 2: Wednesday, 17 February (Venue: Jacaranda Hall)
9:30-11:00 Plenary Session 3: Equity and Excellence in Higher Education
Chairperson: Anita Rastogi, Professor, Department of Educational Studies,
Jamia Millia Islamia, India
9:30-9:45 Keynote Address: Meenakshi Gopinath, Director, Women in Security Conict
Management and Peace, India
9:30-10:30 Speakers
1. Muhammad Muahu, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
2. N. Sukumar, Delhi University & Vidyasagar Sharma, University of Delhi, India
3. Ramdas Rupavath, University of Hyderabad, India
4. Dilip Vasantrao Chavan, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University,
India
Discussant: Mousumi Mukherjee, Associate Professor & Deputy Director, IIH Ed,
O.P. Jindal Global University, India
10:30-11:00 Open for Discussion
Rapporteur: Binay Prasad, Unit for International Cooperation, NIEPA, India
11:00-11:15 Coee and Networking (Venue: Pre-function Area)
11:15-13:00 Plenary Session 4: Higher Education and Equitable Employment Outcomes
Chairperson: Sudhanshu Bhushan, Vice-Chancellor (I/c), Professor and Head,
DHPE, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India
11:15-11:30 Keynote Address: Sukhadeo orat, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, India
11:30-12:30 Speakers
1. Miguel Antonio Lim, e University of Manchester, United Kingdom, Icy Fresno
Anabo, Deusto University, Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan, University of Auckland,
Mark Andrew Elepaño, Far Eastern University, Gunjana Kuntamarat, Deusto
University
2. G.D. Sharma, Society for Education and Economic Development (SEED), India
3. Nivedita Sarkar, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, India & Anuneeta Mitra, USA
4. Khalid Khan, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, India
Discussant: Neetha N., Professor, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, India
12:30-13:00 Open for Discussion
Rapporteur: Jinusha Panigrahi, CPRHE/NIEPA, India
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13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Plenary Session 5: Institutional Leadership, Equity Polices, and Institutional
Practices to Support Student Success
Chairperson: Kumar Suresh, Professor, National Institute of Educational Planning
and Administration, India
14:00-14:15 Keynote Address: Satish Deshpande, Professor, Delhi University, India
14:15-15:00 Speakers
1. Sanghmitra Acharya, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
2. Smriti Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
3. Rabi Narayan Kar and Kusha Tiwari, Shyam Lal College, India
4. Kamal Raj Devkota, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
5. Akha Kaihrii Mao, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, India
Discussant: M.H. Qureshi, Former Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
15:00-15:30 Open for Discussion
Rapporteur: Santwana G. Mishra, Department of Educational Planning, NIEPA,
India
15:30-15:45 Coee and Networking (Venue: Pre-function Area)
15:45-17:30 Open Panel and Valedictory Session: Future Perspective on Strategies for Equity
in Higher Education
Chairperson: N.V. Varghese, Former Vice-Chancellor, National Institute of
Educational Planning and Administration, India
15:45-16:45 Panelist:
1. K. Ramachandran, Senior Advisor, Unit for International Cooperation (UIC),
NIEPA, India
2. Geetha Venkataraman, Professor, Ambedkar University Delhi, India
3. Jose-Luis Alvarez-Galvan, Programme Specialist-Head of Policy and Advocacy,
UNESCO MGIEP, India
4. Graeme Atherton, Director, National Education Opportunities Network,
United Kingdom
16:45-17:15 Open for Discussion
17:15-17:30 Concluding Remarks: Sudhanshu Bhushan, Vice-Chancellor (I/c), Professor and
Head, DHPE, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India
Vote of anks: Nidhi S. Sabharwal, Associate Professor, CPRHE/NIEPA, India
Rapporteur: Anupam Pachauri, CPRHE/NIEPA, India.
Departure
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Inaugural Session: Proles
Professor Sudhanshu Bhushan, Vice-Chancellor (I/c), Professor and
Head, DHPE, NIEPA
Professor Sudhanshu Bhushan, Vice-Chancellor (I/c) of the National
Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) and Professor
& Head of the Department of Higher & Professional Education in NIEPA.
He specializes in Internationalisation of Higher Education, Policy issues
in Higher Education and Educational Planning. His recent contributions
include Quality Assurance of Transnational Higher Education: Australia
and India Experiences, Public Financing and Deregulated Fees in Indian
Higher Education, and Restructuring Higher Education in India. He is
the co-editor of a book on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in
India and Australia published by Routledge in 2018. His book on the Future
of Higher Education in India has been published by Springer in 2019. His
present responsibility is to conduct and guide research and to provide policy
support to the Government. He is the recipient of Amartya Sen Award 2012
for distinguished Social Scientist, an award instituted by Indian Council of
Social Science Research, New Delhi.
Inaugural Session
9:30 - 10:45 Inaugural Session
Welcome Address: Professor Sudhanshu Bhushan, Vice-Chancellor (I/c), Professor and
Head, DHPE, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India
Welcome Address: Professor Pradeep Kumar Misra, Director, CPRHE, NIEPA
Opening Remarks: Mr. Michael Houlgate, Deputy Director, British Council, India
Keynote Address: Professor Graeme Atherton, Director, National Education Opportunities
Network, United Kingdom
Release of CPRHE/NIEPA Publication
India Higher Education Report 2021, Routledge
Programme Highlights: Dr. Nidhi S. Sabharwal, Associate Professor, Centre for Policy
Research in Higher Education, NIEPA, India
Vote of anks: Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee, Registrar, National Institute of Educational
Planning and Administration, India
Rapporteur: Dr. Garima Malik, CPRHE/NIEPA, India
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Professor Pradeep Kumar Misra, Director, Centre for Policy Research in
Higher Education, NIEPA, India
Professor Pradeep Kumar Misra is the Professor and Director of the Centre
for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE) at the National Institute
of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi, India.
He has previously served as a Professor of Education and was the Head of
the Department of Education and Dean of the Faculty of Education at
Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut. His research specializations
are teacher education, educational technology, and vocational education.
He has received several prestigious international research scholarships like
the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship of CSC, UK; Doctoral and Senior
Researcher Scholarship of DAAD, Germany; Erasmus Mundus Visiting
Scholar Scholarship of European Commission; National Scholarship of
Slovak Republic; MASHAV Scholarship of Israel Government; and Research
Exchange Scholarship of FMSH, France. He is also the recipient of the Joint
Research Project under ICSSR (India) and NIHSS (South Africa) and a
member of the academic bodies of several institutions and organizations in
India and abroad. He published widely in journals of international repute,
authored reference books, including his popular book learning and teaching
for teachers, completed research and development projects, developed
educational media programs, and supervised Ph.D. scholars. His educational
visits include Germany, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Nederland,
Sweden, Spain, Slovakia, Austria, New Zealand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Israel,
Japan, and South Africa.
Mr. Michael Houlgate, Deputy Director, British Council, India
Mr. Michael Houlgate joined the British Council in India as Deputy Director
in October 2022. He leads the British Council’s programmes in India,
developing and delivering a diverse portfolio of projects in education, English
and the arts across the country.
Michael joined the British Council in 2012, and has worked in China, Egypt,
Afghanistan and most recently Pakistan. He worked to introduce the UK
apprenticeship model in China for the rst time; set up and managed the
£20m Newton-Mosharafa fund to support UK-Egypt research partnerships,
delivered the British Council’s work on education and civil society in
Afghanistan, and led the British Council’s work across eduction, English and
arts and culture in Pakistan.
He enjoys reading, hiking, learning languages (including now Hindi), and
playing guitar.
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Professor Graeme Atherton, Director, National Education Opportunities
Network (NEON), United Kingdom
Professor Graeme Atherton is Director of the Centre of Inequality and Levelling
Up (CELUP) at the University of West London, leads the National Education
Opportunities Network (NEON) which is the UK professional organisation
for access & equity in higher education (HE) with over 100 universities as
members and has also founded the World Access to Higher Education Network
(WAHEN). He is a trustee of the National Union of Students (NUS) and holds
visiting professorships at the Centre for Higher Education Research, Sunway
University, Kuala Lumpur and Amity University London. He has produced over
200 publications and conference papers.
Dr. Nidhi S. Sabharwal, Associate Professor, CPRHE/NIEPA, India
Dr. Nidhi S. Sabharwal is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre
for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE/NIEPA), New Delhi. Dr.
Sabharwal is holding the position of Honorary Associate Professor in the
Department of Education Studies at the University of Warwick. She has
previously been the In-Charge of the CPRHE/NIEPA. Dr. Sabharwal has also
previously served as the Director of the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies. She
has conducted extensive research on the development concerns of the poor,
especially the scheduled caste groups. She has studied inter-group inequalities
across human development indicators, focusing on the role of caste- and
gender-based discrimination in market and non-market institutions; diversity
and discrimination within higher educational institutions, Mid-Day Meal
and Anganwadi programmes; and social protection & armative action
policies. She has also studied excluded groups in other countries, such as the
Burakumin in Japan. She has published books and articles related to equity
and inclusion and presented papers at international conferences. Her current
research focuses on access, student diversity and equity in Higher Education.
Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee, Registrar, National Institute of Educational
Planning and Administration, India
Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee has assumed the Oce of Registrar, National
Institute of Educational Planning and Administration on September 24, 2020.
He has done M.Sc. in Physics from the Agra University, Agra (U.P) and Ph.D
in Science (Physics) from Vidyasagar University, Midnapore (W.B.). Prior to
joining NIEPA, he was working as Registrar at Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi. He has now more than 28 years of work experience in administration.
In his academic and administrative career, he has served in the IITs and Indian
University System for more than twenty years now. Besides an opportunity
to work in other premier academic and research institutions, he takes
active interest in coordinating and facilitating the academic environment
and support to the student, teaching and non-teaching employees of the
Institute, as primary stakeholders of any academic institution. Besides having
innovative thinking and implementation of automation and ICT approach in
the management of institutions, he has also coordinated a few training and
capacity building program for the ocers and sta and activities to promote
the cause of dierently abled and raise funds for the institutions under CSR.
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Keynote
Equity Policies, Inclusive Excellence, And
Pathways to Student Success
Professor Graeme Atherton, Director,
National Education Opportunities Network, University of West London, United Kingdom
Abstract
Inequalies in access and success in higher educaon are a global challenge. In all of
countries in the world where we have evidence (over 90%) inequalies in parcipaon in
higher educaon (HE) by social background exist. Across 76 of the lowest income countries
in the world the poorest people are 20 mes less likely to complete a higher educaon
course than the richest. United Naons Educaonal, Scienc and Cultural Organizaon
(UNESCO) have recognised the challenge and sustainable development goal 4.3 states
that: ‘By 2030 countries provide equal access for all women and men to aordable and
quality technical, vocaonal and higher educaon, including university’. However, the
evidence shows that the chances of this goal being met by 2030 are slim. Drawing on his
recent report ‘The equity crisis -higher educaon access and success to 2030’ Professor
Graeme Atherton in his presentaon will outline where the major issues in equity,
excellence and success are around the world today and how they could be addressed.
The equity crisis report, produced for Northern Consorum in the UK, analyses data on
higher educaon parcipaon across the world, includes a global survey with responses
from 80 organisaons in over 50 countries and 7 online discussion sessions delivered
in partnership with a range of internaonal organisaons including the World Bank,
UNESCO and the Asia Europe Foundaon. Professor Atherton will highlight the examples
of innovave pracce in equity, inclusive excellence and student success idened in the
report and its recommendaons which centre on the formaon of a global task force
that can galvanise commitment from policymakers and universies across the world to
enhancing equitable access and success in higher educaon by 2030.
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Rapporteur
Dr. Garima Malik, Assistant Professor, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education, NIEPA, India
Dr. Garima Malik, Ph.D. in Economics from Ohio State University in the US. Before
joining NIEPA, she was an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Delhi. She
was a Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
and worked as an Economist with Tata Services Limited and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
She has published in several journals and presented papers at national and international
conferences. Her current research focuses on governance and management in higher
education.
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Session 1
11:15 - 13:00 Plenary Session 1: State, Market, and Equity in Higher Education
Chairperson: Amitabh Kundu, Distinguished Fellow, Research and Information System
for Developing Countries, India
11:15-11:30 Keynote Address: N.V. Varghese, Former Vice-Chancellor, National Institute of Educational
Planning and Administration, India
11:30-12:30 Speakers
1. Brigid Freeman, Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne, and
Matt Brett, Deakin University, Australia
2. Suma Scaria, Central University of Karnataka, India
3. Protiva Kundu, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, India
4. Manika Bora, O.P. Jindal Global University, India
Discussant: Mohammad Muzammil, Former Vice-Chancellor, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University,
India
12:30 - 13:00 Open for Discussion
Rapporteur: Sangeeta Angom, Department of Higher & Professional Education, NIEPA,
India
Chairperson: Amitabh Kundu, Distinguished Fellow, Research and
Information System for Developing Countries, India
Professor Amitabh Kundu is currently associated in Advisory capacity
with Research and Information System for Developing Countries, World
Resources Institute and Oxfam India New Delhi. He was Regional
Advisor on Poverty at UNESCWA, Beirut during 2017 and Consultant
to the Government of Sri Lanka during 2016. Until January 2014, he was
Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been
the Dean of the School of Social Sciences and has served as a member of
National Statistical Commission during 2006-08. He has been a Visiting
Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Sciences Po and Maison des
Sciences de L’homme in Paris, University of Kaiserslautern and University
of Wuerzburg in Germany.
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Keynote
State, Market and Equity in Higher Education
Professor N.V. Varghese, Former Vice-Chancellor, NIEPA, India
Abstract
Equity and jusce form the foundaon for building a socially inclusive society. Equity implies
fairness and ensures that varying circumstances of birth will not constrain individuals from
realizing their full potenal. The global move towards progressive universalism and the
shiing of emphasis of naonal priories towards equity and social protecon reinforce
the need for state iniaves to promote social inclusion. This is the case even when
the state is weak and less ecient and therefore, it is important to disnguish between
problems of implementaon and issues of principle. Market, on the other hand, promotes
individual preferences and prots focusing on eciency parameters keeping equity
concerns as marginal and incidental.
The public policy and progressive state acons have helped equalize the condions for
success in educaon and employment of the disadvantaged. The logic of armave
acons and reservaon policies stems from the egalitarian principles and democrac
commitments. The progressive state acons have helped reducing durable inequalies
and promong intergeneraonal mobility breaking the persistent link between parental
status and educaonal opportunies for children. Such commied public policy measures
for equity ensure condions for broad-based sharing of prosperity.
Professor N.V. Varghese was the former Vice-Chancellor of the National University of
Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. He holds a doctoral degree in
Economics with specialization in educational planning. He was the founding Director of
the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE/NIEPA), New Delhi (2013-
2019); Head of Governance and Management in Education at the International Institute
for Educational Planning (IIEP/UNESCO), Paris (2006- 2013); Head of its Training and
Education Programmes at IIEP, Paris (2001- 2006) and Head of higher education and
specialized training, at IIEP, Paris (1999-2001). He was responsible for designing and
introducing the IIEP Master’s programme in educational planning and management.
While at IIEP, he was the Secretary General and responsible for the secretariat of the International Working
Group on Education (IWGE) which is a network of funding agencies in education.
In the 1990s he was Professor and Head of Educational Planning at NIEPA, New Delhi. He was also Head of
the DPEP Cell in NIEPA. He was responsible for developing methodologies of decentralized planning and was
leading activities associated with educational planning at the federal and decentralised levels in India. He was also
responsible for the design and development of externally funded education projects in India during 1992-1999.
He has been member of several International Boards/Committees and editorial Boards of Journals. He is also the
Chief Editor of the Journal for Educational Planning and Administration. He has directed several national and
international research projects; carried out research projects in several countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America
and CIS region; published more than 30 books and research reports, and more than 200 research papers and
articles in academic Journals in the areas related to educational planning, nancing and higher education.
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Integration of Diversity and Inclusion within Australian Higher
Education Policy: Insights to Inform National Education
Policy 2020 Implementation Monitoring
Dr. Brigid Freeman, Senior Researcher (Education), Australia India Institute, University of
Melbourne, Australia
Professor Matt Brett, Director, Academic Governance and Standards, Deakin University, Australia
Abstract
Australia has aracted internaonal recognion for the ways in which diversity and inclusion
are interwoven into the fabric of higher educaon policy. This paper provides internaonal
readers with insight into how diversity and inclusion is integrated within Australian higher
educaon policy. Descripons of contemporary policy architecture are contextualised with
an exploraon of key policy developments that have shaped Australian higher educaon
over recent decades. Concern for diversity and inclusion is deeply embedded in higher
educaon policy, including system regulaon and quality assurance, nancing, instuons,
internaonalisaon of teaching and research, and reporng. Australian higher educaon
equity policies have played an important role in widening parcipaon of students from
underrepresented groups and providing a consistently high standard of educaon and
experience. Notwithstanding policies and systems for promong equity and inclusion,
substanve equality is elusive. There is persistent underrepresentaon in Australian
higher educaon of groups for whom parcipaon is systemacally evaluated, and some
underrepresented groups experience challenges in making successful transions to the
labour market. The extent of underrepresentaon is more pronounced for some groups in
postgraduate coursework and research higher degrees. There is also considerable variety
across instuons in the social demography of students. The paper describes eorts to
enhance inclusion, with contemporary policy review processes placing inclusion as a key
consideraon in long-term system planning. The diversity and inclusion challenges faced by
Australia, despite the sophiscaon of its equity policies, provides useful insights to naonal
systems seeking to improve diversity and inclusion policies while concurrently addressing
system size, structure and quality. Notwithstanding signicant dierences in terms of scale,
such reecons could inform the development of strategies to monitor implementaon of
India’s Naonal Educaon Policy 2020.
Dr. Brigid Freeman is Senior Researcher (Education) with the Australia India Institute at
the University of Melbourne, and in 2023, Visiting Professor with the National Institute
of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) in Delhi, India. Her research
is international and comparative, focusing on higher education policy and systems,
university policy governance, internationalisation, and higher education in emergencies.
Dr Freeman has undertaken extensive eldwork in Australasia, India and the United
States, and published higher education policy related research supported by the Australian
Government, Victorian Government and UNESCO.
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Dr. Matt Brett is Director of Academic Governance and Standards at Deakin University.
He has a longstanding commitment to student equity spanning roles in research, policy
and practice. He has been involved in over $1m of externally funded competitive research
grants, convened the 2011 National Summit on the Mental Health of Tertiary Students,
and co-edited Student Equity in Australian Higher Education: 25 Years of A Fair Chance
for All.
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Public versus Private: Does Privatization Enhances Equity in
Higher Education in India?
Dr. Suma Scaria, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics Studies and Planning,
Central University of Karnataka, India
Abstract
It is well known that the role of private sector in the provision of higher educaon in India
has grown tremendously in recent mes. However there has been a lot of debates both
in academic as well as policy circles whether such a growth/enhanced role has improved
equity in access to higher educaon across dierent secons of the society. In this context,
the present arcle aims to ask the following quesons: Firstly, what role does dierent type
of instuons (public instuons versus private instuons) play in the enrolment as well
as disciplinary choices in higher educaon? Secondly, how does class, caste and gender
mediate in access to dierent type of instuons? Thirdly, how does the intersecons of
caste and gender, class and gender and also caste and class mediate access too dierent
types of instuons? The above quesons aim to contribute to the larger debates on the
privazaon of higher educaon in India as well as across the globe.
Dr. Suma Scaria is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics in
the Central University of Karnataka at Gulbarga. Her specialisation is in Development
Economics. Her current interest lies in issues relating to higher education in India with
specic focus on how class, caste and gender mediate access to higher education. She
has published research articles in several prestigious journals including Economic and
Political Weekly, Indian journal of gender studies, Contemporary education dialogue,
Social Change, Indian Journal of Human Development, Journal of Land and Rural studies,
South Asia Research and Indian journal of Labour economics.
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Gender Responsive Budgeting: A Tool for Gender Equality in
Higher Education
Dr. Protiva Kundu, ematic Lead-Social Sectors, Centre for Budget and Governance
Accountability, India
Abstract
The United Naons Sustainable Development Goals Agenda includes gender equality as
one of its 17 goals and emphasizes the importance of supporng women’s empowerment
to meet the SDGs. The status and quality of higher educaon is a key contributor to
society’s progress towards goal 5. While in the last 10 years, India has progressed a lot
in addressing gender inequality in higher educaon sector, the COVID-19 pandemic and
the global economic crisis are reversing progress towards the SDGs and reducing available
resources to nance crisis migaon and recovery measures. Undoubtedly, there is a need
for mobilising more resources towards the sector. Meanwhile, it is important to ensure that
the limited funds currently available deliver the best outcomes for women associated with
higher educaon sector. Meeng such goals require eecve policy planning, budgeng
and implementaon of programmes that are specically aimed at achieving the desired
outcomes. Gender-responsive Budgeng (GRB) – an applicaon of gender mainstreaming
in budgetary process can help in reducing gender inequality in higher educaon. Analysing
Union Government Gender Budget Statement for the last seven years, this paper invesgates
the development of the GRB process in higher educaon. The paper also comments on the
gaps that are inherent in the methodology and reporng pracces. It oers some policy
suggesons on how to integrate GRB into country’s higher educaon policies.
Dr. Protiva Kundu is a development professional with over ten years of experience
in public policy analysis. She currently works as the ‘ematic Lead-Social Sectors’ at
the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), a think tank based in
New Delhi. At CBGA Protiva’s work includes nancing of education, public nancing
for women and children, gender responsive budgeting in education, early childhood
education, education equity and child protection. She has a Ph.D. and an M.Phil. degree
in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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(In)equality of Opportunity:
Evidence from Higher Education in India
Dr. Manika Bora, Assistant Professor, O.P. Jindal Global University, India
Abstract
For much of the nineteenth and tweneth century, economists were preoccupied with
economic growth, and wealth accumulaon by naons. Ulmately the achievement of
economic growth globally was accompanied by increase in inequalies between and within
naons, drawing aenon once again to the distribuonal aspects of this growth. Evidence
from historical data indicates that to a large extent the convergence of economic growth at
the global and naonal level has been on account of diusion of knowledge. In other words,
skills and educaon have played the role of levelers in society for much of 20th century in
stark contrast to the earlier periods characterized by inherited status and wealth. Needless
to say, despite the role played by educaon in migang inequalies, it is not a magic bullet
that can work in isolaon. Infact, in the absence of equal access to educaon and economic
opportunies, expansion of the educaonal system might only reinforce inequalies, with
predictable winners and losers.
One aspect of studying inequality has been focusing on the transmission of inequality
across generaons in society. Educaon because of its intrinsic and instrumental value to
both individuals and society is an important transmier of intergeneraonal advantage or
disadvantage. The empirical scholarship on equality of opportunity in India has employed
the circumstances of individuals – parental characteriscs, gender, social class, caste, religion
and region. The beneciary of equalizing educaonal opportunies is oen presented as an
individual. Envisaged in this manner equality of opportunity may well appear compable
with gender/caste based discriminaon, even in a society with formal equality.
Complicang the conceptualizaon further, the existence of group based inequality implies
educaonal policy intended to equalize opportunies would also have to contend with the
clustering of educaonal capital and mobilies amongst the dominant groups as a result of
caste/gender - blind educaonal development. This paper discusses evidence of equality of
opportunity in the context of massicaon of higher educaon. The methods and materials
used will include exisng empirical literature and crical policy discourse.
Dr. Manika Bora is a development economist by training, and has a PhD degree from
the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi.
Her doctoral research is an empirical examination of intergenerational mobility and the
persisting inuence of social origins in educational and economic outcomes in rural
eastern India. Her primary areas of interest lie at the intersections of social identity—
especially gender and caste, education and inequality. She is currently an Assistant
Professor in the Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal University, Sonipat, Haryana.
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Discussant
Professor Mohammad Muzammil, Former Vice-Chancellor, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, India
Professor Mohd Muzammil is the former Vice-Chancellor of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
University Agra and MJP Rohilkhand University Bareilly, a Professor of Economics, at
Lucknow University, a Visiting Fellow at QEH Oxford and a Member of the RECOUP
under RPC of Cambridge University UK. His book: Financing of Education appeared
in 1989. He has extensively published on the economics of education. His articles have
appeared in EPW and the Journal of Development Studies. He co-authored the book:
A Political Economy of Education in India (OUP) He is an author of the India Chapter
in Terry Moe and Susanne Wiborg (ed) e Comparative Politics of Education (CUP).
He has been the Chairperson of e Committee on Policy Making for Attracting Private Investment in Higher
Education in UP of the Government of UP. He was conferred Career Award for Young Social Scientist of the
UGC in 1989, Govind Ballabh Pant Economics Prize in 2000, Shikshak Shri Samman (2009) and Saraswati
Samman (2011), He is associated in an advisory capacity with many HEIs.
Rapporteur
Dr. Sangeeta Angom, Associate Professor, Department of Higher and Professional Education,
NIEPA, India
Dr. Sangeeta Angom is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Higher and
Professional Education, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration
(NIEPA), New Delhi. She has completed Master Degree in Education (Gold Medallist)
and PhD in Education from North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. She has undergone
training in Educational Planning and Management (EPM) at IIEP (UNESCO), Paris in
2016 and attended Leadership Institute for mid-level career individual (IFE) organized by
East West Centre (EWC), Honolulu, Hawai, at Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, Bangkok,
ailand in 2010. She has contributed various research papers on areas relating to Indian
higher education at seminars/conferences conducted at National, International and regional levels. She also
published an edited book and several research papers in journals, books (chapters) and proceedings.
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Session 2
14:00 - 15:15 Plenary Session 2: Higher Education Access, Diversity, and Social Inclusion
Chairperson: Pankaj Mittal, Secretary General, Association of Indian Universities, India
14:00 - 14:15 Keynote Address: Odile Henry, Director, Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), India
14:15 - 15:15
Speakers
1. Jakob Williams Ørberg, Novo Nordisk Foundation, India
2. Surajit Deb, Aryabhatta College, India
3. Ankit Kawade, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
4. Nidhi S. Sabharwal, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education, NIEPA, India
Discussant: Sachidanand Sinha, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
15:15-15:45 Open for Discussion
Rapporteur: Eldho Mathews, Unit for International Cooperation, NIEPA, India
Chairperson: Dr. (Mrs) Pankaj Mittal, Secretary General, Association of
Indian Universities, India
Dr. (Mrs) Pankaj Mittal served as the rst regular Vice-Chancellor of Bhagat
Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyalaya, Haryana, the rst rural women university
of North India for two terms and introduced a series of reforms and innovative
practices in the university.
Dr (Mrs) Pankaj Mittal is presently, the Secretary General of the Association
of Indian Universities (AIU), the second women Secretary General of the
Association in its 97 years of existence. She has been serving the higher education
sector for more than 03 decades at senior positions at the University Grants
Commission of India. She is the Chief Commissioner for Guides of Bharat
Scouts and Guides. She is also the Member of General Assembly and Finance
Committee of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi.
Dr (Mrs) Pankaj Mittal is a Fulbright Scholar and has been a topper in MSc
and PhD in Agricultural Statistics from IARI, New Delhi. Dr Mittal is also
the recipient of many Awards and Honours like Fulbright Nehru Scholarship
grant for Educational Administrators, President of India Award in 2017 for
Digital Initiatives in Higher education, Honorary Doctorate-D. Litt. (Honoris
Causa) from Karnataka State Women’s University, Karnataka, First Padam
Shri Subhashini Devi Award 2018 for contributions in Societal Development
and Community Engagement, Qimpro Gold Standard Award for leadership in
Education for the year 2018 and Smt. Sushma Swaraj Stree Shakti Samman 2020.
Dr Mittal has visited a number of countries like USA, Canada, Mexico, United
Kingdom, Japan, Australia, China, South Korea, Spain, Germany, South Africa,
Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mauritius and Philippines to name a few, for academic
purposes for presenting papers in international conferences and for academic
exchanges. She has published a number of papers, articles, occasional papers
and reports on issues relating to higher education and women empowerment in
national and international journals.
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Keynote
Statutory Assignment and Social Value of Degrees:
The Academic and Professional Futures of Students of
an Indian Institute of Technology through the Lens of
Reservation Categories
Professor Odile Henry, Director, Centre de Sciences Humanies (CSH), India
Abstract
Indian instutes of technology tend to be seen as instuons that produce a meritocrac
elite, free from the conngencies of caste and its polical exploitaon. Based on eldwork in
one of these elite technical colleges, we queson this meritocrac model. We rst highlight
the processes by which IITs connuously and dierenally screen out students from
dominated groups (especially those belonging to the SC and ST categories), and contribute
to a strong dierenaon of the performance, and thus the social value, of educaonal
credenals on the labour market. We then focus on the analysis of the logics of placement
of IIT students in the private sector and in parcular on the disparies in the employment
integraon of students according to their eld of study, their degree, their academic results
and their status in terms of reservaon categories.
Professor Odile Henry holds a doctorate in sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes
en Sciences Sociales (Paris). She is currently director of the CSH (https://www.csh-delhi.
com/), full professor of sociology at Paris 8 University (Political Science’s department)
aer having taught as assistant professor at Dauphine University (Paris). Her early
research explored, from a sociological and ethnographic perspective, the world of large
consulting rms in France. Aliated to the ENGIND programme (Engineers and Society
in Colonial and Post Colonial India, funded by the French National Research Agency,
ANR), she was aliated as a senior researcher to the CSH from 2014 (September) to 2017
(February). She conducted an extensive eldwork at IIT Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh). Her
main publications (with Mathieu Ferry) focused on the processes of elimination and dierentiation of students
according to their caste and gender within the IIT and upon entry into the labour market. From 2018 to 2020, she
was a member of the ESPI project on the eects, in terms of social inequalities, of the very strong development
of private higher education. Funded by the French Development Agency (AFD), this programme focused on
7 emerging or developing countries. Associated with CPRHE, Odile Henry was in charge of the analysis of the
transformations of Indian higher education institutions. Her current research projects deepen this research on
the eects of privatisation in Indian higher education, based on eldwork interrupted by the health crisis. From
2018 to 2022, she coordinated with Joël Cabalion, Mathieu Ferry, Clémence Jullien, Jules Naudet and Olivier
Roue the monthly CEIAS-EHESS seminar on "Sociology of Inequalities in India".
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Understanding Inequity in Engineering Education:
Student Trajectories through Higher Education and its Shadows
Dr. Jakob Williams Ørberg, Senior Consultant, Novo Nordisk Foundation
Abstract
Access and performance in the Indian higher educaon sector and high skilled labor market
is extensively organized through events of tesng. This is true both at entry level of higher
educaon instuons and in the organizaon of employer recruitment prior to or post
graduaon. While tests are largely built to secure fair assessment of student competences
and learning achievements developed within the educaon system, the high stakes aached
have spurred increased investments in investments, pracces and services directly focused
on improving test performance in itself.
Students approach entry and exit events from very diverse posions that are increasingly
co-constuted by a high degree of investment of me and resources in arrangements of
test preparaon, either in the private coaching and tuion sector or informally in self or
community organized formats. This paper argues that understanding and conceptualizaon
of diversity and inclusion challenges in higher educaon must take into account the
relaonships between higher educaon and the test focused preparaon, including
especially the coaching industry. The paper further suggest a student centric focus in
arculang this relaonship through following what it calls student ‘educaonal careers’
through both formal forms of educaonal progression and their ‘shadows’ in the private
coaching sector.”
Dr. Jakob Williams Ørberg is Senior Advisor and Head of India Branch Oce in NNF
India under Novo Nordisk Foundation. Before this he served as Counsellor Innovation,
Research and Higher Education at Royal Danish Embassy in New Delhi. Jakob has
a research background from Aarhus University, where he worked on European and
Indian higher education systems, as well as signicant experience in Danish and
European higher education policy making from Danish Ministry of Higher Education
and Science.
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Higher Education in India: Aspects of Access, Diversity and
Social Inclusion
Professor Surajit Deb, Professor, Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi
Abstract
Given the central role that higher educaon fulls for the social and economic development
of a naon, the access to higher educaon and its quality remain an important area of concern
in India. Previous studies have pointed out that poverty, high tuion fees, geographical
immobility and discriminaon acted as major barriers to achieving the universal access. The
terary educaon in the country is undergoing rapid changes at present and is also poised
for the expansion. This paper examines the aspects of access, diversity and social inclusion
in the higher educaon sector in India. We use the state level data from All India Survey
on Higher Educaon (AISHE, 2019-20) to develop indicators of enrolment, gender parity
and social inclusion for major states of India. We subsequently use correlaon analysis to
examine whether access has been accompanied by diversity and social inclusion in the
Indian system.
Professor Surajit Deb did his Ph.D. (Economics) from University of Delhi, on
Macroeconomic Implications of Agricultural Prices and Time Series Econometrics. He has
published in academic journals, participated in international conferences and completed
commissioned research projects. His important contributions include a biennial chapter
on Social Development Index in the Social Development Reports from 2012 to 2022
(OUP). He is working as Professor in Economics at Aryabhatta College, University of
Delhi and teaches Micro Economics, Public Economics, and Environmental Economics.
His current research interests include multi-dimensional development indices, inclusive
growth, disability and its implications, gender parity, women’s time-use pattern, ageing impacts, child well-being
and India-China comparisons
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How to Respond to the Problem of Intellectual Inequality?
Revisiting the Silence of the Subaltern Student
Mr. Ankit Kawade, Research Scholar, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Abstract
This paper will aempt to conceptualise or theorise upon the problem of intellectual
inequality in the landscape of higher educaon instuons in India and crically analyse
whether our responses of diversity and inclusion jeopardise our ameliorave eorts in this
direcon. I shall do this via a crical dialogue with the works of the late scholar Aniket
Jaaware, especially his essay tled “The Silence of the Subaltern Student” (1998).
This essay marks perhaps its most crucial philosophical moment when Jaaware quotes the
predicament of a subaltern student as exemplifying a phenomenon which is described as
“being-below-the-level-of-alterity”. An experience of not even being recognized as ‘the
other’ is how Jaaware interpreted the meaning of the response of one of his students,
expressed to him in Marathi and only inadequately translated in the following words: “Sir,
we are not seen by them.”
Engaging with the main themes of Jaaware’s essay, the paper wishes to foreground the
queson of silence as encountered in the experience of the subaltern student as an entry-
point to think the phenomenon of intellectual inequality in higher educaon instuons in
India. I shall claim that intellectual inequality manifests in Indian classrooms via a dierenal
distribuon of voice and silence among its students. The subaltern student struggles to
arculate the content of their experiences in the classroom, and hence silence should only
be considered as a sign of the failure of language and not of learning as such. How does
one include the silence of the subaltern student for a more diverse classroom? This is the
central queson that this paper reects upon.
Mr. Ankit Kawade is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi. His doctoral research concerns the reception of the philosophy
of Friedrich Nietzsche among modern Indian political thinkers like S.R. Rajwade,
Muhammad Iqbal, and B.R. Ambedkar. He is also the recipient of the “Navayana Dalit
History Fellowship,” and his monograph titled e Genius of the Chandala and the Gospel
of the Superman: Nietzsche, Ambedkar, and the Conict of Interpretations is forthcoming
from Navayana.
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Challenges Facing Students from Disadvantaged Groups in
HE in India: A Call for A Process-Oriented Institutional Action
for Enacting Diversity and Realizing Inclusion
Dr. Nidhi S. Sabharwal, Associate Professor, CPRHE/NIEPA, India
Abstract
Armave acon in higher educaon in India has advanced the right of students from
disadvantaged groups to access HE. It is cause for celebraon when tradionally under-
represented students in higher educaon become a majority share of the student body,
and campuses reect the social diversity of the populaon in the society, as has been the
case for HE in India. Diversity is commonly understood as an adjecve which describes the
social background or characteriscs of students, such as gender, caste, ethnicity, economic
background, age, or disability, but it does not capture variaons in opportunity structures
which underlie the HE experiences of students from these groups. These variaons relate
to their gender, being the rst in their families to enter HE, belonging to poor families and
of ‘lower’ caste, from rural areas and have studied in regional language as their medium
of instrucon. Dierenated opportunity structures present challenges faced by diverse
learners at the stage of admission, aer admission - inside classrooms, and in social spheres,
out-side classrooms. This paper argues that while armave acon at the entry-level
has resulted in improving access to students from tradionally under-represented social
backgrounds, such as the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, other backward classes, from
economically poor families and women, it is necessary that HEIs engage in the process of
enacng diversity by systemacally assessing challenges facing students from these groups
at each stage and taking acons of inclusion to facilitate student success.
This paper presents a diversity engagement process framework and delineates stages for
acts of inclusion required to overcome the barriers faced by students from disadvantaged
groups. The empirical basis of this diversity engagement framework is drawn from a large-
scale CPRHE mixed-method study implemented in higher educaon instuons located
across six Indian states (viz., Bihar, Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Uar Pradesh).
The study ulised a combinaon of quantave and qualitave research instruments to
collect and analyse data. The empirical ndings are based on a quesonnaire-based survey
administered to 3200 students, interviews with 200 faculty members and administrators,
70 focus group discussions with students and a close analysis of 50 student diaries.
Dr. Nidhi S. Sabharwal is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre for Policy
Research in Higher Education (CPRHE/NIEPA), New Delhi. Dr. Sabharwal is holding
the position of Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Education Studies at
the University of Warwick. She has previously been the In-Charge of the CPRHE/NIEPA.
Dr. Sabharwal has also previously served as the Director of the Indian Institute of Dalit
Studies. She has conducted extensive research on the development concerns of the poor,
especially the scheduled caste groups. She has studied inter-group inequalities across
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human development indicators, focusing on the role of caste- and gender-based discrimination in market and
non-market institutions; diversity and discrimination within higher educational institutions, Mid-Day Meal
and Anganwadi programmes; and social protection & armative action policies. She has also studied excluded
groups in other countries, such as the Burakumin in Japan. She has published books and articles related to equity
and inclusion and presented papers at international conferences. Her current research focuses on access, student
diversity and equity in Higher Education.
Discussant
Professor Sachidanand Sinha, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Professor Sachidanand Sinha is a Retired Professor at the Centre for the Study of
Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Dr Sinha has been a teacher for over 33 years and a Professor of Geography for 16 years.
He has served the university in dierent capacities including as the Chairperson of the
Centre during 2017-2019 and Coordinator of the UGC Advanced Centre of Geography
under UGC-CAS for two years since 2017.
He has also served as the Provost and Associate Dean of Students in the university for
various lengths of time.
He has published 5 books and over 40 articles in reputed journals and guided over 30 doctoral and 75 MPhil
research theses. He is on the Editorial Boards of a number of International Journals.
He was member of the Working Group for the 11th Plan of University Grants Commission, Working Group for
Development of Model Colleges in Educationally Backward Districts of India, Ministry of Minorities Aairs,
and Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. During 2010-11 he served as a consultant to the Punjab
Governance Reforms Commission and later in 2012-13 as the Chief Advisor of the Core Group for Development
of School Textbooks in Social Sciences for the Government of Rajasthan and SCERT, Chhattisgarh. He has also
served as advisor to the CABE Sub Committee on Improving Government Schools in India in 2015-16 and Niti
Aayog Working Group on Vision 2030, Govt of Punjab.
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Rapporteur
Mr. Eldho Mathews, Deputy Advisor, Unit for International Cooperation (UIC), NIEPA, India
Mr. Eldho Mathews holds MPhil degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
His dissertation examined the functional relationship between higher education and
economy in China during the period of “reform and opening up.”
Eldho previously worked as Head, Internationalising Higher Education (South India)
at the British Council; senior researcher with US-based management consulting rm–
Sannam S4; full-time consultant with the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s
National Higher Education Mission (RUSA); and the Education Division of the Planning
Commission.
Eldho started his career as a research ocer with the Kerala State Higher Education Council in 2007. Eldho’s
"research papers and articles" (single and co-authored) had appeared in International Higher Education
(Boston), Times Higher Education (London), Economic and Political Weekly, e Hindu, e World View
of Inside Higher Ed, European Association for International Education’s FORUM, etc. At the UIC, Eldho is
responsible for work related to bilateral cooperation in education with countries in Africa.
Day 2
17 February
2023
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Session 3
9.30-11:00 Plenary Session 3: Equity and Excellence in Higher Education
Chairperson: Anita Rastogi, Professor, Department of Educational Studies, Jamia Millia
Islamia, India
9:30-9:45
Keynote Address: Meenakshi Gopinath, Director, Women in Security Conict
Management and Peace, India
9:45-10:30
Speakers
1. Muhammad Muahu, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
2. N. Sukumar, Delhi University and Vidyasagar Sharma, University of Delhi, India
3. Ramdas Rupavath, University of Hyderabad, India
4. Dilip Vasantrao Chavan, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, India
Discussant: Mousumi Mukherjee, Associate Professor & Deputy Director, IIHEd, O.P.
Jindal Global University, India
10:30-11:00
Open for Discussion
Rapporteur: Binay Prasad, Unit for International Cooperation, NIEPA, India
Chairperson: Professor Anita Rastogi, Professor, Department of
Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, India
Professor Anita Rastogi is a Professor in the Department of Educational
Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia since 2009. Prior to joining Jamia Millia Islamia
in 1995, she had served as Lecturer in Directorate of Distance Education,
Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak (Haryana) and in District Institute of
Education and Training, Delhi till 1995. She has been selected for 8th Venus
International Women Awards (VIWA 2023) in the Category of Distinguished
Women Researcher in Education.
She served as Head of the Department for three years (2012-2015) and the
Project Head of School of Education granted by MHRD, GOI under Pandit
Mohan Malviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching. She has been
also the Co-ordinator of DRSII-SAP granted by UGC for a period of ve
years (2013-2018) in the area of Teacher Education, Policy Perspectives and
Management. She was also appointed as Nodal Ocer by the University for
All India Survey of Higher Education and Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, an initiative
of MHRD.
She has rich experience of about 34 years in the area of Teacher Education
(Elementary, Secondary, Preparation of Teacher Educators, Continuous
professional Development of Teachers in both face to face and distance mode).
She is keenly interested in the area of ICT- Pedagogy Integration and has
contributed in the area of development of e-Content in Teacher Education
and identication of determinants of ICT-pedagogy Integration.
She has published a number of Research Papers/ Articles in reputed National
and International Journals and has also contributed to the development of
Self Instructional Material published by IGNOU and Maharshi Dayanand
University, Rohtak as writer/editor and reading material on e-content
developed by UGC-CEC.
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Keynote
The 'Inclusion' Conundrum
Professor Meenakshi Gopinath, Director, Women in Security Conict Management and Peace, India
Professor Meenakshi Gopinath is currently Founder and Honorary Director of
WISCOMP (Women in Security, Conict Management and Peace), an initiative that seeks
to promote the leadership of South Asian women in the areas of peace, security and regional
cooperation. She is also Chair, Board of Governors, Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and
Principal Emerita of Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, where she served as Principal for
26 years from 1988-2014. She has been a member of the University Grants Commission
(UGC), India. Dr. Gopinath was the rst woman to be nominated to the National Security
Advisory Board (NSAB) of India. She is a member of multi-track peace initiatives and
people-to-people dialogues in South Asia. She has authored among others Pakistan in
Transition, and co-authored Conict Resolution – Trends and Prospects, Transcending Conict: A Resource book on
Conict Transformation and Dialogic Engagement and has contributed chapters and articles in several books and
journals on Gandhi, the politics of Pakistan, Conict Resolution, Gender and Peace Building et al. Her interests
include issues of human rights and gender, conict transformation and Buddhist and Gandhian philosophy and the
performing Arts. She also headed the Task Force of the SAKSHAM Report of the University Grants Commission
that initiated several policy reforms on Gender Equity on Higher Education Institutes in India.
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Equity and Diversity in Malaysia's Massication of
Higher Education
Dr. Muhammad Muahu, Acting Director, National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN),
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Abstract
Higher educaon in Malaysia has been undergoing a period of rapid expansion and
consolidaon over the past decade. While it was previously dominated by a small group
of elite universies, there has been an increasing number of private higher educaon
instuons with lower entry requirements and more exible curricula. Massicaon of
higher educaon has been a posive development in Malaysia, leading to a surge in student
enrollment and greater accessibility to higher educaon. The benets of this development
include an increase in human capital and knowledge, a greater diversity of ideas, more
opportunies for social mobility, and beer employment opportunies for graduates.
However, it has also brought to light the need to tackle issues of equity and diversity in
the country’s higher educaon system which are global concerns across naons. Diversity,
inclusiveness, and equity are key qualies that underpin a diversied and highly skilled
workforce. These qualies will be important to maintain the economic compeveness of
Malaysia.
Based on secondary data, this paper examines the current state of equity and diversity in the
massied higher educaon system of Malaysia, as well as the challenges faced in promong
it. The secondary data is used to review the massicaon of higher educaon in Malaysia as
well as equity and diversity in higher educaon. The evidence points to disparies among
dierent ethnic groups, socioeconomic backgrounds, and geographic regions, despite the
government's eorts to increase enrollment. Addionally, inadequate representaon of
marginalised groups among faculty and sta is also a major issue. The paper highlights the
importance of addressing equity and diversity issues in Malaysia's higher educaon system.
The higher educaon system must be inclusive and equitable to ensure that all students
have an equal opportunity to succeed and contribute to the country's development.
Keywords: Access to Higher Educaon, Equity and Diversity, Massicaon of Higher
Educaon
Dr. Muhammad Muahu is an Acting Director, Deputy Director and Coordinator Global
Higher Education Network (GHEN) at National Higher Education Research Institute,
(IPPTN), Universiti Sains Malaysia, (USM). His specialisition and interest is in the
areas of Sustainable Institutional Development, Leadership, and Management in Higher
Education; Comparative and international in Higher Education; Higher Education as a
eld of study and Qualitative Research Methodology.
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Castplaining University Campuses as Neo-Ghettos:
A Case Study of Two Central Universities in India
Professor N. Sukumar, Professor, Department of Political Science, Delhi University, India
Mr. Vidyasagar Sharma, Doctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India
Abstract
The polics of exclusion and discriminaon has received proporonate aenon from
across the social science disciplines. Sll, the focus has always been to understand the
performave sociological injusces experienced by marginalised students in their everyday
campus life. The debate around exclusion in university campuses in India has considerably
revolved around caste idenes parcularly when it is subjected to marginalised students,
but this paper aempts to locate the university campuses as neo-gheos of modern India
where caste-based segregaon is becoming the dening characterisc. It argues that the
everyday negoaons of marginalised students are not merely limited to the university
governance system; it invites violent confrontaons from the froners of Brahmanical
castes. The increasing number of caste-based violence in the university spaces has
recongured the campus into a neo-gheo because such violence has mulple forms which
pierces the horizontal solidarity among the students. Therefore, many students’ collecve
organises along the two dominant ideologies; one aempts to preserve caste supremacy
and the other challenges the caste-based injusces in university campuses which produced
many segregated spaces within one university campus. Taking theorecal reference from
Wacquant’s gheo framework, this paper is based on the secondary literature and personal
narraves of two selected central universies of India and it enquires why university
campuses are very similar to the gheo and how this gheoizaon is embodied in the
everyday lives of the students.
Keywords: Caste; Exclusion; Neo-Gheos; Segregaon; University Campus; India.
Professor N. Sukumar teaches Political Science at Delhi University, India. His area of
interest includes Indian Political ought, Ambedkar and Dalit Bahujan Studies, Human
Rights and Social Exclusion. Currently, he is engaged on Dalit Citizenship and Anti-
Caste Utopias. He is also member/advisor for many professional bodies in many Central
Universities and other institutions. He has published widely in research journals, blogs etc.
and has been involved in both national and international research studies on poverty and
public institutions, caste-based atrocities, and discrimination. Apart from the classroom,
he is also actively involved in grassroots peoples’ struggles.
Mr. Vidyasagar Sharma is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Political
Science, University of Delhi. His research focuses on spatial identity, belonging, higher
education, and social justice. He has been associated as an Urban Fellow at the Indian
Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru. Simultaneously, He is actively engaged in
building an academic network and solidarity for social justice in higher education. He
is the founder of an academic group, "Speaking from Margin", which helps research
students from marginal backgrounds to connect with the faculty and scholars engaged
with contemporary discourses of social sciences.
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Educational Status of Women and Girl Child:
Gender Discrimination in Modern India
Professor Ramdas Rupavath, Professor, Department of Political Science,
University of Hyderabad, India
Abstract
Educaon is the key catalyst to the development of human resources. For the tribals,
educaon is the pivot on which their success depends. Educaon disseminates knowledge.
Knowledge gives inner strength which is very essenal for the tribes for aaining freedom
from exploitaon and poverty. Due to ignorance arising out of illiteracy, the tribal have
not been able to take advantage of new economic opportunies. Opening of the tribal
areas to the development process, the educaon become the very essenal to realize their
capabilies, as Amartya Sen Views on development in terms of “human capabilies”, and
that human capabilies can realized by the Educaon. The educaon is the key to tribal
and that can only make meaningful to life of the people. To study the educaonal status of
Lambadi’s and its impact on their socio-economic condions, to study the eecng factors
of their dropout, to nd out the gender disparity within the family and in the society and to
study the parent’s atude towards their girl child and their educaon.
Professor Ramdas Rupavath is Head, Centre for Human Rights, Department Political
Science, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, and Hyderabad. His areas of
specialization include Indian political processes, democracy, development, tribal politics,
education and politics, pluralism and politics of accommodation and comparative
politics in indigenous societies. He did his M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D from Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published ten books and a number of articles
in national and international journals. 1) Politics of Education in India: A Perspective
from Below, Routledge India, Global Edition, 2022; 2) Tribal Education: Deprivation,
Poverty, Disposition, Routledge India, Global Edition, 2022; 3) Indian Politics: Institutions and Processes, Rawat
Publications, India, 2022; 4) Tribal Land Alienation and Political Movements: Socio-Economic Patterns from
South India, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, United Kingdom, 2009; 5) “Telanganalo Girijanulu- Tiugubatlu,
Vishalandhra Publishing House, Hyderabad, 2014; 6) Democracy, Development and Tribes in India: Reality and
Rhetoric, Gyan Publication, New Delhi, 2015; 7) Democracy, Governance and Tribes in the Age of Globalized
India: Reality and Rhetoric, Gyan Publication, New Delhi, 2015; 8) Democracy of the Oppressed: Adivasi Poverty
and Hunger, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, United Kingdom (U.K), 2020. He also researched for a brief period
at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden (2009).
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Online Education, Digital Capitalism and the Question of
Equality in Indian Higher Education
Professor Dilip Vasantrao Chavan, Professor, Department of English, Swami Ramanand Teerth
Marathwada University, India
Abstract
Given that communicaon has always been embedded into structures of inequality in class
sociees, any thought pertaining to the use of technology in communicaon and its relaon
to the idea of disseminaon of ideas and educaon calls for crical reappraisal. Also, given
that educaonal policy and instuons in any given society are an organic outgrowth of
the social structure, introducon of new technology in the eld of educaon also calls for
reconsideraon of the educaonal policy vis-à-vis new technology.
New communicaon technology, which has forced the Indian educaon system to embark
on digital learning, has grown as part of digital capitalism, which itself is an aempt to
overcome the deepening crisis in capitalism. Indian educaon system, which has already
been mired into varying kinds of inequality marked by caste, class, patriarchy, etc. is bound
to suer further erosion, if it connues to be dominated by the new technologies. The
present paper aims to address the impact of online educaon on the Indian educaon
system in this context. It argues for the need to queson the aempt of liming the debate
on online educaon to the context of digital divide and hopes to situate the debate on
online educaon in the context of digital capitalism.
Professor Dilip Vasantrao Chavan is graduated from Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar
with distinction and post-graduated from Fergusson College, Pune with rst class. In
order to become a lecturer in English, I decided to give up a government job in Mumbai,
which I had earned by qualifying an examination conducted by the MPSC. Soon aer
this, I qualied SET in English.
In the early part of career, I decided to write in Marathi. I could write over 10 tracts on
various educational and historical issues. I earned Ph. D. in English from the Savitribai
Phule Pune University for the thesis entitled as 'Language Politics under Colonialism:
Caste, Class and Language Pedagogy in Western India' in 2009. A revised version of this thesis was published by
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, England in 2013.
Presently, I am working as Professor of English at the SRTM University, Nanded. ree of my books are due for
publication.
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Discussant
Dr. Mousumi Mukherjee, Associate Professor & Deputy Director, IIHEd, O.P. Jindal
Global University, India
Prof. (Dr.) Mousumi Mukherjee is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of
the International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building, and
Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Comparative and Global Education at
O.P. Jindal Global University. She is also an Honorary Senior Fellow of the University of
Melbourne Graduate School of Education. She has successfully held leadership positions
with many professional societies. Currently, she is the Vice-President of Research and
Partnerships Development of the STAR Scholars Network, and a Research Standing
Committee Member of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies.
She has published over 30 internationally peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and a co-edited book
with reputed publishers, such as Routledge, Brill-Sense, Sage, Springer and Oxford University Press. She is a
distinguished Fulbright alumna, who has also worked as educational consultant with national and global
organizations, such as NCERT, UNESCO-IIEP and the World Bank.
Rapporteur
Dr. Binay Prasad, Deputy Advisor, Unit for International Cooperation (UIC), NIEPA, India
Dr. Binay Prasad, Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi. His area of research includes Latin American diplomatic history, and he has
conducted extensive archival research in India and in Brazil.
At UIC, Dr. Prasad is responsible for activities related to India's cooperation in the eld
of education with the Europe region, as well as European Union (EU) and Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). His research theme is
"Internationalisation of European Higher Education Area (EHEA): Experiences of non-
EHEA countries and the Bologna Policy Forum".
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Session 4
11:15-13:00 Plenary Session 4: Higher Education and Equitable Employment Outcomes
Chairperson: Sudhanshu Bhushan, Vice-Chancellor (I/c), Professor and Head, DHPE,
National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India
11:15-11:30
Keynote Address : Sukhadeo orat, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
11:30-12:30 Speakers
1. Miguel Antonio Lim, e University of Manchester, United Kingdom, Icy Fresno
Anabo, Deusto University, Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan, University of Auckland, Mark
Andrew Elepaño, Far Eastern University, Gunjana Kuntamarat, Deusto University.
2. G.D. Sharma, Society for Education and Economic Development (SEED), India
3. Nivedita Sarkar, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, India, & Anuneeta Mitra, USA
4. Khalid Khan, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, India
Discussant: Neetha N., Professor, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, India
Open for Discussion
Rapporteur: Jinusha Panigrahi, CPRHE/NIEPA, India
Chairperson: Professor Sudhanshu Bhushan, Vice-Chancellor (I/c),
Professor and Head, DHPE, National Institute of Educational Planning
and Administration
Professor Sudhanshu Bhushan is Vice-Chancellor (I/c) of the National
Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) and Professor
and Head of the Department of Higher & Professional Education in NIEPA.
He specializes in Internationalisation of Higher Education, Policy issues
in Higher Education and Educational Planning. His recent contributions
include Quality Assurance of Transnational Higher Education: Australia
and India Experiences, Public Financing and Deregulated Fees in Indian
Higher Education, and Restructuring Higher Education in India. He is the
co-editor of a book on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in India
and Australia published by Routledge in 2018. His book on the Future of
Higher Education in India has been published by Springer in 2019. His
present responsibility is to conduct and guide research and to provide policy
support to the Government. He is the recipient of Amartya Sen Award 2012
for distinguished Social Scientist, an award instituted by Indian Council of
Social Science Research, New Delhi.
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Keynote
Linkages between Education and Employment:
What cause interpersonal and intergroup inequality in
employment outcomes
Professor Sukhadeo orat, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Abstract
Using recent data, the keynote address on “Educaon and Employment outcomes” will disuses
the inequality in the paern of employment in terms of types of occupaon and sector, at the
aggregate level and the by level of educaon. It will provide empirical evidence on interpersonal
and intergroup (caste, tribe and religion) inequality in the paern of employment. It will also
discuss the linkages between level and type of educaon with the paern of employment in
terms of occupaon and sector, and inequality in the linkages. We then try to capture sources
of inter-personal inequality in employment outcomes in term of unequal access to wealth
and income. In unequal employment outcome across social groups, among other factors, the
role of caste discriminaon in employment and occupaon is examined. It is argued that the
interpersonal and inter-group unequal outcomes in employment and its paern are mainly
caused by unequal access to wealth and income and caste discriminaon and failure of
policy to ensure equal access to educaon in general and skill and professional educaon in
parcular, and failure to ensure creang fair employment capabilies.
Professor Sukhadeo orat is Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University, K.R.
Narayanan Chair for Human Rights and Social Justice at Mahatma Gandhi University,
Kerala (Honorary). Professor orat is also a chairman at Indian Institute of Dalit
Studies, New Delhi and Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. He has
more than forty years of teaching and research experience. Her research is international
and comparative, focusing on Agricultural Development, Rural Poverty, Institution and
Economic Growth, Problems of Marginalized Groups, Economics of Caste System, Caste
Discrimination and Poverty, Human Development, Human Rights Issue, oughts of
Ambedkar, Slums, Education. Prof. roat has published 22 books and more than 100
articles in reputed national and international journals. His latest publications include: Politics of Representation:
Historically Disadvantaged Groups in India’s DemocracyPalmgrave Macmillan, and Caste and Labour Market:
Employment Discrimination of the Scheduled castes and Its Impact on Poverty Oxford (forthcoming).
Professor orat has received multiple awards for academic achievement and social service. He is the recipient
of Padmashree by the Government of India. He was awarded Dr Ambedkar National Award for Social
Understanding and Upliment of Weaker Sections, by Dr Ambedkar Foundation, Ministry of Social Justice
and Empowerment, Government of India; Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Ratna Award, by Government of National
Capital Territory (NCT); Mother Teresa International Award, for Outstanding Achievement and contribution
towards the people of our nation, by All India Minority and Weaker Section Council, Kolkata; Dr. Ambedakar
Chetna Award, by Manwatawadi Rachana Manch Jallunder, Punjab in promoting the cause of Dalits; Award by
Maharashtra Sahitya Academy, Pune, Maharashtra; India Matters- Selected as one among the 100 prominent
persons by India Matters; Dalit Eminence - Selected in the list of 10 eminent Dalits who occupied the higher
position for the rst time under series of Dalit eminence.
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Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Southeast Asian
Higher Education: A Regional Policy Review
Dr. Miguel Antonio Lim, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, England
Dr. Icy Fresno Anabo, Deusto University, Bilbao, Spain
Ms. Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Mr. Mark Andrew Elepaño, Far Eastern University, Philippines
Ms. Gunjana Kuntamarat, Deusto University, Bilbao, Spain
Abstract
Southeast Asia (SEA), a region composed of 11 naons, is among the most diverse in the
world. There are over a thousand ethno-linguisc groups and various religious backgrounds
including Chrisanity, Islam, and Buddhism. There is also signicant socio-economic
diversity both between and within countries, with some countries among the richest in the
world and others facing signicant development challenges. SEA policy makers aim to build
an inclusive, harmonious, and equitable community with a single market that is integrated
into the global economy for the benet of the region’s close to 700 million, mostly young,
increasingly urban, and diverse people. The higher educaon (HE) sector is seen as a key
sector to achieve these goals. HE is posioned by SEA leaders as a vector for regional
harmonisaon and increased innovaon and economic growth. This paper analyses the
key HE policy developments and updates the eld’s knowledge of regional HE policies since
the last regional review in 2006 (SEAMEO RIHED, 2006) when issues of equity, diversity,
and inclusion (EDI) were less developed in regional HE policy agendas. Our content analysis
of 275 academic arcles and 122 stakeholder reports idened important themes and
trends aecng EDI in HE. These include: rapid massicaon of HE in the region, the rise
of private HE provision, the increasing importance of online plaorms, and declaraons to
promote parcipaon of all ‘target groups’ and ‘gender’. Furthermore, our results collect
and synthesise recommendaons for policymakers and HE instuons and contribute to
the debate on regional policy coordinaon for EDI in HE.
Dr. Miguel Antonio Lim is Senior Lecturer in Education at the Manchester Institute of
Education at the University of Manchester. He is co-convenor of the Higher Education
Research Network at the University of Manchester and the International Research and
Researchers Network of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SHE). At the
University of Manchester he has served as impact coordinator and co-research coordinator
of the Manchester Institute of Education. He is also a contributor to the University's
External Relations Strategy Group. His research interests include internationalization
of higher education, East Asian and transnational higher education, university rankings
and performance metrics. Previously, he was EU-Marie Curie Fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark, and task
force leader on migration and higher education at the EU-Marie Curie Alumni Association. He has worked and
taught at Sciences Po-Paris, the London School of Economics (LSE), and University College London (UCL).
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Dr. Icy Fresno Anabo is a Research Associate at the University of Deusto, Spain. Her
research interests include international higher education, employability, and critical
perspectives on education. She worked as a research consultant and research editor for
universities and organizations in Europe and the ASEAN region, including the European
Union Support to Higher Education (EU-SHARE) and the ASEAN Foundation. She
specializes in international higher education, graduates' careers and employability, and
diversity and inclusion in education. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University
of Deusto in Spain. She completed her Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Lifelong
Learning: Policy and Management at the UCL Institute of Education in the UK and the
University of Deusto. She also has a Bachelor of Science degree in Occupational erapy from the University of
the Philippines Manila.
Ms. Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan is completing her PhD in Education at e University of
Auckland, New Zealand. Anh's research interests include transnationalism, migration,
mobility, diaspora, identity, and higher education. She is familiar with various post-
qualitative methodologies, such as critical (collab-orative) autoethnography, and poetic
inquiry. An has published extensively on leading journals of the eld: Journal of Gender
Studies; Globalisation, Education and Societies; Studies in Continue Education, and
many others.
Mr. Drew Elepaño is an education professional who works towards improving the quality
of and access to education in the Philippines. He holds a master’s degree in Lifelong
Learning: Policy and Management from the UCL Institute of Education in the UK. He
is currently the Director for Academic Aairs at the Far Eastern University High School
where his work focuses on school operations planning and management. Drew also has
extensive experience in education policy research having worked as consultant for various
multilateral organizations such as the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations
Development Programme.
Ms. Guniana Kuntamarat completed her Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in
Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management at the UCL Institute of Education in the UK
and the University of Deusto. She conducted research on various topics related to social
justice during her studies. For the past 6 years, she has been working as an English teacher
for young learners in Spain while serving in the World Education Research Association
Secretariat.
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Professor G.D. Sharma, President, Society for Education and Economic Development, India
Professor G.D. Sharma has served as professor and Head Higher Education Unit, in
National Institute of Education Planning and Administration, New Delhi for a long period.
He was also Director, Indian Institute of Education, Pune; Secretary, University Grants
Commission, New Delhi and Director, Consortium of Educational Communication,
New Delhi. He was awarded D.Litt. Hon. Causa by Nagarjun University, AP. He has
published 12 books more than 50 research papers and several research reports. He has
been consultant to UNESCO, Paris; Cambridge Education Consultant, UK; DFID, UK
and Educational Consultant India Ltd., New Delhi and other organizations. He visited
more than 20 countries on various assignments in UNESCO, UNDP and for international
seminar and workshops. He has also advised industrial houses for setting up institutions of higher education.
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Leadership in Higher Education:
Pathways to Improved Institutional Performance
Dr. Nivedita Sarkar, Assistant Professor, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India
Dr. Anuneeta Mitra, Independent Researcher, USA
Abstract
Gender is one of the most pervasive and enduring factors of inequalies in India; and labour
market is not an excepon. Inequalies and discriminaon stemming from patriarchal social
norms are evident in the form of low labour force parcipaon, wage gap, dead-end and
insecure employment.
Wage discriminaon has been dened as the gap that remains in earnings across groups aer
accounng for all observable characteriscs (Blau and Kahn, 2000). Wage gaps, not favouring
females, are an issue that both developed and developing countries are grappling with ll
date, although the gravity of inequalies is quite dierent across various economies. On
average, the global gender wage gap stands at 20 per cent (ILO, 2018), implying that females
earn 80 per cent of wages earned by their male counterparts. India is not an excepon.
Further, the naon is observing a secular fall in the female labour force parcipaon rate
(FLPR) in recent years, despite robust economic growth, rising incomes, fall in ferlity rates,
and improvement in female literacy levels. This precarious trend has received much aenon;
while many argued that this trend should be seen in a posive light as now females are aspiring
for a beer future and geng enrolled in higher educaon (Thomas 2012, Rangaranjan et al.
2011, Abraham 2013), others contested this claim. The U-shaped hypothesis, which traces
the relaonship between educaon and FLPR [FLPR is high at very low levels of educaon,
plunges into a downward trajectory at the mid-level of educaonal aainment, and rises
again at a higher level of educaon] has been rearmed in many studies (Klasen and Pieters
2013; Andres et al. 2017). However, the Naonal Sample Survey data pertaining to the year
2015-16 found an inverse U-shape relaonship meaning higher educaon level doesn’t
translate into beer labour market outcomes in terms of FLPR.
Therefore, in this context, the study aims to examine the current FLPR and wage gap in the
Indian context using the naonally representave large-scale data to capture the plausible
reasons for such distorons – does it stem from educaonal factors, occupaonal segregaon,
or is it sheer discriminaon.
Dr. Nivedita Sarkar is faculty member at the School of Education Studies in
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics of
Education and her research interest lies in Economics of Education, Higher education,
Applied Econometrics, Issues on inequality and Educational Financing. Earlier she
worked at National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, National
Institute of Public Finance and Policy and Delhi University. Her current research
focuses on skills and labour market outcomes, shadow education, privatisation in higher
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education and inequality in access to higher education. She is in the Editorial board of Contemporary Social
Sciences (Taylor & Francis) and Frontiers in Education. She has presented papers in various international and
national conferences and published in academic journals, books and written popular articles.
Dr. Anuneeta Mitra is currently an independent researcher based out of Chicago. She
holds a Ph.D. in Economics of Education and her research interest lies in Economics
of Education, education and labor market linkages, higher education and inequality in
access, nancing of education, shadow education, employability. Earlier she worked at
Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (NIEPA), New Delhi and has taught a
course on quantitative research methods as guest faculty at Indian Institute of Technology
(Jammu). She has presented papers in various international and national conferences and
published in academic journals, books and written popular articles.
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Higher Education and Employment Outcomes:
Mapping the Disadvantages
Dr. Khalid Khan, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, India
Abstract
This paper, based on the quantave evidence, presents an analysis of higher educaon
and unequal access to labour market outcomes. The study is based on the periodic labour
force survey data from 2019–20 and the 75th round of the Naonal Sample Survey, 2017–
18, data on enrolment in higher educaon. This paper maps access to higher educaon
from the vantage point of the labour market. In the rst stage, access to higher educaon
by socio-economic background is analysed. The analysis reveals that the socio-economic
background of the students plays an important role in determining their access to higher
educaon. However, a notable part of the inequality is determined by socio-religious identy
and gender as well. In the second stage of the analysis, the labour market outcomes in
terms of access to quality employment and earnings are invesgated. The analysis further
reveals that the labour market outcomes are also determined by socio-economic factors.
However, identy also constrains their labour market outcomes.
The analysis shows that the overall enrolment rate in India follows the identy-based
paern, with the underprivileged group lying at the lower level of the hierarchy. Inequality
in higher educaon exists across social and occupaonal backgrounds as well. However,
equal access in higher educaon does not ensure equal labour market among dierent
gender, social and religious groups. Rather, unequal labour market outcomes exist despite
a similar improvement in the level of higher educaon. This is indicave of the unequal
quality of higher educaon and/or identy-based discriminaon exisng in the labour
market. In fact, the unequal labour market outcome itself works as a disincenve for the
underprivileged from pursuing higher educaon. Such disincenves may lead to the self-
exclusion of students from underprivileged groups in the face of a low chance of success
in the labour market, regardless of whether or not identy discriminaon exists. Thus, any
policy towards ensuring equal labour market outcome should take identy based constraints
into consideraon.
Dr. Khalid Khan is working as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Dalit
Studies, New Delhi. He has more than six years of Post Ph.D. research experience
that spans over areas of education economics, labour economics, inequality and
discrimination. He has proven track record of handling research projects and
publishing research articles. His further expertise lies in handling large scale primary
and secondary data using advanced econometric methods.
His research has appeared in reputed journals and his professional association spans in
dierent capacities across reputed institutions such as Oxfam India, Institute of Economic
Growth, Giri Institute of Development Studies, India Development Foundation, Kirorimal College and OP
Jindal Global University.
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Discussant
Professor Neetha N., Professor, Centre for Women’s Development Studies
Professor Neetha N. is Professor at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies
(CWDS), New Delhi. She was Associate Fellow & Coordinator, Centre for Gender and
Labour at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA during 1998-2006. Her work
focuses on the analysis of women’s employment, issues of women workers in the informal
sector, domestic workers, unpaid care work and labour migration. She has published
extensively in national and international books and journals. She has recently edited two
books ‘Working at Others Homes: e Species and Challenges of Paid Domestic Work’
(ed), Tulika Books (2018) and Migration, Gender and Care Economy, (2019, co-edited
with Irudaya Rajan), Routledge. She is one of the Lead Authors of the chapter on Pluralising Family of the
International Panel on Social Progress Report, 2018.
Rapporteur
Dr. Jinusha Panigrahi, Assistant Professor, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education, NIEPA, India
Dr. Jinusha Panigrahi, M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi and UGC-NET qualied in Economics. Currently, she
is also the Co-Chair Person (2018-2021), Economics and Finance Education - SIG,
CIES, USA. She was nominated by the U.S. Department of State Washington DC as
an International Visitor under the prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program
(IVLP), for ‘Furthering U.S. – India Relationships in Higher Education’. Prior to
joining CPRHE, she was an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Studies in Industrial
Development. She taught economics in several colleges of the University of Delhi. She
also worked as a researcher with government organizations; National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
and Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. She has published in various journals and edited books and presented
research papers in national and international seminars and conferences. Her current research focuses on
nancing of higher education.
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Session 5
14:00-15:30
Plenary Session 5: Institutional Leadership, Equity Polices, and Institutional Practices to
Support Student Success.
Chairperson: Kumar Suresh, Professor, National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration, India
14:00-14:15
Keynote Address: Satish Deshpande, Professor, Delhi University, India
14:15-15:00
Speakers
1. Sanghmitra Acharya, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
2. Smriti Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
3. Rabi Narayan Kar and Kusha Tiwari, Shyam Lal College, India
4. Kamal Raj Devkota, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
5. Akha Kaihrii Mao, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, India
Discussant: M.H. Qureshi, Former Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
15:00-15:30
Open for Discussion
Rapporteur: Santwana G. Mishra, Department of Educational Planning, NIEPA, India
Chairperson: Professor Kumar Suresh, Professor, Department of Educational
Administration, NIEPA, India
Professor Kumar Suresh, Professor and Head Department of Education
Administration, NIEPA. In recognition of his contribution academic research
and publications as well as and rich experience in academic administration he
has also been appointed as an Honorary Professor at the Central University of
Kerala, Kasargod. Professor Suresh has also served as Registrar(I/c). NIEPA for
more than two years.
Prof. Suresh academic career spans over 30 years. During his long academic
career in teaching and research he has signicantly contributed to the system of
knowledge through his research and publications. His research training started
at the Centre for the study of Social Systems at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He
holds Ph.D. in Federal Studies from the Center for Federal Studies, New Delhi.
He was awarded Diploma with Suma cum Laud (High Distinction) in federalism,
decentralization and conict transformation from the Institute of Federalism,
University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He served as member of dierent expert
committees of the University Grant Commission (UGC) and ICSSR. Also served
as a member of the advisory and governing boards of universities, colleges and
other institutions as well as academic bodies like academic council, board of
studies etc. He has a rich experience of collaborative activities with a number of
national and international projects of UNESCO, Africa- Asia Dialogue (Hiroshima
University) and competence development training programmes sponsored by
international agencies including the Forum of Federations, Canada, GTZ and the
Bergo Foundation for Conict Studies, Germany; visited Switzerland, Canada,
USA, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Nepal in dierent international academic programmes.
He is a member of the Editorial Boards of a number of Journals including Journal
of International Cooperation in Education (Hiroshima University& Emerald).
He has also contributed a large number of papers in reputed national and
international journals and has supervised a large number of M.Phil. and Ph.Ds.
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Keynote
Professor Satish Deshpande, Professor, Delhi University, India
Professor Satish Deshpande, M.A. (Economics) (J.N.U.), M.A., Ph.D. (California),
is Professor of Sociology. His research interests include caste and class inequalities,
contemporary social theory, politics and history of the social sciences and south-south
interactions. He is the author of Contemporary India: A Sociological View (2003) and
co-author (with Ghanshyam Shah, Harsh Mander, Sukhadeo orat and Amita Baviskar)
of Untouchability in Rural India (2006). He has edited e Problem of Caste (2014), and
co-edited the following volumes: Anthropology in the East, Founders of Indian Sociology
and Anthropology (2007, with Patricia Uberoi and Nandini Sundar); Beyond Inclusion:
e Practice of Equal Access in Indian Higher Education (2013, with Usha Zacharias); and Sectarian Violence
in India: Hindu-Muslim Conict, 1966-2015 (2019, with Sanjay Palshikar).
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Addressing Health and Wellbeing in New Education Policy–
Challenges and Pathways
Professor Sanghmitra S. Acharya, Professor, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Abstract
The New Educaon Policy (NEP) envisages to create a conducive environment for preparing
‘good, successful, innovave, adaptable, producve human being’ (NEP 4.23, p. 15). This is
in conrmaon of the intrinsic connect between health and educaon for the development
of sociees and naons. The NEP has taken cognizance of health as an indispensable and
integral element for educaonal aainment. This cognizance cuts across levels of educaon.
It acknowledges the provision of funconal toilets, and clean drinking water (Secon 5.9) as
important for learning in schools. This calls for ensuring decent work and learning condions
across the learners and the providers of learning and other related services. The NEP also
considers health science universies and instuons for healthcare educaon as important
constuents of the higher educaon system. Given that people exercise pluralisc choices in
healthcare, the healthcare educaon system must be integrave so that students of all streams
of medicine get a basic understanding of the systems other than the one which they are
learning. For instance, students of Allopathic must have basic knowledge of Ayurveda, Yoga and
Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy (AYUSH), and vice versa. The NEP also envisions
arts and culture as factors which enhance cognive and creave abilies for inducing happiness
and well-being.
Therefore, it is imperave to examine these connects and deliberate on the plausible pathways
for a viable policy and its execuon towards a system of health and wellbeing based on
instuons of learning for health sciences and health care. The proposed paper will focus on
the integrave and pluralisc healthcare educaon through sensisaon to service providers
and cognive and creave knowledge for happiness and well-being. The methods and materials
used for the papers will be drawn from exisng data sets and literature for review and analysis.
Professor Sanghmitra S. Acharya taught at International Institute for Population Sciences
during 1990-99. She was Director, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies during 2015-18. She
was a Visiting Fellow at CASS, Beijing; Ball State University, USA and UPPI, Manila; East
West Center, Honolulu and University of Botswana. She was awarded Asian Scholarship
Foundation fellowship in 2005; and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Grant in 2019. She
has travelled to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Germany, e Netherlands, UK, USA, Canada,
ailand, Belgium and Finland for academic purposes. She has participated in national
and international conferences, presented papers; and published in peer reviewed journals
on issues of health and discrimination; youth; gender in urban spaces; women and children
in Western India; and North East India. She has been invited for lectures at institutions within the country and
outside. Some of them include Maulana Azad national Urdu University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Ambedkar University
Delhi, International Institute for Population Sciences, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, Centre of
Women’s Studies, University of the Philippines, and College of Health, Ball State University, Indiana, USA.
Her published work includes ‘Marginalization in Globalizing Delhi- Issues of Land, Labour and Health’ (2017),
Health, Safety and Well-Being of Workers in the Informal Sector in India- Lessons for Emerging Economies
(2019), and Caste, Covid and Inequalities of Care- Lessons from South Asia (2022), Mapping Identity-induced
Marginalisation in India - Inclusion and Access in the Land of Unequal Opportunities (2022) by Springer. Her
research on sanitation workers; and cleaners and cremation workers is under publication by Akaar Books and
Academic Publishers.
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Equity policy and Institutional Leadership
Professor Smriti Singh, Associate Dean, Student Aairs, Indian Institute of Technology Patna,
Bihar, India
Abstract
In contemporary India, higher educaon is undergoing a major shi and this shi is
necessitated by the need to make higher educaon more inclusive and diverse. This should
also lead to the creaon of an equitable system. Though India has followed the system
of reservaon in educaonal instutes, we sll nd evidences of it parally succeeding.
Though the Right to Educaon Act, 2009 managed to increase enrollment in schools, the
country is sll plagued by inequity and exclusion. Access to quality educaon is sll a
dream. While NEP 2020 focusses on various ways of increasing diversies in educaon,
many provisions seem utopian in nature. Today, if we look at the number of dierently
abled in higher educaon, it is nothing to feel proud of. Another is the issue of gender
inclusivity, both women and transgenders. Thirdly is the issue of inclusion of minories like
tribals and other religious and social minories in higher educaon. If we are to focus on
creang equity and inclusivity in higher educaon based on the above, a lot is required in
terms of instuonal leadership. There is a need to focus on leadership styles and training.
The discussion will focus on instutes of higher educaon and on the relaonship between
leadership styles and student enrolment and performance. The paper will discuss what
steps can be taken to make higher educaon more inclusive for all.
Professor Smriti Singh is in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT
Patna. She works in areas of English Language and Literature with special focus on
English Language Teaching. She has a book and a couple of edited books to her credit
and numerous papers. She was a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at the
University of Texas at Austin during the year 2005-06. Currently she is the Chair of
Postcolonial Studies Association, UK. She has guided 6 PhD researches and is working
with others in various areas.
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Steering Institutional Leadership, Equity Policies and
Institutional Practises to Support Student Success:
A Case Study of SLC, University of Delhi
Professor Rabi Narayan Kar, Principal, Shyam Lal College, India
Professor Kusha Tiwari, Professor, Department of English, Shyam Lal College, India
Abstract
Instuonal leadership focuses on establishing and protecng instuonal values and
character while progressing as envisioned in its vision and mission. Selznick emphasizes
on how instuonal leadership requires strategies of change that realise the needs
and aspiraons of the organisaon. Instuonal leadership is reected in those vibrant
instuons where equity policies are engraved in their values, instuonal pracces and
community outreach programs are noceable, academic and administrave innovaons
are amplied and stakeholders are connuously engaged. This automacally contributes
towards instuonal development and student progression. However, there are several
challenges that confront colleges and universies in making campuses more progressive,
equitable and inclusive range from craing strategies to address long neglect of the
instuon to bring in qualitave changes in the overall engagement of the students in the
campus life. Some instuons excel in this exercise and emerge out to be a leader on the
academic arena. By engaging, a case study of Shyam Lal College (SLC), University of Delhi,
this paper focuses on how leadership iniaves harnessing equity policies and bringing
best pracces helped instuonal turnaround and support student success.
Keywords: Instuonal Leadership, Equity Policies, Instuonal Turnaround
Professor Rabi Narayan Kar is a product of Utkal University and University of Delhi. He is
also a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) and a recipient
of many academic scholarships including University Grants Commission Junior Research
Fellowship. Recently, Prof. Kar conferred with a Faculty Fellow of Georgia Tech Center
for International Business Education & Research (CIBER), GT, USA. He has seven books,
several book chapters and research papers to his credit in journals and publications of repute
including Revue Organization Responsible (ROR), Edward Elgar, Taylor & Francis, Sage,
Springer, Macmillan Advance Research Series and Bloomsbury. Prof. Kar has completed
four projects including one international collaborative research project under CIMO, Finland. Prof. Kar was also
a Visiting Professor from 2016 to 2018 with Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland under the aegis of
CIMO. Prof. Kar has also academic collaboration with CIBER, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, (USA), ICN Business School
(France), and the CEREFIGE of the Universite de Lorraine (France) and Restumeikan APU, (Japan). Presently,
Prof. Kar is also Visitor’s Nominee to Central University of Odisha and Nominee of UGC Chairperson to Executive
Council of Central University of Rajasthan. Besides, Prof. Kar was Visitor’s Nominee (President’s Nominee) to
Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. Besides, Prof. Kar also contributed to Delhi University,
Puducherry University and Central University of Jharkhand in several capacities. Some of his research papers have
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also been invited for presentation at IIM, IGIDR (RBI), World Finance Conference, Academy of International
Business Conference (AIB), UNCTAD, APU Japan and UNESCAP. He has also been invited as Resource Person
in many international universities in countries like Turkey, France, Brazil, Japan, Republic of South Korea, United
Kingdom & Finland. Prof. Kar is working as Prof-Principal of Shyam Lal College (University of Delhi) since
2015 and instrumental in turnaround of the institution. His research interests are Corporate Strategy and M&A,
Sustainable Development, Innovation in Enterprises, International Management and Indian Knowledge Systems.
Professor Kusha Tiwari is presently working as a Professor, Department of English in
Shyam Lal College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. Prof. Kusha has been the visiting faculty
at XAMK and TUAS, (2016-18) Finland. She has published research papers in journals and
books including Taylor & Francis, SAGE, IUP, e Book Review, Bloomsbury, Cambridge
Scholars Publishing and Pencra International. She has also Guest Edited a Special Issue
for South Asian Survey SAGE (2020). She has been invited to lecture in XAMK, Finland,
University of Lisbon, NIEPA, Jadavpur University, CWDS, TUAS, Finland, Utkal University,
University of Delhi and I.P University, Delhi. She is also the Co-investigator in a major
International Project funded by CIMO, Finland. She is also the Project Coordinator of IKS Project funded by
AICTE, MoE. Besides, she is also Director IQAC of SLC and proactively involved in institution development. Her
research interest is in the elds of Women’s Studies, cross-cultural communication, South African Literature and
Indian Knowledge Systems.
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Neoliberal Forces in Deescalating Equity in Higher Education:
Politicization, Marketization and Englishization at
Public Universities in Nepal
Dr. Kamal Raj Devkota, Assistant Professor, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Abstract
This paper examines how neoliberal forces prominently policizaon, markezaon and
Englishizaon deescalate equity in higher educaon in Nepal. Nepal does not mark a
longer history of higher educaon development. Tribhuvan University founded in the late
1950s remained a single unchallenged higher educaon instuon of the naon almost for
the next three decades of its establishment. However, the polical changes of the 1990s
challenged this single-university mindset creang an open space for the establishment
of mulple universies and their constuent and aliated campuses in both urban and
rural sengs across the naon. Higher educaon mostly iniated along with the mass
educaon movement seven decades back is now widely understood as the vital mechanism
of modernizaon and development of the naon (Devkota, 2021; Thapa & Maharjan, 2019;
Kolbel, 2013). However, despite some noceable changes in student enrollment (UGC,
2021), ‘access’ and ‘quality’ in higher educaon are sll alarming (Upadhyay, Tiwari &
Ghimire, 2018; Simkhada & van Teijlingen, 2010). Especially, equity iniaves which are
stated in the higher educaon policies and programs, and are understood to strengthen
equitable access and quality parcipaon of the students from rural, marginalized and
disadvantaged communies (like Dalits), are far from eecve implementaon.
In this situaon, the study conducted using Crical Policy Analysis (CPA) of the higher
educaon policies and policy enactments (Young & Diem, 2018; Taylor, 1997), and
interviews and focus group discussions with university stakeholders (ocials, teaching
facules and students) unfolds that three overriding neoliberal forces always deescalate
equity in higher educaon in Nepal. Policizaon reinforces bhagbanda
1
and favorism,
and weakens the eecve implementaon of equity iniaves. Markezaon reinforces the
privazaon of higher educaon which ulmately pushes the cizens of marginalized and
disadvantaged communies to experience inequies and injusces in access and quality
parcipaon. Finally, Englishizaon essenalizes English language communicaon skills and
Western knowledge as the ‘authorized knowledge, which seriously destabilizes indigenous
knowledge, skills and pracces, and enforces the students from indigenous and local
communies to experience inequitable learning situaons. Therefore, this study suggests
that universies should take a lead in criquing these neoliberal forces in their policies and
programs, and promote equity iniaves for ensuring access and quality parcipaon of
students from rural, marginalized and disadvantaged communies.
Keywords: Equity, neoliberalism, policizaon, markezaon, Englishizaon, higher
educaon.
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Process of dividing execuve posions to be appointed at the university and aliated campuses.
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Dr. Kamal Raj Devkota is currently working as an Assistant Professor for the Research
Centre for Educational Innovation and Development, Tribhuvan University (CERID/
TU), Nepal. He specializes English language education, and has a long involvement
and rich experience in researching and publishing in education policies and practices
both in school and tertiary education. More recently has been involved in researching
social inclusion, equality, equity and justice in school and higher education in developing
nations.
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The need for Equity Policies and Innovative Institutional
Practices to Support Students’ Success
Mr. Akha Kaihrii Mao, Associate Professor, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, India
Abstract
The paper examines the kind of leadership that is expected especially at the higher
educaonal instuons while situang the instuons in context of a diverse social and
cultural reality in India. It will also try to look into the various state policies being followed
towards ensuring equity for representaons of stakeholders (students, faculty and sta)
from diverse background in public educaonal system especially in higher educaon
instuons. Apart from the constuonal guarantees, the New Educaonal Policy 2020
has also emphasized on the need for social inclusion. Thus, while analyzing the equity
policies the paper would also throw light on some of the challenges while implemenng
such policies and pracces. Taking examples from the author’s current place of work, which
is a state funded public university, the paper would present some of the experiences about
the schemes and policies adopted by the instuon to support students’ success especially
from those belonging to the marginalized secons of the society.
Mr. Akha Kaihrii Mao is an Associate Professor in the School of Vocational Studies (SVS),
in the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). Currently he is the Deputy-Dean,
School of Vocational Studies and also the Director (Ociating) Equal Opportunity Oce
and the Liaison Ocer (ST & SC) in AUD.
He has an MA in History, B.Ed, M.Ed. and M.Phil in Education from University of Delhi.
His areas of research are in Traditional and Indigenous system of Education among the
Nagas, Teacher Education, History of Education and Sociology of Education.
Prior to joining Ambedkar University Delhi, he has worked as a Trained Graduate Teacher
in Social Sciences in Mahavir Model Sr. Sec. School, Delhi (2004-05). He worked as a Research Associate, (from
Aug. 2005 – Nov. 2006) with the Prime Minister’s High-Level Committee, (Justice Sachar Committee) to study the
status of Muslim Community in India.
Apart from Teaching and Research, Mr Akha Kaihrii Mao has actively being engaged in administrative
responsibilities too. He has been a member of various Administrative and Academic Committees both at the school
level and the University level. He had served as the Convenor of the Proctorial Committee (2012-15) of Ambedkar
University Delhi; Programme Coordinator of the Master programme in the School of Education Studies; Member
of the Board of Studies (BoS) in SES and SVS; Member of the University level Sports Committee (2012-14), OSD of
the Karampura campus, AUD (2017-18).
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Discussant
Professor M.H. Qureshi, Former Professor of Geography, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Professor Mohammad Hashim Qureshi is former a Professor of Geography at the
Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
He has taught geography for more than 40 years aer obtaining his M.A. degree from the
University of Allahabad in 1961. He started his teaching career from St. John’s College
Agra and subsequently moved to the University of Jodhpur in 1963. In 1975, he joined
Jawaharlal Nehru University and developed the curriculum design and evaluation methods
for M.A. and M.Phil./Ph.D. courses. He then went to join the University of Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, as an associate professor from 1981 to 1983. He also served the Department
of Geography, University of Bremen, Germany, in 1996. His academic interest has been
in economic geography, agricultural geography, environment, and resource geography. He has supervised 20
Ph.D. theses and 47 M.Phil. dissertations. He has published research papers in international Journals such as
Environmental Management and Environmental Conservation. He has also published his research works quite
widely in national journals. He has published six books on various aspects of geography. He has been the chief
advisor of the School Textbook Development Committee of National Council of Educational Research and
Training, New Delhi, for 9th to 12th standard geography books under the National Curriculum Framework,
2005. Aer his superannuation from Jawaharlal Nehru University, he has also worked as a consultant to the
University Grants Commission (2009–2010), Chair Professor A. M. Khwaja Chair, Jamia Milia Islamia, New
Delhi (2010–2015), and Member, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi (2011–2014). He has
also an honour to be the president, National Association of Geographers, India (2010–2011) and the president,
Institute of Indian Geographers (2015–2016).
Rapporteur
Dr. Santwana G. Mishra, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Planning, NIEPA, India
Dr. Santwana G. Mishra is Associate Professor at Department of Educational Planning,
NIEPA, New Delhi. She has completed her Master degree in Physics followed by Master
in Education and Ph.D. in Education. She has done courses in soware engineering
and information technology. Her core competencies include teaching, training and
consultancy in the area of research methodology, quantitative techniques and educational
psychology. She has presented her research work at various national and international
forums and published her research papers in reputed journals. Dr. Mishra has visited
many countries for dierent academic purposes. She is actively involved in designing and
testing innovative teaching-learning methods.
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Chairperson: Professor N.V. Varghese, Former Vice-Chancellor, National Institute
of Educational Planning and Administration, India
Professor N.V. Varghese was the former Vice-Chancellor of the National University
of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. He holds a doctoral degree
in Economics with specialization in educational planning. He was the founding
Director of the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE/NIEPA),
New Delhi (2013-2019); Head of Governance and Management in Education at
the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP/UNESCO), Paris (2006-
2013); Head of its Training and Education Programmes at IIEP, Paris (2001- 2006)
and Head of higher education and specialized training, at IIEP, Paris (1999-2001).
He was responsible for designing and introducing the IIEP Master’s programme in
educational planning and management. While at IIEP, he was the Secretary General
and responsible for the secretariat of the International Working Group on Education
(IWGE) which is a network of funding agencies in education.
In the 1990s he was Professor and Head of Educational Planning at NIEPA, New
Delhi. He was also Head of the DPEP Cell in NIEPA. He was responsible for managing
an Asian regional network - the Asian Network of Training and Research Institutions
in Educational Planning (ANTRIEP) and was editor of its Newsletter. He was
responsible for developing methodologies of decentralized planning and was leading
activities associated with educational planning at the federal and decentralised levels
in India. He was also responsible for the design and development of externally funded
education projects in India during 1992-1999.
He has been member of several International Boards/Committees and editorial
Boards of Journals. He is also the Chief Editor of the Journal for Educational
Planning and Administration. He has directed several national and international
research projects; carried out research projects in several countries of Africa, Asia,
Latin America and CIS region; published more than 30 books and research reports,
and more than 200 research papers and articles in academic Journals in the areas
related to educational planning, nancing and higher education.
Session: 6
15:45 - 17:30
Open Panel and Valedictory Session: Future Perspective on Strategies for Equity in
Higher Education
Chairperson: N.V. Varghese, Former Vice-Chancellor, National Institute of Educational
Planning and Administration, India
15:45-16:45
Panelist:
1. K. Ramachandran, Senior Advisor, Unit for International Cooperation (UIC), NIEPA, India
2. Geetha Venkataraman, Professor, Ambedkar University Delhi, India
3. Jose-Luis ALVAREZ-GALVAN, Programme Specialist-Head of Policy and Advocacy,
UNESCO MGIEP, India
4. Graeme Atherton, Director, National Education Opportunities Network, United Kingdom
16:45-17:15
Open for Discussion
17:15-17:30
Concluding Observations: Sudhanshu Bhushan, Vice-Chancellor (I/c), Professor and Head,
DHPE, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, India
Vote of anks: Nidhi S. Sabharwal, Associate Professor, CPRHE/NIEPA, India
Rapporteur: Anupam Pachauri, CPRHE/NIEPA, India
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Professor K. Ramachandran, Senior Advisor, Unit for International Cooperation (UIC), NIEPA, India
Professor K. Ramachandran, Professor, NIEPA is an eminent educationist. He is the
Senior Advisor, Unit for International Cooperation (UIC), at present, working as Advisor,
India-Africa Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (IAIEPA), National
Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi. During the
period 1990-2008, he worked with UNICEF as Senior Education Specialist and Senior
Programme Coordinator. Prior to this, he was a member of faculty of the National Council
of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi (from 1975 to 1990)". He has
contributed in preparing many reports on state of education in India including “India:
Education for All – Towards Quality with Equity” and “Teachers in Indian Education
System – How We Manage Teacher Work Force in India”.
Professor Geetha Venkataraman, Professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, India
Professor Geetha Venkataraman is a Professor of Mathematics in the School of Liberal
Studies at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). She did an MA and DPhil (doctorate)
in Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Her area of research is nite group theory. Her
most recent publication includes co-authored book titled Learning Mathematics through
Modelling and Simulation: An Investigative Approach, was recently published in December
2022 by Universities Press Pvt. Ltd (Orient BlackSwan).She has held several administrative
positions at AUD, including that of Dean School of Undergraduate Studies, Dean Assessment
and Evaluation and most recently Dean Research and Consultancy. Before joining AUD,
Prof Venkataraman taught for a long time at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
Her research interests are in various aspects of nite group theory. She is also deeply interested in popularising
mathematics, mathematics education, issues related to women in mathematics, women in leadership in academia.
She has served on editorial boards of journals devoted to mathematics and science. She has been a member of
several national committees related to mathematics and education.
Dr. Jose-Luis ALVAREZ-GALVAN, Programme Specialist-Head of Policy and Advocacy, UNESCO
MGIEP, India
Professor Jose-Luis is the Head of Policy and Advocacy at the Institute. For the past 11
years, Jose-Luis has led the conception of tools and projects to support policy design and
implementation in countries in Europe, America, Africa and Asia. e aim of his work is to
provide countries with evidence-based policy advice that also promotes strong stakeholder
engagement. Jose-Luis holds a PhD from the LSE (UK), a MA from the University of
Massachusetts (US) and a BA from the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He worked
at the OECD before joining UNESCO MGIEP.
Professor Graeme Atherton, Director, National Education Opportunities Network, United Kingdom
Professor Graeme Atherton is Director of the Centre of Inequality and Levelling Up
(CELUP) at the University of West London, leads the National Education Opportunities
Network (NEON) which is the UK professional organisation for access & equity in higher
education (HE) with over 100 universities as members and has also founded the World
Access to Higher Education Network (WAHEN). He is a trustee of the National Union
of Students (NUS) and holds visiting professorships at the Centre for Higher Education
Research, Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur and Amity University London. He has
produced over 200 publications and conference papers.
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Rapporteur
Dr. Anupam Pachauri, Assistant Professor, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education,
NIEPA, India
Dr. Anupam Pachauri, Ph.D. in Education from the University of Sussex, UK and was
a Commonwealth Scholarship awardee. She has a wide range of professional experience
of around 12 years, working in reputed government and non-government institutions
in India in the eld of teacher education and educational research. She has been an
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education (IASE), Department
of Education, University of Delhi and a Research Associate at the Centre for International
Education, University of Sussex. She has published articles in international journals and
presented several research papers at international conferences. Her current research is
focused on quality in higher education.
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List of Participants
International Participants
Brigid Freeman
Senior Researcher (Education)
Australia India Institute
University of Melbourne
147-149 Barry Street,Victoria 3010
Australia
Email: brigid.freeman@unimelb.edu.au
Matt Brett
Director
Academic Governance and Standards
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood VIC 3125
Australia
Email: m.br[email protected]du.au
Jakob Williams Ørberg
Senior Consultant
Novo Nordisk Foundation, 2nd Floor,
B29 West End Colony, New Delhi- 110021
India
Email: jwo@novo.dk
Muhammad Muahu
Acting Director
National Higher Education Research Institute
(IPPTN)
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Block C, Level 2, sains@usm
No. 10, persiaran bukit jambul
11900 Bayan Lepas, Penang
Malaysia
Email: mu[email protected]y
Kamal Raj Devkota
Assistant Professor
Research Centre for Educational Innovation and
Development (CERID)
Tribhuvan University
G.P.O. Box: 2161, Balkhu, Kathmandu
Nepal
Email: kamalrajde[email protected]m
stuladharktm@gmail.com
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan
University of Auckland
New Zealand
Mark Andrew Elepaño
Far Eastern University
Philippines
Icy Fresno Anabo
Deusto University
Bilbao
Spain
Gunjana Kuntamarat
Deusto University
Bilbao
Spain
Graeme Atherton
Director
National Education Opportunities Network (NEON)
University of West London
St Mary’s Road, Ealing, London, W5 5RF
United Kingdom
Email: at[email protected]
Miguel Antonio Lim
Senior Lecturer
Education and International Development
e Manchester Institute of Education
e University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester, UK, M13 9PL
United Kingdom
Email: miguelantonio.lim@manchester.ac.uk
National Participants
Sanghmitra Acharya
Professor
Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-110067
Email: sangha[email protected]u.ac.in
sanghmitra.achar[email protected]
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Harjeet Kaur Bhatia
Professor
Department of Educational Studies
Faculty of Education
Jamia Millia Islamia
New Delhi-110025
Email: harjeetkaurbha[email protected]
Sudhanshu Bhushan
Vice-Chancellor I/c
Professor & Head
Department of Higher & Professional Education
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: sudhan[email protected]
Manika Bora
Assistant Professor
O.P. Jindal Global University
Narela Road Near Jagdishpur Village, Sonipat
Haryana-131001
Email: manikabo[email protected]
Sangeeta Angom
Associate Professor
Department of Higher and Professional Education
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: sange[email protected]
Karuna Chanana
Retired Professor
Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
C8/8256, Vasant Kunj
New Delhi-110070
Email: chananak@yahoo.com
Shloka Chauhan
Editorial Assistant
Routledge India, Taylor & Francis Group
2nd & 3rd oor,
e National Council of YMCAs of India
1, Jai Singh Road
New Delhi-110001
Email: Shloka.Chauhan@tandndia.com
Shoma Choudhury
Commissioning Manager
Routledge India, Taylor & Francis Group
2nd & 3rd oor,
e National Council of YMCAs of India
1, Jai Singh Road
New Delhi-110001
Email: Shoma.Choudhury@tandndia.com
Dilip Vasantrao Chavan
Professor
Department of English
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies
Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University
Vishnupuri, Nanded
Maharashtra-431606
Email: dilipcha[email protected]
Pradeep Kumar Choudhury
Assistant Professor
Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies
School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi-110067
Email: pradeepchoudhury@jnu.ac.in
pradeep[email protected]
Satish Deshpande
Professor
Department of Sociology
Delhi School of Economic
University of Delhi
Delhi-110007
Email: sdeshpande7@gmail.com
Surajit Deb
Professor
Aryabhatta College
Benito Juarez Road
New Delhi-110021
Email: debsura[email protected]
Ashok K Gaba
Former Director & Programme Coordinator
School of Vocational Education and Training
Indira Gandhi National Open University
New Delhi-110068
Email: [email protected]
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Amit Gautam
Associate Professor
Department of School and Non-Formal Education
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: amitga[email protected]
Meenakshi Gopinath
Director, Women in Security Conict Management
and Peace (WISCOMP)
Core 4A, Upper Ground Floor, India Habitat Centre
Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Email: meen[email protected]
Odile Henry
Directrice/Director
CSH - Centre de Sciences Humaines
MEAE-CNRS | UMIFRE-20, USR-3330
2, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Road
New Delhi-110011
Email: odile.henr[email protected]
odile.henr[email protected]
Michael Houlgate
Deputy Director
British Council India
17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi-110001
Email: Michael.Houlgate@britishcouncil.org
Madhuri Suresh Isave
Associate Professor
Tilak College of Education
Lokamanya Nagar, Sadashiv Peth, Pune
Maharashtra-411030
Email: madhuisav[email protected]
Anjana Mathur Jagmohan
Associate Professor
Department of geography
Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi
New Delhi-110003
Email: anjanamath[email protected]
Y. Josephine
Former Professor, NIEPA
H.N. 4042, B-5 & 6, Vasant Kunj
New Delhi-110070
Email: dryaza[email protected]m
Rabi Narayan Kar
Principal
Shyam Lal College, (University of Delhi)
G.T. Road, Shahdara
Delhi-110032
Email: principal@shyamlal.du.ac.in
rabikar[email protected]m; slcm@shyamlal.du.ac.in
Ankit Kawade
Research Scholar
Centre for Political Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Mehrauli Road
New Delhi-110067
Email: ankitka[email protected]
Khalid Khan
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS)
Shri Keshav Kunj Apartment
Flat No. 156, Pocket-D, Sector-17, Dwarka
New Delhi-110078
Email: [email protected]
Gauri Khanna
Doctoral Candidate, IIHED
OP Jindal Global University
B-17 Sector 47
Noida-201301
Email: [email protected].in
Amitabh Kundu
Distinguished Fellow
Research and Information System for Developing
Countries
Core IV-B, 4th oor, India Habitat Centre
Lodhi Road
New Delhi- 110003
Email: akund[email protected]m
amitabh.kun[email protected]g.in
Protiva Kundu
ematic Lead-Social Sectors
Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability
(CBGA)
B-7 Extn./110A (Ground Floor), Harsukh Marg
Safdarjung Enclave
New Delhi- 110029
Email: pr[email protected]rg
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Jose-Luis ALVAREZ-GALVAN
Programme Specialist-Head of Policy and Advocacy
UNESCO MGIEP
35 Ferozshah Road, ICSSR Building, 1st Floor,
New Delhi-110001
Email: jl.alvarez-galvan@unesco.org
Garima Malik
Assistant Professor
Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: garimam[email protected]
S.K. Malik
Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Policy
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]
Akha Kaihrii Mao
Associate Professor
School of Vocational Studies
Director, Equal Opportunity Cell
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University
Kashmere Gate Campus, Lothian Road,
Kashmere Gate,
Delhi -110006
Email: [email protected]
A. Mathew
National Fellow
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: mathanthon[email protected]
Eldho Mathews
Deputy Advisor
Unit for International Cooperation
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]
Santwana G. Mishra
Associate Professor
Department of Educational Planning
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]
Pankaj Mittal
Secretary General
Association of Indian Universities
AIU House, 16 Comrade Indrajit Gupta Marg
(Kotla Marg), Opposite National Bal Bhawan,
Near I.T.O.
New Delhi-110002
Email: pankajugc@gmail.com; sgoce@aiu.ac.in
Anuneeta Mitra
Independent Researcher
Chicago, Illinois
USA
Email: an[email protected]
Mohd. Miyan
Retired Professor
Department of Educational Studies
Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar
New Delhi-110025
Email: miamd2001@yahoo.com
Madhavi Moni
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Hansraj College
University of Delhi
Mahatma Hansraj Marg, Malka Ganj
Delhi-110007
Email: madhavimo[email protected]u.ac.in
Mousumi Mukherjee
Associate Professor & Deputy Director
International Institute for Higher Education
Research and Capacity Building (IIHEd)
O.P. Jindal Global University
Sonipat, Narela Road
Near Jagdishpur village Sonipat
Haryana-131001
Email: mmu[email protected]
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Mohd. Muzammil
Formerly Vice-Chancellor
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University
F-2260, Rajajipuram
Lucknow- 226017
Email: prof.muzammi[email protected]m
mmuzammil@redimail.com
Neetha N.
Professor
Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS)
25 Bhai Vir Singh Marg
New Delhi-110001
Email: [email protected]
Anupam Pachauri
Assistant Professor
Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: anupampac[email protected]
Jinusha Panigrahi
Assistant Professor
Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education
NIEPA
New Delhi-110016
Email: jin[email protected]
Binay Prasad
Deputy Advisor
Unit for International Cooperation
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: bina[email protected]
M.H. Qureshi
Former Professor of Geography
Jawaharlal Nehru University
13-B, Pocket-A, D.D.A. Flats,
Sukhdev Vihar
New Delhi-110025
Email: pr[email protected]m
K. Ramachandran
Senior Advisor
Unit for International Cooperation (UIC)
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: kramach[email protected]
Anita Rastogi
Professor
Department of Educational Studies
Faculty of Education
Jamia Millia Islamia
New Delhi-110025
Email: aras[email protected]
Ramdas Rupavath
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Hyderabad
Prof. CR Rao Road, Gachibowli Hyderabad
Telangana-500046
Email: [email protected]m
Nivedita Sarkar
Assistant Professor
School of Education Studies
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University
Kashmere Gate Campus
Lothian Road, Kashmere Gate
Delhi-110006
Email: niveditasarka[email protected]
Suma Scaria
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics Studies and Planning
Central University of Karnataka
Kadaganchi, Aland Road, Kalaburagi Dist.
Karnataka-585367
sumais[email protected]
Mona Sedwal
Assistant Professor
Department of Training and Professional
Development in Education
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: mo[email protected]
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G. D. Sharma
President
Society for Education and Economic Development
(SEED)
L-13, 2nd oor, Greater Kailash-I
New Delhi-110048
Email: [email protected]
Vidyasagar Sharma
Doctoral Fellow
Department of Political Science
Faculty of Social Science
University of Delhi
New Delhi
Email: vsha[email protected]
vidyasagar[email protected]
Yukti Sharma
Academic Secretary
Institute of Lifelong Learning
ARC Building, Opp. Khalsa College
University of Delhi
New Delhi- 110007
Email: academicsecretary@illl.du.ac.in
Shailu Singh
Associate Professor
Hansraj College, University of Delhi
Mahatma Hansraj Marg, Malkaganj
Delhi-110007
Email: shailusinghs@hrc.du.ac.in
shail[email protected]m
Sachidanand Sinha
Social Geographer
Centre for the Study of Regional Development
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Mehrauli Road
New Delhi-110067
Email: [email protected]u.ac.in
Sharad Sinha
Professor & Head
Department of Teacher Education
NCERT,
Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: drsharadsinha@gmail.com
Smriti Singh
Associate Dean, Student Aairs
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Patna
Bhita, Patna
Bihar-801106
Email: smriti@iitp.ac.in
adean_student@iitp.ac.in
Sunita Singh
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
University of Delhi
33 Chhatra Marg
New Delhi-110007
Email: nitiva[email protected]
Vineeta Sirohi
Chairperson, Steering Committee
Department of Educational Administration
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]
K. Srinivas
Head ICT & Project Management Unit
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]
Kumar Suresh
Head
Department of Educational Administration
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: ksur[email protected]
N. Sukumar
Professor
Department of Political Science
Faculty of Social Sciences, Delhi University
Chhatra Marg, Law Faculty
Delhi-110007
Email: skn70@yahoo.com
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Sukhadeo orat
Professor Emeritus
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Plot-58 Government Press Colony,
Dabha, Nagpur
Maharashtra-440023
Email: thoratsukhadeo@yahoo.co.in
thorat1949@gmail.com
Satyendra akur
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Zakir Husain Delhi College
Jawawahar Lal Nehru Marg
New Delhi-110002
Email: sk[email protected]
Kusha Tiwari
Professor
Department of English
Shyam Lal College
(University of Delhi)
G.T. Road, Shahdara
Delhi-110032
Email: ktiwari@shyamlal.du.ac.in
Geetha Venkataraman
Professor
School of Liberal Studies
Ambedkar University Delhi
AUD Kashmere Gate Campus
Lothian Road, Kashmere Gate
Delhi-110006
Email: geethv@gmail.com
geetha@aud.ac.in, geevenkat@gmail.com
N.V. Varghese
Former Vice-Chancellor
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
A010, Yamuna Apartments
Alaknanda Road (near St. George’s School), Kalkaji
New Delhi-110019
Email: nv[email protected]
Nitin Verma
Assistant Professor
Bharati College
C-4, Dada Satram Mamtani Marg, Janakpuri
New Delhi-110058
Email: nitin[email protected]
Jamshed Ahmad
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Shadab Anis
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Kaarika Das
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Gowhar Rashid Ganie
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Ganga
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi- 110016
Raj Gaurav
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Mohammed Ilyas
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi- 110016
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Amardeep Kumar
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Sameer Kumar
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Archana Kumari
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Sujit Kumar Luha
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Aysha Malik
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi- 110016
Rajkumar Meena
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Rashmi Mishra
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Mansi Pandey
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Chetna Priya
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Anuradha Shah
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Govinda Kumar Shah
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Aishwarya Sharma
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Ankita Sharma
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Nivedita Sharma
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
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Richa Sharma
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Anjita Singh
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Siddhi Singh
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Yashmita Singh
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Akanksha Surelia
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Kajal Yadav
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Sanjay Rajendra Yadav
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Fatima Zahra
Research Scholar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
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NIEPA Administration
Sudhanshu Bhushan
Vice-Chancellor (I/c)
Professor & Head
Department of Higher & Professional Education
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: sudhan[email protected]
Sandeep Chatterjee
Registrar
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: regis[email protected]
Nishant Sinha
Finance Ocer
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]
D.S. akur
Administrative Ocer (I/c)
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]
Amit Singhal
Deputy Publication Ocer
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: amit@niepa.ac.in
Chander Prakash
Section Ocer
General Administration
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: adming[email protected]
Sonam Anand
Incharge, Training Cell
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]
Neha Balhara
Junior Project Consultant
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]
Neetu akur
Trainee in Admin.
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]
Gaurav
MTS
National Institute of Educational Planning and
Administration
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
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INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Organising Committee
Pradeep Kumar Misra
Director
CPRHE/NIEPA
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]
Nidhi S. Sabharwal
Associate Professor
CPRHE/ NIEPA
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]
Aqsa
Junior Project Consultant
CPRHE/NIEPA
New Delhi-110016
Email: [email protected]m
Chetna Chawla
Junior Project Consultant
CPRHE/NIEPA
New Delhi-110016
Email:chetna.cprhe @gmail.com
Monica Joshi
CPRHE/NIEPA
New Delhi-110016
Email: mo[email protected]m
Mayank Rajput
CPRHE/NIEPA
New Delhi-110016
Email: ma[email protected]m
Sumit
CPRHE/NIEPA
New Delhi-110016
Email: sumitkumar27012000@gmail.com
Rittika Chanda Parruck
Director, Education & Society
British Council India
17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi-110001
Email:rittika.chandaparruck@britishcouncil.org
Vishu Sharma
Head Higher Education, North India
British Council India
17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg
New Delhi-110001
Email: vish[email protected]council.org
International Seminar on
Diversity and Inclusion
in Higher Education
INDIA HABITAT CENTRE
New Delhi
16-17 February 2023
Jointly Organized by
Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE)
National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA)
and
British Council
Information Brochure
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION
(Deemed to be University)
17-B, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi – 110016, INDIA
EPABX: 91-11-26565600, 26544800 Fax: 91-11-26853041, 26865180
Email: [email protected] Website: www.niepa.ac.in
