Wipro Applying Thought in Schools
Water Stories - from around the world
Who owns water? Why do rains fail?
How can we share water?
Does water get angry?
What did you ask at school today?
This book by Kamala Mukunda aims to inspire educators and parents to explore the skill of asking the right questions to their children. This would enable learning rather than focus on hastily eliciting the right answers.
2 Short-term positions in Environmental Education – Bangalore and New Delhi
ATREE, a partner organisation, is looking for two dynamic young people who will network with schools in Bangalore and Delhi to coordinate and implement the T. N. Khoshoo Ecology and environment award for schools 2011.
Four awards will be given, two in Bangalore and two in Delhi. One of them will be for Kannada and Hindi medium schools. This position is open with immediate effect. This is a 6-10 month assignment. The assignment can be on a part time or full time basis. Salary is negotiable.
Wipro Education Fellowship
For a decade now, we have been working with social organizations in more than 1000 schools across the country.
Wipro Education Fellowship, provides individuals with opportunities to create shareable learning for schools and the larger education community – in the context of our work in school reform or independently.
The assignments are either commissioned books, research/documentation assignments, creating good educational literature or even working on a specific school intervention or Wipro project based on needs.
Sharad Lele on 'Understanding Sustainable Development'
Understanding Sustainable Development - Sharad Lele - 10th Wipro Partners' Forum
(This is an unedited transcription of Sharad's session and has been retained as close to original as possible)
Dr. Sharat Chandra Lele: My environmental journey probably began in my school days when I was introduced to trekking in the Sahyadris. That time, I was in Pune in a school, I had a very enthusiastic teacher who took us hiking and trekking in the Sahyadris, more associated with the historical sights – forts of Shivaji and so on.
A leader for an educated India
Business Today - Anniversary edition - December 2008
- Azim Premji
A friend and I were engaged in a discussion on education. I was onto my usual argument. That education is an important tool for individual development and for social progress. That the Indian IT industry is a good example of how knowledge can catalyse the fortunes of a nation.
My friend gave me a patient hearing, and then asked me, “Why is the ‘educated’ software professional unable to see that he should be bothered, directly and personally, by farmer suicides and melting Himalayan glaciers?”
