This paper seeks to answer the question, “In the Indian context, what insights can employers offer on the knowing, doing and being dimensions of the formation of an MBA graduate, that management education institutes can use to rebalance their curricula?” It uses the theoretical framework...

The inspection system is a visible link between the large numbers of village-based teachers and the district-level administration. While it may be successful in its ‘school audit’ function, dissatisfaction with the system seems to be related to its inability to play a ‘teacher...

The Fellowship Programme in Social Management, run by a non-governmental organization, aims at training development workers. It can be located within the tradition of non-formal educational experiments which try to develop a ‘pedagogy of the oppressed’. The paper describes the model of...

Debate around the factors responsible for the drop-out phenomenon in elementary education focuses largely on two positions: (a) that parents, under economic compulsions, tend to “withdraw” their children from school, (b) that the schools themselves tend to “eliminate” certain kinds of...

Educational policy-making has been motivated in independent India by a concern for equity and the belief that education is an instrument for reducing social inequalities. However, in spite of impressive achievements in school enrollments and access to higher education, the phenomena of...

The spread of HIV/AIDS is not merely a problem of public health; it is also an economic, political, and social challenge that threatens to hinder decades of progress in different parts of Gujarat. There is an urgent need to significantly scale-up public health interventions that work to make a...

This paper is based on the experience of a non-governmental organization in educating 113 school drop-outs as ‘bare-foot’ veterinarians in the tribal areas of Gujarat. The pedagogy focussed on ‘unlearning’ and countering certain internalized stereotypes like ‘backwardness’ in order...

A synthesized version of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and its possible applications in Management problems is presented. The main contribution of the paper is its simple description of a somewhat complex statistical process for the understanding of the beginners in this domain. It acts as...

The focus of this paper is on regression models for mixed binary and continuous outcomes, when the true predictor is measured with error and the binary responses are subject to classification errors. Latent variable is used to model the binary response. The joint distribution is expressed as a...

We consider the estimation of finite population proportions of categorical survey responses obtained by probability sampling. The customary design-based estimator does not make use of the auxiliary data available for all the population units at the estimation stage. We adopt a model-based...