- National policy on ICT in school education - 2008
- National policy on ICT in school education - 2009
- Public Private Partnerships models in education - 2009
- National policy on ICT in school education - 2011
- Related resources
In 2008, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) published a policy draft on 'ICTs in School Education'. IT for Change (ITfC) actively campaigned to challenge the draft policy, advocating for a greater participation of educationalists in the policy design promoting thereby a constructivist ICT at schools model for both teachers and students. ITfC advocated against the role given to technology vendors, with vested interests, in the policy-making processes. We organised consultations and workshops involving prominent educationalists and organisations working in education. Our advocacy resulted in the MHRD issuing an internal directive to stop the privatisation of policy-making. The outputs of the successive campaigns can be found on this page and the revised NPISE (2011) from the MHRD is available on http://education.nic.in/secedu/ict.pdf. This version is better than the previous one as it clearly stresses the importance of teachers' professional development, local content creation, universal access, including ICT capacity building for teachers within teacher pre-service and in-service training programmes, ICT literacy as a precursor to ICT enabled learning. A large part of the feedback comments made by ITfC with many other organisations have been considered.
National policy on ICT in school education - 2008
In 2008, beyond commenting on the policy draft, IT for Change wrote letters to the MHRD in March and October 2008. IT for Change also co-organised a consultation on 'National policy on ICTs in school education' (29-30 April 2008) which aimed to generate a set of policy directives based on educational perspectives and policies, as an input into the NPISE being formulated by the MHRD. The report of the consultation is available here. A series of Short Discussion Papers were produced for the consultation:
- IT for Change, ICT in the context of education system
- Hriday Kant Dewan (Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur), ICT in the context of education system
- Dileep K. Ranjekar and Sunitha Amencherla (Azim Premji Foundation, Bengaluru), ICT policy recommendations from computer-aided learning
- Manas Chakrabarti (Learning by Design, New Delhi), ICTs in secondary education
- Nagarjuna G. (Free Software Foundation of India, Mumbai), What policy should India adopt for ICT in school education?
- Zakiya Kurrien (Centre for Learning Resources, Pune), The use of educational radio for improving the quality of teaching and learning in government regional medium elementary schools
- Sajan Venniyoor (Community Radio Forum of India/Prasar Bharati), The promise of educational radio
- Professor Yash Pal, Technology and education
- Hriday Kant Dewan (Vidya Bhawan Society, Udaipur), Teacher education
- Rajaram S. Sharma (NCERT), ICT and teacher education
- Deepika Singh, (Udaan - Education Resource Centre, Ahmedabad) and Stalin K. (Drishti and Video Volunteers, Ahmedabad), Videoshala: An innovation in ICT for elementary education
- Anjali Noronha (Research and Material Development, Bhopal), Teacher education and ICTs
- Poonam Batra (Central Institute for Education, University of Delhi), Current challenges for teacher education and ICTs
National policy on ICT in school education - 2009
During 2009, IT for Change lobbied intensively the MHRD by writing letters to
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the Department of School Education and Literacy - 28 July 2009
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the Director, NCERT on Outsourcing of core educational processes through 'Computer education' programmes in schools
- the Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy against adoption of the BOOT model for ICT programmes in schools - 13 August 2009.
- the Education Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra on the MOU with Microsoft Academy - 24 August 2009
Public Private Partnerships models in education - 2009
In 2009, a series of consultations on Public Private Partnerships (PPP) were held in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. The objectives were to assess the rationale for PPP models and strengthen the public education system/alternative models. Read the concept note here. Based on those consultation, feedback was given to the MHRD.
Consultation in TISS (Mumbai) - 22 October 2009
- Letter sent to the MHRD
- Complete feedback from the consultation
Consultation in NCERT (New Delhi) - 5 November 2009
- Letter sent to the MHRD
- Detailed feedback from the consultation
- Overall feedback from the consultation
Consultation in Bengaluru University (Bengaluru) - 7 November 2009
- Letter sent to the MHRD
Enclosed with the letters to the MHRD, the following relevant supporting resources were sent:
- Krishna Kumar (2008, 19 January), Partners in education?, in Economic & Political Weekly.
- Padma M. Sarangapani (2009, 24 October), Quality, feasability and desirability of low cost private schooling, in Economic & Political Weekly.
- Anuradha De, Meera Samson (2009, 12 November), Can privatisation help?, in The Hindu.
- A.R. Vasavi (2009), A review of the proposed public-private partnership programme in elementary education
- IT for Change (2009), Market models for managing schools
- Gurumurthy Kasinathan (2009), PPP models in IT programnes in schools – some lessons from research
- Amman Madan (2009), MHRD school organisation
National policy on ICT in school education - 2011
In April 2011, on behalf of eminent educationists across the country, IT for Change submitted a letter on the third policy draft to Ms. Anshu Vaish (Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, MHRD). ITfC also submitted detailed in-line comments on the draft.
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