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Premji
Foundation to open school of education in Hyderabad
Thursday April 07, 2011 05:13:02 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: The Azim
Premji Foundation, promoted by IT bellwether Wipro's chairman Azim
Premji, Wednesday tied up with Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
to set up a school of education at the latter's campus in Hyderabad
for offering degrees and other related programmes.
The foundation will provide financial support to the new school for
infrastructure, programmes and to conduct research in the field of
education.
"Improving quality of education must be one of the country's key
goals. We think this task needs organisations, which have shared
vision to collaborate. We are honoured to collaborate with TISS, a
pioneering institution on social issues," foundation chief executive
Dileep Ranjekar said in a statement here.
To become operational in the next two years, the Azim Premji School
of Education (APSE) will leverage the work being carried at the
75-year-old Tata Institute and Azim Premji University, being set up
by the foundation in Bangalore.
"The Azim Premji University is uniquely focused on education and
development. Our collaboration with the foundation will strengthen
both the institutions, towards the goal of improving education in
the country," TISS director S. Parasuraman said.
Both institutions believe the joint new initiative would need a
large cadre of capable and committed education sector professionals
and experts, as well as pursuit of high quality research, relevant
for India.
The Azim Premji University will commence the new academic year
(2011-12) in July with three post-graduate programmes - Master of
Arts (MA) in education and development and Master's in teacher
education.
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