‘Indian civil society doing a great job in education sector’

By Kanchan Srivastava. The Director of the Center for Universal Education at Brookings, a US-based think tank, Dr Rebecca Winthrop is giving final touches to her report “Millions Learning: Scaling Up Quality Education in Developing Countries” based on a three-year-long research project covering over 14 developing countries including India. The report, which would be released in Washington DC on April 19, seeks to identify some of the key ingredients needed to successfully bring learning interventions to scale, and what governments, civil society, and the private sector can do to help. Dr Winthrop spoke to Kanchan Srivastava on the sidelines of the Global Education Skill Forum, Dubai, held on March 12-13. More...