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Why Delhi’s Government School Teachers Feel they are Not Doing the Job they were Hired for

A survey in Delhi’s schools shows teachers feel helpless, guilty and like clerks. They are overworked and spend less time teaching......

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Study on Teacher Time Allocation and Work Perceptions

200 teachers from 39 government and municipal schools in Delhi, were surveyed between December 2017 and April 2018 to unpack their work and role related perceptions and to map the time spent by them o.....

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Report on Time Allocation and Work Perceptions of Teachers

200 teachers from 39 government and municipal schools in Delhi, were surveyed between December 2017 and April 2018 to unpack their work and role related perceptions and to map the time spent by them o.....

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Teachers’ Concerns and how these Affect Students and Educational Policies

State planners need to get at the heart of what motivates teachers to put in their best at school and address their work concerns, before piling more responsibilities on them.    .....

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Part 2: Education reform and frontline administrators: A case study from Bihar

The frontline administration in India is infamous for corruption and patronage, indifference towards citizens, low effort and high absenteeism. This blog reports findings from a year-long qualitative.....

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Education reform and frontline administrators: A case study from Bihar – II

The frontline administration in India is infamous for corruption and patronage, indifference towards citizens, low effort and high absenteeism. This column reports findings from a year-long qualitativ.....

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Vincy Davis

Op Eds

Part 1: Education reform and frontline administrators: A case study from Bihar

The frontline administration in India is infamous for corruption and patronage, indifference towards citizens, low effort and high absenteeism. This blog reports findings from a year-long qualitative.....

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Vincy Davis

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PUBLIC EDUCATION IN INDIA: PARADIGM SHIFTS IN STUDENT ASSESSMENTS

The focus of education policymakers on outcomes, especially learning outcomes, is steadily rising. This is the fourth blog in a blog series to discuss paradigm shifts in the field.....

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What after the No Detention Policy and Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation?

The focus of education policymakers on outcomes, especially learning outcomes, is steadily rising. This is the second blog in a blog series to discuss paradigm shifts in the field of assess.....

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Making Evidence-Based Policies a Reality

Recently, some colleagues and I at the Accountability Initiative conducted a day long workshop with a batch of development management students. The emphasis was on relaying the message that in orde.....

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Teachers' thoughts on teaching-learning

Over the past decade, our team at the Accountability Initiative has collectively interviewed several hundreds of teachers across states in India to understand their concerns, work environment and role.....

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Bridging gaps between citizens and the bureaucracy - Part 1

This is the seventh part of an eight-part series on the challenges and life hacks in experiencing and accessing government benefits and services.  Since the last two months.....

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Bridging Gaps Between Citizens and the Bureaucracy – Part 2

In the previous blog, I highlighted two of the common themes emerging from stories shared with you over the last two months:.....

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Right to Whose Education?

This is the fifth part of an eight-part series on the challenges and life hacks in experiencing and accessing government benefits and services.  .....

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Life Hacks to Avail Government Benefits and Services

Knowing about government schemes, their benefits and how to avail basic public services should be essential courses taught in schools, especially in a large welfare State like In.....

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How Important are Deadlines in the Bureaucracy?

This is the final blog of a five-part series to unpack the meaning of some of the frequently heard terms and phrases in the Indian bureaucracy. Webster’s defin.....

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Of Authorisation Letters, Samosas and Chai

This is the second blog of a five-part series to unpack the meaning of some of the frequently heard terms and phrases in the Indian bureaucracy. Oxford definition:.....

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B is for Babu

This is the third blog of a five-part series to unpack the meaning of some of the frequently heard terms and phrases in the Indian bureaucracy. Encyclopaedia Brit.....

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The ABC of Indian bureaucracy – a primer

This is the first blog of a five-part series to unpack the meaning of some of the frequently heard terms and phrases in the Indian bureaucracy. “Poora system hi corrupt hai.....

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भाग 1: शैक्षिक सुधार और स्थानीय प्रशासन : बिहार में एक अध्ययन

भारत की स्थानीय नौकरशाही भ्रष्टाचार और भाई-भतीजावाद, नागरिकों की �.....

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भाग 2 : शैक्षिक सुधार और स्थानीय प्रशासन : बिहार में एक केस अध्ययन

पहले ब्लॉग में, हमने बिहार में प्रारम्भिक शिक्षा के परिवेश और कामकाज के संबं.....

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Reforms in the Education Bureaucracy

The issue of quality in education has caught the attention of the nation like never before. Politicians and lay persons alike are raising questions around classroom transactions, learning levels of.....

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Superheroes in school uniforms

“Didi, who’s your favourite super hero?” asked the six year old as he played with a toy figurine of the Incredible Hulk. “It would have to be Mulan,” I replied after giving it some though.....

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Functional Assignment: Some (more) Thoughts on the Evolving Subject

(This is part 2 of 2 entries on Functional Assignment by the same author.) In my previous blog post I initiated a discussion on some of the lessons I learnt from the workshop org.....

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Functional Assignment: Some Thoughts on the Evolving Subject

Early in September I attended a workshop on Functional Assignment (FA) led by subject matter experts – Rainer Rohdewohld and Gabrielle Ferrazzi. Organised by LOGIN, the workshop aimed at orientin.....

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Superheroes in school uniforms

“Didi, who’s your favourite super hero?” asked the six year old as he played with a toy figurine of the Incredible Hulk. “It would have to be Mulan,” I replied after giving it some thought......

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Vincy Davis

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Mapping work flows of frontline education administrators: Cluster Resource Centre Coordinators in Bihar

How effectively are  Cluster Resource Centre Coordinator (CRCCs) able to fulfil their job responsibilities?  This report presents a summary of the findings from an intensive  time-use study conduct.....

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Functional Assignment: Some (more) Thoughts on the Evolving Subject

(This is part 2 of 2 entries on Functional Assignment by the same author.) In my previous blog post I initiated a discussion on some of the lessons I learnt from the workshop organised by.....

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Vincy Davis

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Functional Assignment: Some Thoughts on the Evolving Subject

Early in September I attended a workshop on Functional Assignment (FA) led by subject matter experts – Rainer Rohdewohld and Gabrielle Ferrazzi. Organised by LOGIN, the workshop aimed at orienting p.....

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Education Reforms and the Puzzles of Implementation

Education reforms, bureaucracy and the puzzles of implementation: A case study from Bihar It is a widely accepted truth that the Indian state suffers from a serious crisis of implementation capabil.....

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Role of Activity Mapping in Democratic Good Governance

Book chapter in Claiming India from Below: Activism and Democratic Transformation, edited by Vipul Mudgal......

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The Anatomy of Indian Administration

In this blog post, I briefly take stock of Lant Pritchett’s arguments on the “flailing” nature of the Indian state, and Michael Lipsky’s seminal work on “street-level bureaucrat.....

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Prime Minister’s 5th September Speech – Reactions from Government Schools in Rural Bihar

We’ve been in Bhojpur, Bihar for some days now, surveying several individuals associated with government funded education for a pr.....

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