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- Baseline Survey on implementation of RTE: Towards More Effective Implementation of RTE: A Baseline Survey of Elementary Education in Bihar and UP, has commenced from October 1st, 2011. The fieldwork is scheduled to be conducted in 102 villages of UP and 90 villages in Bihar. The study has been commissioned by NCPCR
- Feminisation of Teachers: ‘Women and the Teaching Profession: Exploring the “Feminisation” Debate’. was published by UNESCO, with a Country Report on India by Meera Samson and Anuradha De
- EPW Article: Special Article by Elizabeth Hill, Meera Samson & Shyamashree Dasgupta, on "Expanding the School Market in India: Parental Choice and the Reproduction of Social Inequality", published in EPW, 27 Aug 2011
- PROBE Revisited report launched by OUP on 24th August 2011 at the India International Centre, New Delhi. Shantha Sinha released the report. Authors Anuradha De, Reetika Khera, Meera Samson and A K Shiva Kumar presented key findings. Jean Drèze and Vinod Raina commented on the report. The report will be available at major bookshops soon; can be ordered directly from OUP as well. Price is Rs 345. Also includes the first PROBE Report in CD format. Major findings were shared at meetings in Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata in 2009 and four regional dissemination meetings were held between last year and this year in Jaipur, Hoshangabad, Ranchi and Almora. [Report on the Release function] [Photographs of Release Function]
- 'Privatisation and Education for the Disadvantaged in India’: A preliminary household survey was conducted in the sample site in Delhi capturing socioeconomic details and school participation in different types of schools for around 300 households. This allowed an overall view of the households being covered as well as selection of the sample for the qualitative study. A three day training workshop in qualitative research methodology and the scope and instruments for the qualitative study was held on 21, 22 and 25 July 2011. Fieldwork has commenced. Literature review and policy analysis is currently underway.
- Fieldwork for the second phase of the study on Marginalisation and Education in two border districts in Jharkhand and Bihar has been completed. A school survey was conducted in 60 villages in the border areas of Sahibganj (Jharkhand ) and Katihar (Bihar) districts between April 2011 and July 2011. This was supplemented with six village studies in one border block in each of the two districts. The report writing is in progress.
- Baseline survey: This baseline survey was commissioned by Save the Children India. Save the Children has initiated a three-year intervention to support the Government of India in achieving the quality targets of the SSA through an exchange of international best practices. The study is funded by the European Union (EU).
- The Report on the State-Level Consultation on ‘Teacher Development in Madhya Pradesh in the Context of the RTE Act’, has been submitted to UNESCO, Delhi. Consultation was held from the 11th to 13th January 2011 at Bhopal. Organized by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, with support from MHRD, UNESCO, UNICEF and DFID. The consultation saw participation from representatives from the following institutions in Madhya Pradesh: SCERT and SSA, IASEs, CTEs and DIETs, Universities, and some private teacher training institutes. Resource persons included representatives from these institutions and from CIE and NUEPA in Delhi, Eklavya and Samavesh in Madhya Pradesh, and Vidya Bhavan Society in Rajasthan. An outline of key points of action was chalked out in the end. CORD was asked by UNESCO to be a partner in these consultations
- Meera Samson and Anuradha De were a part of the 11th and 12th Joint Review Mission of the SSA.
- Claire Noronha represented RECOUP-India at the roundtable on Skill Development constituted by the Department of School Education and Literacy, MHRD, Government of India.
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