Azim Premji Foundation CEO, Anurag Behar visited NCBS to give a public lecture on the Foundation's efforts towards improving primary education in India.

The Foundation supports teaching efforts across seven states and works together with local governments on issues pertaining to sustainability of the present public education system.  Behar lauded the efforts made by teachers from the government run schools across the country. He described work being done by the Foundation in improving the quality of teacher training via specialised "institutions" of teacher educators. In his talk he appealed to the audience, mainly researchers from the Bangalore Biocluster, to contribute to an in-house magazine edited by the Foundation that would help with improving the teachers training materials on the subject of Biology.

The talk can be accessed on the NCBS Youtube channel

About the Azim Premji Foundation and Azim Premji University

The Azim Premji Foundation and the Azim Premji University run institutions and programs in India for improving primary school education and in related fields of human development. The current geographical focus of this work is in 7 states of India, which have over 350,000 schools. Research programs at the Azim Premji University are  also focused on the fields of Education and Development. Details at http://www.azimpremjifoundation.org/

About the Public Lecture series

NCBS and inStem have an active program of Public Talks and Colloquia, which involve general talks by eminent public figures on science, science policy and society issues. These talks are accessible for a very wide audience, including students in neighbouring scientific institutions and serve to raise awareness both of international science and other issues of relevance in the Indian scientific context.