Harvard is a long way from rural Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, but that hasn’t stopped Maung Nyeu, currently an Ed.D. candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, from trying to make a difference for children there. SAI talked with Nyeu about his work with Our Golden Hour, a nonprofit working to improve educational opportunities for indigenous children in Bangladesh and to preserve indigenous culture through education.
By introducing global content, Primary Source shapes the way teachers and students learn, so that their knowledge is deeper and their thinking is flexible and open to inquiry. Because of SAI’s funding, a new online course about India was developed.
Meena Hewett has been invited to speak at the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations’ annual conference, which will take place from February 14-17, 2014 at Harvard University. This year’s theme is ‘The Many Faces of Asia: Shaping Identities in a Dynamic World.’
SAI collaborated with the World Bank to organize a four-day Executive Development Program titled “Non-State Players in Human Development – Achieving India’s Goals” in Mumbai from February 3rd to February 6th, 2014 with professors Kash Rangan of HBS, Tarun Khanna of SAI and HBS, and Ashish Nanda of HLS.
Khanna says that Indian state-run companies are much better placed to implement meaningful programmes of corporate social responsibility (CSR) than their private sector counterparts, owing to the large scale on which they operate and their accessibility to the government.
Spray was awarded multiple research grants from SAI to pursue her work in Nepal.
The application deadline is February 13, 2014 for graduate students and February 14, 2014 for undergraduate students.
The theme of this year’s conference is India, Turning the Page: Prospects and Paradoxes.