Press Invitation: Academy for Leadership in Teacher Education International Webinar Series for Exemplary Scholarship “Expanding Opportunities for Every Child to Learn Well. Can Local Experiences from the Pandemic in India Feed into Global Lessons?”
Updated on March 15, 2023 (Wed)
Academy for Leadership in Teacher Education
International Webinar Series for Exemplary Scholarship
“Expanding Opportunities for Every Child to Learn Well.
Can Local Experiences from the Pandemic in India Feed into Global Lessons?”
The Faculty of Education of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) proudly presents the Webinar of the Academy for Leadership in Teacher Education (ALiTE) International Webinar Series for Exemplary Scholarship on “Expanding Opportunities for Every Child to Learn Well. Can Local Experiences from the Pandemic in India Feed into Global Lessons?”. The online Webinar will be delivered by Dr Rukmini Banerji, Chief Executive Officer, Pratham Education Foundation, in late March 2023.
In this Webinar, Dr Rukmini Banerji will discuss how can India’s experiences from the pandemic feed into global lessons, especially the work Pratham did to support continuous learning despite adversity.
Members of the media are welcome to attend this online event. Details are as follows:
| Date: | March 23, 2023 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 10:30 am – 12:00 nn (HKT) |
| Speaker: | Dr Rukmini Banerji |
| Chief Executive Officer | |
| Pratham Education Foundation | |
| Language: | English |
| Mode: | ZOOM Webinar |
| Registration: | https://bit.ly/ALiTE_DL2023 |
Dr Rukmini Banerji is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pratham Education Foundation. She was trained as an economist in India, later was a Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford (1981-83) and completed her PhD at the University of Chicago in 1991.
Dr Banerji returned to India in 1996 and joined Pratham. Over the years, she has worked extensively in Pratham’s education programmes in rural and urban areas. Along with her teams, she has played a major role in designing and supporting large scale partnerships with state governments in India, for improving children’s learning outcomes. Dr Banerji led Pratham’s research and assessment efforts including the Annual Status of Education Report exercise from 2005 to 2014. Since 2015, she has been the CEO of Pratham.
For more details, please visit: https://web.edu.hku.hk/event/detail-page/alite-international-webinar-dr-rukmini-banerji.
For media enquiries, please contact Ms Emily Cheung, Senior Manager (Development and Communications), Faculty of Education, HKU (Tel: 3917 4270 / Email: [javascript protected email address]).
March 15, 2023