Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, is the latest entrant to the Bachelor of Elementary Education course with its first batch of 19 students. Benita Sen finds out more about the project that inspired the programme. “It’s a movement,” points out Dr Asha Mathur. And she ought to know, as vice principal of… [ Continue Reading ]
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