HYDERABAD: The Harvard Graduate School of Education will soon take up a case study on ‘how Telangana Social Welfare Residential Schools are disrupting the status quo in education sector in India’ to analyse the policies of the state government in providing free education to students belonging to the marginalised sections.

The course administrator of the

Harvard University

recently sent a communique to Praveen Kumar, secretary of Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TSWREIS) about the case study. The students and the faculty members of the Harvard Graduate School of Education will analyze the TSWREIS model wherein over 40,000 students belonging to SC, ST, OBC, minority and economically weaker sections secure free education in 270 social welfare residential schools run by the Telangana government.

“As part of the case study, the students and faculty members will analyse the pros and cons of the TSWREIS model and whether it can be replicated in other developing countries. They will hold discussions on various aspects of residential schools such as enrolment, results, teacher training programmes etc.,” said Kumar, adding that perhaps this is the first time that any such intervention in education for the marginalized is being noticed by the world renowned Harvard University.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education held interviews with various stakeholders of the TSWREIS to understand the model at large. “They sought a lot of data on results, experimentation, academic calendar, training programmes, national curriculum framework. They also wanted to know how teachers are selected and trained, pedagogy, democratic practices adopted in classrooms, skillsets among students etc.,” said Kumar.