Other Projects on International Development
Education
Widening Access to Higher Education in India
Investigator(s): Emily Henderson (PI, WICID Executive Management); Nidhi Sabharwal (PI, WICID Advisory Board); Ann Stewart (Co-I, Warwick Law)
This a 4-year research project (2022-26) that draws on and furthers the reach and impact of the first Fair Chance Foundation (FCF) project ‘A Fair Chance for Education: Gendered Pathways to Educational Success in Haryana’ (2017-21) (www.warwick.ac.uk/haryana). This new project takes a key finding from the first project which has significant potential for impact. This is the vital but currently under-utilised potential of faculty members in rural and semi-urban Higher Education (HE) institutions to have a positive effect on young peoples’ HE participation and their life chances. This project recognises the potential role of rural-serving state universities and government colleges based in rural and semi-urban areas as HE knowledge hubs and strengthening their efforts in delivering on the equity and social justice agenda for HE in India.