These range from high dropout rates, poor learning-levels, inequity in access to quality education, high prevalence of rote-learning, marks orientation, lack of accountability, and inadequate teacher preparation. These issues are systemic in nature and require deliberate, long-term, and sustained planning to build capacities and create public awareness and engagement.
We build the capacities of important actors in the school education system to bring about the desired reform. We firmly believe that education is an enabler of social change. We envision a democracy where every citizen is empowered, not only in an individual capacity but also in the ethics of equity, the essentiality of diversity, the ethos of justice, and is thus driven by social sensitivity. Schools are the spaces that nurture these principles, capabilities, and values.
Our notion of good education ensures the holistic development of the child in multiple dimensions to fulfil and expand their potential, as they become active, contributing, and concerned citizens of the world. Such multiple dimensions of development include cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and ethical abilities. Learning-to-learn, critical thinking, problem-solving, conceptual understanding, etc., are some of the other important facets of an exceptional education system.
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and public institutions have played a critical role in improving school education through sustained work and a wide range of creative interventions. Their work has had a direct impact on the ground and has also led to shifts in educational discourse and, to a lesser degree, in practice. There is a burgeoning need for CSOs to address the evolving challenges of school education in the country.
Our approach is to support such organizations engaged in school education to elevate the school learning experience. We do this through various means, such as:
Our work in the Higher Education arena has been around the relevant requirements of particular times. Over the years, we are involved in several initiatives that address different groups’ needs, ranging from access to quality education to work-readiness.
Wipro Foundation is the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) entity of Wipro Limited. Going back over two decades, we focus on social initiatives in the domains of Education, Primary Healthcare, Ecology, Disaster Response, and Cities & Public Spaces.
Samir Gadgil is the Head HR for the Chief Growth Office and all Corporate Functions at Wipro. He is also Wipro Cares’ Pune Location Head.
Previously, Samir has worked as Head – HR for Digital Operations & Platforms and managed multiple initiatives under HR and People Supply Chain Functions, including Talent Acquisition, Talent Transformation, Workforce Management, Facilities & Transport.
A seasoned professional, Samir has also served as the Global Head- Compensation, and Benefits at Wipro and worked with best-in-class Manufacturing, Consulting, Financial, and IT Service Companies in a career spanning over two decades.
