S. Srinivasa Rao

Dean of Indira Mahindra School of Education

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world – Nelson Mandela

In a short journey of two and a half years, Mahindra University has marked its presence in the Indian higher education landscape and is emerging as a leading center of multi-disciplinary ideas, research and teaching, preparing future thinkers and leaders for a world that is ever changing, and yet promising. Indira Mahindra School of Education draws spirit and inspiration from this overall vision of the university and prepares itself as an instrument of preparing global thinkers and leaders in educational research, policy, planning, practice and management. It aims to emerge as a centre of excellence in Educational Studies by providing good quality teaching, research, consulting and training facilities to students, researchers, academics, governmental and non-governmental organisations, national and international institutions and other practitioners of education.

Education as a discipline draws hugely from other social sciences and humanities, so it is inevitable that Indira Mahindra School of Education too incorporates other social sciences and humanities alongside core fields of Education in its teaching and research agendas so that it flourishes as a centre for advancement and production of knowledge. The location of Indira Mahindra School of Education within an ambience of synergetic, mutually interacting, multi- disciplinary schools allows it to usher in as an incubator of new ideas and collaborations. The School seeks to further these goals by inventing new academic programmes which are in sync and, at times, at the frontiers of the overall trends in the country and abroad.

The School has already begun bringing in a pool of very talented and reputed faculty from all over the country, who have made their names in their respective fields of expertise within Educational Studies and who have been trained and taught in well- known and highly ranked institutions nationally and internationally. With their active involvement, the School seeks to build partnerships between itself and the development sector, educational initiatives of the corporates and the government, schools, universities and other institutions, to feed each other with mutually beneficial and field advancing ideas and learnings.

Indira Mahindra School of Education has already launched its Doctoral program, and will be launching its MA in Education in the academic year 2023-24 and Bachelor degree program in the year 2024-25. The School will be a place to be in if you wish to fly high in the arena of ‘Education’ in India and in South Asia. Hope you come and join us in this mission of creating a world class center of excellence for Educational Studies!