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Professor N.V. Varghese is currently the Director of the
Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education (CPRHE),
New Delhi.
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holds a doctoral degree in Economics with specialization
in educational planning. He was Head of Governance and
Management in Education at the International Institute
for Educational Planning (IIEP/UNESCO), Paris till
October 2013 and Head of its Training and Education
Programmes from 2001 to 2006. He was responsible for
designing and introducing the IIEP Master’s programme in
educational planning and management. In the 1990s he was
a Professor and Head of the Educational Planning Unit at
NIEPA, New Delhi. He has been closely associated with
educational planning at the federal and decentralised
levels and with the design and development of externally
funded education projects in India While in NIEPA, he
was responsible for managing an Asian regional network -
the Asian Network of Training and Research Institutions
in Educational Planning (ANTRIEP) and was editor of its
Newsletter. While in IIEP, he was the Secretary General
and responsible for the Secretariat of the International
Working Group on Education (IWGE), which is a network of
funding agencies in education. He has directed several
research projects; published more than 20 books and
research reports, and nearly 150 research papers and
articles in areas related to educational planning,
financing and higher education. |
