CB BureauPiramal Fellowship Programme, also
known as Gandhi Fellowship Programme, is a two-year residential programme that helps
young individuals to develop leadership skills necessary to bring positive
change in society. The Fellowship encourages these young people to support
primary school headmasters in transforming their schools.
Any graduate, a student in final year
of post-graduation, or a young professional under the age of 25 can apply for the
programme. They may apply by email
or here: http://apply.gandhifellowship.org/register_applicant1516.aspx
Application closes on 31 March 2016. Fellows will be entitled to a monthly
stipend of Rs 7,000 for two years along with other allowances. Also, Rs 160,000
will be provided as seed money at the end of the programme.
Piramal Foundation for Education
Leadership (PFEL) was set up with the main objective of facilitating
professional development of education leaders across the country and imparting
specialised training to them to enable them to make positive changes in their
schools through delivering a higher quality of education. With the help of
various education-promotion schemes, PFEL hopes to create and replicate a
sustainable programme for grooming education leaders in the government system
across India, in partnership with the government and relevant agencies.
PFEL runs two programmes in this
direction: Principal Leadership Development Programme (PLDP) and Piramal
Fellowship Programme (PFP). In the PFP, fellows work as ‘sahyogis’ to five
school principals each. By taking on real challenges and solving problems
that exist on the ground, Piramal Fellows discover themselves – this intense
personal-change process is expected to help them become the next-generation
change leaders, thus enabling them to realise their potential and play a role in bringing about
sustainable and systemic change.