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6 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The same pipeline/network effect can now be seen in the education sector. So many of them with the one-year-long degree from Harvard are now in the business of 'revolutionizing' education, neatly aligned with agendas of the world bank/IMF/Impact bonds.

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A typical trajectory for such organizations/start-ups is to avail initial funding from the impact fund instituted at the graduating institution. Get recognition for your 'revolutionizing' work from the same network and get invited to a symposium organized by the same cabal.
What drives these organizations is not what structural problems education sector is facing, but what can attract funding and instant recognition. Hence, playing around with popular educational discourse, by using terms like 'at scale', 'evidence-based', 'theory of change' , etc.
No doubt there are some exceptionally bright among this cohort, but a majority of them have IAS officers/higher ranking army officers/businessmen as their parents. While this pipeline/network effect was always there, it is now being 'institutionalized' by some institutions. Image

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telugu caduv'atanna telikaga jucu
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That's how it is, they take Telugu lightly
In all those English schools.

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