Education Quality Improvement Programme

Aim To mobilise and disseminate resources for early childhood education.

Constituency Served

slum and rural children, children with disability, 2 1/2 - 11 years; teachers


Details of Work

EQUIP, a project of the Rural Institute for Community Education (RICE), is an educational resource centre. It works with teachers in 200 early education centres run by 32 NGOs who are supported by Terre Des Hommes, Netherlands*. It trains teachers in classroom techniques, learning methodologies and preparation of low-cost teaching aids. It has set up a teacher's resource room at Mandya that provides resource support to 20 schools. It offers teacher training for government schools under the DPEP* with an emphasis on activity based learning. It disseminates learning material through its centre in Bangalore.

Fact File

Education Quality Improvement Programme

    Acronym

  • EQUIP

    • Status

  • Non-profit

    • Category

  • Education

    • Sub Category

  • Organisations

    • Level of Work of the Organization

  • Local, State, National

    • Establishment

  • 1997

    • Focus

  • early childhood education, resource centre, teacher training, government school

    • Resources

  • publications, including a manual on child growth monitoring; audio tapes of rhymes in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu; toys, teaching aids
Contact Information

Mr K Markasagayam , Education Coordinator , Mon-Sat 10.00-5.00
Johan Cryuff Education Centre ERC, RICE-JCEC, Mathakondapalli, Denkanikottai Taluk, Dharmapuri District Tamil Nadu- 635114.
Ph : 91-04347-237160/61/62 ,Email : jcec@vsnl.com markasagayam_k@rediffmail.com