Published Books,Reports and Working Papers

2025
Dewan, HK and Vimala Ramachandran (Ed): Introduction to qualitative research. Aakar Publication, Udaipur and Azim Premji University, Bangalore.
2024
Ramachandran Vimala, Ananya Chakraborty and Amit Kaushik : Teachers’ Perception of Formative Assessment for Students with Disability: A Case Study from India. Australian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education. Pp 1-14.
2022
Ramachandran Vimala et al: Teacher Management in Nagaland. Study report for The World Bank. Washington DC.
2022
Ramachandran Vimala: Current Issues and Trends in India’s School Education. Oxford Research Encyclopaedia. London. UK.
2021
Ramachandran Vimala and Dr. Tanu Shukla: STEM Education and Careers in India. Report for The World Bank, Washington DC.
2020
Ramachandran, Vimala: School Teachers in NEP 2020: Contradictory messages and silence on critical issues. The India Forum: A journal on Contemporary Issues. 2 October 2020.
2020
Ramachandran Vimala: Teacher Belief in Children’s Potential is important. Learning Curve, Azim Premji University. Bangalore.
2020
Ramachandran Vimala, Deepa Das, Ganesh Nigam and Anjali Shandilya: Contract Teachers in India: Recent Trends and Current Status. Azim Premji University. Bangalore.
2020
Ramachandran, Vimala: Improving Primary Education Outcomes - an evaluation of TRI (Transforming Rural India) projects in West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand. TRI, New Delhi (TRI is a Tata trust Supported Initiative).
2019
Ramachandran, Vimala and Kameshwari Jandhyala, (Ed.): Gender and Education, Essays from Economic and Political Weekly, Orient Black Swan.
2019
Ramachandran, Vimala and Niti Saxena: Quality and Systemic Functioning of Secondary Education in India: A study in Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. The World Bank Technical Background Paper. New Delhi.
2019
Ramachandran, Vimala: Democratic Inequalities – the dilemma of elementary education in India. in N V Varghese and Madhumita Bandhopadhayay (Ed) book on Democracy and Education. OUP, New Delhi.
2019
Ramachandran, Vimala: Integrating a gender concerns in mainstream programmes and institutions, UNICEF and Department of Women and Child Development, GOI. This research paper was followed by training of specific state office and area specific teams in UNICEF.
2018
Ramachandran, Vimala: Equity and Quality are two sides ofthe same coin –essays on school education in India. Social Science Press. New Delhi.
2016
Ramachandran, Vimala: T Linden, Tara Beteille, Sangeeta Dey, Sangeeta Goyal and Prerna Goel Chatterji: Teachers in the Indian Education System –Synthesis of nine states tudy.NUEPA Research Report.
2015
Jandhyala Kameshwari with Vimala Ramachandran: Why Women Teachers Matter in Secondary Education. Economic and Political Weekly, vol.1.NO.32 August 8 2015.
April 2013
Boone Peter, Ila Fazzio, Kameshwari Jandhyala, Chitra Jayanty, Simon Johnson, Vimala Ramachandran, Filipa Silva and Zhaoguo Zhan: April 2013. The surprising dire situation of children’s education in rural West Africa: Results from the CREO study in Guinea Bissau. National Bureau of Economic Research. Cambridge MA, USA.
2012
Ramachandran Vimala, Taramoni Naorem: Inclusion and exclusion of students in the school and in the classroom in primary and upper primary schools: A qualitative study commissioned by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, MHRD, Government of India, New Delhi. TSG, EdCIL New Delhi.
2012
Ramachandran, Vimala et al (Ed): Cartographies of Empowerment– Tracing the Journey of Mahila Samakhya, Zubaan, New Delhi.
2012
Jandhyala, Kameshwari: Ruminations on Evaluation in the Mahila Samakhya Programme, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2012, 211-231.
2010
Ramachandran Vimala and Diarra, Mahamadou: Youth Literacy and Basic Life Skills: A Review of Policies and Practices. CIDA and UIL, Hamburg.
2007
Ramachandran, Vimala and Kameshwari Jandhyala: Enabling deprived children stay in school and learn, ILO report, New Delhi, 2007.
2007
Ramachandran Vimala, Kameshwari Jandhyala and Nishi Mehrotra: Incentives in Elementary Education: Do they make a difference? Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, Vol. XX1, No.2, April 2007, pp 141-153.
2009
Ramachandran, Vimala, Nishi Mehrotra et al: Equity in School Water and Sanitation, over coming exclusion and discrimination in South Asia – India Country Report. UNICEF ROSA. Kathmandu, Nepal.
2008
Ramachandran, Vimala: Health and Girls’ education in South Asia: An essential synergy; UNICEF, UNGEI, Kathmandu.
2008
Sharma Rashmi and Vimala Ramachandran: The Elementary Education System in India: A field-based investigation into institutional structures, processes and dynamics, Routledge India.
2005
Jandhyala Kameshwari: Working Within and Without, in Mandira Kumar and Padma M Sarangapani. (Ed) 2005, Improving Government Schools – What has been tried and what works, Sutradhar and Books for Change, Bangalore.
2004
Ramachandran, Vimala: Fostering opportunities to lean at an accelerated pace: Why do girls benefit enormously? UNICEF Working Paper, New Delhi.
2004
Ramachandran, Vimala (Ed): Hierarchies of Access: Gender and Equity in Primary Education; Sage Publications, New Delhi.
2004
ERU Team: Snakes and Ladders: Factors Influencing Successful Primary School Completion for Children in Poverty Contexts; South Asian Human Development Sector Report No. 6, World Bank, New Delhi.
2003
Jandhyala Kameshwari: Empowering Education: The Mahila Samakhya Experience, commissioned for the UNESCO Monitoring Report, 2003.
2003
Ramachandran, Vimala (Ed): Getting children back to school: case studies in primary education; Sage Publications, New Delhi.
2002
Jandhyala Kameshwari: So close and yet so far: Primary Schooling in Warangal District, in Vimala Ramachandran (ed) Hierarchies of Access, The European Commission.
2001
Jandhyala Kameshwari: Bal Jyothi, Bringing child labour into schools, in Vimala Ramachandran (Ed) Getting Children Back to School: Case Studies in Primary Education, Sage Publications, 2003.
2001
Jandhyala Kameshwari: “State Initiatives: Towards Equality: A Symposium on Women, Feminists and Women’s Movements. Seminar 505:31-35.2001.
2001
Ramachandran, Vimala and Harsh Sethi: Shiksha Karmi Project of Rajasthan – an overall appraisal; New Education Division Document No 7, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
1998
Ramachandran, Vimala: Girls and Women’s Education: Policies and Implementation Mechanisms – Case Study India; UNESCO-PROAP, Bangkok.
1998
Ramachandran, Vimala (Ed): Bridging the gap between intention and action-Girls and Women’s Education in South Asia, Editor the book and author of the Indian experience, UNESCO-PROAP, Bangkok and ASPBAE, New Delhi.
1997
Jandhyala, Kameshwari: “Women and Development: Some observations from the field” in Haleh Afshar and Fatima Alikhan (ed) Empowering women for development: Experiences from some third world countries, Hyderabad,1997 p.88-103.
1997
Jandhyala, Kameshwari: “Terms of Engagement: NGOs and the State”, Voices, Bangalore, 1997.

Articles In Journals

2020
Jayanty, Chitra et al: Achieving child literacy and numeracy in the world’s poorest areas: Evidence from rural Guinea Bissau (2020).
2020
Jayanty Chitra et al:: Large Learning Gains in Pockets of Extreme Poverty: Experimental Evidence from Guinea Bissau (2020) Guinea Bissau (2020). Journal of Public Economics
2015
Jandhyala, Kameshwari and Vimala Ramachandran: Women Teachers Matter in Secondary Education. Economic and Political weekly. Volume L, Number 32, August 8, 2015.
2014
Ramachandran, Vimala and Prerna Goel Chatterjee: Evaluation of gender and equity issues under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Journal of Gender Studies. New Delhi, Volume 21(2), pp 157-178. 2014. Indian
2013
Jayanty, Chitra et al: The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa: Results from the CREO Study in Guinea Bissau NBER working Paper Series 2013 Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research).
2013
Ramachandran, Vimala and Taramani Naorem: What it means to be a Dalit or Tribal child in our schools: A synthesis of Six-State Qualitative Study. Economic and Political Weekly.Vol XLVIII No 44, November 2, 2013.
2012
Ramachandran, Vimala: Can rights go wrong? The RTE Conundrum in India.India International Centre Quarterly, Summer, July 2012, pages 56-63.
2012
Ramachandran, Vimala: Evaluating gender and equity in elementary education reflections on methodologies, processes and outcomes, Indian Journal of Gender Studies,Vol.19, No.2,June 2012.
2011
Ramachandran, Vimala: Reflections on School Leadership, Learning Curve Issue XVI, March 2011. Published by Azim Premji Foundation, Bangalore.
2010
Ramachandran, Vimala: Learning Social Science: What is right and wrong; Learning Curve Special issue on Social Sciences in School, Issue XV, 2010. Published by Azim Premji Foundation, Bangalore.
2009
Ramachandran, Vimala and Suman Bhattacharjea: Attend to primary school teachers, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.XLIV, No. 31, August 1, 2009.
2009
Ramachandran, Vimala: Right to Education Act, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIV, No 28, July 11, 2009.
2009
Ramachandran, Vimala: What is ‘para’ about some teachers? VIKALPA (A journal of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Vol. 34, No. 2, April-June 2009.
2007
Ramachandran, Vimala and Kameshwari Jandhyala: Strengthening the government school system–lessons from India, Economic and Political Weekly, VOL42No.48 December 01- December 07, 2007.
2007
Ramachandran, Vimala, Nishi Mehrotra and Kameshwari Jandhyala: Do incentives make a difference to meaningful education of socially under privileged children? Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, NUEPA, New Delhi.
2006
Ramachandran, Vimala: Education and livelihood, Seminar 563, June. New Delhi.
2005
Ramachandran, Vimala: Why school teachers are de-motivated and disheartened, Economicand Political Weekly, VOL 40 No. 21, May 21 - May 27, 2005.
2003
Ramachandran, Vimala, Kameshwari Jandhyala and Aarti Saihjee: Through the life cycle of children: factors determining successful primary school completion, Economic and Political Weekly,Vol. 38 No. 47, November, 2003.
2003
Ramachandran, Vimala: Backward and forward linkages that strengthen primary education in Economic and Political Weekly, March 8-14, Vol. XXXVIII, No 10.
2002
Ramachandran, Vimala and Aarti Saihjee: The New Segregation – reflections on gender and equity in primary education, Economic and Political Weekly; No 17 Vol. XXXVII, 27 April-2 May.
2001
Ramachandran, Vimala: State Initiatives: Towards Equality: A Symposium on Women, Feminisms and Women’s Movements. Seminar 505:31-35.2001.
2001
Ramachandran, Vimala: Community Participation in Primary Education – Innovations in Rajasthan, Economic and Political Weekly; Vol. XXXVI, June 23.
1999
Ramachandran, Vimala: Adult Education: A tale of empowerment denied, Economic and Political Weekly; Vol. XXXXIV, No 15 April 10.
1998
Ramachandran, Vimala: Engendering Development: Lessons from Social Sector Programmes in India, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 5: 1.
1997
Visaria, Leela and Vimala Ramachandran: Emerging issues in reproductive health, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 22, No 36, September 6.
1997
Ramachandran, Vimala: Changing face of the development sector in India, VOICES, Volume 1, Number 2.
1996
Ramachandran, Vimala: NGOs in times of Globalisation: from family planning to reproductive health, Seminar, November.
1996
Ramachandran, Vimala: Fertility and women’s autonomy in the Indian Family, India International Centre Journal Special Issue on Women and the Family.
1995
Ramachandran, Vimala: Equality among unequal partners-relationship between NGO sandthe government in India, The Administrator, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration,Mussoorie, July.

Chapters in Published Books

2015
Ramachandran, Vimala: Exploring the legacy of three innovative programmes: What educational policy and practice learnt from Lok Jumbish,Shiksha Karmi and Mahila Samakhya. In AK Singh (Ed) Education and Empowerment in India: Policies and Practices. Routledge India.
2015
Ramachandran, Vimala: Democratic Inequalities – the dilemma of elementary education in India. In N V Varghese and Madhumita Bandhopadhayay (Ed) book on Democracy and Education. NUEPA. New Delhi.
2015
Ramachandran, Vimala: Equity, quantity and quality: The precarious balancing act in Indian Schools, in Knut Axel Jacob son (Ed) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India.Norway.(ISBN978- 0-415-73865-1).
2014
Ramachandran,Vimala: Gendered Inequalities in Education. In Devaki Jain and CP Sujaya (Ed): Indian Women Revisited.Publications Division of Government of India.2014. (ISBN-978-81-230-1799- 0).
2009
Ramachandran, Vimala: Quality, the Heart of Equity, in Cohen, Joe lE., and Martin B. Malin, eds. 2009. International Perspectives on the Goals of Universal Basic and Secondary Education. New York: Routledge.
2009
Ramachandran, Vimala: Democratic Inequalities: The Dilemma of Elementary Education in India, in Robert Cowen and Andrea M Kazamias (ed), International Handbook of Comparative Education, Volume II, Springer International Handbook of Education Series, The Netherlands.
2009
Ramachandran, Vimala: Systemic barriers to equity in education, in Preet Rustagi (Ed) Concerns, conflicts and cohesions: Universalisation of Elementary Education in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
2008
Ramachandran, Vimala, Kameshwari Jandhyala and Aarti Saihjee: Through the Life Cycle of Children: Factors that facilitate / Impede successful primary school completion; in Rama Baru (Ed) School Health Services in India: The Social ad Economic Contexts, Sage Publications, New Delhi.
2008
Ramachandran, Vimala, Kameshwari Jandhyala and Aarti Saihjee: Through the Life Cycle of Children: Factors that facilitate / impede successful primary school completion, in Rama Baru (Ed) School Health Services in India, Sage Publications, New Delhi.
2007
Ramachandran, Vimala: A school in every village –the Education Guarantee Scheme in Madhya Pradesh, India, in Deepa Narayan and Elena Glinskaya (Ed) Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work, World Bank, Washington DC.
2006
Ramachandran, Vimala and Aarti Saihjee: The New Segregation in Primary Education – Implications for Local Governance, in Amit Prakash (Ed), Local Governance in India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
2002
Ramachandran, Vimala: Literacy, Development and Empowerment: Conceptual Issues, for edited book on Gender Gap in Basic Education Edited by Dr. Rekha Wazir; Sage Publication, New Delhi.
2002
Ramachandran, Vimala: Education and the status of women; in India Education Report Edited by Dr Govinda, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
1998
Ramachandran, Vimala: Voluntary organisation, professional agency or sub-contractor - the changing profile of the non-government sector in India, Dr. Pravin Visaria, M L Dantwala and Harsh Sethi (Eds.) Social Change through voluntary action, Sage Publications New Delhi, September.
1996
Ramachandran, Vimala: Redefining Safety Net: in N Rao, L Rurap and R Sudarshan (Eds.): Sites of Change: The Structural Context for Empowering Women in India, UNDP / FES.