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.