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N.V. Varghese is currently the Director of the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education
(CPRHE), New Delhi. He was Head of Governance and Management in Education at the
International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP/UNESCO), Paris, till October 2013 and
Head of its Training and Education Programmes from 2001 to 2006. He has been responsible for
managing an Asian regional network – the Asian Network of Training and Research Institutions in
Educational Planning (ANTRIEP). He was also the Secretary General and responsible for the
Secretariat of the International Working Group on Education (IWGE). He has directed several
research projects and published around 25 books and research reports and more than 170 research
papers and articles in areas related to educational planning, financing and higher education. His
recent publications include India Higher Education Report 2015 (with Garima Malik), Routledge
(Francis and Taylor Group; London and New Delhi, 2016), and From Schooling to Learning
(IWGE Report), Paris, (IIEP/UNESCO, 2014).
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