# 8 Dr. Shivakumar Jolad
Shivam and Friends Podcast
English - August 07, 2020 05:57 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBArts Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Dr. Shivakumar Jolad is an educator and public policy researcher at FLAME University. He is a Physicist by training but moved on to social sciences over time. Prior to joining FLAME, he taught courses in Physics, education history and policy, and demographic methods for graduate and undergraduate students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar.
Dr. Jolad's primary research interests are Data Analytics, Education policy, and Human Development. He studies the structural challenges faced by the government schools and examines ways to reorganize school system for better functionality. In recent years, he has worked on the drain of enrollment in government schools in Karnataka, school consolidation, Right to Education, and learning level crisis.
Dr. Jolad's Twitter: https://twitter.com/shivakjolad
Dr. Jolad's Medium Blog: https://medium.com/@shiva.jolad_46811
Thanks for listening! Find me on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoqhJyqAZm6_dxNEacKaegw
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