Martina Björkman Nyqvist receives research funding to evaluate innovative education PROGRAM iN INDIA
26 March, 2018
Martina Björkman Nyqvist (Associate Professor, Department of Economics) has received research funding of 2 million SEK from Carl Bennet in order to evaluate an innovative education program in Assam in Northeast India.
The research concerns a CSR project which Carl Bennet is involved in, focusing on children in primary school. The aim of the CSR project is to increase the children’s learning levels by experimenting with the different teaching methods in school as well as by increasing mothers’ involvement in the children’s schooling. Martina will measure how effective the project has been. The evaluation begins now and will be finished in summer 2020.