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Teach For India has developed relationships with organizations across sectors, including higher education institutions, aligned with Fellows’ career interests, and facilitates interactions between Fellows and these institutions to help Fellows secure placements. Teach For India also has a large number of partnerships to provide summer internships between years 1 and 2 of the Fellowship.
Corporates
A large and growing number of corporates support Teach For India alumni by offering deferrals on job offers for new hires choosing to pursue the Fellowship, and/or recruiting from the pool of Fellows while giving 2 years of work experience credit.
Tie-ups include: Avantha Group, AZB & Partners, Citibank, Godrej Industries, Goldman Sachs, HDFC Standard Life, ICICI Pru, McKinsey & Company, Mastek, Monitor Group, Tata Chemicals, Yes Bank and Zensar Technologies.
Non-profits
Teach For India's non-profit partners recruit from the Fellowship pool and recognize Teach For India as work experience. These include Akanksha, iDiscoveri, Muktangan and the Riverside School.
Graduate schools
Graduate schools tie up with Teach For India in a variety of ways, offering admission deferrals, assistance with loans and scholarships, recognizing Teach For India as valid work experience, and even reserving seats for Fellows. Additionally, IIT-Delhi and IIM-Bangalore cancel the fees of graduates who join certain NGOs including Teach For India.
Current graduate school tie-ups include:
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University School of Law
Princeton Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Harvard Law School
Harvard Business School
ISB
SP Jain Institute of Management & Research
Summer internships
Teach For India partners with a wide variety of organizations to provide summer internship opportunities for Fellows between years one and two of the Fellowship.
These include: Akanksha, Avantha Group, Bharat Petroleum, Beyond Profit, Citizens For Peace, Education Initiatives, Hindustan Pencils, Intellecap, Kirloskar, Manav Sadhana, Mastek, Operation Smile, Teach First, Teach For All and Ummeed.
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Any program working towards improving performance levels of students, particularly from disadvantaged and challenging backgrounds, needs to be encouraged, especially in a country like India. Teach For India aims to do just this … the concept is exemplary.
- Anand Mahindra, MD, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited |
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