Highest education accolade, Yidan Prize, for Pratham CEO Rukmini Banerji

Banerji has been awarded for her work in improving learning outcomes

Rukmini Banerji, CEO of Pratham Education Foundation, has been awarded the world’s highest education accolade, the 2021 Yidan Prize for Education Development, for her work in improving learning outcomes. Among Banerji's pioneering work, along with Pratham's team, is the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) assessment approach that revealed literacy and numeracy gaps among children who have already spent several years at school.

To close these gaps, Banerji's teams’ 'Teaching at the Right Level' (TaRL) programme works with schools and local communities to provide basic reading and arithmetic skills, ensuring no child is left behind, with the replicable model now