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The Young India Fellowship (YIF), is a one-year residential multi-disciplinary post graduate programme which provides Liberal arts education with a focus on experiential learning. Indians under the age of 29 with an undergraduate or a postgraduate degree in any subject and no more than 3 years of work experience are eligible to apply for the fellowship. The YIF was launched in 2011 by the International Foundation for Research and Education (IFRE)- a not-for-profit (Section 25) company, in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Penn). YIF graduation certificates are co-signed by the YIF and Penn Engineering Deans. YIF's academic partners now also include Carleton College, Sciences Po, King's College, London, University of Michigan, University of California, Berkeley and Trinity College, Dublin. The Young India Fellowship aims to develop change agents for India through a multi-disciplinary programme. It aims to improve the standard of higher education in India and allow for a more expansive and engaging learning module than is currently available in the country. Fellows take classes in subject areas ranging from anthropology to ethics, life sciences to climate change, art appreciation to entrepreneurship and are provided mentors from a pool of corporate, civil and academic leaders in the country. Each year the number of available seats has been increased in order to accommodate the growing pool of applicants. For its academic year 2015-2016, commencing in July, the Young India Fellowship has increased its seats to 200. YIF is the precursor to the newly established Ashoka University, located in the Rajiv Gandhi Education City near Delhi, India. Ashoka University is a philanthropic initiative founded by eminent scholars and visionaries to provide a liberal education on par with the best universities around the world. It offers a liberal education, nurturing core 21st century skills of critical thinking, communication and leadership, also promoting interdisciplinary education and advanced research in the humanities, social sciences, and the natural and applied sciences. Starting from 2014, YIF became the flagship programme of the Ashoka University and offers a Post-Graduate Diploma in Liberal Studies & Leadership to the Fellows after graduation. Fellows also have the option to convert this diploma into a research-based master’s degree called a Master in Liberal Studies. == History == The seeds of the Young India Fellowship germinated in a simple conversation between friends. Sanjeev Bhikchandani, Founder, Naukri.com and Ashish Dhawan, Co-founder of ChrysCapital Investment Advisors, were thinking about starting a Liberal Arts school, while Vineet Gupta, Managing Director at Jamboree Education and Rakesh Jaggi, VP at Reservoir Production Group, Schlumberger were considering setting up a technology institute. They conferred with Pramath R. Sinha, Founding Dean of Indian School of Business (ISB), who mooted the idea of bringing the two concepts together to create a multidisciplinary university. The conclusion they reached was that though many technology and business institutes focused on producing professionals had cropped up over the years, liberal and general education had largely been neglected in the country. Over time the circle of friends who believed in the idea grew to include Ashok Belani, CTO Schlumberger; Arjun Bhagat, Chairman of Calibrated Group; Vinati Kastia, Partner AZB & Partners; Ashish Gupta, COO at Evalueserve; Sunish Sharma, Managing Director, General Atlantic; Saurabh Srivastava, Angel Investor, Venture Capitalist and Entrepreneur and N.V. “Tiger” Tyagarajan, President and CEO, Genpact. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Young India Fellowship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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