Quality Education & Skills Training (QUEST) Alliance is a social venture that works to create learning experiences for marginalized children and youth through research, partnerships, and skills training. It focuses on innovative teaching methods, collaborates with organizations to implement and scale solutions, and facilitates knowledge sharing. Through research, piloting programs, and disseminating findings, it aims to enhance education, vocational training, and youth employability.

1. Knowledge
through research and partnerships

2. Who are we ?

3. Quality Education & Skills Training (QUEST) Alliance is a social venture
that works towards creating powerful learning experiences for
marginalized children & youth to realize their full potential
Who are we ?

4. What do we do ?

5. We focus on research-led innovation in teaching and learning
We engage with civil society, government institutions and
corporates to demonstrate and enable scalable and replicable
solutions in education and vocational training
We provide a collaboration platform to enable knowledge creation
and sharing among a growing network of diverse stakeholders
We look to harness the potential of technology and contextualize it
to address real world challenges
What do we do ?

6. How do we work ?

7. Research Demonstrate Disseminate
How do we work ?

8. Research Demonstrate Disseminate
- Learner analysis – to create a shared
understanding of needs & challenges in
existing delivery models
– Design research - to explore
innovation in pedagogy, curriculum and
assessment to creatively enhance and
develop powerful learning experiences
– Program evaluation - to critically
analyse program outcomes and impact
in the context of quality, sustainability,
replicability
How do we work ?

9. Research Demonstrate Disseminate
– Research led program design and
incubation through appropriate
partnerships
– Continuous engagement and
monitoring of pilots to identify success
factors and
re-design constantly
– Identify scenarios for scale, adaption
to new contexts and sustainability
How do we work ?

10. Research Demonstrate Disseminate
– Facilitate knowledge exchange and
genuine dialogue through physical and
virtual meeting spaces
– Promote thought leadership by bringing
together thinkers and change makers to
address cross cutting challenges
– Influence policy making by sharing
research and analysis from successful and
inspirational field experiences
How do we work ?

11. Research Demonstrate Disseminate
- Learner analysis – to create a shared – Research led program design and – Facilitate knowledge exchange and
understanding of needs & challenges in incubation through appropriate genuine dialogue through physical and
existing delivery models partnerships virtual meeting spaces
– Design research - to explore – Continuous engagement and – Promote thought leadership by bringing
innovation in pedagogy, curriculum and monitoring of pilots to identify success together thinkers and change makers to
assessment to creatively enhance and factors and address cross cutting challenges
develop powerful learning experiences re-design constantly – Influence policy making by sharing
– Program evaluation - to critically – Identify scenarios for scale, adaption research and analysis from successful and
analyse program outcomes and impact to new contexts and sustainability inspirational field experiences
in the context of quality, sustainability,
replicability
How do we work ?

12. Focus Areas

13. Build robust curriculum and course structures that address learner
specific needs while forming the foundation for a transformational
experience
Create a vibrant facilitator platform for continuous support and
professional development
Design and pilot multiple delivery models to ensure quality and
relevance in varied learning contexts
Share knowledge and engage with a larger group of stakeholders
to mobilize action and policy change through impactful research,
demonstration and advocacy
Focus Areas

14. Our Work in Employability

15. Over the last 3 years our initiatives have aimed to address
facilitator capacity building, curriculum design, developing and
piloting technology tools for improving delivery and sensitizing
formal educational systems to the importance of building
livelihood skills.
We have worked with curriculum designers (International
Youth Foundation), non profits (CAP, DRF, Youthreach) and
private sector (Alcatel-Lucent, GE, Microsoft)
Multiple tools have been piloted, tested intensively and scaled
leading to new directions for research and innovation
Our work in Employability

16. Digital Lifeskills toolkit aimed to address the pressing need of
providing facilitators with ideas and tools for developing their
facilitation and subject matter competencies, currently being used
in over 80 centers across India, Nepal and Sri-Lanka
Udaan Lifeskills program is a comprehensive 67 module curriculum
designed to address the most vital part of employability training to
develop critical life skills and workplace readiness skills
Pre-Vocational modules aimed to help secondary school students
explore their interests in diverse vocations through subject matter
in English, Math and Social Sciences
Research and Innovation

17. Our Work in Education

18. Over the last 3 years our initiatives have aimed to explore
diverse content design, delivery methods and teacher support
and advocacy for change
We have worked with design researchers (Quicksand Design
Studio), educators (Vikramshila, Udaan) non profits (APF, EDC,
Pratham,) and technology enablers (Drishti, OWSA, )
Non traditional and participatory tools and mediums have
been piloted, tested intensively and scaled leading to new
directions for research and innovation
Our work in Education

19. Videoshala is a unique intervention where local community members
are trained to produce contextually relevant curriculum based
educational video kits for primary school children.
Lifeline for Education is a phone based information and knowledge
access system to support teachers in the context of an acute
shortage of teaching resources in rural government schools
Teacher centric content for computer aided learning was designed,
piloted in 12 schools and distributed in 4000 schools
Knowledge Sharing and capacity building events have been a key
medium for engaging in dialogue on issues like instructional design,
evaluation and meaningful uses of technology
Research and Innovation

20. Possibilities for Engagement

21. NGOs : Seed ideas for innovation, share research and
implement pilots in the field
Corporations & Academic Institutions : Share resources,
knowledge, tools and methodologies to develop and assess a
proof of concept
Governments : Provide support to scale up a proof of concept
Technology companies & labs: Create or adapt technology
products and services to provide value for teachers & learners
Possibilities for Engagement

22. APF
CAP
Funders USAID Non Profits DRF
Pratham
OWSA
Accenture Youthreach
Corporations GE Udaan
Microsoft Vikramshila
Alcatel-Lucent Foundation Drishti
Intel Education Education Development Center
Wipro Byrraju Foundation
Cisco Saath
British Telecom Unnati
Education Initiatives International Youth Foundation
American Indian Foundation
Human & Institutional Development Forum
RAN Research Center for Learning Resources
Educationists
Retail Biz IT for Change
& Researchers Video Volunteers
Nirantar
Center for Media studies
RV Educational consortium Carnegie Mellon University
ALC Schools Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology
Quicksand & Academic Institutions Digantar
IMRB SNDT University
Kozmalone consulting
Who are our partners ?

23. Who is the team ?

24. Aakash Sethi
Executive Director
Deepak Menon Amitav Nath Abhijeet Mehta Douglas Bell Linet D’souza Tina Koshy
Research & Programs and Partnerships & Learning Finance & Governance &
Innovations Operations Communication Specialist Administration Contracts
Quicksand Design Nikita Agarwal Deepti Belliappa Aude Joannis Radha Ganesan Janardhana KV
Studio Ganapathy
Program Design Instructional Administrative
Innovations Partner Coordinator Communications Specialist Designer Assistant
Specialist
Who is the team ?