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Gayathri Mehta

Gayathri Mehta

IB educator and examiner in India teaching IB Diploma Economics, Global Politics, and Theory of Knowledge; author of "Collected Essays: Experiences from an IB Classroom."

Sep 28, 2026

5:58
So one of the things we're taking on kind of an ambitious project in this conversation, which is to think about IB in India, which is you have your own perspective, but you also have, you've moved around enough to probably know more about it.
6:11
The biggest or the first thing to understand about India is that there isn't one Indian education system.
6:17
It's incredibly diverse and education somewhat reflects that diversity.
6:22
We have government schools, private schools, different state boards.
6:25
We have the Central Board of Secondary Education, ICSE, and then we have international curriculum like the A-levels and IB.
6:33
And even within all of these, there's a lot of, I would say, urban-rural divide.
6:38
So the educational experience in a way of a student in a private school in Mumbai or Delhi or Bangalore or Chandigarh, for that matter, is completely different from that of a student in kind of a rural government school.

8 MINS LATER

14:44
So do you talk a little bit about how students come in prepared and then they're what that feels like for a student as they go through the two to four years that you see them?

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