:::Presidency College, Kolkata :::

The Foundation is committed to the idea of education devoted to founding of a just, productive and cultured society. While the frontiers of higher education have expanded, the benefits have not adequately trickled down. The state has tried to redress the imbalance through positive discrimination and yet much remains to be accomplished. The educational needs of the poor, the disadvantaged and the marginalized require immediate attention. FAEA emphasizes on the equality of opportunity to help students what they want to become so that they have a choice and are not directed by necessity. The Foundation is committed to enable economically disadvantaged groups access to be able to study in those institutions, which give access to academic excellence, structures of power and economic opportunity. It is also committed to support all activities and institutions, which provide students better experience of excellence in all fields.

The main objective of the Foundation is to secure social justice to the disadvantaged. The Foundation has already taken up the cause of securing social justice to the economically and socially disadvantaged students in a big way by forging a partnership with the Ford Foundation. Besides participating in Ford's International Fellowship Programme, the foundation will be giving 100 bursaries and scholarships every year to these students. It will also supplement this with creation of an institutional framework in which concerns for the disadvantaged are addressed. The Foundation will provide grants to universities and colleges for the purpose. The Foundation will also be providing funds for up gradation of infrastructure facilities in ten colleges in the first year. Five colleges will be added every subsequent year.

Presidency College, Kolkata is proud to be associated with Foundation for Academic Excellence and Access: Pathways to Higher Education Programme.

1. Development of communication skill: This will enable the weaker section of the student community to develop their communication skill through language training.

2. Computer Training Programme: This has the aim to acquaint the students with the basic computer operations and usage of different user-friendly software at the primary level. The students engaged in higher studies would be trained in Informatics, Omics, Internet, Image Analysis, GIS etc.

3. Personality Development Programme: This programme has the aim to provide proper career guidance. After identification of the potential of the students through psychological analysis and necessary counseling, they will be given proper training to get them prepared for the development of their career in proper direction.

4. Special Tutorship Programme: The students, willing to continue with higher studies, will be specially trained for the competitive examinations like NET, GATE, GRE, GMAT etc.