She joined Navrachana University as Assistant Professor in July 2011. A career span of 22 years has assignments as Research/Project Fellow and ten years as Teacher Educator (2001-2004; 2004-2011) at The M S University of Baroda, Vadodara and Navrachana College of Education. Prior to this was the appointment as Head of School for eight years (1990-1998) at Navi Mumbai.
Vandana Talegaonkar did her PhD from The Centre of Advanced Study In Education, The Maharaja Sayaji Rao University of Baroda. Her thesis is titled “Concept, Process and Influence of Academic Culture In School.” She has an International Diploma for Teachers and Trainers from The University of Cambridge. She also did her Masters in Education from MSU, Baroda. Her Masters Thesis is titled “A Study of the Effectiveness of Intervention on English Interlanguage of Students of Standard VII of Baroda City”.