NEWS
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Budget allocation for education increases
The Delhi budget announced an additional INR 238 crore (INR 809 to 1,405 crore) for education, INR 250 crore will be entrusted to the Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) for school upgradation.
India’s ICT spending still behind
According to a recent Ernst & Young - EDGE 2008 Report on ‘Globalising higher education in India,’ the overall allocation for the higher education sector is only 0.37% of GDP
IITs and IIMs to adopt distance educationThe Government allowed the top engineering and MBA institutes to offer courses to students through distance and mixed mode, a move that could prove to be a major breakthrough for high quality distance learning.
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RESEARCH
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Rapid and compliant e-learning content development
Srishail and Alok, from Infosys Technologies Ltd. take a close look at the ever-growing need of rapid and compliant e-Learning content for quick deployment on learning management server.
Srishail Chari ( Charigs@Infosys.com)
Associate Vice President, Group Manager
Alok Tiwari ( Alok_Tiwari@Infosys.com)
Development Center Manager, Education & Research
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INTERVIEW
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Fifty lakh more students to go to college by 2012
Dr Sukhdeo Thorat,
Chairman, University Grants Commission The 11th plan has proposed to increase the number of universities and colleges in India. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has prepared a road map to achieve 15% enrolment in higher education by 2012.
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Rome, Italy
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In Context of Evaluation
Sundar Krishnan, American India Foundation (AIF), talks about how technology can be applied in the classroom in countless ways with numerous benefits.
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