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Best CCE school award by CBSE

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Soon, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is to institute two awards for schools all over India so as to encourage the implementation of the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) as well as the Mentoring and Monitoring System. All 11,044 schools affiliated to CBSE have been instituted awards by CBSE. The factors that will be taken into consideration for awarding the schools would include awareness of the evaluation system, its implementation, record keeping, teaching aids used, advocacy programme for parents and training for teachers, format of report card and lesson planning.

Chairman of CBSE Vineet Joshi informed that every CCE award would include a certificate as well as a cash prize worth INR 21,000. The school principals who will be awarded the Mentor prize will be given a certificate as well as a cash prize worth INR 10,000.

US universities and Government partners for IFS officers training

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For enhancing the competence of Indian Forest Service Officers in the areas of environmental policy and forestry management, the government of India has partnered with some universities in the USA to provide Mid-Career Training to the officers. Through the partnership, the Mid Career Training that will be provided to the officers is expected to improve their professional skills.

At different levels of career of the Indian Forest Service Officers, the Mid Career Training will be mandatory, in their career progression as per Indian Forest Services (IFS) Pay Rules. The training will be conducted at the Indian Institutes of Management (IMM) or the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA), Dehradun and for two weeks in selected foreign universities. The six universities selected for the training programme include Colorado State University, University of Yale and University of Syracuse.

Second Innings of Africa eNetwork education programme by India

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Second phase of pan-Africa e-network, adding 12 more countries to the New Delhi-aided long distance education programme has been launched by India. Union External Affairs Minister, SM Krishna underlined the importance of Indian partnership with African continent, while conversing with senior ministers of 12 African countries via video-conference. A brainchild of India's former president APJ Abdul Kalam, the e-network seeks to bridge the digital divide across the 53-nation African continent and seeks to provide tele-education through a fibre-optic network. India has signed agreement with 47 countries in Africa. However, the infrastructure has been completed in 34 of them.

The seven Indian educational institutions associated with the project are Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Amity University, University of Madras, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, University of Delhi and Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur. The countries that joined the network earlier included Burundi, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Libya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia and Uganda. Eleven countries included in the first phase of the project launched last year were Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, the Gambia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal and Seychelles.

IGNOU and Everonn collaborate to launch short term hospitality programme

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Indira Gandhi National Open University and Everonn Skill Development Limited (ESDL) have launched 20 short-term programmes in hospitality. These short non-credit hospitality courses are to be certified by IGNOU and are to be duration of between 1 to 6 months. The courses are aimed at upgrading skill sets in the hospitality industry to meet the global standards.

Project-based learning and telecollaboration in Chinese Schools by UNESCO

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UNESCO organised a workshop at Bangkok – ICT in Education Programme – under the Facilitating ICT-Pedagogy Integration Project took place in Guangzhou, China during July 27-30, 2010, in collaboration with South China Normal University and the Educational Information Centre of Guang dong Province. The Korean Funds-In-Trust funded this 'Capacity-Building Workshop on Project-Based Learning and Telecollaboration' and introduced teachers to the Facilitating ICT-Pedagogy Integration Project, and expanded their horizons on the use of ICT-enhanced project-based learning and telecollaboration.

There were nearly 100 participants including teachers from 15 schools in Guangzhou and nearby areas, officials from the Educational Information Centre of Guangdong Province, and teacher educators from South China Normal University, attended the four-day training. The workshop commenced with participants gaining understanding about the components of the KFIT project: capacity building of teachers on ICT-pedagogy integration; designing and facilitating student-centred ICT-based activities; strengthening partnership between teacher educators and teachers; and developing of a whole-school support strategy on ICT integration in Education.

Deal strikes between K12 Inc. and Greenfield Public Schools to open Virtual Academy, Herndon

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One of the America's largest provider of proprietary curriculum and online school programmes for students in schools, K12 Inc.has announced on August 18, 2010, a new partnership with Greenfield Public Schools to launch Massachusetts' first full-time, statewide online public school. Within this scheme upto 500 students in grades from Kindergarten to standard eight across the Commonwealth, for the coming school year, will be catered to by the the Massachusetts Virtual Academy at Greenfield (MAVA@Greenfield). MAVA@Greenfield plans to expand to offer high school in subsequent years. The tuition-free public school is now accepting applications and will be hosting numerous information sessions for interested families and school districts.

In the begening of this year, the Massachusetts Legislature passed and Governor Deval Patrick signed into law an education reform bill aimed at transforming Massachusetts public schools by promoting more innovation and choice. The law included a provision enabling school districts to establish Innovation Schools to help improve student achievement and performance. Innovation schools give school districts more autonomy and flexibility to provide alternative education programs, including virtual schools, and increase public school options for students. In collboration with school districts and charter schools, respectively, K12 operates online public schools in 26 states and the District of Columbia. Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington state, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.


Cisco Networking Academy Programme now in Cambodia

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It has been claimed by a dealer in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, Cisco that it will be expanding the reach of their Cisco (News – Alert) Networking Academy programme to Cambodia with its launch at the University of Management and Economics. According to Cisco, the Cisco Networking Academy is a global education program that teaches students how to design, build, troubleshoot, and secure computer networks for increased access to career and economic opportunities in communities around the world.

Networking Academy provides online courses, interactive tools, and hands-on learning activities to help individuals prepare for ICT and networking careers in virtually every type of industry. Pheakdey Tun, the President of University of Management and Economics has mentioned that this deal with Cisco Networking Academy will enable them in building the skill level of their future workforce in the provinces and lead to Cambodia becoming a knowledge economy.

eSyllabi for teachers, says the new deal, Kenya

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Now new laptops can be bought by teachers that already contain current syllabus and training material, as a part of Public Private Partnership initiative which aims at integrating e-learning in the education system. A deal has been struck between Safaricom, Equity bank, Microsoft, Intel, Kenya Literature Bureau (KLB) and Kenya Institute of Education (KIE) and the Teachers Service Commission targeting about 240,000 teachers.

Loans are to be provided by the banks to purchase laptops that are inclusive of provision for internet services, courtesy Safaricom centres. Furthermore, the devices will be loaded with KIE syllabuses for both primary and secondary education provided by Microsoft. Dr James Mwangi, Equity Bank CEO, mentioned that for the same purpose, the institution has set aside Sh13 billion to be advanced to teachers for the purpose.


End of the scholarship scheme for poor students, by Finance Ministry

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For the reasons of decrease in the bank interest rates, the government has decided to cancel the national means-cum-merit scholarship scheme that was meant to provide financial aid to 1 lakh gifted children whose parents' annual income was below INR 1.5 lakh. Funds of INR 1000 crore under the scholarship scheme were designed on the lines of the American model of scholarships, but now has been shut down.

The money from the scholarship fund had been provided quarter-annually to full time students of Class 9 from government, government-aided or local body schools. The students received the scholarship till the time they passed out of school after Class 12. According to the plans by the ministry, the idea for setting up the fund was to add INR 750 crore to the corpus fund for three consecutive financial years and increase the amount to INR 3000 crore. However, this had been unsuccessful as only INR 250 crore had been added tothe fund in 2009, making the total amount to INR 1000 crore.

In last five years, preschool fee has increased by 120 percent

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Through a survey, it has been discovered that between 2005 to 2010, the branded pre-schools across the country have managed to hike the fee structure to 120 percent. The average fees for the kindergarten segment have gone up from INR 1,500 to over 3,500 per month, the survey by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) described. It was found that there has been an increase of 150 percent in security deposit which is paid at the time of admission which it says has gone up from INR 10,000 in 2005 to over INR 25,000 at the beginning of academic session in 2010.

It was explined through the study that around 70 percent of the parents, from a total of over 6000 who were questioned, demanded a regulation from district education departments to stop the soaring fee structure. The survey also showed that branded pre-schools were concentrated in the metro cities and that parents with high disposable incomes, nuclear families and population growth were the reasons for this phenomenon.

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