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Launch of New Business Education course by LCB

Recently, the Laksmana College of Business, has provided quality academic courses over a decade, officially launched another academic qualification in computing called BTEC (Business and Technician Education Council). The launch took place within the college's premises and was witnessed by eminent dignatories including Directors of the LCB, Pehin Orang Kaya Ratna Setia Dato Setia Awg Hj Abd Hapidz POKL Hj Awg Abd Razak and Hj Suhaimei Hj Awg Besar, Regional Director Edexcel International (South Asia Region), Au Yong Soon Kok, Principal and Director of LCB, Ian Pirie as well as representatives from the British Council, Dave Morgan and Cecile Dasal.

BTEC is a work related qualification suitable for a wide range of students providing a practical, real-world approach to learning alongside a theoretical background and LCB has been certified and approved by Edexcel to provide BTEC Higher Nationals qualification where BTEC qualification is also accredited by Brunei Darussalam National Accreditation Council. The courses offered at the college are to be beneficial to students as the BTEC Higher Nationals are level 5 higher education qualifications that are widely recognised by universities and professional bodies. Besides obtaining a globally recognised qualification locally for an affordable fee, students will also enjoy the additional benefits of LCB's highly qualified and experienced lecturers along with up-to-date college facilities.

High speed internet bandwidth at KNUST by Vodafone

A 45-megabite high speed internet bandwidth at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in Kumasi is to be established by Vodafone Ghana. The facility is to help improve Information and Communalisation Technology (ICT) connectivity and enhance research work, teaching and learning, especially the distance education, tele-medicine and video conferencing.

David Venn, Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Ghana, mentioned that if proved successful, ICT facilities would be replicated in other tertiary institutions in the country. Professor William Otoo Ellis, Pro Vice Chancellor of the University, thanked Vodafone. He mentioned that the establishment of the facility would help the University to improve on academic work, especially the distance learning programme.

Malaysia and Cambodia to partner for six business deals

The signing of six business deals worth US$1bil (RM3.27bil) between Malaysia and Cambodia, is to be witnessed by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, during his official visit. These deals pertain to education, ICT security, halal business, healthcare, training and the retail sector. During his three-day visit, beginning May 9, 2010, the Prime Minister will witness the signing of five MoUs and the award of a letter of agreement.

Malaysian Ambassador to Cambodia Datuk Pengiran Mohd Hussein Mohd Tahir Nasruddin said business matching between entrepreneurs from both countries would also be held.


Ketan Desai suspended from B J Medical College

The state government, Ahmedabad, has recently, suspended Medical Council of India (MCI) president Dr Ketan Desai from the post of Head of Department of Urology at the B J Medical College. He was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on charges of corruption followed by his suspension. After a CBI communiqu

GRE Search Service Goes Global

The GRE Search Service, an Internet-based student recruitment tool that allows graduate institutions to identify potential graduate and business school candidates, is expanding globally, officials with Educational Testing Service (ETS) and Hobsons U.S. announced, recently. 'With graduate student recruitment becoming globally competitive, this online service is an essential tool that helps graduate and business schools be very strategic in their recruitment and outreach efforts,' says David G. Payne, VP and COO for College and Graduate Programmes at ETS. 'We have been working to increase the flexibility and usefulness of the GRE Search Service and are very pleased to be able to offer the service to institutions around the world.'

Becoming a GRE Search Service user enables graduate and business programmes to draw comprehensive information from a diverse candidate pool of more than 400,000 prospective students from more than 200 countries, while generating candidate mailing lists based upon the institution's preferred criteria. 'The graduate admissions community spoke and we responded,' says Craig Heldman, CEO, Hobsons. 'With expanded accessibility and new user-friendly features, the GRE Search Service allows institutions across the globe to easily leverage valuable student data to shape incoming classes and drive enrollment.' The GRE Search Service includes many user-friendly features that make the tool easy to use for graduate and professional institutions from regions throughout the world. Users can search the database using a number of criteria to receive customised data, including student demographics, enrollment factors and GRE test score bands. This data can be viewed in a variety of formats that are compatible with most campus management systems, including plain text formatting. A user-friendly interface gives graduate institutions easy access to the information they need, with wizard-like pages to help guide them through more advanced tasks. The Search Service provides year-round access so users can place orders at any time.

With the GRE Search Service, institutions that award graduate degrees or graduate fellowships can receive a list of prospective graduate students who have registered for or taken the GRE

Manipal College of Dental Sciences tops in research in India

Manipal College of Dental Sciences (MCODS) has topped the list of Indian colleges submitting research papers on dental sciences as per a survey report published by National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies,. MCODS submitted 166 research papers over 10 years. The report titled – Mapping of Dental Science Research in India was published by Har Kaur and B M Gupta, of National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies. Commenting on the way forward, Dr. Sobha Tandon, Dean, MCODS, says,'This year we are concentrating on research and international collaborations and we have taken steps towards the same by signing MoU with University of Southern California, USA and Queen's Mary University, London. We have recently completed a World Health Organisation sponsored project and we also have an ongoing project in collaboration with Colgate Palmolive Pvt. Ltd. Piscataway, New Jersey, USA. Our focus is also to publish minimum 3-5 papers/year in high impact factor journals, by each specialty of dentistry in our institution.'

As per the report, India holds 14th rank (18th in 1999) among the top 20 productive countries of the world in dental sciences and has a share of 1.66%, as computed from cumulative world publications output data for 1999-2008. India's publication output was at 1380 research papers during 1999-2008 (25 top colleges have been considered here) and MCODS topped the list by contributing 166 papers. Meenakshi Ammal Dental College and Hospital submitted 138 papers; All India Institute of Medical Sciences is at place 3 with 70 papers submitted.There are 3 more colleges from Karnataka, who fall in the top 10 category, they are College of Dental Sciences Davangere which has submitted 53 papers; A.B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences- Mangalore has submitted 36 papers, and Babuji Dental College & Hospital, Davengere has submitted 34 papers. Manipal Education has always laid great emphasis on research; in fact research is considered an integral part of the curriculum. MCODS, established in the year 1965, has grown over the years and has received many recognitions and accreditations internationally.


PC use gives students an advantage in school

Students who use computers regularly are getting a headstart on their peers when it comes to school subjects, according to a new OECD study.

The report, “Are students ready for a technology-rich world?”, claims that school students who use computers regularly perform better in key school subjects than those with limited computer experience or a lack of confidence when it comes to performing basic computer tasks. This advantage can be seen clearly in mathematics performance. The study found that those without regular access to computers lagged behind their peers. The study found that students who had been using computers for less than a year scored significantly below the OECD average, while students who had been using computers for more than five years scored well above it.
Irish students are lagging behind in their attitude towards computers, with the country rated as having one of the least positive attitudes towards computers, along with Japan, Denmark, Finland and Hungary. In contrast, students in countries such as Austria, Canada and Germany displayed a positive attitude. Almost three quarters of students in OECD countries use computers at home each week. This figure jumps to nine out of 10 for Canada, Iceland and Sweden. This compares with only 44 percent using computers frequently in school. The report also found that access to computers is evenly spread across both genders in most OECD countries. However, in Ireland, Belgium and Korea, a larger number of girls than boys say they have access to computers at school.

INVITE fuelling grassroot level IT growth in Indian state

IBM India and the Board for IT Education (BITES) have launched 'Project INVITE', an initiative aimed at fuelling growth of IT at grassroot level.

The project INVITE (Initiative to Nurture a Vibrant IT Ecosystem) aims at significantly contributing to capacity building efforts in the Indian state Karnataka by enhancing the local talent pool and leveraging the ecosystem to fuel the growth of IT at the grassroot level. The project complements the IBM academic initiative programme to help universities train students on open source, open standards based technologies and IBM technologies for a more competitive workforce. The major objectives of the project are building a repository of e-Governance prototype and make it freely available to government agencies, solution providers and academia. It also aims at involving students and faculty for creating proto-type solutions for local e-Governance needs at various levels, including creating agriculture market yard management system, school administrative software and online pathology reports for the state health department.

NIIT Wins Cisco Global Learning Partner of the Year at Cisco Partner Summit

NIIT, leading Global Talent Development Corporation and Asia's largest IT trainer announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit global award for Global Learning Partner of the Year. Cisco unveiled the winners on April 28 at its annual channel partner conference in San Francisco. The objective of Cisco's Partner Summit global awards is to recognize exemplary channel partners whose business best practices Cisco would like other partners to model. Categories include: innovative practices, applications successes, unique programs, problem solving and sales approaches. All winners are selected by a group of Cisco Worldwide Channels and regional theater executives. 'It is an honor and privilege to name NIIT as a Cisco Partner Summit global award winner,' said Keith Goodwin, senior vice president, Worldwide Channels at Cisco. 'The Global Learning Partner 2009-2010 recognizes NIIT's performance and achievements as an outstanding global Cisco channel partner in 2009.'

P. Rajendran, Chief Operating Officer, NIIT remarked 'It is a pleasure to be recognized by Cisco as their global learning partner for the year 2009. We endeavor to combine NIIT's proven expertise in providing Learning Solutions with CISCO's Talent Development strategy to create human capital to fulfill the emerging needs of the industry.' Cisco Partner Summit awards are presented at three levels: regional, theater and global. Cisco Partner Summit global awards reflect a partner's commendable performance within a specific technology market across several geographic regions.

New IT for education institutions in Rwanda

Access to the Internet by students will soon be eased after all institutions of learning access state-of-the-art technology to be installed soon. The Ministry of Education  in Rwanda has already finalised a work plan in which Sun Microsystems, a giant American software development company will have internet accessibility technology in all educational institutions.

The software THIN client allows the targeted users (educationists) to access home web pages on a high-tech screen that does not require connection of high power consumption computer accessories like a processor and keyboard to operate. The technology is cost-saving and this will be very essential for Rwandan rural schools where there is unreliable and insufficient power supply. Sun Microsystems' technology can reliably work best using Terracom's relayed fibre optic. A lot of technologies will be rolled out to Terracom subscribers using the fibre such as Voice over Internet (Voip), Displays over Internet (Diop), Digital Global Library and a host of other related technologies. The development will make Rwanda the first African country to have this kind of technology. Sun intends to use Rwanda as a pilot study to attract other African countries, even South Africa where it failed.

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