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First South African schools get connected to a new world of learning

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Two secondary schools have become the first in South Africa to join an electronic network of 24 African schools with access to world-class learning material.

Ipetleng Secondary School in Free State and Thozamisa Secondary School in Eastern Cape have been connected by the Oracle Consortium under the e-Schools initiative, supported by the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad). The initiative is designed to upgrade all of Africa's secondary schools over the next 10 years by providing them with information and communications technology hardware, software and content, and by training teachers to use the new facilities.

The consortium consists of 14 companies contributing various components of a hi-tech educational system to schools in remote areas that lack such facilities. Oracle, which heads the consortium, installs the equipment, trains the teachers and supplies technical support. Other members include Mustek and Fujitsu Siemens, which supply computers. Satellite connection and internet access is supplied by Sentech, and MultiChoice Africa installs DStv equipment. Schools from seven countries stand to benefit from the initiative. SA is the fourth country to go online under the programme after Ghana, Lesotho and Kenya. Mali, Gabon and Egypt will follow in the near future. The e-Schools initiative is still in its early stages, with Nepad establishing and monitoring six e-Schools in each of 16 countries.

IT project wins recoginition

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 A Rs 37.6 million Pakistani education project that aims for introduction of a new method of teaching software engineering to undergraduate students based on open software has been recognised and acknowledged by the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI). The 'Integration of Open Source Software Projects in IT Education' is an innovative software engineering project that is gradually achieving its objectives by training and allowing students to learn good programming practices and by getting feedback from professionals through open source. It is also sequentially helping the software industry by providing them with a workforce that has worked on industrial strength projects.

The project is funded by the National ICT R&D Fund, Ministry of IT and Telecommunication, and is executed by a team of researchers at the Software Engineering Research Centre (SERC) at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NU), Lahore. SERC has implemented an innovative strategy to enhance student participation and learning in developing open source software. This could ideally be achieved by involving students in realistic projects. SERC has turned to open source software to allow students, in collaboration with companies such as Openbravo ERP and OrangeHRM, to get hands-on experience on projects used in the industry. GUNI is composed of Unesco Chairs in Higher Education, research centres, universities, networks and other institutions committed to innovation in higher education. More than 100 institutions from around the world are GUNI members and are working towards the reinforcement of higher education by application of the decisions of the World Conference on Higher Education. GUNI supports several activities such as Higher Education in the World, International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education and Universities and Social Commitment Observatory.

Vice-Chancellor Soni desires Ambedkar Open University to be a

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Vice-Chancellor Prof Manoj Soni Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University (BAOU), the former MS University, has expressed the need to develop BAOU as the first online university or rather 'Cybersity'. Soni in 2005, during his tenure at MSU, pitched the idea of starting a Global Knowledge Consortium: School of Humane Excellence and Ethical Leadership (SHEEL), through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with University of South Florida (USF). But the fate of the project did not turn out as envisaged. Prof Soni had mooted this idea as a member of the BAOU board in 2004-06.

Earlier, during 2005, Soni had pitched for SHEEL, with an aim to enhance students' exchange programmes. But, according to MSU academicians, the project failed to pick up pace. The idea of the project was to mange the creation and sustenance of harmony between vast assets of traditional knowledge and relevant pursuits of modern science and conceptualising practicable, sustainable, India-specific strategies for harnessing knowledge creation efforts for realising well-defined goals of national security, national development, and individual advancement.

Metro Tech course by IIT set to begin

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Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, this year, is to welcome its first batch of 22 students in the diploma programme in Metro rail transport technology and management, sponsored by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. In another development, IIT-D has started a remote classroom to deliver postgraduate level instructions to students in Ethiopia. The instruction will be given in four engineering disciplines to students of Adis Ababa University. The four programmes, construction technology and management, chemical engineering, electronics and computer engineering and manufacturing engineering, were started in the last academic year. There are about 50 students in each programme, which is taught using two-way video/audio link. Said director IIT Surendra Prasad, 'A dedicated line has been set up for this purpose. Two delivery rooms have been equipped with video-conferencing facilities and recording of lectures.' The new school of biological sciences has also started functioning. It was told by Prasad, that there has been a 23% increase in the number of PhD. Degrees that will be given out this year.

Research tie up between universities of Orissa and US

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Berhampur University, Orissa, has partnered with Riverside University of California for collaboration in research and faculty development. Berhampur University's Vice-Chancellor B. K. Sahu said the agreement will allow students and faculty members from both institutions to go to the other for study and research. He added that initially it will be the MBA department that will avail the benefits. Initially both the universities will hold joint academic events such as seminars.

But later it will be expanded to collaborative academic research and exchange of scientific information. The agreement has been signed for five years initially, and can be extended later. Riverside University Vice-Chancellor (VC) Raj Singh called the agreement a 'win-win' situation for both universities. He further told that it would be beneficial for the USA students as more job avenues are opening up in India. Initially they are to start with an exchange programme which is expected to expand later. Additionally, he told that the university was also looking for tie-ups with other Indian universities like Allahabad Agricultural University.

Nov 28-Dec 7 to see online CAT 2009

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An announcement was made by The Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) regarding the dates for online Common Admission Test (CAT) 2009. The first computer-based CAT exam will be held between November 28 and December 7, 2009. The test will be held twice

New Institutes to enhance Australia-India ties

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More than AUS$8 million fund will be provided by Australia to fund a new Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne that will work to strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries, announced Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard. The Institute is a joint project of the University of Melbourne, La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales and they will invest around AUS$2 million bringing the total investment in the project to more than AUS$10 million over three years. 'As the world's largest democracy and a key emerging economy, India is redefining its role in international affairs. Its influence in our region and globally is growing. India is currently a top ten trading partner for Australia and the economic relationship between the two countries has grown strongly in recent years,' said Gillard. 'The Institute will work to increase Australians' understanding of India, its culture, its history and its place in the world by producing and promoting specialized knowledge about India.' Gillard's announcement came during Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna's Australia visit.

Biocon partners with ISB to launch Biocon Cell

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The Indian School of Business (ISB) in association with the Biocon Limited, India's pioneering biotechnology company, has launched the Biocon Cell for Innovation Management (BCIM) to promote innovation in business. The Cell will be established under the aegis of the Centre for Leadership, Innovation, and Change (CLIC) at the ISB. BCIM at the ISB will help organizations find answers to questions such as the gaps in a company's ability to innovate, assessing the required understanding to manage and mitigate risks associated with innovation and how to produce high value, high quality, strategic innovation at low cost. Biocon is contributing an initial investment of INR1 crore to setup BCIM.

The partnership between Biocon and ISB further strengthens the trend started by ISB when its founding fathers attracted the support of industry to establish an international quality business school in India. The primary objective of the BCIM is to foster innovation and link it to operational excellence. A representative of Biocon, the Executive Director of CLIC, other prominent industry leaders and academics in the area of innovation and strategy will comprise the Board of BCIM. The board will play an advisory and enabling role by providing research ideas that will assist the activities of BCIM to create maximum impact. Biocon will provide funding over a minimum 10 year period as and when required.

UK school gets top mark for ICT quality

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Oakfield Primary in St Mellons, Cardiff, is one of the first schools in the UK to receive a new Government quality mark for using information and communications technology to enhance learning.

The ICT Mark is awarded by Government agency Becta and recognises the success in developing a whole-school approach to ICT. According to Headteacher Dave Pedwell, they have been developing IT skills at the school for many years. Pupils are now very competent at using computers in all aspects of their school work.

ZAIN awards 4 UDS students

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ZAIN, a communications network operating in Ghana has presented awards to four students of the University for Development Studies (UDS) who competed in its Zain African Scholars Champions Competition. The beneficiary students are Mohammed Sulemana, Mark Agambile, Issah Mohammed and Robert Amanda. They each took away a desk and laptop computers and wed camps and an amount of five thousand dollars.Maame Dufie Cudjoe, Corporate Social Responsibility and Events Executive of ZAIN, who presented the awards to the beneficiaries, urged students to develop interest in the programme and participate in it.

She said the programme would help students to build their networks and expand their horizons since they would be competing with some of the most brilliant students in other universities on the African continent.Professor Kwaku Sagary Nokoe, Acting Vice-Chancellor of the UDS commended ZAIN for introducing the competition to the university and promised that the students would be up to the task and prove worthy competitors in the competition. He stressed the importance the university attached to ICT training and for that matter the sciences but regretted that the number of science students been admitted in the universities catchments area was not the best.

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