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IITs and IIMs to adopt distance education

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The 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.

The University Grant Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Distance Education Council (DEC) are three regulatory and approval agencies that will jointly monitor the process. The joint panel also aims to minimize the usual long drawn out bureaucratic process. While the AICTE will be in charge of the technical institutes and courses, the UGC will handle other universities and the DEC will take care of overall regulation.

The panel will also design curriculum and learning methods along with certain standards to promote uniformity in open and mixed (distance plus institutional) education.

Viet Nam wired

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Vietnam has made huge strides in ICT usage. As of now all communes in the country have telephone services. Over 38.8 million Vietnamese are telephone subscribers and 74% of these are mobile services.
Viet Nam had 8 million mobile phone subscribers during 1995-2005. The figure was 10 million in 2006 and 17 million in 2007.

On the Internet front, 32% of all communes have Internet access and 18.9 million, or 22.7% of the population, are internet users. Vietnam has promoted the application of ICT throughout society, but with focus on e-government, e-banking, e-education and healthcare services.

India

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The allocation for education in Budget 2008-2009, amounts to 0.8% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (including the contribution by the states, this goes up to 3.57% of GDP) and by the end of the eleventh five-year Plan, it is expected to increase to 6% of the GDP (this would include contribution by the states).

Meanwhile, as far as enrolment in higher education is concerned, the gross enrolment ratio (GER) in higher education is expected to increase to 15% by the end of the XIth Plan, from the current GER of 10%, according to a senior government official. The government will also establish 16 central varsities in the hitherto uncovered states. Despite this, the overall allocation for the higher education sector is only 0.37% of GDP according to Ernst & Young-EDGE 2008 report on 'Globalising higher education in India,' whereas Brazil spends 0.91% of its GDP, Russia

ICTs has to go green, CeBIT Fair

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A special publication, the 'Green IT Guide', enlists all the 'green' exhibitors, which displayed their products and services in a special theme hall. An industry consortium of about 150 companies are present at CeBIT. The Fair has set a target for 2010 to cut down energy consumption and CO2 emissions by 50%.

The IT industry had so far not been identified as a polluter, however, in terms of energy consumption, CO2 emissions and toxically waste the industry has a critical record. Users of laptops and PCs were also urged to do something to reduce the energy use by activating power saving options and switching off devices when they stop working. Greenpeace, presenting a study on 'Searching for Green Electronics', said power saving is not enough. In their guide to green laptops, notebooks, PCs, screen, mobile phones, PDAs, etc., they have identified the use of hazardous substances, energy efficiency methods, product life cycle and innovation.

Japan government donates US$4 million to support the rehabilitation of schools and health centres in DR Congo

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The Government of Japan has donated US$4 million via the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), to support free primary education and to promote primary health care in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Government is providing fund under the Government of Japan's Grant Aid scheme for community empowerment, which will provide primary education to some 6,650 pupils. The fund will also ensure that Congolese students benefit from child-friendly and girl-friendly schools that possess essential school equipment, school supplies, safe water and latrines. The grant will also fund the opening of seven new community day care centres that are expected to be in service to some 500 children aged between three and five, along with eight health centres to provide quality care to Congolese women and children.

India: Bihar plans school radio project

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The Bihar (India) Government has proposed a community radio project for schools. In this regard, the state government has selected 11 highschools of Patna and Nalanda.

The main aim of project is disseminate information on government and other socially useful schemes, encourage local participation by the community, revival of local and folk art forms, employment of local youth in the community thus discouraging migration, and aid the process of disaster management. The state government has already applied for licence and once the licence is issued, the state government will set up FM broadcasting stations at selected schools that will relay programmes related to local issues, fairs, etc. The core programming will be done in Patna while peripheral programming in districts. The capital cost for setting up one Community Radio Station (CRS), including equipment and installation charges, is INR 0.48 million. The cost of studio, which would be optional, would be INR 0.23 million. The operational cost per CRS, as worked out by the government, is INR 46,965 per month while the expected monthly revenue per CRS is INR 50,400.

India: IBM completes largest live e-Learning programme in Karnataka

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IBM has successfully delivered its third phase of EDU-SAT satellite based education programme comprising of over 100 hours of live lectures transmitted to over 120 Schools in Karnataka (India).

IBM has organised these lectures in cooperation with Viswesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum (VTU). Around 15000 engineering students attended these lectures. The course module, easily adaptable and integrated into ongoing lectures, covered technologies and skills such as System Z, Java, Web 2.0, Eclipse, Cell Architecture, SOA, High Performance Computing, Linux, DB2, Autonomic Computing, Rational, AIX, and Enterprise Applications. The programme was an effort to enhance the technical knowledge and skills of post-graduate university students, giving them the market-driven knowledge that better positions them for jobs in the ICT market.

Intel to provide 1,000 PCs to schools of Bangladesh

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Intel Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Bangladesh Ministry of Education for supplying 1,000 personal computers to schools in the country's 64 districts as part of its plan to introduce information technology based education programme in Bangladesh.

After introducing World Ahead Programme in Bangladesh, Intel has also signed agreement with other agencies to ensure cost effective Internet connectivity at these schools. Intel has signed agreements with Grameen Solutions and Bangladesh Telecentre Network to set up telecentres that will offer an array of services to the public. Intel will be offering a model to help the country's goal of setting up 40,000 such centres across the country by 2011. Intel is also concerned to provide cost-effective computers to rural students. Intel has already developed low power computer processors which helped manufacturing of the second generation $250 'Classmate' computers, shock-proof and spill-proof PCs for students. These third generation processor 'Atom' for Classmate PCs will be available from July next and it will make these computers more powerful and cost efficient. In the last four years, Intel has distributed 40 million computers to different countries under the World Ahead Programme and trained five million teachers.

UN: Hundreds of teachers to be trained in southern Sudan through Japanese grant

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The Government of Japan is providing $8.7 million to the United Nations refugee agency. With the help of this grant, hundreds of teachers to be formally trained in southern Sudan in the next three years.

The funding will support the construction of Teacher Training Institutes (TTIs) in Juba and Aweil, two key cities of southern Sudan, where a decades-long civil-war decimated the education system. Along with these TTIs, the project will also cover the building of five satellite primary schools where teachers in training will conduct classes as part of their hands-on experience. In addition to UNHCR, the project also involves the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the education sector lead, as well as the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), which are expected to provide nutritional assistance and help with school gardens, respectively.

India: Online database of Orissa kids launched

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Orissa (India) based firm Cybertech Software Multimedia Pvt Ltd ( CSM) has created a single data base of 10.68 million children in the entire Orissa state for sharing with other departments in a first of its kind of e-governance project, e-Shishu.

A new site, www.opepa.in which includes the entire data base has also been created for the purpose. The state is taking this movement under the Sarva Sikhsya Abhiyan (SSA) in the state and the Orissa Primary Education Programme Authority (OPEPA) has been selected as primary implementing agency. E-Shishu project includes codified household, school, teacher, child information in the state. The database also includes geographic, demographic and educational details of the age between 0 and 14 years. The main objective of the project is to collect information of children from each house in all the villages across the state. The project is mainly time-bounded project and OPEPA, being the monitoring agency, required a weekly progress report which was realised to be a necessity for an effective communication system under E-Sishu. The government has established an intranet system across Orissa in Gajapati, Rayagada, Nawramgpur, Koraput, Malkangiri, Nuapada, Kalahandi, Bolangir, Sonepur, Boudh, Khandamal, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Angul and Deogarh. The state government has also developed a real-time web based project monitoring system to keep tabs on the weekly progress in terms of financial and physical achievement, civil work and disbursement of different progress reports. The school data was mapped with the help of existing data based for future update through web-based solutions, generating reports required for planning and budgeting field surveys from different data base.

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