ADB grants $50M loan to promote secondary education in Viet Nam

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December 12, 2007

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is lending US$ 50 million to help the most disadvantaged groups of Viet Nam especially in terms of lower secondary education with its efforts to promote greater social and economic inclusion in the country.

ADB is granting US$ 50 million loan for the Lower Secondary Education for the Most Disadvantaged Project to improve education of ethnic minorities and girls in the 103 most disadvantaged districts from the Northern Mountain, Central Highland, and Mekong River Delta regions. Viet Nam will contribute US$ 14 million for this project. The Ministry of Education and Training is the executing agency for the project, in which the agency will provide ethnicity-responsive teacher training, pilot testing of school feeding and awareness raising, provision of scholarship for smallest population ethnic groups, and capacity development of educational planning for targeted assistance for disadvantaged groups. It is expected that the project will be completed by June 2014.

Good news for engineering students in India

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December 12, 2007

If they were not able to make it in IIT, still they can use the best faculties of IIT Bombay. The IIT-B and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are planning to provide live transmission of the lectures of IIT-B to the engineering colleges across the country. It is possible with the help of exclusive satellite for education

Broadband for all high schools in Kerala

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December 10, 2007

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited entered into partnership with the IT@School Project to provide high-speed broadband connection to all the aided and government high schools in the State. Under this initiative, BSNL will provide broadband connection to all 2,800 high schools in the State by August, 2008.

The project would be rolled out in three phases and in the first phase, project will cover 1,200 schools, which would be completed by the end of this month. In the second phase BSNL will cover more than 700 schools, which would be completed by February 2008 and remaining schools would be covered in the phase three, which is scheduled to be over by August 2008. With the provision of broadband connection of the BSNL, each school would be able to open an e-mail account. It will enhance the ICT innovations like familiarising the students and teachers with available Internet services like e-mail, chatting, website-creation and blog-creation. As a part of the project, more than 60,000 teachers would be trained in IT and Free Software. IT@School is implementing various e-governance initiatives like Service and Payroll Administrative Repository for Kerala (SPARK), and connectivity is a must for such programmes.

Kerala poised to achieve total IT literacy

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December 10, 2007

Education Minister in Kerala M.A. Baby has said that the state was poised to become the first State to achieve total IT (information technology) literacy. He said that the initial efforts to promote ICT (information and communication technology)-based education have been promising.

Several schools have responded well to the IT@School initiative. At present, Kerala is trying to focus attention on schools where the infrastructure provided under the project is underutilised. The Minister said that the decision to equip high schools with broadband Internet connectivity would open up immense possibilities in the education sector. The Free software project was based on free software. Under the proposal, 2,800 high schools in the State will be provided with broadband connection by August 2008.

Mahindra to set up 5 engineering colleges in India

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December 6, 2007

The automobile giant Mahindra Group plans to set up five engineering colleges to tackle a shortage of manpower in the country.

The venture will be spearheaded by group company Tech Mahindra Ltd, which sells telecommunications software. The first engineering college will come up in Chandigarh, where land has been allotted to the group, and they expect to start academic sessions from 2008. The group has identified land in Maharashtra and Goa for the second and third campuses, while the search was still on for the other two campuses, he added. Mahindra will spend INR 250 crore in this venture. Auto makers have previously said they have a hard time hiring the right people because of a dearth of talent, made worse by intensified competition. Companies across industries such as automobiles and information technology are allying with academic institutions and industrial training institutes for training their workforce and enhancing productivity levels. The country's top 5 software companies will together spend close to Rs1,721 crore this fiscal year in training around 100,000 engineers they would have hired in the same period. Each Mahindra campus will be supported by the state-of-the-art IT infrastructure and will specialize in a certain area of expertise, which they will share with the others through video courses.

‘Smart School System’ to promote e-learning in Puducherry

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December 6, 2007

The Government of Puducherry has decided to launch a program on e-Learning in schools in the Union Territory (UP).

In this regard, the Government of Puducherry has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Wipro Foundation to implement the scheme. The project titled as a “Smart School System”, which is aiming to enhance computer-based teaching and learning, so that proficiency of children could be promoted from the tender age. The administration has identified around 80 schools in the UT for the first phase of the implementation of the programme.

UNESCO marks anniversary of translation index

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December 6, 2007

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently marked the 75th anniversary of the Index Translationum, a comprehensive database of the world's translated works.

The index, which currently has some 1,700,000 entries listing more than 250,000 authors, contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in some 800 languages in about 130 UNESCO Member States since 1979. Updated every four months, it is now accessible online and used by librarians, archivists, researchers, editors, journalists, translators and others. The references registered before 1979 are available in the printed editions of the index, which are in all national depositary libraries and at the UNESCO library in Paris. Each year the national libraries or bibliography centres in participating countries send UNESCO the bibliographical data concerning translated books

New Zealand scientists create virtual teacher

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December 6, 2007

In a breakthrough for e-learning, scientists in New Zealand have created Eve, a virtual teacher that can detect whether the student is frustrated, bored or confused, and respond accordingly

The virtual teacher who can empathise with the student has a near-human performance. Eve is what is known in the information sciences as an intelligent or affective tutoring system. It can adapt its response to the emotional state of people by interaction through a computer system. The system, 'Easy with Eve', is thought to be the first of its type. The ability of virtual Eve to alter her presentation according to the reaction of the child facing her at the keyboard has been hailed as an exciting development in the $25 billion global e-learning market. Because one-to-one teaching is known to be the most effective teaching method, the researchers wanted to create a virtual teacher that could pick up body language and facial expressions

Sri Lanka rural e-learning project seeks corporate support

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December 5, 2007

A Sri Lankan e-learning initiative for rural students is seeking corporate sector support to expand and cover computer centres around the island. The Shilpa Sayura project initiated by eFusion is a learning for rural schools do not have the necessary number of teachers and resources to continue studies.

E-Fusion was the first in bringing Sinhala language Unicode script into the world wide web through its Kaputa.com website. Now, e-Fusion is planning to expand the learning system to 400 locations. The company has now increased the range of subjects to 11, covering information communication technology, media, English and Tamil, according to the demands of students. The project runs in collaboration with ICTA and children in rural communities have the opportunity of accessing the e-learning system through the Nenasala computer telecenters set up by the ICTA.

Microsoft, Intel partner with KDN to boost e-Learning in Kenya

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December 4, 2007

Intel has partnered with Microsoft and Kenya Data Network to launch private sector initiative, which aims to make e-Learning more accessible in Kenyan schools.

This programme will benefit schools of both urban and rural areas as well as it will also open new business opportunities for local communities. Kamiti Secondary School is the first to benefit from the Intel-led Proof of Concept programme in Kenya. In this initiative, KDN will invest Sh100 million in providing connectivity in schools.

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