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Temple University students stay tuned in via computer

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Temple University's groundbreaking TECH Center is using VBrick to stream cable television stations to student laptops and building PCs. Students can easily access the 12 cable channel streams, which are featured in the Temple University Web page that automatically appears when students log online at the TECH Center.

The TECH Center's “TV on the computer” application is one of the most advanced resource centres and the largest computer lab in the nation. In addition to wireless access, the center features 700 computers, 31 plasma screens in common areas, and 13 multimedia breakout rooms that include flat panel displays and white boards for collaboration on presentations and projects. The TECH Center includes the University Welcome Center, the campus tour starting point for prospective students and their parents. The University has selected VBrick's EtherneTV digital video solution, a turnkey platform to record, stream, and manage digital video across Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Customers use EtherneTV to create environments that share information, monitor facilities, stream television broadcasts and also to provide class lectures, training lessons, special presentations, and announcements to all authorized users.

British Airways to support IT Centres in rural schools in Kenya

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British Airways (BA) is ready to invest 100, 000 pounds to assist four rural schools of Kenya to establish Information Technology centres.

British Airways (BA) has already invested 50,000 pounds into the construction and training in one of the skills centres at St Bakhita's schools. The airline will partner with Cisco and Microsoft systems that would help to facilitate services even further. While Cisco will provide Internet connectivity, Microsoft would install learning software and facilities training for teachers. The project is expected to benefit over 4 000 pupils. BA has already imported 200 computers to be distributed to the various centres. BA has been running similar community development programs in Kenya for a record 10 years. The airline also supports projects in Uganda, Zambia, South Africa, Tanzania and Nigeria.

DepEd to pursue ICT4E program in remote areas of RP

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The Department of Education (DepEd) of Philippines has released its plan to pursue its ICT for Education (ICT4E) agenda for Filipino students specially in the far-flung areas of the country.

The ICT4E agenda focuses on five areas:

1) Learning Goals and Instructional Design: This defines DepEd's goal of producing graduates who have acquired 21st century skills and who can pass internationally benchmarked achievement exams.

2) e-Services Definition and Usability Standard: It underscores the importance of defining the Internet-based services most suitably.

3) Learning Infrastructure and Digital Solutions: This stresses the need to define the infrastructure and digital solutions most suited for particular education requirements.

4) Open Content and Multimedia Learning Resources: This looks into the potential of social media content as well as providing solutions to the pitfalls of such user-generated resources.

5) ICT Competency Standards and Capability Building: It highlights both the need for creating competency standards for ICT in education and the need to empower teachers and administrators through effective ICT training.

ICTs moving to schools and villages of Tanzania

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The Tanzania Government is planning to extend ICT skills to rural areas and schools across the country. Currently ICT experts are doing countrywide tours to sensitize people on the importance of the technology in modern world.

The government has selected the Hotspot Business Solution (HBS) to invest in ICT. The company will support government efforts by focusing on disseminating information and education to the general public especially in higher learning institutions. Currently, the government is providing wireless services in Dar es Salaam region, but would later be extended to Mwanza, Arusha, Zanzibar, Morogoro and Dodoma regions as well.

HP, Vinayaka Missions tie up

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The Vinayaka Missions University (VMU) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hewlett Packard to offer technical and soft skills training to about 2,500 undergraduate students belonging to two engineering colleges under the University.

Under this agreement, around 1,300 engineering students of Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, Chennai, and 1,200 students of Vinayaka Missions Kirupananda Variyar College of Engineering, Salem, would benefit from the training. The training includes video based courses covering six branches of engineering, setting up HP workstations for the mechanical engineering department and making HP laptops available to students at subsidised rates. HP will fund about INR 1.6 crore in this initiative in return for which they may be offered the first slot for campus placement in these institutes.

Reserve Bank launches children educational site in India

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Reserve Bank of India has launched a financial education site that aims to teach basics of banking, finance and central banking to children.

To explain complexities of banking, finance and central banking in a simple and interesting way, Reserve Bank of India has created two special characters Raju and Money Kumar. While Raju tries to learn all about banking, Money Kumar attempts to explain subjects dealt with by RBI, such as monetary policy, bank regulations and currency notes. The website uses comic books format to make the learning process easy and fun for children. The Reserve Bank has already launched two comic books 'Raju and the Money Tree' and 'Money Kumar and Monetary Policy' on the site. While the former deals with basic banking the latter explains the role and relevance of RBI's monetary policy for the common man. The website also has films on security features of currency notes of different denominations and an educative film to persuade citizens to not to staple notes. The site also has games especially designed to familiarise school children with India's various currency notes. The site will soon be made available in Hindi as well as in 11 regional languages such as Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu, besides English.

ADB provides over 1 million textbooks to Senior Secondary Schools across Aceh and Nias in Indonesia

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing more than one million textbooks to senior secondary schools across Indonesia's Aceh province and Nias island as part of ADB's Grant for the Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Support Project (ETESP).

Support for practical science and information communication technology education in senior secondary schools is the focus of the education component of the ETESP grant. The textbooks on biology, chemistry, physics, information and communication technology, English and mathematics will replace outdated editions and replenish chronic shortages of the new 2006 curriculum textbooks being introduced to the schools in 2007.

The Aceh-Nias Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Agency (BRR) is implementing the education component, which will give more than 100,000 senior secondary students at 395 schools access to the 1.39 million new textbooks. Representatives from the target schools and the districts' teachers association selected the textbooks at five book fairs in Aceh and Nias between August 2006 and November 2007. It is said that there has been a delay in the distribution of the books because of the introduction of a new curriculum in 2006 and by ADB and BRR's decision to double the level of their support to cover at least 90% of schools in Aceh and Nias. ETESP's US$ 16 million grant for the education component also includes upgrading libraries for all 395 schools and the construction and equipping of laboratories for practical science and computing for 50 schools. ADB's multi-sector support to earthquake and tsunami affected areas in Aceh and Nias is channeled through a US$ 291 million grant for the implementation of ETESP, which covers agriculture, fisheries, micro- and small-sized enterprise development, irrigation, housing, water and sanitation, health, education, roads and bridges, power, spatial planning and environmental management, and fiduciary oversight components.

India sends most students to UK next to China

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India is sends nearly 16,000 Indian students to the UK for higher education during 2005-06, according to the latest official figures of high fee-paying overseas students.

China is the largest source of overseas students, accounting for 52,000 students during 2005-06, while the US is third with 14,000 students. In all, 157,000 overseas students in the UK during the year. Overseas students together contribute 8.5 billion pounds a year as cash-strapped universities compete to invite them to study in their universities. The figures show that overseas students amount to 25 per cent of the immigrants, compared with 20 per cent five years ago. The number of foreign students has doubled since 1998. Business and administration is the most popular subject among students from abroad, followed by engineering and technology. University College London constitutes the largest number of overseas students with nearly 27,000 on its books, but the London School of Economics topped the list of universities dominated by overseas undergraduates and postgraduates with 64 per cent coming from overseas.

High fee may affect education access : Indian experts

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The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) Committee on Financing of Higher and Technical Education has recommended that revenue generation through student fees beyond 20 per cent may seriously affect access to higher education.

According to information furnished by the University Grants Commission (UGC), the institutions of higher learning in the country have a variable fee structure which differs from institution to institution. The matter relating to fee structure was, among other things, discussed in the Conference of Vice Chancellors held on October 10-11, 2007 and the UGC proposes to set up an expert committee to look into various aspects of the fee related issue and arrive at a strategy whereby the fee for higher education is neither ridiculously low nor it poses a barrier in equitable access to higher education. 

NIIT to introduce math Lab in Indian schools

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NIIT has partnered with the US-based Key Curriculum Press to introduce 'Mathematics Laboratories' in India schools, so that students can learn and explore mathematical concepts and verify facts and theorems using technology tools such as 'The Geometer's Sketchpad'.

Under the partnership, NIIT will bring their expertise, while Key Curriculum Press will offer its globally popular proprietary software 'The Geometer's Sketchpad' as part of the active tool in 'Math Lab'. The lab would offer multiple teaching and learning aids comprising of technology applications, videos, manipulatives, measuring instruments, tables and charts to schools. Under this initiative, NIIT's Math lab will enable students in understanding, discovering, and verifying the basic mathematical and geometrical concepts through concrete objects and situations. The tool will also enable teachers to demonstrate, explain and reinforce abstract mathematical ideas by using concrete objects, models, charts, graphs, pictures and posters, the release added. The National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT), through the National Curriculum Framework has indicated that Mathematics subject will be treated as a prime focus area in schools, till 2010.

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