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Foreign Universities contact Indian students via SMS

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Now Indian students are receiving SMS service from foreign universities for on-the-spot registration. The use of IT tools has made easier for counsellors and representatives of foreign universities to contact Indian students.

University representatives are sending messages to students, while mobile-operators are negotiating data space with counsellors. International Placewell Consultants, send out text messages, which conveys details of on-the-spot registration, scholarships offered and even information on work permits. Some of the universities IPC represents include University of Sheffield, University of Leeds and the University of Canterbury. Reliance Communications (R-Com) is planning to launch an application on R World by means of which a student can shoot questions, which will be answered by experts. The company is planning to start live-voice chat.

Singapore’s GIF signs MoU with Gujarat (India) for schools in tribal districts

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Singapore-based Global Indian Foundation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Gujarat (India) Government to set up world-class schools in the tribal districts of the state.

Under this MoU, the first such school would be set-up at Vejalpur in the Panchmahals district, known as Mahatma Gandhi Eklavya School, and it would be managed by the elite Navrachana International School, Vadodara. GIF, a non-profit foundation set by Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) of Gujarat has already established schools in Asia-Pacific region at Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand and India. Now GIF is planning to open more schools in Australia and the US.

TutorVista targets Indian supplemental education market

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India based online tutoring company TutorVista is targeting the Indian supplemental education market with a pilot project in the country.

The company is targeting students from standard 6th-10th in Math and English for ICSE and CBSE syllabi. Currently, the company has 2,200 students opting for supplemental education from 13 countries, mainly from the US and the UK and a few students from the UAE, Finland and Turkey. The company is talking with several schools to start online learning centres after school hours. This kind of online tutoring would help students prepare for competitive exams better.

Small companies try to bring innovative technology to teaching

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There is a growing cluster of companies in the Northwest looking to capitalize on educational needs.

Learning.com makes computer software programs that help elementary school students learn science, math, languages and social studies. Vernier Software and Technology, based in Beaverton, makes a device that allows instant data analysis and graph-making. Saltire Software makes a program that expresses geometric diagrams and mathematical equations interactively so that students can work efficiently on scientific calculators in solving problems. Vernier Software has $30 million in revenue and 75 employees; Learning.com has under $20 million in revenue and 50 employees; and Saltire has $1 million in revenue and nine employees. Saltire, which often works on grants from the National Science Foundation, wants to expand use of its geometry program in high schools across the nation. No Child Left Behind Act, enacted in 2001, increased accountability of state and school districts for the performance of primary and secondary school, which “puts accountability on school principals. StudyDog.com has a program that teaches pre-kindergarten to second-grade children to read.

Morrisville State College, Canada deploys world’s fastest wireless connect

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Morrisville State College, Canada announced that the college has selected Meru Networks' 802.11n wireless system for campus wide wireless deployment. This would be the fastest wireless network in the world.

Meru Networks has partnered with the IBM Global Technology Services to design and deploy the college network. The new campus-wide wireless network to be deployed in the third quarter of this year. The new wireless network will meet the performance and mobility demands of its user community and provide optimum support for the next generation of consumer electronics, personal computing, handheld devices and wireless applications.

Education Ministry, UK installs computers for visually impaired children

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The Ministry of Education, UK has signed an agreement with European Union (EU) to install computers in approximately five thousand ICT enabled classrooms in schools.

EU will provide the fundings for this programme. Under this programme, there would be special computers for blind and the visually-impaired children. The ministry announced that there would be four consortia responsible for installing the computers in schools. The ministry would be delivered to schools for visually impaired children at a cost of

East County School, England provides NGN network to boost e-Learning

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East Sussex County Council in England is providing the Next Generation Network (NGN) to help schools meet national technology standards and provide the capacity for future developments in classroom e-Learning.

The NGN project also incorporates all main offices of the council. The project delivers fast connectivity by using a combination of fibre-based services and wireless antennas linking school buildings in the new network. The majority of primary and special schools will be connected using this technology. The technology being used meets or exceeds all UK, European and international health and safety standards. The solution is entirely different from mobile or other wireless technologies. It is purely narrow power beam point-to-point connection between roof-mounted antennas and doesn't provide blanket coverage such as in a mobile phone network.

Boston Public Schools, UK launches Cyber security programme

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The Boston Public Schools (BPS) of UK will launch the 'Cyber Safety Mentors' programme for Internet safety campaign. Microsoft has granted $25,000 fund to BPS for this programme.

Under this programme, Microsoft will train Boston public high school students about online safety. The students will then train other students in their schools and mentor younger students in elementary schools in the community. BPS is the first urban public school in the district to wire all the classrooms to the Internet. The school has also launched the one-to-one laptop programmess. The school is providing the knowledge to students and their families, which they need to navigate the Internet safely and properly.

DANIDA supports e-Learning for Vietnamese

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Danish IT company, Evisions Group and its Vietnamese partner will provide after school education in Vietnam by e-Learning mode with support from DANIDA.

The Danish Embassy has approved the proposal to support the DANIDA's B2B programme by providing DKK 1 million fund to carry out a study and a pilot project. The main aim of the project is to teach and inform adults, and HIV/AIDS information will be integrated into the e-Learning educational material. According to Son Nam Dang, founder and director of the Vietnamese partner Net Pro Co., Ltd., this would be a unique way of securing that a large number of people in Vietnam will be aware of the problems and solutions regarding HIV/AIDS. In the first phase of the project, the company is planning to train Vietnamese adults in topics as general management, basic IT skills, investor relations and e-Strategy. While in the second phase, to set up a training centre where Vietnamese workers will be educated as trainers so they can help educating their fellow countrymen by e-Learning.

IGNOU, India expands its reach to abroad

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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is planning to expand its reach to six more nations in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

IGNOU has received proposals from Syria, Botswana, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Yemen and Uganda. Apart from opening a centre, Botswana, Africa wants licensing rights of IGNOU study material. The authorities in Syria have approached IGNOU to help in capacity building. Uganda is interested in IGNOU's Post Graduation courses and Yemen is impressed due to its low cost educational system.

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