10 lakh Indian schools to be linked through Internet

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July 17, 2006

The Internet will soon become the medium through which one can enter the classrooms of about 10 lakh schools in India. Information regarding the state of the classroom, number of teachers and students, playing facilities as well as examination results will also be available online. Not only government schools but even top private schools like Delhi Public School, RK Puram, Modern School, Bharakhamba Road and Doon School in Dehradun or Lawrence School in Kasaulli will be part of one of the biggest school interlinking exercise the country has ever undertaken.

Just about 50,000 schools are not covered under the programme. The National Institute of Education Planning and Administration (NEIPA) will put report cards of over 10 lakh schools, for which it has collected data, on the Internet. There will be a report card on each school available. Information from each school has been converted into a school report card for putting it on internet. While the exercise to collect data from schools started in 1994 with 42 districts, it is for the first time the information will be available for the citizens.

97 public high schools in Phillipines to get computers

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July 17, 2006

Some 97 public high schools in Region 7 in Phillipines will be beneficiaries of the Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) PCs for Public Schools Project (PCPS). Under the PCPS Phase 3 Project, around 1,200 public secondary schools nationwide will receive 12,000 computers.

Each beneficiary school in the region will receive 10 computers, including peripherals and local area network connections. Bohol will receive 27 units, Cebu will have 43, Oriental Negros will get 22 while Siquijor will get five units. DepEd will train teachers while the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will test the units and the software. With DTI's PCPS 3 pro-ject, more schools will get ICT upgrade, “empowering” more students and teachers. According to DTI re-cords, 32,240 computers were given to 2,228 public high schools nationwide composed of 1,167 schools in Luzon, 569 schools in Visayas and 492 schools in Mindanao under the first two phases of the project.

Log in to get CAT forms now

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July 17, 2006

Common Admision Test (CAT) has just gone hi-tech. From this year, to appear for CAT, all one needs to do is apply online. Apart from selling CAT bulletin and application forms through bank counters , Inidan Institute of Managements (IIMs) have also created this online facility.

IIMs will also set up an interactive voice recorder system (IVRS) which will be functional later this month to answer queries regarding application as well as admission status. The CAT which will decide admission at all six IIMs, besides 60 other B- schools, had over 1.8 lakh applicants last year.

Important dates of CAT: Last date for receipt of completed CAT applications: September 9, 2006 Dispatch dates for admit cards: October 16, 2006 Date after which IIM should be contacted (in case of non-receipt of Admit Card): November 3, 2006 Common Admission Test: November 19, 2006 Call for interview sent by: January 2, 2007 Last date for receipt of completed applications: January 31, 2007 Interview schedule: February-March , 2007

e-Learning Toolkits launched to boost public service delivery in Asia

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July 14, 2006

ADB and ADB Institute launched two e-Learning toolkits to improve transparency and accountability in the delivery of public services in Asia. The toolkits

Ghana aims to be West Africa’s IT hub with India’s help

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July 14, 2006

Inspired and aided by India, the Ghanaian government is taking measures to make information technology (IT) a key driver of its economy and transform the country into the IT hub of West Africa. To achieve its aim, the government says it is determined to make IT popular among youth. Communications Minister Haruna Iddrisu said the government is spending $5 million on an ICT project to empower youth. As part of the project, to begin this year, offices of the defunct State Housing Corporation (SHC) will be transformed into an IT hub. Similar centres will be established in all the 10 regional capitals beginning with five this year. Iddrisu said the initiative was aimed at making the country a manpower pool for industry requirements and an attractive place for global business process outsourcing. India has a key role in the development of the IT sector in Ghana, providing in March assistance of $800,000. There have also been several Indian-assisted projects to promote IT in the country. Among these is the main training centre, the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE), which came up Dec 9, 2003, as an outcome of then President John Kufuor's discussions with Indian leaders during his trip to India. Ghana provided the infrastructure to house the computer hardware, software and other communication equipment, while India supplied the initial instructors, who helped in drawing up the curriculum. “The centre came into being after the then UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, who was inspired by India's achievement in the IT industry, decided to find a way of replicating this success across Africa,” its director general, Dorothy K. Gordon, told IANS in an interview. “After just eight years, one can say the IT industry (in Ghana) has started to take off and the centre has become a hub of IT activities,” she said. Gordon clarified Ghana's move into the IT industry “was not intended to take away India's long-time role but to assist Indian companies that are looking for alternative locations”.

Aptech Computer Education announces ‘Techno Minds’

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July 14, 2006

Aptech Computer Education-the flagship brand of Aptech Ltd. hosted an inter-centre competition Techno Minds for the students of the premiere career programme, ACCP course and the Sun Java, Oracle & Red Hat Linux certification courses. Participants included students from the fist and second year exclusively from the North zone, i.e. Delhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi and Agra. Techno Minds also gave away 'Tech Guru', the award for the best faculty of North for his/ her contribution towards maintaining quality delivery and expertise. The panelists for this prestigious event were Mr. Venkat, Global Academic Head

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