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Indian Government clears FDI bill for higher education

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A Group of Ministers (GoM) have approved a proposed legislation, which will allow foreign university to set up their campus in < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />India.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

Once, the Cabinet approves the proposal and pass it as law, the Foreign Education Providers (Regulation) Bill will grant deemed university status to such institutions. According to the proposal, universities can set up their own campus and there is no need to adopt the franchisee route. Such universities have to take prior approval of the University Grants Commission for such a project and the embassy of country of its origin have to certify the background of that institution. The commerce Ministry has come out with a 24-page document, entitled 'Higher Education in India and GATS' for supporting FDI in the sector. According to Commerce Minister Kamal Nath, the bill looks in all aspects of education in India and need for quality education. India incurred an annual outgo of $4 billion on education.

Foundation of IIIT in Bhubaneswar (India) by President of India

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The President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam is going to lay the foundation stone of the proposed 25-acre campus of International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Bhubaneswar on November 29. 
 
The IIIT would come up as a world class institute. It would have a vision to contribute to the IT world by focusing on education and research, entrepreneurship and innovation. The Institute will be run as a registered not-for-profit society, funded jointly by the Government of Orissa and the IT industry. A society has been registered under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary Subas Pani with members like Development Commissioner Rabi Narayan Bohidar, Industries Secretary Injeti Srinivas, Surendra Nath Tripathy, Secretary, Information Technology (IT), IDCO MD Ashok Kumar Meena, and Vishal Dev, Director IT from the Government side. Subroto Bagchi, Chief Operating Officer of MindTree Consulting Group and Ardhendu Das, Centre Head of Infosys, Bhubaneswar, S Sadgopan, Director IIIT Bangalore and LM Patnaik, Professor of IISc, Bangalore are included in the society.

UK ‘pays lip service’ to open source in schools

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The < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />UK's Open Source Consortium has joined the UK government education policy for open source software for maintaining the British Education Communications and Technology Agency 'pays lip service' to open source.

 

According to OSC president, Mark Taylor, Becta and the Department for Education and Skills are effectively denying schools the option of benefiting from both free and open source. Becta has pointed out; suppliers in its infrastructure framework agreement are free to offer open source software.  Becta is a government agency, which defines its e-learning strategy and educational information and communication technology purchasing and maintained its procurement frameworks, based on functional requirements and open standards and is aimed for companies offering either proprietary or open source solutions. Becta announced that to review the impact of Microsoft's educational licensing programs in the UK, and consider alternatives to Microsoft Windows and Office.

ICT movement for Farg Students

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First time the Fund for the Support of Genocide Survivors (FARG) is using ICT to select needy survivor students countrywide for the year 2007.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

According to Juventus Rutebuka, the official in Charge of FARG at Rusizi district, this is an ICT oriented program and it will help to save the fund resources. ICT will help to create database of needy students. FARG is supporting the 3744 students established by the New Times in the district.

AiTi moves towards ICT Literate workforce

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The Authority for Info-communication Technology Industry < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Brunei (AiTi) is launching a long-term InfoComm Competency Training Programme, which will support the e-Government initiatives and boost SME's ICT skills.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

According to the Deputy Minister of Communications, Dato Paduka Hj Mohd Yussof, AiTi InfoComm Competency Training Programme will empower capacity and competitiveness in meeting the globalisation challenges. The competency programme will provide employment opportunities to local talents. AiTi will add the primary objectives of the programme to develop and upgrade ICT skills of government and staff and encourage for implementing and executing the e-Government scheme.  The AiTi's InfoComm Competency Training Programme will also focus on developing technical as well as interpersonal ICT skills relevant in various sectors to produce ICT skilled programme. AiTi is planning to conduct a pilot training programme, which will focus on SME employees at all level. 

Teacher Training centre receives ICT based equipment

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The Ministry of Education, Science and Sports has handed approximately 380 ICT equipment to all 38 Teacher training colleges at the ceremony organised at the < ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Presbyterian Training College in Ghana. Each college has received 10 computers with accessories.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

According to the Deputy Minister for Education, Science and Sports, Angelina Baiden-Amissah praised President J A Kufuor for giving approval for the use of Ghana's accumulated funds from the UNESCO coupons scheme to purchase the ICT equipment for the colleges. The aim of ICT education policy is to develop and drive Ghana's information and knowledge based economy and society. The policy would also help in raising the quality of teaching and learning through the use of ICT. The Akuapmen North DCE, Edward Adu Aboagye, announced that the District Assembly in collaboration with the Ministry of Communication, has set up two community information centres equipped with ICT facilities at Akropong and Abiriw.

Conference for NGO and e-Learning professional at Philippines

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    Technologies, Inc. announced about one-day Affordable Community Computing Workshop to be held at the National Computer Center in Manila, Philippines to coincide with the National e-Learning Conference on 27 November.

     

    The Institute for Information Industry, the APEC Digital Opportunity Center and the Philippines Commission on Information and Communications Technology, the VIA pc-1 workshop would be hands-on seminar for representatives from NGOs, universities and the government in building and operating affordable computers based on the VIA pc1000 mainboard and Puppy Linux. The workshop systems would be exhibited at the Computer Center during the National e-Learning Conference.  According to the Richard Brown, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, VIA Technologies, the high energy efficient pc-1 hardware and the flexible Puppy Linux GPL/free software combine to form a powerful solution for enabling community computing in all emerging markets. The workshop will bring together education and development programmes. 

    ICT: the part of education culture

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    The Education Ministry through the Smart Education Partnership (SEP) will conduct the 2006 National Teachers Convention on ICT with the collaboration of TIME Engineering Berhad, Microsoft (M) Sdn Bhd, Intel Electronics (M) Sdn Bhd and Prestariang Technology Sdn Bhd. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

     

    The three-day convention will conduct at the Putra World Trade Centre, entitled 'From Teacher to Teacher: Towards An ICT Culture in Education” on 30 November. The aim of the conference is to promote ICT initiatives to the teachers and enhance the participation of the ministry's partners in efforts to develop the use of ICT in education. Through the seminar, about 500 teachers from 50 schools nationwide will be exposed to the technology and the new methods in teaching and learning. The convention would be divided into a seminar entitled “Sharing Best Practices” and an exhibition entitled “Transforming Education Through Technology”.  It is expected that the convention will help teachers for implementing ICT as a part of the education culture. 

    ICT in basic education emphasized in Philippine Education Roadmap Conference

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    The Secretary of Department of Education (DepEd) of Philippines, Jesli Lapus reiterated the urgency of ICT in basic education in his keynote speech during the First National Philippine Education Roadmap Conference (PERC) at the Hotel Philippine Plaza in Pasay City.

    The PERC is aligned with DepEd's efforts to build an ICT-enabled educational system. It will produce a skilled student-body and power economic development for the Philippines. The conference was jointly organised by the Philippine Computer Society (PCS), Philippine Society of IT Educators (PSITE), Philippine State Universities and Colleges Computer Education and Systems Society (PSUCCESS), and Pasay-Makati Educators and Administrators of Skills Training Association (PAMEASTA) and supported by Microsoft Phils. The conference identified challenges faced by various education sectors, enabled participating groups to share best practices in technology integration and highlighted the importance of technology in furthering education. Other speakers in the conference were Technical Education and Skills Development Authority-Sectoral TVET deputy director general Milagros Dawa-Hernandez, PSUCCESS president Dr. Ofelia Carague, Microsoft Phils. Corporate Affairs director Mark Yambot, Microsoft Phils. Asia Pacific-CATM Enterprise Technology strategist John Phillips and Microsoft Phils. Academic Program manager Michelle Casio.

    IGNOU in Kochi (India) proposes computer literacy programme

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    The regional centre of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in Kochi (India) has proposed a State-level computer literacy programme in Kerala.

    The programme is proposed for 50 senior secondary schools. In first phase, the project will be implemented in five districts and the schools identified for the project will act as admission-cum-information centres of the university. IGNOU has already started negotiations with the State Government of Kerala for providing MCA programme to high school teachers who are engaged as resource persons in IT@School project. These and other proposals came up for discussion during the visit of IGNOU Vice-Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai on November 19, 2006. Prof. Pillai stated that the regional centres would offer new IT courses for students and a detailed study of the requirements in IT sector would be made before launching the programme. The regional centre would set up placement centres, these will help the candidates to secure a job before passing out of the university.

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