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Experts from Malaysia and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) will jointly review the national education system in line with global changes. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin told that the move would provide a more balanced assessment of the country's education system. He stressed that the review would cover only the implementation process and not policy which had been accepted by the people. Muhyiddin told that education must move in tandem with, if possible ahead of, what's happening around the world.

It was described by Muhyiddin that the review did not mean there were weaknesses in the education system which had achieved success over the years.

Muhyiddin said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has been invited to address the 35th Unesco General Conference's first plenary session on Oct 6. This would be the first time in Malaysia's 51-year history with Unesco that its Prime Minister would address the world body's opening plenary session as such invitations are usually reserved for heads of states. He said it was a historic milestone for Malaysia as Unesco has never invited a head of government to give a keynote speech at its first plenary session. Muhyiddin met Elysee Palace secretary-general Claude Gueant and French Education Minister Luc Chatel before attending a dinner with the Malaysian community in France.

Nagaland village to see IGNOU community college

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The university has started work for setting up a Centre of Community Education and skills training in the Chuchuiymlang village of Mokokchung district, Nagaland under the Community College Scheme. Required land for the proposed centre, also envisioned as an IGNOU Centre of Excellence, has been allotted to IGNOU free of cost by the villagers under the aegis of Nagaland Gandhi Ashram (NGA). The IGNOU Centre of Excellence proposes to begin with Social work programmes, such as Master in Social Work (MSW), to ensure steady grooming of social workers for Indian communities. Gradually other vocational education and training programmes will be started. While the university will carry out all activities related to academic functioning of the Centre, the NGA will continue to remain the principal facilitator. Recently a three-member IGNOU team discussed with the villagers on wide-ranging issues.

Addressing the villagers, officer incharge of the team, Dr Jayashree Kurup, Deputy Director for Educational Development of North East Region Unit (EDNERU), told that the decision for setting up the proposed Centre of Excellence in the village was part of the university's Silver Jubilee Year development activities aiming to spread real-life education. Such education will empower people and ensure them better livelihood. 

Intel Education Award for Roots School System Director

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Roots School System (RSS) Director Chaudhry Faisal Mushtaq has received the prestigious annual ''Intel Education Award' for the second consecutive year. He received this honour in acknowledgement of his tremendous support for the Intel Education initiative through the integration of ICT within the Roots School System's curriculum and developing collaborative learning environment at the school through joint Intel and RSS training initiatives, promoting 21st century skills and developing a collaborative learning environment.


The Intel Education Awards Ceremony 2008-09 was held in collaboration with the Intel Education Initiative and Ministry of Education, where Muhammad Juman Jan Jamro, Additional Secretary Education, was the chief guest on the event. Expressing his sentiments upon receiving the award, Faisal Mushtaq remarked, “Roots School System's Department of Information Communication Technology is committed to ensure that our students are provided excellent education that encourages integrated virtual teaching and learning, thus promoting ICT, as a common denominator to bridge the digital divide.”


He said that the building of lifelong skills is part of the Roots experience, adding that RSS remains keenly aware of its responsibility to prepare its students to become digital citizens and future technology leaders. Roots and Intel Corporation Pakistan signed a memorandum of understanding in March 2009, for the harmonisation of innovative teaching approaches through K-12 curriculum development and teachers training initiatives.


Grassroot nurturance imperative for ICT development

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Cisco, the worldwide leader in networking, Tuesday highlighted the progress and success achieved by its initiative in Jammu and Kashmir since its inception 2005. Addressing a Press Conference, Lokesh Mehra, Regional Manager, Corporate Responsibility, Cisco-South Asia said that Cisco believes that ICT plays a vital role in the development of any society. 'As a catalyst for this development, it is imperative to develop a local talent of knowledge in Jammu and Kashmir. With this in mind, we have been working successfully with several institutions to offer our globally recognized curriculum to students in the state,' Lokesh Mehra later told Press Bureau of India.

In the past four years, Cisco has tied up with pioneering institutions in the state including Kashmir Government Polytechnic Srinagar, Iqbal Institute of technology Jammu and with DOEACC Srinagar and Jammu centre, offering IT education to 168 students annually. Expressing his confidence in the initiative, A.H Moon Director-DOEACC stressed need to nurture the talent in the state and said that it was crucial that the right framework and support be provided to students. He added, 'We have been working with Cisco to leverage its rich experience in proliferating ICT education globally and believe that it is important to forge relationships such as this to allow the state to leverage its tremendous potential in the area of ICT.'

Minority schools form association in Delhi

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In an effort to ensure financial and administrative autonomy of minority schools in the city, around 25 such schools on Wednesday announced the launch of an association, The Forum of Minority Schools' (TFMS). The forum will also act as a common platform, facilitating exchange of human resources, expertise, faculties and infrastructure among minority institutions. V K Williams, president, TFMS, said that the forum would try to introduce CBSE curriculum in the Muslim minority schools. The forum was formally inaugurated by Valson Thampu, principal, St Stephen's College. Vineet Joshi, acting chairman of CBSE was also present on the occasion. Terming it a timely initiative, Thampu said, 'All stakeholders of minority education should get together to make the journey effective. It's a timely move as the attitude of the government and bureaucracy towards minority education has been lackadaisical so far.'

Williams, the principal Mount Carmal School, Anand Niketan, said that although the problems faced by the public schools and minority institutions are similar, minority institutions couldn't be clubbed with the public schools. On a separate forum, he said, 'There are primarily three reasons. The Indian Constitution under Article 30 gives the minority community the autonomy to establish and administer minority institutions, a norm which has been violated. Second, we are becoming synonymous with public schools in a negative way and so we want to set the record straight that we are minority schools with missionary commitments and finally, in the name of public schools, certain steps are taken against our constitutional autonomy like attempt to regulate our fees, attempt to put government representatives in our management, usurping our rights to take disciplinary actions against erring employees, levying on us commercial rates of electricity, water and property tax, among others.'

ICT enabled distance education

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Professor Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Director, College of Engineering, Pune, presented a case study on ICT enabled interactive distance education. College of Engineering, Pune, has recently introduced interactive distance education using ICT services. The factors that motivated were exponential increase in the number of engineering colleges, shortage of faculty in premier institutes, acute shortage of good faculty, outdated curricula in Universities, poor teaching-learning processes, faculty qualifications, intake of good quality students and employability. Sahasrabudhe informed how the faculty was enable with the use of multimedia and IT tools in classrooms . They were granted permission to present papers in National and International Conferences and short term courses for faculty were introduced.


Technology can help educational institutes in many ways. One should go for Internet bandwidth with a campus wide network, fiber and Wi-Fi, data center with servers and PCs as well as introduce a digital library with E-books and E-journals. The most important thing is that, with the help of IT, institutes can go for online live interactive classes through videoconferencing. However there is no denying the fact that there are numerous challenges faced in terms of infrastructure cost, mindset of students and teachers from real versus virtual remote class, inferiority complex amongst remote students, inexperience of teaching in remote mode, clarity of video and audio, attention span of students, assumed background of students, assignments, tutorials, examinations and evaluations said Sahasrabudhe


Nevertheless, they overcame those challenges by providing students with good quality classroom, ambiance, acoustics, minimum of exclusive 2 Mbps connectivity, Polycom Videoconferencing equipment at both ends (Telepresence : Cisco, Tandberg), good sound system, faculty coordinator at the remote location and background material especially for Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Sahasrabudhe stressed that the model which they have implicated is highly replicable & scalable. There can be one-to-many (may be up to five virtual classes). The use of ICT can help reduce cost for carrying out lab experiments remotely on expensive equipment.


15, 000 Mizoram children deprived of of schooling

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About 15,000 children in Mizoram, aged six to fourteen, are deprived of schooling even though the northeastern state is India's second most literate after Kerala, an official report said. 'After finding that around 15,000 children, mostly tribals, are deprived of formal education, the state's mission of Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) sent education volunteers as mobile teachers in the interior villages,' a report of the Mizoram education department said. The mobile teachers would persuade the children and their parents to enrol themselves in government schools.

According to the report, the children deprived of education were mainly concentrated in Lunglei, Lawngtlai and Saiha districts of southern Mizoram and Mamit district in the east adjacent to Tripura. Of the 15,000 illiterate children, 40 % were school dropouts and the remaining had never been enrolled in schools. In Mizoram, 88.80 % of the 900,000 people are literate. In the mountainous state of Mizoram, education was first initiated and popularised by the British. Missionaries were responsible for the growth and institutionalisation of education in the state, bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh. The first educational institution in Mizoram was initiated by missionaries in the Aizawl region in 1897. Later, three more government primary schools opened in Aizawl in 1898.

Directorate of Education notifies private schools to convene PTA before fee hike

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Directorate of Education (DoE) notification issued on Wednesday has made it compulsory for private schools to convene a meeting of the general body of the Parent-Teachers' Association (PTA) before implementing any fee hike. The direction comes after weeks of protests by parents against increase in fees in Delhi's private schools. All private schools, including those who claim to hold PTA meetings on the issue, are required to submit a copy of the PTA resolution to the Directorate within 30 days. In an advertisement issued today, the Directorate has reiterated that all schools that have not yet convened a PTA meeting must do so within the stipulated time to be able to increase fees. Any school that fails to hold the meeting within that period must also roll back the fee hike till such time as the meeting is convened, the DoE stated.

Delhi Education Secretary Rina Ray clarified that the 'general body of PTA' implies not just the PTA's executive council but the entire body of teachers and parents. She said, 'The notification issued in February also said that the PTA must be consulted before any increase in fees but we found that many schools called only a small number of parents sympathetic to the management. Only the PTA executive body is not acceptable to us.' Ashok Aggarwal, president of All India Parents' Association, said, 'Most schools don't even have a proper PTA. They simply involve a few parents in the management instead of involving the entire body.'

Fairs and Exhibitions launches 2nd Global Education Forum

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GESS 2009 will feature more than 200 exhibitors from over 20 countries showcasing a range of educational supplies and solutions that range from information technology and multimedia learning aids through to classroom and sporting equipment and teaching aids for special needs education. Over 4000 education professionals are expected to visit the exhibition and the accompanying Forum. For suppliers to the education sector, GESS has proven an ideal opportunity to launch products into the Middle East market. Highlights of the exhibition floor for visiting education professionals will include Microsoft who will be showing the possibilities presented by their Live@edu product- a suite of applications that helps students to collaborate both on and off campus. Al Mazroui will be showing Cyber Anatomy 3D that produces accurate clinical-level anatomical models within 1 mm of the naked eye and Eductech will run workshops demonstrating the SPARK science learning system and online learning environment.

Sue Rothwell, Group Event Director, Fairs & Exhibitions, said, 'Examination of the GESS exhibitor list shows not only a selection of highly successful locally based businesses that specialise in the sector but also businesses from Europe, the Americas and Asia who are eager to be involved in the development that is continuing to occur in this sector.' 'This year we have experienced exhibitor growth of 20% and the number of countries represented on the exhibition floor has doubled. The exhibition floor space this year is 55% bigger than last year and with the support of the Ministry of Education we will welcome Ministerial delegations from Bahrain, Qatar, KSA, Yemen and Oman,' she added. In addition to the patronage of H.H Sheikh Mohammed and the UAE Ministry of Education, GESS and GEF enjoy a high level of support from organisations including the Emirates Foundation, BESA (British Educational Suppliers Association), Worlddidac, Didacta, UK Trade & Investment, Edutech and Al Mazroui.

Vets to be trained with virtual operations

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Prospective vets no longer need to enter a veterinary surgery for clinical training – even before stepping into the operation theatre, veterinary students can now get a feel of the instruments, sterilisation techniques and patient preparation. All this has been made possible by an interactive device – the 'Virtual Veterinary Surgery' (VVS) – designed by Glenn Edwards, associate professor and his colleagues at the faculty of veterinary science of Melbourne University and the Educational Technology Services. 'What we have created is a virtual operating theatre, an interactive programme for teaching the principles of surgery,' said Edwards. If successful, the model is likely to be replicated elsewhere.

The VVS is designed to be integrated with the undergraduate veterinary science course for second year students. A total of 120 students each year enter the programme and must pass the related assessment tasks before they are permitted into the operating theatre for clinical training. After logging on via the learning management system, students find themselves gazing into a panoramic view of a fully equipped operating theatre, complete with the sounds of a ventilation machine. By using the menu or clicking on the contents of the operating room – such as the surgeon, a piece of equipment or the canine patient – students are taken into the related study unit. These study units cover areas such as surgical etiquette and how the operating team works together, equipment and patient preparation and post-operative care, said a Melbourne release. The programme's visuals have been recorded mainly from real cases at the University's Veterinary Clinic and Hospital over the past two years. The site design was supported by a project grant from the Coursework Design and Development Programme from the University. The educational content was produced in assistance with the Educational Technology Services, led by David Adam.

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