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MoE, Brunei, signed contract with e-ICT Systems

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Institut Teknologi Brunei (ITB) on behalf of the Ministry of Education (MoE) signed a contract with eICT Systems, a local ICT vendor. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

The supply, delivery, installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance of reliable hardware and software infrastructure for ITB is part of the Ministry of Education's e-Education initiative to ensure that its departments are amply supported with ICT equipment to enable them to deliver effective ICT services to its clients. With this implementation, ITB will be able to augment its ICT resources to cater for its academic needs, particularly with the impending arrival of the new intake in July 2006.  

A grant of US$800,000 for Cambodian secondary girls from ADB

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Eyeing at the drastic fall in the enrollment of girls in secondary school level, Asian Development Bank grant US$800,000 to help increase access to upper secondary education for poor girls in Cambodia through the provision of residential facilities with media learning centres. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

Barbara Lochmann, an ADB Social Development Specialist said that the evidence shows that the expansion of such residential facilities to learning centres, which provide life skills training through the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), has the potential to broaden the knowledge of girls, thus improving their chances of career development. The enrollment rates for secondary education have dropped drastically over the last six years to 17percent for boys and 8 percent for girls in upper secondary grades. Poor families cannot afford to keep their daughters in school. In addition, for reasons of personal security, girls are generally not permitted to travel long distances and live away from families to attend upper secondary schools because there are no secure residential facilities away from home.

Bromsgrove students to avail new Diploma

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Through a research it has been shown that 20% 0of students in the West Midlands want to continue in education for longer than previously planned to increase future job prospects. The good news is that students in Bromsgrove and Redditch will now have more options thanks to new Diploma subjects. Last year students could choose from just three subjects: creative and media, engineering, and information technology. Now students can choose from a further five including construction and the built environment, business, administration and finance, hair and beauty studies and hospitality. The Diploma offers an alternative to traditional qualifications such as GCSEs and A levels. As well as learning about a specific sector, Diploma students can continue to develop skills in English, maths and ICT as well as get an additional route to higher education and employment.

Schools and colleges in Redditch delivering the Diploma include Arrow Vale High School, Woodrush Community High School and NEW College. While in Bromsgrove Waseley Hills High School and Sixth Form Centre, North Bromsgrove High School and South Bromsgrove Community High School will be delivering the Diploma.

India set to churn out more techies, an IIT in each state

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An Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in each state is the ministry of human resource development's latest ambitious plan to improve the quality and quantity of technical manpower in the country. The proposed 20 institutes will open their doors from July next year, as per the ministry's plan.

The ministry's detailed project report will require funding of Rs 3,700 crore over a period of six years. The plan, submitted to the Planning Commission, says Rs 2,500 crore will be by way of plan expenditure. The government's plan has also been endorsed by National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM). Each of these institutes is expected to accomodate 1,000 undergraduate and 1,000 post-graduate students at any given point of time, and will require a faculty strength of 200 and a support staff of 300. The proposal reworks the concept of IIITs, by moving away from pure information technology-related education.

Instead, it is based on the understanding that “an information technologist is required to understand the information content of a system and be an expert in handling the information.” The institutes will offer a four year undergraduate programme , as well as masters and doctoral programme, which would be comparable to any internation technical university. The institutes will also be networked with IITs, NITs and IIMs. To maintain uniformity in quality, the government proposes admissions through a centralised all India examination like the All Indian Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE). The ministry's roll out plan aims at an intake of 75 students in the first year (July 2007), with a subsequent increase till the undergraduate intake goes up to 250 in the sixth year. While the master's programme will be rolled out in the second year, the doctoral in the third, and post doctoral in the fourth. By the sixth year, the total intake will go up to 635.

Educational initiatives announced by Australia

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Australia's visiting Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, on Tuesday launched the Australia-India Institute, to be located at the University of Melbourne, with a view to strengthen bilateral ties between the two nations. She announced AUS$8.106 million (INR 32 crore) funding to support the Australia-India Institute. The University of Melbourne and its university partners in Australia, the University of New South Wales and La Trobe University, will invest another AUS $2 million (INR 8 crore) in the Institute, bringing the total investment in the project to more than AUS $10 million (INR 40 crore) over the next three years. The three universities bring to the Institute strong partnerships with leading Indian universities and research centres that will be crucial for the delivery of the Institute's programs.

The Institute will work closely also with the Australia-India Business Council to support mutual trade and investment. It will also support research, graduate training, executive briefings and policy advice for the benefit of both countries. The Institute would operate as a national epicentre of information on India. It will also provide consultancies on issues of national priority, and host international conferences, community engagement and cultural dialogues. Gillard told that several areas of priority research of interest to both countries have been identified. Joint workshops, involving researchers and policy makers, are already scheduled to initiate the Institute's programs for water security under climate change and for cooperation in public health.

TRCN

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e-Registration initiative by Teachers' Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN)  will allow all existing professional teachers and new teachers requiring new registration with TRCN to enter and update their records in the TRCN database from anywhere and at anytime. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

The director general of the council, Musa Ciwar said the online TRCN e-Registration system makes it convenient for all teachers to know their registration status, update status and make payments to TRCN using diverse channels such as banks, cyber cafes, e-Kisoks, GSM phones and other Internet access points. Education Minister, Dr. Chinwe Obaji challenged Nigerian teachers to accept the global transformation brought out by ICT. He urged that all the teachers should become a part of this digital culture before becoming a part of the global community.

Second Life: future online school?

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Among the most emergent platforms for game-based teaching is Second Life, a virtual world superficially similar to online role-playing games, such as World of Warcraft or Sims Online. The Federation of American Scientists recently published the results of a year-long study suggesting that games have the power to teach analytical skills, team building, and problem solving. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

As a pedagogical resource, players (or Residents, in the SL lingo) maneuver their stylized avatars, or alter egos, through a three-dimensional landscape of forests, mountains, and plains, typing chat messages to other users, and interacting with them at parties, events, and so on. Unlike online games, however, Second Life is entirely user created. Residents build the online world around them using 3-D construction and programming tools with people logging in from all over the world.

Residents retain the IP rights to their creations without fear of losing control over them. The game also received considerable press lately when Reuters opened an all-digital bureau within the environment.

Teachers should play with SL in the mature grid, then move on to creating pedagogical resources that could be rebuilt in Teen Second Life (pending Linden Lab's approval, of course.) Accounts are free; go to the website (www.secondlife.com), choose a Resident name and download and install the software. The best place to find both is at the official site's educational page and through the SL Education wikia compendium of resources, contacts, and educational sites.

India proposes to set up ICT centre of excellence in Riyadh

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A delegation of top academicians, led by UGC Chairman Sukhdev Thorat will meet a group of Saudi businessmen in Riyadh to explore the possibility of setting up an Information and Communication Technology centre there with Indian assistance. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

At a meeting with education Minister Abdullah Al-Obaid, Union HRD minister Arjun Singh, who is visiting the country, offered India's support in setting up an ICT centre of excellence in Riyadh. Indian officials have said that president of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry Abdu Rahman Al-Jeraisy had shown keen interest in the Indian proposal.

 

Agilent brings ‘Quest’ to Indian city Hyderabad

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Agilent Technologies has brought its community initiative programme called `Quest', which seeks to improve the quality of mathematics and science education in schools, to the Indian city Hyderabad.

The company's Foundation, in collaboration with SNS Foundation and Oakridge International School, has started the Hyderabad Chapter of Quest. The focus would be on underprivileged schools. In its first year, the programme would train 12 teachers to take on the roles of `Master Trainers' in mathematics and science. It would also upgrade the laboratories in three schools across Hyderabad, Bangalore and Gurgaon. These teachers, in turn, would teach 1,200 students and train additional teachers in their schools. Agilent is contributing approximately Rs 20 lakh for the first stage of the programme in India.

Gujarat Schools avail computers, LCD TVs from Centre’s programme

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Courtesy the central government's ICT (Information and Communication Technology) education scheme, this year, around 225 schools in the city will be provided 11 computers and a 42-inch LCD TV each. The scheme, launched in 2004, is being implemented in all government and grant-in-aid schools across the state. Itaims at providing access to computer education to secondary students. According to the scheme, 11 computers and a 42-inch LCD TV will be distributed to each of these schools, and while around 75 per cent of the expenses will be funded by the central government, the state government will have to bear the remaining cost. School principals, however, do not agree with the latest scheme government wants to implement in the schools. According to Jagdish Pandya, principal of Mangal School, computers are vital for students' educational growth. Also, according to a source, the state government is all set to start sanctioning the NOCs for the purpose.

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