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Ministries launch e-Learning Jamaica Project

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The Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, in collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce, Science and Technology, Jamaica launched its e-Learning Jamaica Project. The project seeks to introduce multimedia projectors, CDs, DVDs and other information communication technologies (ICTs) as an integral part of the learning environment in classrooms.

According to Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, “The e-Learning project is the next vital element in our strategy to transform this country and achieve sustained development”. Patterson said e-Learning will improve students' capacity for continuing education, increase their readiness for the global community and enhance the national profile and marketability in the international arena. The Prime Minister said the Government recognised the critical role of education in reducing poverty and achieving sustainable national development, but emphasised that the process must go beyond simply changing the medium for the delivery of education, to addressing the content of education. The project, initiated by Technology Minister Phillip Paulwell, will be implemented on a phased basis over the next three to four years and will target students in grades seven to 11 in all 150 high schools islandwide. The Technology Ministry allocated $50 million from the Technical Investment Fund for the project while additional funding was received from the Universal Access Fund .

FSA launches e-Learning course

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The Financial Services Authority (FSA) in Scotland has launched an e-Learning package for small firms to help them work out what financial resources they need to meet regulatory requirements.

Firms need to keep adequate financial resources at all times and this online training course is designed for those with little or no accounting knowledge. The financial watchdog has already introduced various initiatives to assist small firms, which include improvements to the Firm Contact Centre such as longer opening hours at key times; more targeted newsletters and webpages; tailored Handbooks; and a range of workshops, training courses, roadshows and surgeries. The e-Learning package is a new way of offering assistance to firms and may offer extra support to those that need it.

Uncle Pai comics on Tata Indicom

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Tata Teleservices is now making available Anant “Uncle” Pai's comics in English and Hindi on its Tata Indicom mobile service.

The wireless application has been provided by Coruscant Tec, a mobile solutions company with a focus on content and commerce. The application will be provided in other Indian languages including Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Bengali and Punjabi. Tata Teleservices wants to provide interesting content to its diverse subscriber base.
According to Coruscant, this is the first time that a BREW application (available with CDMA technology) has been developed with a regional interface.

Cisco Networking Academy in India

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Networking major Cisco Systems and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) in India have teamed up to provide the Cisco Networking Academy Programme in about 250 non-profit educational institutions across the state Andhra Pradesh.

As per agreement, the JNTU Colleges of Engineering in Hyderabad, Anantapur and Kakinada will be accredited as Regional Academies. These academies will identify and accredit 250 non-profit educational institutions as local academies under them within a period of two years. The academies will impart networking education to around 25,000 students every year.

University research group in Thailand bring out utility-bill payments system through CAT kiosk

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digitalLEARNING Network
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Customers in the near future will be able to make their utility purchases and payments with CAT cards using a one-stop service called a CAT Kiosk

Computer lets parents track kids’ eating

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digitalLEARNING Network
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This could be a common occurrence at Houston schools when the district, Texas's seventh-largest with more than 250,000 students, becomes one of the largest in the nation with a cafeteria automation system that lets parents dictate and track what their kids get.

Primero Food Service Solutions, developed by Houston-based Cybersoft Technologies, allows parents to set up prepaid lunch accounts so children don't have to carry money. It also shows the cashier any food allergies or parent-set diet restrictions for his or her account, and the student is not allowed to buy an offending item.
Parents also can go online to track their child's eating habits and make changes. The company's system already is being used in schools in Arizona, Oklahoma, Michigan and Tennessee, as well as other Texas cities. Several other companies have similar cafeteria monitoring programs at other schools.

Prepaid cafeteria accounts have been around for five to 10 years, but programs that allow parents to say what their kids can or can't eat are a more recent development. It's good for parents because they can track what their kids are spending. The system, which will cost the Houston district US$5.3 million, also serves as an accounting program that lets the school district plan menus and allows for faster enrollment of students in free and reduced lunch programs. School officials and nutrition experts say this type of monitoring program could help tackle child obesity. In the past 20 years, the number of overweight children ages 6 to 11 more than doubled and the number of overweight adolescents ages 12 to 19 more than tripled, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Noted film star is goodwill ambassador for Akshaya literacy project

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South Indian film star Mammootty will be the goodwill ambassador for the State Government's Akshaya computer literacy project in the Indian state Kerala.

Mammootty will take up the responsibility of spearheading the Akshaya campaign through special appearances in print and visual media and other publicity material. Officially launched in the district of Malappuram in year 2002, Akshaya completed its first phase by training 5.8 lakh people in the district on computers. Subsequently, it was rolled out to seven more districts – Kasaragode, Kannur, Kozhikode, Thrissur, Ernakulam, Kollam and Pathanamthitta. This is expected to add another 35 lakh to the list of the computer-literate in the State. The State Government recently decided to extend the project to the remaining six districts, and preparatory works to this effect are on.

Plan: Primary education upto VIII standard

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The primary draft, with the recommendations of extending the primary education level upto class VIII with a public examination at end, prepared by the Education Policy Formulation Committee is going to complete its primary draft within July 10. 42 concerned organisations will hold the discussion with the committee, for the required opinions and suggestions on the draft after the deadline and the draft polciy will be placed before the government on completion of the discussions. Quazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad, Co-Chairman of the committee disclosed the above information at a symposiumon 'Learning from neighbours: The trajectory of educational progress' at a city hotel. He described that all mediums, general, madrasa and English, regardless of types of education system and education institutes, will have to study several subjects in the primary level to have better understanding about certain things of the country.

He informed that the subjects are Bangla, Mathematics, Basic Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Environment and Bangladesh Studies. Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) in association with Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and Institute of Educational Development, Brac University organised the symposium. The two-day symposium will be focused on pre-university education in Thailand. On the primary education, the co-chairman said there are about 11 types of primary education in the country that perpetuates disparity in society. Emphasising the need for vocational education, Kholiquzzaman mentioned that basic ICT and pre-vocational training will be introduced in class VI. He added that English would be made mandatory from class III. The co-chairman also said the policy will have some special clauses for those areas where education is lagging behind.

More bytes for girls in IT and multimedia in Australia

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Responding to the decreasing participation of girls in IT subjects, Swinburne University in Australia is running a program to motivate girls into using IT and multimedia in schools. The programme More bytes: Girls in IT is part of the Australian School Innovation in Science Technology and Mathematics (ASISTM).

The unique program aims to engage a diverse group of girls from Year 8 to 10 in IT and multimedia by giving them the chance to network and build their story of girls' culture using technology. The project brings together a diverse mix of high school girls from different backgrounds, and increases their opportunities to think creatively, to share ideas and resources, and inspires them to consider IT and multimedia as possible careers. Students will be working in groups initially within their schools to develop a project that will be shared through an electronic magazine. They will then create a brief introductory documentary which they will digitally showcase on an online forum in the near future.

The girls will work on a series of group projects using IT and multimedia challenging the popular view that IT 'is for nerds'. The idea is that by giving them a hands-on experience they will form an emotional connection with their work by giving it a sense of reality and motivation. Other projects are likely to include the development of characters through animation, use of mobile phones and Flash animation interface, and digital art pod-casting to produce a radio show. The projects will be presented at a Girl's Multimedia Conference at Swinburne in May 2006. Fitzroy Crossing District High School students in Western Australia will participate using teleconferencing. In an all girls' effort to boost female representation in the industry the final stage of the program will see female Swinburne undergraduates studying IT and multimedia mentoring the girls.

International Finance Corp supports to expand ICT in Nigerian varsities

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Pursuant to its drive to link universities across Nigeria to the information and communication technology (ICT) world, SocketWorks Limited has signed a $2.5 million (about NGN350 million) agreement with International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group.

The first such initiative in Nigeria’s higher education sector, the facility is to support SocketWorks’ rollout of CollegePortal into select Nigerian universities. CollegePortal is a package of information and communication technologies that will provide students with the tools to become fully computer literate. IFC’s loan will also enable SocketWorks to develop software and purchase computers and other hardware for Nigeria’s universities. University students, faculty, and administrators will have access to a full suite of online management systems and study tools, including offshore libraries and other information sources.

The education project which the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is supporting will help to lay a strong educational foundation and arrest the declining standards of Nigerian educational system since Information and Communications Technology (ICT) clearly represents the best opportunity to help these institutions to pull together their current assets, to minimize internal handicaps, to layer on new sources of intelligence, optimize their resources, maximize their potential and increase the value of education they provide. By October, working with the Minister of Education in an initiative called, “Digital Bridge for Nigerian Schools” SocketWorks intends to introduce all Federal Government-owned schools to a thriving digital culture by deploying a bundled ICT solution that includes software, access devices, power systems, connectivity, multimedia resources and digital content.

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