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Municipality to introduce e-Education

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The Ukhahlamba District Municipality in the Eastern Cape in South Africa is to introduce electronic education (e-Education) for teachers and pupils in the municipality.

A centre has been established at Idyoki Public School in Ugie. This is in line with the e-Education White Paper that sets out government's response to a new information and communication technology environment in education. Government aims to ensure that schools are connected, that they access the Internet and communicate electronically; and that communities use and support ICT facilities in public schools. The municipality in partnership with Asante Management and Development Services as well as Kit Plant Hire have donated 16 computers, a printer, a scanner, a copier, a satellite dish, a DVD player and a data projector to the learning communities. Forty-eight educators from Idyoki School, including ABET educators as well as a representative from the community will obtain ICT training from the resource centre. Some of the modules to be introduced in their training include Introduction to Information Technology, Basic Word Processing Skills Part 1, Basic Word processing Skills Part 2, Basic Spreadsheet Skills as well as Basic Skills in Presentation.

MEXUS EDUCATION consults FRANCORP for advice on its Pan India expansion of Iken Braingym

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digitalLEARNING Network
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IKEN Braingym, the flagship brand under the aegis of which Mexus Education delivers its interactive learning centers and services, has hired the services of FRANCORP for their pan India growth plan. Mexus Education, started in 2008, is an education innovations enterprise of the Bilakhia Group. Mexus is making its first entrance ever into franchising to expand its presence across India with the help of the Francorp's global expertise in franchise management. The foundation of Mexus is a belief that learning is most effective when it is personalized, entertaining, voluntary and involves active participation by the students. It is this thought that has inspired Mexus to design innovative learning solutions and tools with an able team of over 300 professionals from premier science and management institutes in India.

In India FRANCORP is a part of Franchise India Group, which is Asia's largest integrated Franchise and Retail Solutions Company that specializes in providing innovative solutions to its global clientele. Iken Braingym, a unique and state-of-the-art learning centre developed by Mexus Education offers technology enabled and self-learning course modules for age groups 3 to 30 yrs. Course content is delivered through modern technology and a 'hands-on' methodology that includes learning with the help of films, animations, games, toys, demo kits, project work, case studies, activity based learning and many more. Iken Braingym offers learning solutions ranging from Pre-school (Brain-e-kids), Middle School Curricular based learning programs (Study Smart, Science and Math for Std. 6 to 9), Middle School extra-curricular and skill based learning programs (Futuristic Kids, Std. 6-9) and Professional Learning programs in Information Technology and Teacher Training (Fine Tune for graduate students, aspiring professionals and homemakers). All courses are uniquely built on the Iken BrainGym philosophy of multiple learning methodologies and give the learners a life long educational experience that is unique in the Indian education sector. Iken Braingym also follows a distinctive real-time performance tracking mechanism for instant results and thus much greater customer satisfaction.

Speaking on the future plans, Saurabh Saxena, Director, Mexus Education, said, 'Braingym is the next generation learning space which is a unique combination of lab, museum, workshop, classroom, hobby center and play group. Through this initiative, we take forward our philosophy of bringing back the joy in learning and to provide hands on activity based learning to the students. We intend to set up 50 Iken BrainGym centers in the current fiscal year across Tier1 and Tier2 cities. With FRANCORP's expertise in this sector, we are confident that we will be able to meet our targets and deliver quality education and educational tools to the consumers.' Commenting upon this association, Gaurav Marya, Managing Director, Francorp, said, 'The education market that our client wishes to address is estimated to be INR 1000 Crs in 2008 (in Vocational training). Mexus is committed to create a new wave in the domain of education by providing end to end solutions for content, methodology, delivery technology and assessment. These learning tools facilitate collaborative learning and self-analysis as students not just learn their lessons but begin to analyze the Whys and Hows of things. We are looking forward to help them with their franchisee model & roll-out plan for pan-India expansion program and also provide marketing support, legal documentation, & help with recruitment of franchisee. Mexus will help franchises for centre set-up, Marketing support, Recruitment & Training support and after sales & service support etc.'

Kiwi students rank high on access to ICT

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digitalLEARNING Network
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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report says, New Zealand secondary school students stand fifth out of 41 countries for access to Information Communications Technology. This study shows that the government's strategy to equip all young New Zealanders with skills in, and access to, ICT is achieving good results.

Every school in the country now has access to broadband and ICT equipment and more than 600 schools are involved in ICT clusters. New Zealand 15 year olds' access to ICT in home and school was the fifth highest of participating countries at nearly 100 percent. Most 15 year olds (approximately 80 percent) had home internet access in 2003, a figure that is likely to have risen since 2003. Approximately 56 percent of New Zealand 15 year olds had been using computers for more than five years. New Zealand students ranked very highly for their confidence with Internet tasks (8th) and higher-level ICT tasks such as managing databases and building web pages (6th). The government has invested $300 million in ICT in schools since 2000. This year schools will receive $50 million specifically for ICT over and above the $22 million provided as part of their operational grants.

INR 120 crore education plan to Core Projects

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digitalLEARNING Network
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An order of INR 120 has been bagged by Core Projects and Technologies from the Government of Maharashtra for deploying ICT infrastructure in 947 secondary and higher secondary schools located in Mumbai, Pune and Kolhapur regions of the state.

The five year contract commences from May 2010. It includes setting up of computer labs in secondary and higher secondary schools, setting up physical infrastructure, deploying and running school management software, provision of multimedia educational software for respective subject based on Maharashtra state curriculum and would be available in Marathi and English, computer educative programs, training five teachers from each school and training government school students in these regions.

The Mumbai region will cover North Mumbai, South Mumbai, Raigad and Thane districts. Pune region will cover Ahmednagar, Solapur and Pune districts. Kolhapur region will cover Kolhapur, Satara, Sangli, Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri districts.

Learning to earn, GEP way

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digitalLEARNING Network
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Global Education Partnership (G.E.P.), a network of educators, development professionals, business people, and visionaries, winner of the 2004/05 APC Hafkin Prize that recognises community initiatives using the Internet and other digital communication networks to access markets, skills and opportunities to derive real economic benefits, has a lot of initiatives in Africa that are relevant to India too. Computer education does not always translate into jobs. But this initiative seeks to do IT differently. Here's a snapshot of what GEP is doing in Africa.

Rajasthan joins with UN task force to enable its education systems

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digitalLEARNING Network
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Just one day after it formally launched its operations in India, the United Nations-funded Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSI) joined hands with the Indian state Rajasthan in an ambitious project to enable its school education system.

In a first-of-its-kind partnership in India, where the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) are the other two players, the State has kick-started the Rajasthan Education Initiative which is aimed at encompassing all one lakh schools and making them the focal points of ongoing schemes such as Project GRACE (Girls of Rajasthan and Computer Education); District Computer Education Centres (DCECs) in all 32 districts; departmental computerisation down to block level and EDUSAT ( satellite)-based teacher training. Between the 1991 census and the one conducted a decade later, literacy in the state had almost doubled to over 61 per cent (from 20 to 44 per cent among females and from 54 to 76 per cent among males).

Computer keyboard with Nigerian languages

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digitalLEARNING Network
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Nigeria has recorded a major achievement in Information Technology (IT), with the invention of a customised keyboard that provides the option of writing in Nigerian languages.

The equipment, which is known as Konyin keyboard, was developed in Nigeria by Lancor Technologies, with the sole aim of promoting Nigerian languages through integration into the global information super-highway. The new technology has the ability to create words in three major Nigerian languages, namely Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. It is a facility with hardware and software that uses 63 alphanumeric keys with four shift Keys. The new technology represents a significant step in allowing languages with more than 26 alphabets to use a single keyboard layout for easy and direct access typing. Nigerian names over the years have not been spelt correctly. This way, it begins to diminish in content and application. The reason is that there has been no convenient medium to allow Nigerians using the electronic format address their names and language on a computer. Nigeria as a country is made up of between 250-400 native languages.

Medical education may get addressed under NCHER

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digitalLEARNING Network
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The Prime Minister's Office has asked the HRD ministry to bring it under the purview of the proposed National Council for Higher Education and Research (NCHER). At present, the medical and agriculture education is excluded from the NCHER Bill. Inclusion of medical education in NCHER will mean that health ministry's proposal to set up a regulatory authority for medical education is likely to be shelved.

A reason for inclusion of medical education in the proposed NCHER is that the National Accreditation Regulatory Authority For Higher Educational Institutions Bill, 2010 provides for accreditation of higher educational institutions, including medical colleges. One of the other proposed HRD Bills, Prohibition of Unfair Practices Bill, accounts for malpractices in medical colleges. On May 3, 2010 both the Bills were introduced in the LS by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal. Sibal is planning to go on a retreat with experts like former NCERT director Krishna Kumar, Devesh Kapur of Pennsylvania University, educationist Vinod Raina, Pratap Bhanu Mehta of Centre for Policy Research, historian KN Pannikar and others for further consultations on NCHER.

Gulf schools affiliated to SSLC perform well

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digitalLEARNING Network
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The Middle East schools affiliated to the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) Board of Kerala have performed well in Class 10 exams with 97.52 pass percentage. M.A. Baby, Education Minister, mentioned that the total pass percentage stood at 90.72 %.

The Gulf schools that registered 100 % result include The Model School (Abu Dhabi), The Indian School (Fujairah), Gulf Model School (Dubai), New Indian Model School (Dubai), MES Indian School (Doha), The New Indian Model School and The English School (Umm Al Quwain).


India favoured over Europe and US, by African students

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digitalLEARNING Network
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There are reportedly over 1,500 African students in the country on government funded programmes alone. Quality education, working parents in India, scholarships, and friendly people are what attract them to the Indian education system. ICCR awards 1,804 such scholarships to international students every year as an initiative to foster and strengthen cultural relations and mutual understanding between India and other nations.

The flagship Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme brings dozens of Africans to India each year, and over 10,000 students are attending private institutes across the country.

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