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education & ICT

May 2005

30.05.2005 The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), working with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), has published its strategy for e-learning.
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Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom]
20.05.2005 Viviane Reding, the Commissioner for Information Society and Media, and Ján Figel’ launched a multi-annual, multi-stakeholder drive to build digital competence at home, school and the workplace at the “Towards a learning society” conference, in Brussels.
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Related topics/regions: [Europe]
20.05.2005 The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), India’s national secondary education administration, plans to resume the second phase of counselling services to the students from May 23 to June 6.
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Related topics/regions: [India]
17.05.2005 Union HRD Minister Arjun Singh today called on the educational institutions in the country to effectively utilise the latest ICT resources to provide high quality education.
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Related topics/regions: [India]
17.05.2005 Svih 460 osnovnih i srednjih skola u Makedoniji ce dobiti internet pristup na pocetku skolske godine 2005/2006. Internet pristup je obezbjeđen kroz grant USAID-a i projekta ''Makedonija se konektuje''.
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Related topics/regions: [Macedonia (FYROM)] [communications] [Internet]
17.05.2005 Almost all of the library's 90,000 volumes of the the University of Texas at Austin library will be dispersed to other university collections to clear space for a 24-hour electronic information centres.
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Related topics/regions: [United States]
16.05.2005 BECTA's recent research on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of ICT systems in schools has been welcomed by the Open Source Consortium (OSC) and Schoolforge UK.
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Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [access]
13.05.2005 The relations Ethiopia has forged with India in the area of information and communication technology (ICT) is helpful to the ongoing capacity building activities, held Tefera Waluwa, Minister of Capacity Buildingof Ethiopia.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [Ethiopia] [capacity building]
13.05.2005 The potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to train and educate communities that have limited or no access to formal education channels will be the focus of an international conference to be opened by UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura at UNESCO Headquarters, and broadcast live on the internet, from 11 to 13 May.
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From: UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector
Related topics/regions: [communications]
10.05.2005 A recent study by the London School of Economics shows that parents who are unable to help their children use the internet properly could be stifling their education and reducing their job prospects.
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09.05.2005 This catalogue contains a range of resources in the form of books, CD-ROMs, online publications, websites and articles from e-journals that aim to provide teachers, senior school managers, curriculum developers and administrators with guidelines and strategies for integrating ICTs effectively into teaching and learning.
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From: UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector
Related topics/regions: [educational innovations] [IT training] [media technologies] [teacher training & ICT] [vocational education]
Digitising the Costa Rican classroom
06.05.2005 At the age of 26, Erika McCloud is providing computer training to all the students in her local high school and elementary school. At first, she seems like an unlikely candidate for teacher, having left high school many years ago to take on temporary jobs as kitchen helper and housekeeper before earning her diploma. More.
From: Digital Divide Network
Related topics/regions: [Costa Rica] [access]

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