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education & ICT

June 2005

30.06.2005 European SchoolNet's two year P2P project ((Peer Reviews and Observatory on Policy and Practice in ICT) aims to to monitor and to stimulate change in ICT policies and and practice at European, national, regional and school level and builds on results of the Ernist project.
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Related topics/regions: [Europe]
28.06.2005 A cluster of over 20 government departments and agencies in the education sector have established a landmark framework for sharing data between their organisations and potentially the wider public sector.
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Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Europe] [access] [educational innovations]
27.06.2005 With some 400 floppies and 300 compact discs prepared by students as part of their project, the Institute of Community Medicine in Madras Medical College has enough data to run its web site, www.icm.tn.gov.in.
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Related topics/regions: [India]
27.06.2005 Madrassas have all along remained the preserve of men but this one has broken new ground.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [access] [capacity building]
26.06.2005 The Global Forum event was not only the first event for GeSCI to
co-host but it also signified the next stage in GeSCI's work in two of our priority countries.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [Namibia]
24.06.2005 Information and communication technologies offer innovative and interesting tools to make teaching and learning more meaningful. Integration of ICTs in educational policies and programmes has gained priority in both developed and developing countries.
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Related topics/regions: [New Zealand]
21.06.2005 The State Government of Kerala is planning major initiatives in making information and communication technology (ICT) an integral part of school education in the State.
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Related topics/regions: [India]
21.06.2005 The British Government plans to provide communities with
access to ICT facilities under a new multi-million pound scheme through schools.
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Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom]
20.06.2005 Lumbini Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) has recently organized a one-day orientation programme for blind and visually-impaired students of Shri Shanti Model Secondary School in Manigram, a village in Western Nepal. Shri Shanti local government school has about 850 students twenty-eight of which are either blind or visually impaired.
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Related topics/regions: [Nepal]
16.06.2005 University of Pune has launched Vidya Vani, its new, in-house radio station.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [capacity building]
16.06.2005 The Sri Lankan Education Ministry has launched an ICT program for senior and junior school students.
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Related topics/regions: [Sri Lanka] [capacity building] [children & ICT]
16.06.2005 The State Government of Andhra Pradesh has opened 36 Jawahar
Knowledge Centres (JKCs) at various engineering colleges in Visakhapatnam.
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Related topics/regions: [India]
16.06.2005 Computer-aided admission processes is becoming the norm for Delhi University.
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Related topics/regions: [India]
15.06.2005 Almost eighty special schools in the Vijaywada district in Andhra Pradesh in India with more than 4000 students from different background will be given computer-aided education from August this year.
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Related topics/regions: [India] [capacity building]
06.06.2005 Implementation of the NEPAD e-Schools Demo Project in the first schools is expected to be completed in June and in all participating schools by October 2005, according to a report presented to the recent Summit of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Implementation Committee in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

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Related topics/regions: [Africa] [access] [capacity building]
03.06.2005 Makedonskata asocijacija za informaticki tehnologii, MASIT vcera vo sorabotka so fakultetite od oblasta na informatickite tehnologii organizirase trkalezna masa, na koja bese prezentiran zakulucokot od anketata sprovedena vo okolku 25 firmi za kvalitetot na visokoobrazovniot kadar za informaticki tehnologii vo Makedonija.
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Related topics/regions: [Macedonia (FYROM)]
02.06.2005 Today opens in Vienna, Austria, a two-day conference on “ICT and Creativity. Strategies for a Better Information Society”, focusing on the nexus between content, creativity, diversity and knowledge in the information society.
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From: UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector
Related topics/regions: [Australia] [content] [culture]
01.06.2005 A new educational website that will help high school students prepare for the vocabulary section of the new SAT exam, is developed.
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Related topics/regions: [access] [communications] [content]

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