education & ICT

31.08.2005 In a meeting with the Hon’ble President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Motorola demonstrated e-education project at Rashtrapai Bhavan through its wireless broadband solution.

29.08.2005 A study conducted by the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) with support from the Royal Netherlands Embassy, demonstrates that that one of the reasons why information and communication technology (ICT) projects in schools do not succeed is that principals are often not properly informed about what ICTs can or cannot do.

29.08.2005 The Seychelles President, Mr James Alix Michel, made an announcement at a recent public consultative meeting for an overall development.

29.08.2005 The first phase of Electronic Schools' (e-Schools) program of New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) initiated in sixteen African countries.

29.08.2005 UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) is planning a series of activities to increase awareness, and support capacity building and informed decision-making related to the provision and use of openly available course content.
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26.08.2005 UNESCO Bangkok's Assessment, Information Systems, Monitoring and Statistics (AIMS) Unit hosted and trained officials from the Nepal Ministry of Education (MoE) as part of the Flash Report Method on conducting annual school census at the AIMS office, UNESCO Bangkok.

25.08.2005 The United States-based Globus Inc, run by Suhas Gopinath, a 19-year-old entrepreneur from Bangalore has developed the `student management system’.

25.08.2005 THE Namibian College of Open Learning (Namcol) has produced a series of electronic lessons that will help students studying physical science.

22.08.2005 Quand, dès l'âge de la maternelle, des enfants s’assoient pour la première fois devant un ordinateur équipé d’un logiciel en kiché, leur langue maternelle maya, les leçons dépassent de loin la maîtrise de connaissances élémentaires en informatique. Les élèves apprennent que leur langue et leur culture autochtones occupent une place essentielle dans leur société.

22.08.2005 Facilities of EDUSAT classroom technology will be extended to 13 high schools and higher secondary schools in Balussery Assembly constituency in Kozhikode, Kerala.

18.08.2005 India’s Silicon Valley, Bangalore, has been chosen as the India headquarters for the United Nations “Global e-school and Communities Initiative” (Gesci), a special campaign to promote the use of technology in education.

18.08.2005 The Rajasthan Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft Corporation of India Private Limited for a five-year-long computer education programme in schools under "Project Shiksha -- Empowering the future''.

16.08.2005 Makerere University, Uganda is to start its first ever e-learning programme in an effort to promote information and communication technology (ICT) among the students and reduce congestion in the lecture rooms of the university.

12.08.2005 In a further step towards providing world class infrastructure to students and their parents, the Delhi Public School (DPS) Mathura Road has launched a web portal at which the latest about the students' progress besides other useful information to them and their parents will be posted.

12.08.2005 Within eight weeks of the announcement made by NEPAD about its e-School Demonstration Project,African children have started getting direct access to the rich repository of information, through the acquisition of ICT skills.

11.08.2005 Same Language Subtitling (SLS) refers to subtitling television and/or film programmes in the “same” language as the audio that is the subtitling of Hindi songs in Hindi and so on for each language.The brainchild of Dr. Brij Kothari, an associate professor at the Centre of Innovation in Education at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad and the CEO of BookBox, a social-entrepreneurial organisation, SLS seeks to promote mass literacy through visual entertainment; that is through televised film and folk songs.

09.08.2005 In a project to promote education in Africa, in which eighty per cent of Form Four leavers would be computer literate by 2008, Education minister George Saitoti said that Information Communication Technology (ICT) would be taught in teachers training colleges to prepare them for the project.

08.08.2005 To promote the further use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the field of education, a one-day conference on 'ICT enabled Distance Teacher Education' was organised by Tamilnadu Open University.

08.08.2005 To promote the further use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the field of education, a one-day conference on 'ICT enabled Distance Teacher Education' was organised by Tamilnadu Open University.

08.08.2005 Reliance Web World (RWW) has decided to vend its untapped e-learning platform this year.The first of the e-learning projects have started unfolding from Orissa and Kerala.