This article considers the impact of international formation using Information Communications Technology, on the training of Engineers. The issues of collaborative ventures in the evolution of curricula, syllabi and approaches to teaching are discussed.
ICT causes important benefits for education, health care, environment, Job training, food security, management and government efficiency. As laudable as international cooperation is, little can be achieved unless these is adequate awareness of the basic requirements to achieve maximum benefits in terms of human, material, infrastructure and political components. Cooperation of course need not be seen as a master-slave relationship but rather a symbiotic one, no matter the ratio of benefits to the main actors.
In order, however to achieve the maximum benefits, governments of countries all over the world must evolve well coordinated ways of making inter-governmental cooperation work. Unhelpful political, technical, and educational policies need to be re-visited. In particular, a universal and well-coordinated development of curricular, teaching methods and infrastructure should be addressed by a special body set up for such international collaboration.
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