News
UN agency and Microsoft plan increased collaboration
The head of the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Hamadoun Tour
News
Corporate Updates
Intel unveils digital education content in Ghana
As a part of its World Ahead programme and in a line of its continued effort to provide students with the crucial tools to succeed in the global arena, Intel has announced its collaboration with the...
News
NIIT partners with Infospectrum to offer educational resource planning tool
NIIT School of Learning Solutions has signed an agreement with Infospectrum, a software product development firm to market, sell and support the latter
News
ECSU professor receives HP Technology for Teaching Leadership Award
Elizabeth City State University received a 2008 HP Technology for Teaching Leadership Award. The awards recognise instructors who use technology in such an innovative manner that it transforms the teaching and learning process.
K-12
North Cotabato mentors in Philippines to benefit from computers
Modern computer technology is being used by teachers from four public elementary school districts to compose their lesson plans, create better and richer teaching materials, and compute their students
News
Digital boards to replace blackboards in Kerala schools
Traditional blackboards, where tutors have to labour themselves with chalkpiece and dusters, may soon go into oblivion, if the public response to the digital boards being introduced by Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan school is any indication.
News
Internet helps children’s reading habits, study says
Parents may fear the Internet is killing their child’s reading bug, but it is actually encouraging them to read, a new study found.
Higher Education
NIIT in for expansion in Malaysia
NIIT, a global information technology service corporation, plans to expand its education and training centres in Malaysia to 50 within the next three years.
Higher Education
Mumbai college admissions go online
Junior college admissions have gone online for the first time in Maharashtra, spelling relief to nearly half a million anxious students and their parents.
Policy Matters
US states move toward uniform graduation rate reporting
US Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has proposed new rules requiring states to assign each student a unique ID number. This will facilitate tracking from the time a student enters 9th grade until he graduates or drops...
Policy Matters
US$15 million WB credit for Basic Education Project in Burkina Faso
The Executive Board of the World Bank today approved an International Development Association additional credit of US$15 million for the Basic Education Sector project in the Republic of Burkina Faso.