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Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS), India in association with Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and Ministry of Education, Royal Thai Government, recently organised the
HP Labs India has introduced its pen-based keyboard for Indian languages, including Devanagari (Hindi), Kannada and Tamil.
Teacher absence ranges from 20% to over 50% in different states of India, and makes a mockery of free and universal education. In such circumstances, the government’s plan to double spending on education will simply double...
The new Special Report of Development Gateway- ‘Online Education: What Can It Deliver?’ (http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/onlineeducation) looks at lessons learned, innovations that work, and the future of ICT in education for developing countries. It coincides with related major...
Arul Mozhi, D. Deepa and K. Maunika are first generation learners from hamlets with about 1,000 families in interior Tamil Nadu in southern India but they are among the thousands of primary and elementary school children...
Unlike in the West, audio libraries are rare in India, and “talking books” are rarely available in shops. And in such a situation, 46-year-old Madhu Singhal, herself visually impaired, runs an audio library of 16,000 works...
New guidelines on how to make websites more user-friendly for disabled people have been developed by the British Standards Institution (BSI). The work was sponsored by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) after an investigation in April...
Going to the US is set to become much simpler for students pursuing an advanced degree, such as a masters in physical sciences, technology and engineering thanks to the introduction of a new category of student...
Microsoft Corp. plans to include a free service to help parents control and monitor what their children are doing online in its upcoming Windows Live offering of Web services. The monitoring of children online has become...
Computer education just got a big boost. NIIT, Intel India, Microsoft and State Bank of India (SBI), four formidable names, have formed a strategic joint partnership to initiate IT and IT-assisted education across private sector schools...
Tally India, a technology company, has tied up with Osmania University in the Indian city Hyderabad for education programmes on Tally accounting software across colleges under the university umbrella.