digitalLEARNINGMagazine by Elets
The Common Core Standards for English and Mathematics, created by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association with encouragement from the Obama administration.
Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) plans for upcoming five years would include projects worth PKR 25 billion with objective to utilise the extraordinary capacity of this sector to boost the country’s overall development.
New programmes on IT are to be introduced by the ICDL Saudi Arabia, the governing body and certification authority in the Kingdom, targeting youth to further expand IT literacy among specific community segments.
Expected to get established in Bangalore, Azim Premji University (APU), is aiming at sharpening the existing skills of those working in education.
NIIT, a leading institution of ICT training, is planning to establish a university in Ghana soon.
In Kerela, over 1.3 million students of Classes 10, 11 and 12 are to appear for the state public examinations beginning on 15th March 2010.
To increase the number of students in government schools and to reverse the trend of decreasing number of students, the Punjab School Education Department (PSEB), for the first time.
Recently, the Montgomery County school system was shortlisted as one of the finalists for a national education award.
D. Purandeswari mentioned that the regulatory bodies of higher education such as the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will not be done away with.
Rajesh Bhushan while addressing a seminar organised by the Human Rights Association of Bihar at Chandragupta Institute of Management Patna (CIMP), stressed on various shortfalls which needed special attention.
The Right to Education Act is to be implemented from April 1. HRD minister Kapil Sibal asked all the chief ministers to cooperate in universalising elementary education.
Planning to make sweeping changes to the 2002 No Child Left Behind education law, Obama’s administration is receiving mixed reaction from educators.