Globalization of Higher Education: What it means for India The phenomenon of globalization, which transformed world trade, communications and economic relations in the latter part of the 20th Century, is having a similarly profound effect on education at the start of the 21st...
Concerns of opening up higher education Some years ago, there used to be heated debate in the country about the consequences of opening up banking, insurance and telecom services where the government has important social and economic obligations...
Internationalization of Higher Education: The Indian Context There has been an upsurge in the demand of higher education after independence of the country in 1947 and a virtual explosion in the number of universities and colleges. India has now a system...
A lesson in computer literacy from India’s poorest slum kids Sugata Mitra has a PhD in physics and heads research efforts at New Delhi's NIIT, a fast-growing software and education company with sales of more than $200 million and a market cap over $2 billion...
From Literacy to e-Literacy To make it the country's first eLiterate state and to be a 100% digital society', that is the dream of Kerala's IT secretary Aruna Sundararajan...
Spreading the word Velimela Chandramma gets a big kick from being able to read bus boards. She considers the acquisition of this skill one of the greater achievements of her life, and it’s an education to see why.
I.C.T Education Case Study: Bangladesh The challenge Bangladesh faces is how to become a learning society and to ensure that its citizens are equipped with the knowledge, skills and qualifications on information and...
Rural India’s Rough Road to Computer Literacy Shah--who works in the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, an organization that develops supercomputers here--has launched a computer program designed to alleviate...
Can I.C.Ts help increase literacy? There is growing awareness that it is not the learning of literacy skills that brings about social and economic benefits but the ability to use literacy in specific instances.
I.C.Ts in school classrooms: planning to avoid costly mistakes Can any country afford to opt out of advances in telecommunications? Businesses are seeking to meet users’ needs better through electronic forms of communication, so at least some members of...
Tata computer-based functional literacy programme Making this possible is a remarkable initiative from the Tata Group that has changed the lives of thousands of adults in different parts of India...
IT in Education As technological advances are introduced in education, the promise and potential of IT in enhancing learning is attractive, but the lack of initiative has hampered its progress, says Vertika Yadav
OECD: Literacy in the Information Age After reviewing policies and practice in 15 countries, this book presents nine broad policy responses to the lifelong learning agenda that relate directly to national qualifications systems...
