Voucher system
brings competition - Steve Jobs
"Number one, schools would start marketing themselves like
crazy to get students.
Secondly, I think you'd see a lot of new schools starting. You
could have 25-year-old students out of college, very idealistic,
full ofenergy. Instead of starting a Silicon Valley company,
they'd start a school. I believethat they would do far better
than any of our government schools would. Third, the quality
of government schools, just as in any competitive marketplace,
would start to rise."
In India,
Centre for Civil Society works on this very concept
US-India summit to strengthen
higher education collaboration
The US and India will hold their first ever
higher education summit on 13th October 2011. The summit is
aimed at strengthening higher education collaboration and exchanges
between their institutions. Co-chaired by India's human resource
development minister Kapil Sibal and US secretary of state Hillary
Clinton, the summit will provide a platform for government and
education leaders to outline their vision for 21st century education
engagement.
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Of $35 Tablets and more
It’s made in India, it’s for the education sector,
will first be given out to colleges, costs about $38 dollars
to make, will be subsidised by the government to the tune of
50 per cent, colleges may issue them out to their students like
library books (thus costing them nothing), it’s part of a grand
plan to make education accessible and interesting to all, will
have almost all courses in the form of videos available to play
on it, each college will be outfitted with a high speed broadband
connection, text and course books will eventually make it to
the Tablet, special apps and services will come soon – and the
government will easily manage to subsidise eight million of
these in this financial year
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Cisco and Government of Karnataka
Launch Remote Water at Hoskote
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that it
will enable the provision of remote supplementary education
to government schools using the Cisco® Water Enabled Development
(CEED) platform under its Inclusive Growth initiative. The pilot
will deploy specialized remote supplementary teaching for five
government schools in Hoskote Taluk, Bangalore Rural District
in the state of Karnataka. To enable implementation of this
pilot, the government of Karnataka has entered into a memorandum
of understanding with Cisco
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No Indian University In The Top 200 Global List
A survey conducted by the Times Higher Water magazine reveals
that no Indian university could make it to its annual list of
world's top 200 universities. The institutes that dominated
the list include Harvard, Stanford and Oxford. India's most
prestigious institutes like IITs and IIMs failed to make it
to the top 200 list of universities. The only Indian institute
that appears on the list is IIT Bombay, though not in the top
200.
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