Archive for the ‘International Developments’ Category

HP Chairman Addresses Creating Digital Dividends Conference — Company Announces World e-Inclusion Milestones to Deliver Internet-enabled Solutions to Poor in Developing Countries

SEATTLE, (BUSINESS WIRE) — In a keynote address at the Creating Digital Dividends Conference in Seattle, Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP) chairman, president and chief executive officer called for new, people-centered, sustainable approaches and partnerships to solve the problem of the world’s uneven distribution of information technology, economic resources and wealth.

Internet Training Best Delivered Online

The online content industry in Germany acknowledges the need for web training

Online ‘Lifeline’ for College

Wales’s smallest university college is expanding online education to boost dwindling student numbers.

Online Shopping for Student Essays

Students are making money out of selling their essays on the internet.

Students as a Market

What can you do if you’re a nice country and you want to join the 21st century, but the students at your universities, normally the hottest market around, just aren’t online? They can’t afford it, and your government can’t afford to help.

Russian Universities Educate World’s Top Student Programmers

Western industry seeks the country’s young talent, despite its ailing higher-education system

Student Sites Face A University Challenge

Students nowadays have more money than before and represent a large potential market. Jacqueline Sheils reports on the battle to lure them online

Nigerian University Lecturers Reject $76m World Bank Loan

Representatives of the World Bank handling the proposed 76 million dollar (N7.6 billion) loan for Nigerian universities were shocked at the weekend at the outright rejection of the loan by university dons.

Cambridge Arts Get Hi-Tech Makeover

The arts and humanities in Cambridge University are being given new facilities of the standard that science departments have expected for many years.

UK Government: Using Movies in the Classroom; British Film Institute Announces Plans

The British Film Institute (bfi) recently announced they published Moving Images in the Classroom – a Secondary Teachers’ Guide to Using Film and Television as part of its plans for increasing the use of the moving image in classrooms and creating a more informed and cine-literate population. The bfi’s publication of this Guide coincides with […]