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India – education landscape
Internet access in India
- Total population: 1.2B (July 2010 estimate, CIA World Factbook)
- Total students: >290M[1]
- Primary school enrollment: 95% of children
- Secondary school enrollment: 40% of adolescents
- Out of school children: 8M[2]
- Total Schools: 1.2M [3]
- Internet users/Penetration: 81M / 7%
Primary needs
According to the World Bank, the secondary educational system has the following key needs:
- Expansion (currently only reaches 40% of youth)
- Curriculum and teaching practices upgrading
- Expansion of public-private partnerships (60% of secondary schools are privately managed in India)
Governance
Schools have a vast array of stakeholders, including:
- 35 state boards (covering 604 districts)
- 2 central boards
- Other educational agencies
A National Policy on ICT in Education was recently which is planned to install computer labs in 100,000 public schools by 2013.[4]
Partnership possibilities
Education sector
- Educomp
- Edurite
- IBM
- Designmate
- IL&FS Education and Technology Services
- CORE Technologies
National Level education
- Azim Premji Foundation
- Quest Alliance
- American India Foundation
- Global e-Schools and Communities Initiatives (GeSCI)
- Implementing the Rajasthan Education Initiative (REI)
- DEF
- Gyanpedia interactive and collaborative portal with Media Lab Asia: comprehensive, multilingual, dynamic virtual platform for countrywide content exchange
- NIIT Technologies
- Strategic alliance with US-based Ncomputing beginning in 2007[5]
- Used by Andhra Pradesh Government in 2008[6]
- Reduces computing costs by 50%
- Headquarters: Guragon & New Delhi, India
- Two branches:
- NIIT Limited: education centers providing classroom and on-line learning solutions (>100 edu centers in China & other Asia-Pacific)
- NIIT Technologies: IT services arm, providing IT software
- Strategic alliance with US-based Ncomputing beginning in 2007[5]
Local education initiatives
- New Horizons / North Eastern Council (Mizoram, NE India)
- Khulja Sim Sim (Delhi)
Other Government initiatives
NeGP goal of establishing 1000,000 Common Service Centers in 600K villages[7]
Notes/References
- ↑ “Towards a national policy on ICT in School Education in India” [1]
- ↑ “Education in India,” World Bank.
- ↑ “Towards a national policy on ICT in School Education in India” [2]
- ↑ Vital Consulting, “Affordable Computing for Schools in India,” 2008.
- ↑ Economic Times, “NIIT Ncomputing Inc ink pact to provide low-cost computers,” 6 Nov., 2007 [3]
- ↑ [ http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Andhra-Pradesh-Government-Selects-NComputing-Provide-18-Lakh-Schoolchildren-With-Computing-909126.htm Marketwire], 13 Oct., 2008
- ↑ Kazi, Seyed S. and Osama Manzar, “Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2009–2010 .in’ India.”