Anyone aware of this ? [Message forwarded from india-gii list] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arun Mehta <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:09 AM Subject: [india-gii] Microsoft taking over Maharashtra's future To: [email protected]
Is the Mumbai/Pune open source community doing anything about this? I am sure, that with government resources involved, we can ask that not just Windows be taught, to the thousands of teachers Microsoft is training each year... Arun http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ms-to-build-it-skills-in-maha-schools/367428/ MS to build IT skills in Maha schools BS Reporter / Mumbai August 19, 2009, 0:17 IST The government of Maharashtra today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft India to enhance information and communication technology adoption in schools and build job readiness skills of the future workforce in the state. Under the agreement, Microsoft will over the next two years train 6,000 teachers, as well as 100,000 pre-service teachers. The MoU is an extension of an existing relationship between Microsoft and the state government, under which Microsoft India has set up information technology academies at Pune, Nagpur and Aurangabad and trained over 92,000 teachers. Additionally, the software giant will also help build last-mile capacity among educators. One educator from each cluster in the state will be required to undergo a 10-day training module in a classroom setup. Microsoft will conduct over 200 sessions at the district level over the next two years for training 6,000 resources in as many clusters. ____________________________________________________________ You received this message as a subscriber on the list: [email protected] To be removed from the list, send any message to: [email protected] For all list information and functions, see: http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/india-gii -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
