Education
NI and MARA set up LabVIEW Academies to boost engineering ecosystem
LabVIEW Academies offers classroom curricula and hands-on exercise to undergraduates and graduates from MARA
To promote more LabVIEW-trained and certified engineers to the electrical and biomedical engineering industries
Using mobile to give out-of-school Filipino youth education opportunities
The GSM Association (GSMA) has announced it would be working with government agencies and mobile network operators to provide up to one million Filipino out-of-school youth (OSY) with additional opportunities to access education, including technical vocational education, via mobile media.
It’s our Internet; up to us to protect it
We created the Web, so it's up to us as a society to look after it and to help make sure our governments or big companies not do things to it, says Wendy Hall, professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
Mission school St Mary’s KL to be EduNation pilot
St Mary's KL, a government-aided mission school founded in Kuala Lumpur in 1912, is set to be a pilot school for the EduNation programme, a social media platform dedicated to education, thanks to the sponsorship of 46 tablets by Ninetology Marketing Sdn Bhd.
Red Hat completes 1BestariNet cloud platform 6mths ahead of schedule
Red Hat Inc has announced the completion of its collaboration with telecommunication service provider YTL Communications to deliver what it described as a scalable, cost-effective cloud platform for e-learning in schools.
Case study: Education institutions and the cloud
Two education institutions in Malaysia have adopted cloud computing, allowing students and teachers to collaborate and communicate from anywhere, at any time, with Microsoft Office 365.
Taylor’s RM100mil investment to remain relevant
Taylor’s University Deputy Vice Chancellor Pradeep Nair talks about the efforts the university is taking in ‘Blended Learning’ to ensure it remains relevant as an education institution in the future.
10x for education in the developing world
One of the ‘Fathers of the Internet, Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf, discusses how bring the Web into the classroom promises to transform education.
Intel backs movie on girls’ education, to work on policy issues
A media screening of Girl Rising was held in conjunction with the global Women Deliver 2013 conference that was held earlier this week in Kuala Lumpur, hosting a total of 4,000 participants from 150 countries who discussed the health and well-being of girls and women. The movie came out of a partnership between Intel and 10x10.
Two Malaysians bag three awards at Intel ISEF
Malaysian students bagged three awards at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), a programme of the Society for Science & the Public, which took place in Phoenix, Arizona from May 12 to 17.
