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<font color="#363636"><b>Microsoft skills training in Bhutan
curriculum<br><br>
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</a></b> <b>6 December, 2007 - </b>A basic IT training curriculum
for class 7-10 will be included in the existing courses for all Bhutanese
higher and middle secondary school students by 2008.<br><br>
A memorandum of understanding to that effect was signed between the
Department of Information Technology, Microsoft Bangladesh Limited, and
Department of School Education in Thimphu on December 3.<br><br>
The agreement is geared to improve computer literacy in government
schools. The curriculum has eight modules at the basic level in
computers, digital media, Internet and World Wide Web, web designing,
word processing, presentation, database and spreadsheet. <br><br>
“The availability of the skills training materials fulfill the much
needed element to develop computer literacy amongst Bhutanese students,”
said the director of the Department of Information Technology, Tenzin
Chhoeda. “This MoU gives us the right to use the well tested curriculum
of Microsoft in our schools.”<br><br>
The country manager of Microsoft for Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal, Feroz
Mahmud, said that skills training would help create social and economic
opportunities to change lives and communities.<br><br>
The curriculum, which is available in both hard and soft copies, will be
distributed to all the schools by next year. <br><br>
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