[governance] Microsoft skills training in Bhutan curriculum

[Sylvia Caras]

Microsoft skills training in Bhutan curriculum

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  6 December, 2007 - 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.

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.

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.

"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."

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.

The curriculum, which is available in both hard and soft copies, will 
be distributed to all the schools by next year.

http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9514
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