[governance] Microsoft skills training in Bhutan curriculum

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

That is great news but when will Microsoft be bringing this to Cameroon?
Any clue as to how my orgaization c


On 12/7/07, Sylvia Caras <Sylvia.Caras at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> *Microsoft skills training in Bhutan curriculum
>
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> <http://www.kuenselonline.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=1> *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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