Distance Learning Students Enhance Employability With Home Learning College and Abintegro

LONDON, November 23 - From today, people studying with Home Learning College (HLC) - the UK's
leading distance learning provider - can gain career-planning support and
boost their employability with online careers services company Abintegro.
This new partnership means that, in addition to studying for a professionally
recognised qualification, HLC's 65,000 students can take advantage of
cost-effective, tailored careers guidance and employer research.

Adobe Approves Koenig as Adobe Authorized Training Centre for all Adobe Courses

NEW DELHI, November 23 - Adobe has approved Koenig as an Adobe Authorized Training Centre (AATC).

U.S. Department of State Launches Second Annual ExchangesConnect Video Contest to Amplify U.S. Public Diplomacy: "Change Your Climate, Change Our World"

WASHINGTON, November 23 - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today launched the Department
of State's second annual ExchangesConnect Video Contest, "Change Your
Climate, Change Our World," with a video message on the ExchangesConnect
social network at connect.state.gov.

'Worrying Signs' Government's School Building Programme Could Miss 'Zero-Carbon' Target

Children and Teachers Behaviour More Important in Greening our Schools Than Expensive Technology, Inquiry Finds

Cyberbullying: Providing Parents Greater Messaging Control of Their Children's Mobile Phone

93% of Parents Would Like to Have More 'Parental Control' Over the Mobile Messaging Behaviour of Their Children.

Visage Imaging Signs University of Chicago

Visage CS Enterprise Wide Advanced Visualization Solutions

ANDOVER, Massachusetts, November 19 - Visage Imaging(R), Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pro Medicus Ltd.
(ASX: PME), announced today it has installed their Visage CS thin client
enterprise solution with The University of Chicago to meet an evolving demand
for powerful workflow improvement. The Visage CS's architecture has been
designed to smoothly integrate with their existing workflow and allow for a
greater level of performance and productivity throughout the enterprise.

Breakthrough in Text to Speech Technology

GDYNIA, Poland, November 19 - The IVO Software company, in cooperation with Royal National
Institute of Blind People (RNIB), the largest British charity organization,
is introducing two English speaking voices, based on revolutionary IVONA
Text-to-Speech technology. They will be set up in products and services
provided by RNIB to more than two million visually impaired persons.

Australia to Join JES & Co.'s Achievement Standards Network

WASHINGTON, November 19 - At the annual National Science Distributed Learning conference sponsored
by the National Science Foundation (NSF), participants learned how JES &
Co.'s Achievement Standards Network (ASN) framework is being used by
Australia's Curriculum Corporation in an effort to link educational resource
data globally. Representing Australia's nationally funded Le@rning Federation
Initiative was Jillian Dellit, for 9 years Director of The Le@rning
Federation Secretariat. Diny Golder, the executive director of JES & Co., the
home of the ASN, has been working with Ms. Dellit for over 10 years in an
effort to launch an international exchange of learning resources,
discoverable by learning objective or achievement standards. Stuart Sutton,
the lead scientist for the ASN project, has worked closely with Curriculum
Corporation's Steve Sunter and Les Kneebone to align Australia's rich
educational vocabularies to existing ASN properties.

"Sharing Hopes and Dreams: a Ground-Breaking Web Initiative to Mark the Twentieth Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child"

JERUSALEM, November 20 - This Friday 20th November sees the twentieth anniversary of
the historic United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, in which
governments set out their vision of a dignified future for the world's
children. But twenty years on, what difference has the convention made in the
lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestine refugee children?

EF English First to be Official Language Training Provider for 2014 World Cup in Brazil

EF's Englishtown, an innovative online learning technology, to train 80,000 Brazilians a year in the run up to soccer competition

Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Presents WISE Awards to Six Outstanding Education Innovators

DOHA, Qatar, November 18 - Please click on the following link to access the full version
of the Digital Press Release:
www.digitalnewsroom.co.uk/wise09/gala-dinner/

Hyper Island and SJ Join Forces to get Speed on the Digital Track

Two Swedish enterprises, the Swedish Rail (SJ) and the digital media school Hyper Island have joined forces. SJ takes the next step to enhance digital communication by becoming a Hyper Island Learning Partner.

Day 2 WISE 2009: Global Leaders Converge to Identify Specific Strategic Educational Priorities

Please click on the following link to access the full version of the Digital Press Release: http://www.digitalnewsroom.co.uk/wise09/day-two

EF Education First to be Official Language Training Provider for 2014 World Cup in Brazil

EF's Englishtown, an innovative online learning technology, to train 80,000 Brazilians a year in the run up to soccer competition

Day 3 WISE 2009: Peer-to-Peer Digital Communications Also Have Central Role in Education Practices

DOHA, Qatar, November 18 - Please click on the following link to access the full version of the
Digital Press Release: www.digitalnewsroom.co.uk/wise09/day-three

U.S. Department of State Launches Second Annual ExchangesConnect Video Contest to Amplify U.S. Public Diplomacy: 'Change Your Climate, Change Our World'

WASHINGTON, November 18 - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today launched the Department
of State's second annual ExchangesConnect Video Contest, "Change Your
Climate, Change Our World," with a video message on the ExchangesConnect
social network at connect.state.gov.

World-Class Universities Convene on Kuala Lumpur to Debate Rankings

LONDON, November 18 - Over 700 university academics and administrators from around 45 countries
will gather at the fifth QS Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education
Conference (www.qsapple.org) in Kuala Lumpur next week to hear
international experts from 25 countries speak on globalisation and the role
of rankings in higher education.

Global Leaders Achieve Major Outcomes at First World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE

Declaration of 10 Core Education Priorities for the 21st century

DOHA, Qatar, November 18 - Please click on the following link to access the full version of the
Digital Press Release:
www.digitalnewsroom.co.uk/wise09/closing-statement/

CyberDodo: Empowering Children to Exercise Their Human Rights

MONACO, November 17 - On the 20th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
November 20, 2009, one organization is prepared to support children by
helping them to easily understand and access their natural privileges.
CyberDodo.org (or .com), a multi-platform, interactive, digital space for
children, championed by an animated Dodo (CyberDodo (R)), inspires, daily,
young people and their adult guardians to protect the rights of children.
CyberDodo is leading the charge to inform and empower youth on the issues
that matter most to them by providing free access to smart and engaging
audio-visual and print material.

Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Officially Launches the First World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE Held in Doha, Qatar

Guest of Honour, Irina Bokova, Newly Elected UNESCO Director-General Addresses 1,000 Opinion Leaders From 120 Countries

Supply Chain Risk Becomes Strategic Imperative as the Need for Cost Cutting Continues

Global Study Identifies Cost Control and Reduction as 'the New Normal'

Intel(R) Reader Launches in the UK: Bringing Printed Text to Spoken Word for Dyslexic and Visually Impaired People

LONDON, November 17 - Intel Corporation today announced UK availability of the Intel(R) Reader,
a mobile handheld device designed to increase independence for people who
have trouble reading standard print. In the UK, there are an estimated six
million people with dyslexia or other specific learning difficulties and two
million people with visual impairments such as partial sightedness or
blindness, for whom reading printed words is difficult or impossible.

World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE Programme to Address 21st Century Educational Challenges

International Opinion Leaders and Prominent Figures to Contribute and Attend the World Summit

Cultural Leaders Meet in Damascus to Discuss and Debate the Challenges Facing the Cultural Sector in the Arab World

DAMASCUS, Syria, November 16 - On 18 & 19 November 2009, more than 80 people from across the
Arab world, the UK and Europe will come together in Damascus for a 2-day
British Council-run conference on 'Cultural Leadership and the Arab World' to
share knowledge and experience on the key issues facing the cultural sector
in the Arab world. The conference will involve panel discussions, plenary
sessions, and cultural activities, and will act as a platform for an
international networking opportunity for senior influencers and next
generation cultural leaders and operators.

Lionbridge Collaborates With Microsoft to Bring Technology Innovation to Emerging Markets

Participates in Microsoft Local Language Program Africa Summit as the Strategic Partner for 35 Languages for Windows 7 and Office 14 Language Interface Packs

Plan UK Announces the Launch of 'Girls Without Voices'

New Research* From One of the World's Largest Children's Charities Reveals That Three Quarters of British Women Regret not Making More of Their Education

Britain's Late Bloomers

LONDON, November 16 - Brits don't discover they've got talent until they reach 22 years old on
average*, according to independent education foundation Edge.

Schoolstrader Page Hits up Over 95%

Community Trading Online is Booming

LONDON, November 12 - The recession is boosting the second-hand market and a free-ads site
based around school communities is booming: traffic is up strongly on
Schoolstrader, one of the UK's leading online trading sites for school
communities. Schoolstrader covers 30,000 school communities and is today
launching a new service - Universities Trader - for students. It aims to
appoint 200 student agents.

Lancôme Revelations - Awakening Talent Through the Arts With the Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation

PARIS and LONDON, November 12 - Lancôme is delighted to announce its commitment as patron of
the Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation.

Pass Your IT Certification Exams, or Get Your Money Back!

LONDON, November 12 - ThirdForce, a leading provider of technology enabled learning solutions,
has launched a new 100% Money Back Guarantee programme. This great offer
demonstrates the confidence ThirdForce has in the success of its training
courses and reinforces why it was ranked the 3rd Top Global E-learning
Company for Off-the-Shelf Content by IT Training Magazine.

GSMA and the University of Manchester to Establish an m-Health Innovation Centre

LONDON, November 11 - The GSMA, which represents the interests of the worldwide mobile
communications industry, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding with the University of Manchester to establish an m-Health
Innovation Centre in Manchester, which will act as a UK focus for m-Health
activity. The goal of the GSMA's m-Health initiative is to foster innovative
mobile applications and services in healthcare that will focus on promoting
healthier lifestyles and early intervention.

Interim Management Professional, Clive Sexton, Discusses the Pros and Cons of Professional Education

LONDON, November 11 - Does professional education really transform people's careers, or is it
simply an expensive diversion from 'real' work? In the latest of a series of
podcasts, interim management ( www.impactexecutives.com )
professional, Clive Sexton, joins Rob Grimsey and Carol Rosati of Harvey
Nash to discuss whether professional education is really worth it.

Continued Segregation in Czech Schools Devastates Lives of Roma Children

Two Years after Landmark Discrimination Ruling, Government Statistics Confirm Roma Children Are Still Shunted into Separate Schools

High-Profile International Figures to Take Part in the First World Innovation Summit for Education - WISE

DOHA, Qatar - Please click on the following link to access the full version of the Digital Press Release:

Pingar Announces Major R&D Funding With University of Wales

Pingar announces UK launch and new research collaboration with University of Wales