At the 5th International Conference on ICTs for Development Education , and Training - eLearning Africa 2010 , the World Virtual School is preveleged to present 'The World Virtual School and Free Literacy Programs for a Global Community.'

The Speaker Wandila Simon Kamukwape is the Director for the World Virtual School, Zambia ( A country division of the World Virtual School).Next week a blog about the summary report and a copy of the presentation that will be made this afternoon will be posted . Keep in touch to know more about the the World Virtual Sschool's Initiative to deliver 'Equitable ,Aaccesible Education for a Global Community -at the lowest cost possible .

You can visit our website at : http://www.world-virtual-school.com

More in the next blog post

At the right time when there is high demand , there images a great initiative to , provide free online vocational courses to disadvantaged youth , provide employment opportunities for industry professionals , provide eco-business courses for future interns in green industries.

The World Virtual School is a division of the Hawking Institute and Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization registered in the state of Georgia, in the United States.
The Hawking Institute has been in existence since December of 1995; its mission to further the dissemination of equitable, accessible, and affordable education to third world countries, entirely over the internet. Named in honor of Dr. Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University in England, the Hawking Institute works in coordination with the United Nations and other NGOs of the UN.

The WVS works in conjunction with The Personal Learning Center International, of the state of Illinois in the United States, to deliver over 300 courses and 35 career-vocational programs using the Moodle infrastructure, in more than 16 languages, to students around the world at the lowest possible cost.

The World Virtual School is currently a volunteer effort that provides online training to students around the US and the World who want to improve their circumstances. It will empower economically-challenged students to achieve educational goals that will enable them to improve themselves as well as the global community. A unique and state-of-the art-project, we employ instructors with industry skills to empower future leaders, and provide courses such as world languages, eco-business, construction, electronics, Information Technology, medical, business and legal courses. Investment to required to continue course development, capacity building, and promotion and to provide salaries for staff and instructors.

As part of its fundraising ideas , the World Virtual School is competing in a grant at Pepsi .

You may contribute to support this project just by voting at the link below

http://www.refresheverything.com/worldvirtualschool

For more information you may visit us at : http://www.world-virtual-school.com

Or email : admin@world-virtual-school.com

You may also join the World Virtual School group on TIG by sending a mail to :

WVS_project-subscribe@groups.takingitglobal.org

A great initiative towards education for all

By Wandila Simon Kamukwape
WVS

High Quality Free Vocational Courses for the youth and the global community_Woorld Virtual School
Translated into French by: Wandila
At the right time when there is high demand , there images a great initiative to , provide free online vocational courses to disadvantaged youth , provide employment opportunities for industry professionals , provide eco-business courses for future interns in green industries.

The World Virtual School is a division of the Hawking Institute and Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization registered in the state of Georgia, in the United States.
The Hawking Institute has been in existence since December of 1995; its mission to further the dissemination of equitable, accessible, and affordable education to third world countries, entirely over the internet. Named in honor of Dr. Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University in England, the Hawking Institute works in coordination with the United Nations and other NGOs of the UN.

The WVS works in conjunction with The Personal Learning Center International, of the state of Illinois in the United States, to deliver over 300 courses and 35 career-vocational programs using the Moodle infrastructure, in more than 16 languages, to students around the world at the lowest possible cost.

The World Virtual School is currently a volunteer effort that provides online training to students around the US and the World who want to improve their circumstances. It will empower economically-challenged students to achieve educational goals that will enable them to improve themselves as well as the global community. A unique and state-of-the art-project, we employ instructors with industry skills to empower future leaders, and provide courses such as world languages, eco-business, construction, electronics, Information Technology, medical, business and legal courses. Investment to required to continue course development, capacity building, and promotion and to provide salaries for staff and instructors.

As part of its fundraising ideas , the World Virtual School is competing in a grant at Pepsi .

You may contribute to support this project just by voting at the link below

http://www.refresheverything.com/worldvirtualschool

For more information you may visit us at : http://www.world-virtual-school.com

Or email : admin@world-virtual-school.com

You may also join the World Virtual School group on TIG by sending a mail to :

WVS_project-subscribe@groups.takingitglobal.org

A great initiative towards education for all

By Wandila Simon Kamukwape
WVS

Education is one of the fundamental human rights and it is also contained in the MDG targets for 2015. Very soon we shall mark the half way point for these goals to be achieved.

This is achievable, and we shall achieve. The question is: What quality of Education shall we achieve by the year 2015? The Government in Zambia has made a lot of strides in making sure that the citizenry is eduacated. Primary schools (upto grade 7) have almost been all fade out and high schools (grades 10 to 12) have been introduced. The primary schools are now basic schools (grades 1 to 9).

This is a good idea. Children can now have a basic education. With basic education, children should as well be equipped with the learning environment they would encounter when they qualify to Grade 10. At the moment there are seldomly any basic school with lab facilities to foster for some practical works. more can be said on this, you may add your own thoughts.

The basic schools have now out numbered the high schools. So, where do those children that qualify to go to Grade 10 go to when the high school are already filled? They have nowhere to go to besides going back home and trying to help with different chores at home or worse still, start with the vices we teach them against. Again, you may add more of your thoughts.

The majority of the teachers in these basic schools are trained to teach upto grade 7. Now they have to be tasked to teach grades 8 and 9 - without training!! The infrastructure is not enough to handle the many children and teachers. There is understaffing, and many teachers have to do double classes. this is not just a double class. It's a class where you would have grade 3 and 4 pupils learning in the same class. What logic there is in this I still do not understand.

The children have been learning for free upto Grade 9. And they were happy the government was helping them. They would qualify to go senior secondary, and now be faced with the headache of searching for at least half a million kwacha to get to school. Free education should be free education at all levels otherwise we are moving more steps backwards than we are forwarding.

Government should not just upgrade the grades in schools, they should upgrade all the staff, infrastructure and financial help for education to be for all at all times.

Zambia needs a much dedicated effort in achieving education for all. it is achievable.

I am constantly intrigued at how our government interest in the importance of education seems to be wanning by the day. recently we have heard in the media, government officials at the ministry of education stating that education is not a fundamental right for Zambian children and I am wondering, what sort of a future do we expect if we do not have a sound education system. education is the base on which a country can build upon no matter what way you look at it. I sysmpathize that government may not have the capacity to upgrade schools and build new ones but with the grants that this country gets we must start looking at ways of getting education to the child and people in general. we can look at options like e-learning which in my opinion can solve all education problems.

"PURPOSE GIVES MEANING TO LIFE - AND A MAN WITHOUT THE UNDERSTANDING OF PURPOSE IS LIKE A DEAD MAN"