Education and Finance

There is a virtuous circle of education and growth, but you need to create it. This means that finance ministers should be concerned about education, and education ministers about economic growth. Source

Turning Internet Cafes into Classrooms

The African Virtual School turns a normal Internet Cafe into a classroom, from where learners will be able to brush up on their Maths, English and ICT. This was my explanation to a friend yesterday who wanted to know what AVS was all about.

African Virtual School on Newstime Africa

On the front page of Newstime Africa

Here is a summary of the text:

The African Vir­tual School (www.africanvirtualschool.com) offers Maths, Eng­lish and ICT courses to adult learn­ers in Africa via the Inter­net. Learn­ers only need occa­sional access to the Inter­net as the courses can either be done via Email or down­loaded and printed for use off-line.

A sec­ond key ser­vice that the African Vir­tual School offers is dig­i­tal text­books in Maths, Eng­lish and ICT for chil­dren in the age range of 11 – 13 includ­ing their teach­ers. This will be avail­able through their respec­tive Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion.

The African Vir­tual School was founded by a group of African Dias­po­rans in Lon­don as a means of con­tribut­ing key skills to learn­ers in Africa.

For more infor­ma­tion please visit our web­site: www.africanvirtualschool.com

Abiword Installation

This post will show a step-by-step installation of AbiWord, a free opensource Word Processing Application that could be used as an alternative to Microsoft office and OpenOffice.

Abiword Installation

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Decimals (www.primemaths.co.uk)

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Decimals (www.primemaths.co.uk)

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Welcome to the African Virtual School Blog

We will post updates, installation guides, short stories and more here.