Until not long ago, Aggarwal College, Ballabgarh was grappling with acute issues related to its outdated IT infrastructure. The institution put all this behind by overhauling its entire legacy set up and going green with NComputing’s desktop virtualization solution.
Through its revolutionary and affordable desktop virtualization technology, NComputing enables one-to-one computing access for students and teachers in 3077 public schools and technical-vocational high schools of the Philippines.
Horsford Junior School is a primary school with over 200 pupils based in Norwich, Norfolk. Its teachers and administrators are committed to delivering the essential knowledge and attributes that will enable their students to take full advantage of all opportunities open to them and succeed in a diverse, global world where information technology is becoming a core component in education.
Thanks to NComputing solutions, sold by the value-added distributor Horus Informatica, the historic Tuscan university and the CISIAU services center are pursuing the dual goal of better group policy management and a drastic reduction in regular consumption.
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St. Catherine’s is a small K–7 Catholic school in British Columbia. The school offers networked computing in some of its classrooms, but the primary site for computer-based learning is the school’s library media center, where the computer lab is housed.
‘No Guarantee’ Students Could Use Computers
When Ray Kase joined Downingtown Area School District (DASD) as director of technology, his most immediate challenge was clear: Slow and unreliable computers meant less computer time for the 12,000 K-12 students in the district just west of Philadelphia. Classrooms, labs and libraries throughout the city were filled with computers in desperate need of replacement.
The state of Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 55 percent of the country’s total population. With an aim to boost computer literacy in the state, the government of Pakistan laid the foundation of an ambitious initiative called the “Punjab IT Labs Project.”
Unreliable, outdated technology
A star among private schools in British Columbia, Star of the Sea Catholic School nurtures the spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional and social development of K-7 students. Key to achieving those goals, the school relies on technology to help teach and prepare students for the future.
Schools, Colleges and Universities in Africa talk about the benefits of the NComputing solution from the perspective of IT, teachers and students.
Using computers as a systematic learning aid is still a dream of the future. Recent studies1 show that usage of available IT infrastructure in schools is below average and currently it doesn’t even meet today’s requirements. Nearly 80 percent of students in secondary schools never use computers in the core subjects such as languages, mathematics and sciences.