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Digital divide puts quality of this year’s degrees in serious doubt The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the faultlines in the country's higher education hampered by a frightening gap between the haves and have-nots. January 18, 2021 / 01:55 PM IST On a warm November afternoon in 2020, Shareena Banu picked up a call from a colleague who wanted to know if any of her students needed a free laptop. Banu, an assistant professor at the sociology department of Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi had several options among her undergraduate students, many of whom come from low income families acros...

PO-devicesedo-16-20 Photo courtesy of Maine Department of Education HELPING STUDENTS LEARN -- SeDoMoCha School Technology Director Matthew Larrabee receives a delivery of Wi-Fi-enabled Samsung Tab A's from Maine DOE Coordinator of Secondary Education and Integrated Instruction Beth Lambert on April 8. The devices will help connect students lacking Internet access for remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo courtesy of Maine Department of Education HELPING STUDENTS LEARN -- SeDoMoCha School Technology Director Matthew Larrabee receives a delivery of Wi-Fi-enabled Samsung Tab A's fr...

By Staff Networkmaine, a technology arm of the University of Maine System, on Wednesday announced a partnership with the Maine Department of Education to upgrade internet connections in the state's classrooms from pre-K to grade 12. The Maine School and Library Network initiative, called the MSLN Gigabit Upgrade, responds to a growing need, exposed by the pandemic, to improve broadband connectivity for remote learning, according to a news release. “COVID’s effects on our education systems in Maine and throughout the country are well-documented,” said Jeff Letourneau, exe...

  The Luis Ángel Arango library:  The BLAA, as it is known colloquially, is one of the most visited libraries in the world... The Gold Museum in Bogotá holds the world's largest pre-Hispanic gold collection. It is a founding place for Colombian cultural identity... Art Museums: After more than six decades of rigorous and constant collection, Banco de la República holds one of the most significant art collections in the country... Musical activity  at Banco de la República, whose action center is the emblematic Concert Hall at the Luis Ángel Arango Library, is committed to providing q...