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Global Give Back Circle featured at Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
24 September 09 08:20 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

This week the annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting is taking place in New York. The CGI website describes this event as a meeting that “brings together a diverse group of the world’s most distinguished leaders from government, business, and Read More...

Filed under: Africa, Education, Clinton Global Initiative, schools, student, Partnerships

UNESCO & Microsoft join forces to promote greater access and use of ICT for higher education enhancement
13 July 09 08:26 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Last week in Paris close to 100 ministers of education, senior education officials and policy advisors attended the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education (WCHE) followed by the Microsoft Education Leaders Forum . The WCHE is focusing on critical Read More...

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Capturing the Interest of Students and Motivating Them to Succeed
03 July 09 03:40 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

For many years before I joined Microsoft I taught in secondary schools in the UK. One of the most important initiatives I became involved in was to increase the relevance of education to capture the interest of our students and ultimately motivate them Read More...

Filed under: Education, Partners in Learning, Central and Eastern Europe, schools, student

How to reach rural, non-electrified classrooms
01 June 09 07:47 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

The Unlimited Potential Group in the Middle East & Africa has been hard at work for more than 6 months to introduce ICT for the first time to a rural school in the village of Ha-Tumo, 30 kilometers outside Lesotho’s capital city, Maseru. Working with Read More...

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Made in India to transform education worldwide
05 May 09 01:52 AM | Unlimited Potential team | 0 Comments   

Indian concept, global appeal Recently Microsoft India has experienced two very welcome “returns”. The first returnee was Amit Mital, an Indian working at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond as global head of Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Group. The second Read More...

Filed under: Education, India, MultiPoint, Microsoft, technology, schools