The new UNESCO UNITWIN Network in Humanitarian Engineering and Computing aims to place cultural diversity and understanding at the heart of engineering and computing education.

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However, the U.K. lacks the teachers to provide this dynamic, engaging and relevant computing education.

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Apple Computer Inc. designs, manufactures and markets personal computers and related personal computing and communicating solutions for sale primarily to education, creative, consumer and business customers.

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Dell understands some computing environments like healthcare, government and education require integration with specific industry software and additional levels of security will be offered with enhanced security features for industries where the ultimate in data protection is required.

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Customers consist of original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, contract manufacturers, and distributors who serve numerous end-markets, including communications, computing, industrial, consumer electronics, automotive, and education.

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"Faced with constraints for energy efficiency and analytic compute capacity to support world-leading geosciences research, we absolutely require technological innovations from leading companies like HP, " said Chris Hill, principal research engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-chair, Research and Education Subcommittee, Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing.

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But this is not a call to some nostalgic lost era of education, and nor is the life-crushing tedium of school computing unique to the U.K. It appears, in a straw poll, to be common across a lot of Western Europe.

WSJ: U.K. IT Teaching Gets With the Program