The first ICT in Education Networks international symposium on 11-12 June in Rome, Italy, highlighted the need to improve information-sharing and cooperation between the networks.

Students from 13 countries take top prizes for mastery of 21st century skills in the ThinkQuest Competition sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation.

A high number of female students are not pursuing further studies or careers in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, despite having good basic computing skills, according to a study and white paper by European Schoolnet, commissioned by Cisco.