Delhi cops get e-learning

The Delhi Police may soon learn to crack criminal cases sitting in a classroom, writes the Hindustan Times.

After botching up several cases in the past, the force has started providing e-learning classes to its members to teach them how to crack cases involving rape, accident, burglary and other offences, without ruining the crime scene.

A team of former Indian Institute of Technology engineers has been roped in to prepare a teaching module for the police. “We are using 3D technology to teach new recruits and senior policemen to investigate crime scenes with the help of audio and visual technology,” a senior police officer said.

Online education provider Kaplan Higher Education, a unit of the Washington Post, is facing a lawsuit of racial discrimination filed against it by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), reports Seer Press News.

The suit, filed last week in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio, alleges that Kaplan based its hiring decisions on credit history, which discriminated by race.

The EEOC seeks to recover wages and benefits as well as job offers for people who were denied work due to race bias. “This practice has an unlawful discriminatory impact because of race and is neither job-related nor justified by business necessity,” the commission said in a statement.

Sixty-one Hong Kong schools are taking part in a pilot scheme on e-learning so kids can study anywhere, any time, states The Standard.

All schools were invited by the Education Bureau last year to submit projects either individually or in cooperation with other schools. There were 98 eligible applications by the October deadline, and from these were chosen 21 projects involving 32 primary, 18 secondary and 11 special schools.

The average cost of a project is $2.8 million, with total funding in the region of $59 million.

"About 57% of projects involve school clusters, highlighting close collaboration among schools," an Education Bureau spokesman says.