SURVEY: Home still dominates work for net access
More than 40% of Britons still have to share their work internet connection with three or more people, according to a new survey by research group Jupiter MMXI
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Should Distance Students Pay for Campus-Based Services?
Many colleges charge them for parking, sports, and more; competition may end the practice
Poll Okays Open Distance Learning
Nigerians are agreed that the planned re-introduction of open distance learning programme will raise the falling standard of university education in the country. It is also believed that the country can successfully execute the programme.
Computer, Net Access Standard for Many Americans
More than half of the households in the United States had one or more computers in 2000, and more than 80 percent of these households had at least one member using the Internet, according to the U.S. Commerce Department’s Census Bureau.
Security experts protest copyright act
Two well-known computer security experts pulled down their works from the Internet this week for fear of being prosecuted under 1998’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
U.S. Census: Gaps Remain Despite Rise in Web Access
Although more than half of all U.S. households now have a computer, the Census Bureau found that the digital divide still exists along economic, racial and geographic lines.
Official: Bush high-tech policy coming soon
After months of silence, the Bush administration will weigh in “shortly” on a range of high-tech issues ranging from junk e-mail to online privacy, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
CPB AND PBS ANNOUNCE FIRST PRODUCERS ACADEMY
Continuing its quest to nurture public television’s next generation of creative talent, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) today announced the first five Producers Academy Fellows, selected from more than one hundred applicants. Fellowships were given to talented, dynamic film and videomakers as an opportunity to work with some […]
Death Knell On Satellite Campuses
The issue of whether satellite campuses should be allowed to exist or not has been on for some time now, but last week the final statement on the matter came from the Federal Government. However, governemt’s decision has not gone down well with both students and operators of these outreach centres.
Turmoil Rocks University As Vice Chancellor Leaves
But worried educationists say Motimele’s “autocratic and irresponsible” reign is jeopardising the institution’s pending merger with Technikon SA (TSA) and Vista University’s Distance Education Centre (Vudec) – a merger that is a central pillar of the government’s national education plan released in March.