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International students flock to American schools online

Inquiries from international students are up 40 percent in recent months at Bisk Education in Tampa, a company that has partnered with five universities to offering Internet courses. Students are seeking everything from undergraduate degrees to specialized certificate programs.Read The Full Article

International Consortium Readies Ambitious Distance-Education Effort

Now that the courses are almost ready, Universitas 21’s member institutions — including the University of Virginia in the United States –are starting to put more effort into their other emphasis: devising new ways of academic cooperation. Read The Full Article

OUBS To Co-Develop Post-MBA Education Programme

The programme will be jointly developed and offered by four of the world’s leading distance education universities: the Open University/OUBS in the UK, Deakin University in Australia, Canada’s Athabasca University and the Hong Kong Open University. The four universities have founded the World Alliance in Distance Education (WADE) which aims to attract and unite distance […]

Royal Roads University’s MA in Distributed Learning

If you’re thinking about doing a Master’s Degree related to online learning, you will be interested in a new program option associated with Royal Roads University’s MA in Distributed Learning. You now have a choice of taking the existing residency-based version or the fully online option, “MADL Global”, that starts this September. MADL Global is […]

Grant Backs New Distance-Learning Construction Major

The firm will provide $34,000 in services and an outright gift of $10,000, as well as curriculum materials, to assist in the development and implementation of the core courses.

Crunchy Technologies and The George Washington University

Crunchy Technologies, Inc., a provider of secure, accessible e-business and e-government software products and custom applications, announced they have partnered with GWSolutions, A George Washington University Enterprise, to integrate their eight accessibility courses into GW’s Center for Professional Development curriculum beginning this summer. This move was prompted by a law passed by Congress in 1998, […]

Open University Pioneers Online Music Study

The new suite of courses combine traditional OU teaching methods with the latest in new technology. As well as printed and audio material, students will have access to a unique and specially-created online ‘music research environment’. They will be able to search the web through hundreds of indexed routes, submit their essays electronically, have email […]

Military marksmanship training center to be based in Middletown

Columbia-based BEAMHIT announced Monday the establishment of the National Distance Learning Marksmanship Training System Center. Read The Full Article

Glasgow business school with a long list of firsts

Many find they can rise through the ranks with their particular expertise, but fail to make the final transformation to general management, in charge of a variety of departments, until they gain this award. Read The Full Article

PY Gerbeau Kicks Off New “Rules of the Game” TV Series

A Swindon company dubbed the ‘happiest workplace in Britain’, a Cambridgeshire hospital, and the Coventry-based Jaguar car company are the latest organisations to feature in the BBC TWO television series PY Gerbeau’s Rules of the Game. Presented by PY Gerbeau, the charismatic Frenchman who achieved celebrity status as the trouble-shooter who rescued the ailing Millennium […]