Archive for the ‘International Developments’ Category

Global Collaboration and Creative Leadership

Global Collaboration and Creative Leadership describe the recent work of the University’s Institute for Technology Development (ITD).

EUTELSAT and the Italian Inter-University Consortium For Telecommunications to Provide a Tele-Education Network Using Ka-Band Frequencies and Bandwidth-On-Demand

PARIS — EUTELSAT announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CNIT (Italy’s national inter-university consortium for telecommunications) for Ka-band satellite capacity. CNIT will use this capacity to set up a new satellite-based tele-education network which will enable postgraduate students to pursue their studies for a telecommunications doctorate by means of coursework delivered […]

Developing World Scientists to Get Internet Boost

LONDON (Reuters) – Researchers in Asia, Africa and eastern Europe could soon have access to the latest scientific information via the Internet thanks to a new pilot project set up by the World Health Organization.

NTL To Trial Virtual Classroom Intranet In UK

NTL will formally launch the UK’s first national intranet for the educational sector in early January, building on a pilot scheme it has been operating in Swindon for the last month.

[Cultural dimensions] Dangers of virtual university degrees

The big bang in Korean higher education went almost unnoticed last week. On Nov. 30, the Ministry of Education approved nine virtual universities as undergraduate degree-granting institutions.

Britain Seeks Private Investors for Its ‘E-University’

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT is looking for private investors to help finance the creation of Britain’s planned online university.

World Bank Becomes a Player in Distance Education

It provides infrastructure in many countries that lack good telecommunications systems

Students log on to world’s first net university

It is the student’s dream – a future in which you would not even have to get out of bed to attend a lecture. Welcome to university.com.

Thomson to Develop Global E-university Courses

Educational publisher Thomson Learning has announced an agreement with Universitas 21, a consortium of 18 universities in 10 countries, to develop distance-learning higher education and advanced training courses and materials to be delivered online.

University student found guilty of Web site copyright infringement

29 November 2000) On Nov. 28, the Beijing Second Intermediate Peoples Court ruled that Li Xiang, a masters student at Tianjins Nankai University, had violated the copyright of the magazine Daxuesheng (College Student).