Archive for the ‘International Developments’ Category

SenseiOnline presents 6th Benkyoukai (Study Forum)

Featured speaker, Anai Suzuko, BSc in Pharmaceutical Science, Fukuoka University, Japan MA in Applied Linguistics, University of Essex, UK Member of British Association of Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language. The paper and slide presentations was prepared for the 3rd BATJ conference, Birmingham 3rd September 2000. What is Going to Happen? First read the paper […]

Cambridge wins backing for US link-up

Cambridge University will announce on Thursday that it has secured its first crucial private-sector backing, from British Telecommunications, for an £84m virtual link-up with Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Athabasca University the Canadian Partner in New Global “e-education” Service

For Immediate Release — October 12, 2000 Hong Kong is today the site for the official worldwide launch of a new concept in university “e-education” that allows students around the globe to link up to the Internet, take courses, and complete degrees from 10 leading universities in North America, Europe, and Australia without ever setting […]

NATIONAL: Universities Plan ‘Webucation’ Launch Online Education Internet-Based Global College ‘Could Make a Profit Within Three Years’

A British e-University – an internet-based global college – could make an operating profit within three years of its launch, according to its business model published today.

The Guardian: E-asy Does It: Thanks to a Proposal Published Today, the British e-University Could be Up and Running by 2002. Tim O’Shea, Who Helped With The Plans, Reports

The British e-university is suddenly looking very real. The proposal published today by the Higher Education Funding Council for England combines an exciting vision of the potential of a UK electronic university with remarkably sensible suggestions for the technological platforms and pedagogical models that would be deployed.

UNESCO Director-General Outlines His Vision of UNESCO’S Future Before The Executive Board

Paris, October 11 {No. 2000-100} – UNESCO must be “the world forum where the international community can help give a meaning and a conscience to the globalisation processes”, UNESCO Director-General, Koïchiro Matsuura declared as he outlined his vision of the Organization’s strategies and programmes for the coming years to the Executive Board.

Record Student Numbers

There is a record number of students in higher education across the UK this autumn.

Open University of Israel Finds Many Students in the States of the Former Soviet Union

The distance-education courses that the Open University of Israel has been offering in the states of the former Soviet Union since 1993 may not be high tech, but they are broadband — they are taught in 280 cities from Moscow to Tashkent.

Worlds First Private Online University Renames As Lansbridge University

Fredericton, New Brunswick – Unexus University, the worlds first private, online, degree-granting university, today announced that it is renaming itself to Lansbridge University.SOURCE: Canada IT.comRead the Press Release

Seoul National University Institute Opens Korean Language Education Website

A language institute affiliated with the Seoul National University (SNU) has come out on a Website which would enable both ethnic Koreans abroad and foreign rs to study the Korean language and Hangul, the Korean alphabetical system, through the Internet. (Language patch download might be required).