Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Friday, September 14, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001091401u.htm

Pakistan Plans Its First Virtual University
By DANIEL DEL CASTILLO

Pakistan's Ministry of Science and Technology has announced plans to establish a virtual university here. The institution, which is to be called simply the Virtual University, will be the first of its kind in Pakistan when it opens next February. "The driving factor in the establishment of the Virtual University was the shortage of manpower for the IT sectors in Pakistan," said Naveed Malik, a professor of computer science at Punjab University, in Lahore, who is the main consultant and spokesman for the project....

 



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