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Wednesday, September 26, 2001
http://chronicle.com/free/2001/09/2001092601u.htm In Pakistan, an Open University Offers Distance Education to More Than a Million Students By DANIEL DEL CASTILLO S. Altaf Hussain, the vice chancellor of Allama Iqbal Open University here, began his academic career in 1971, teaching chemistry at the University of Balochistan, in western Pakistan. In the early 1980s, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, but he returned to Pakistan to resume his teaching career and this March assumed his current post. Allama Iqbal Open University was founded in 1974 under a government charter. It functions both as a traditional university with a bricks-and-mortar campus and as a distance-learning institution with more than one million students. Its courses are based on tutorials and enhanced by non-broadcast video, audio cassettes, and a network of 12 regional campuses around Pakistan.
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