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

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Thursday, January 31, 2002

http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002013101u.htm

Zimbabwe's Open University More Than Triples Its Tuition
By HENK ROSSOUW

The Zimbabwe Open University, the only distance-education university in the country, has increased its undergraduate fees by up to 340 percent without warning. Students at the university, interviewed by the newspaper The Zimbabwe Standard, say the increase will result in a large number of dropouts. Annual tuition for the bachelor of arts degree, for example, was about $219 last year. An official at the Zimbabwe Open University confirmed that the cost for the same degree program will be $961 this year, which is an increase of about 338 percent....

 



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