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Wednesday, March 27, 2002
http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,673901,00.html A cool way to learn The Guardian As far as mission statements go, the freshly minted slogan for the recently established University of the Arctic - "in the north, for the north, and by the north" - sounds as if it might have been inspired by the Gettysburg Address. Educators involved with the new online institution, which opened its cyber doors for business last year and has just begun a programme in northern studies that it hopes soon to expand into a fully fledged degree course, certainly wouldn't object to such a high-minded comparison.... Although the University of the Arctic, or UArctic, is a network of 31 colleges and other organisations drawn from eight of the high latitude nations surrounding the North Pole, including Canada, Russia, the Scandinavian countries and the United States, much of its work has been developed along similar lines to the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), the collegiate university catering to the more remote northern regions of Scotland....
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