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Monday, March 25, 2002
http://www.distance-educator.com/dn/dnews.php?action=detail&id=6541 Pakistan Launches Virtual University Source: Pakistan News ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf inaugurated the Virtual University to make education on information technology available to a wide group of students throughout the country via electronic media. In a press briefing Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman, Federal Minister for Science and Technology said that the university will start its operations on March 26 throughout the country. Initially 1000 students will be enrolled. The goal is to increase the number of students to 25,000 by 2003. Dr. Atta continued, the launching of Virtual University would help the country to develop its much-needed human resources and solve the critical shortage of high quality IT faculty. The idea behind the Virtual University is to bring together a critical mass of quality faculty to provide world-class education in the IT sector to a very large number of students located in major cities as well as remote areas of the country. The University will use a combination of television and the Internet to reach students who will pay 1440 rupees per month to enroll....
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