Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - Online@Illinois Springfield
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Fund will help students complete degrees online - BCS
The government is to introduce a new fund to enable students at risk of failing their degrees to complete them online. According to the authorities, the new initiative will be an expansion of the role of the Open University, which is now almost completely based online. The fund is aimed at providing additional support to the 35,000 student who abandon their studies every year. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: 'The success of distance learning, pioneered 40 years ago by the Open University, has been nothing short of a revolution for higher education.

 



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