Online university -- free for all - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source:
"It has no campus, no lecture theatres and hardly any paid staff, but the International University of the People, which opened last month, does have one big plus point -- no tuition fees.
This, and the fact that its courses are taught entirely online, is designed to make it accessible to people who, because of poverty, geography or personal restrictions, would not otherwise contemplate university study.
“Hundreds of millions of people deserve to get an education and don’t,” says the university’s founder, Shai Reshef, a California businessman. “We are showing a way that this mass of people can be educated in a very efficient and inexpensive way.”"
"It has no campus, no lecture theatres and hardly any paid staff, but the International University of the People, which opened last month, does have one big plus point -- no tuition fees.
This, and the fact that its courses are taught entirely online, is designed to make it accessible to people who, because of poverty, geography or personal restrictions, would not otherwise contemplate university study.
“Hundreds of millions of people deserve to get an education and don’t,” says the university’s founder, Shai Reshef, a California businessman. “We are showing a way that this mass of people can be educated in a very efficient and inexpensive way.”"