January 17, 2003

Australia Bans Online Institution

By DAVID COHEN

Greenwich University, a controversial private online institution that originated in the United States, said last month that it would fight a decision by the Australian government to end the university's commercial presence on a far-flung island in the South Pacific.

The university, which for the past four years has been based on Norfolk Island, a self-governing Australian territory about 900 miles east of the mainland, also said that it would shift its operations back to the United