March 9, 2001
Australian Students Object to Online-University Consortium
Students at Australian colleges are attacking a plan to create a global online university called Universitas 21, charging that the reputations of the universities involved would be threatened.
The National Union of Students backed protesters who demonstrated outside Queensland University's governing-council meeting last month. A union official said "up to 20" students participated.
The council decided to take part in Universitas 21 as a "licensing university," but deferred a
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