May 10, 2002

Pacific-Rim Colleges Consider Prospects for a Virtual University

By DAVID COHEN

A new "international cyberuniversity" is under discussion by a consortium of colleges spread across 15 countries in Asia and the Pacific region.

The university's enormous geographic reach would set it apart from other distance-education efforts by Asian and Pacific institutions.

Prospects for the university were discussed at a meeting of government and university officials held recently at Ewha Womans University, in the South Korean capital, Seoul.

At the meeting,

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