August 17, 2001

With National e-University, Britain Gets in the Online-Education Game

By SARAH CARR

Little is known about the cooperative effort, and some major players remain on the sidelines

So little is known about the British government's plan for a national Internet university that it reminds some higher-education officials here of a current cultural phenomenon of a different sort.

"It is a bit like waiting for the new Harry Potter film," says Neil Gregory, the head of the research and projects division at the London School of Economics and Political Science. "We are told

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