University of the Highlands and Islands shifts away from DL

Highland university has reality check ... and goes back to class.

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• What began as a vision of a pioneering virtual university which would enlist technology to overcome the geographical challenges of the Highlands is finally learning the lessons of reality. The much-vaunted project to create a University of the Highlands and Islands is to shift away from being a technologically driven virtual institution. However, the move is expected to contribute to a delay in the awarding of university status until 2007.
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  But even as the technology has improved and while it remains an important part of making the project work, the institution's emphasis is to move back to more traditional education in which people meet together to learn. ...