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Thursday, April 29, 2004
UKeU project to be 'scaled down'- Mark Samuels, Vnunet
UKeU, the government's flagship online learning scheme, is to be scaled down and its work transferred to established universities. The board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) met last week to discuss plans for the troubled programme. Hefce says it is to 'continue with the plan of scaling down and transferring activities', and that future funding should support the development of elearning in universities and colleges. UKeU was set up in February 2000 to give overseas students the chance to earn degrees online, with £62m of government money allocated to Hefce for the project. But the scheme failed to meet its first-year target of 5,600 students, attracting just 900 students at a cost of £44,000 each. (Computing, March 4).
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