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In Africa or the Arctic, there are ways to stay on course
THE beauty of distance learning is that students can study from virtually anywhere in the world, even those living in the most inhospitable and remote regions of the globe.
The Open University (OU), for example, has nearly a quarter of a million distance learners, with more than a fifth of them studying outside the UK. Nearly 17,000 of its students are working towards MScs and other postgraduate qualifications.
The university’s students have included soldiers on duty in war zones or on military exercises abroad, workers on oil rigs in the North Sea and a host of other expatriate workers based on the Continent and further afield.
One student, for example, studied for his final assignment while on a nuclear submarine in the Arctic. Another was a circus musician, who studied in a circus truck as it toured the country.
More : timesonline.co.uk