On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:22:43 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman
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> >Funny sort of university that advertises in Arabic script in an
> >English-language news group.
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> >The list of contact addresses is remarkably long, and it's an even
> >odder sort of university that puts it's enrolment office on the 11th
> >floor of anything.
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> Actually, cyber education is becoming a lower-cost alternative in SE
> Asia, where infrastructure is overburdened.
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> If you've ever done courses by correspondence, you'll realise what an
> advancement this is in remote education.
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> If you discount every educational institution with religious
> foundations, you'd wipe 80% of western institutions off the map.
Quite a few of them have managed to transcend their origins.
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hasn't. Their "science faculty" teaches "young earth creationism" and doesn't seem to employ any geologists.The Catholic University in Nijmegen in the Netherlands opened it's doors in 1923 - though it's now called the Radboud University after an early bishop of Utrecht
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but it does seem to have transcended its origins. I doubt if the extra four years were crucial.