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Course profile: Master of Music, Boston University 100%
Music education is a subject that seems strangely well suited to distance learning, given the often solitary nature of learning an instrument. One of the most prestigious online degrees in the field is offered by Boston University School of Music.

Cultural Leadership 100%
One of the UK’s leading business schools has launched a unique postgraduate programme that aims to create more female high-fliers in arts management.

Online university boosts free course programme 50%
Ten more units of courseware have been added to the Open University of Hong Kong’s suite of free courseware.

St Louis goes online 50%
Saint Louis University School for Professional Studies is now offering the University’s first online undergraduate degree programme.

Course profile: Foundation degree in Fashion Marketing and Promotion, London College of Fashion. 50%
Students preparing for Graduate Fashion Week, to be held in London in June, are hoping a leading fashion label will snap them up. Those designers who are successful will be embarking on a career in the fourth largest fashion market in the world, worth more than £1bn annually.

Film degree for future Bollywood business stars 50%
Aspiring entrants to the Indian film business are to benefit from a two-year distance learning MBA. The new degree – the first of its kind in the country – is to be offered by Manipal University and Whistling Woods International, an institution set up by Indian film maker Subhash Ghai to teach skills in film, television and animation.

Online inclusion for remote Philippines communities 50%
One of the oldest universities in Asia is to continue using distance learning to improve access to higher education among remote indigenous peoples. The University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines has announced it will carry on with a pilot project that began in 1999 to give students from the Aetas community a chance to improve their lives through learning.

Think tank calls for wider online learning 50%
An influential UK think tank has called for more universities to provide access to course materials through distance learning. In a paper written for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), educational researcher Leo Pollack says Britain’s universities should be doing more to provide degree-level programmes online, to a wider audience.

Online learning – try before you buy 50%
Enrolling in a distance learning degree is a big commitment. To succeed, students must accept that studying in this way will have a significant impact on their lives, both financially and in terms of the time they have to devote to it.

Flexibility attracts students to online learning 50%
In the first comprehensive survey of consumer attitudes towards online education, Eduventures found that 77 per cent of prospective college students would consider enrolling in an online distance education programme. The study identified convenience, flexibility, affordability, and accelerated degree completion as the key factors that drive consumer interest in online programmes.

Coming to a lecture near you - podcasting 50%
Online learning programmes already make extensive use of cutting-edge technology. Whether it is the software platform that underpins virtual universities, multimedia collaborative software, videoconferencing or use of the internet and email, technological advances have been taken rapidly on board by learning institutions and used to deliver teaching programmes.

Open University Open Source 50%
Sharing and receiving information electronically is the lifeblood of online education, as any distance learner knows. Now one of the world’s oldest and most respected providers of e-learning, the Open University, has made study materials and modules from many of its courses available to everyone, free of charge.

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Universidad de las Americas, Ecuador 100%
www.uamericas.edu.ec Universidad de las Americas, based in
Santiago, Chile, was established in 1988. The fully

Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas 100%
www.upc.edu.pe Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
(UPC) is one of the most prestigious private post-secondary

Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología (ULACIT) 100%
www.ulacit.ac.pa Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y
Tecnología (ULACIT) was founded in 1991 and is

Universidad Interamericana de Panama 100%
www.uip.edu.pa Established in 1992, Universidad
Interamericana de Panama (UIP) programs are developed to

Institut Français de Gestion (IFG) 100%
www.ifgcnof.com In November 2004, IFG joined Laureate's
international network in Europe, Laureate's first entry in

The University of Liverpool 100%
Founded in 1881, the University of Liverpool is
internationally recognised for excellence in teaching,

Walden University 100%
Founded in 1970, Walden University is the leading provider
of quality higher education at a distance. With students

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Ph.D. in Education 100%
The Ph.D. in Education online degree program produces
leaders who can address the nation's most pressing