MPs put punch in Suffolk bid to become 'televersity'

Suffolk MPs across 바카라사이트 political spectrum have backed plans to transform Ipswich-based Suffolk College into a fully-fledged "televersity" which will harnesses 바카라사이트 benefits of 바카라사이트 information superhighway.

Plans for a high-tech University of Suffolk - drawn up by a local task group comprising representatives from industry, 바카라사이트 Suffolk Training and Enterprise Council and local government - have already been validated by management consultants Touche Ross. Suffolk College is expected to become an accredited college of 바카라사이트 University of East Anglia by June this year.

The support of 바카라사이트 six MPs and an MEP will give fresh hope to a campaign to turn 바카라사이트 college into an independent county-based university. By 2005 바카라사이트 university could reach 15,000 students through a network of 15 local learning centres filled with 바카라사이트 latest technical wizardry from British Telecom Laboratories at Martlesham in Suffolk. Richard Nicol, head of 바카라사이트 university-BT research initiative, said: "The new Suffolk University promises to be a world exemplar or shop window of televersity techniques. If 바카라사이트 Open University were starting today, this is how it would be done."

This technology-driven concept impressed local MPs including John Gummer, Secretary of State for 바카라사이트 Environment. He said: "Suffolk needs a university which should be radical in terms of teaching techniques. It would be a testbed for new ideas."