Scottish Knowledge

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Scottish Knowledge was at one time a major player in the field, marketing distance learning courses since 1997. At one point, Scottish Knowledge won a £12 million contract from the United Arab Emirates to set up the country's first petroleum education, training and research institute. It also signed a global e-university alliance with Shell International to give the company's 96,000 employees across the world access to online education and training.

Scottish Knowledge plc comprised 13 universities and eight colleges. Its head office was in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Scottish Knowledge was closed in

The Interactive University was in some senses a successor to it.

The Scottish Knowledge web site is no longer active. Note that http://www.scottishknowledge.com/ is populated by a set of menus linked to Scottish topics and may be for sale.

More details

To follow.

History

The original backers were the University of Glasgow and [University of Edinburgh].

In February 1999, Scottish Knowledge signed a deal with two Malaysian institutions which, it believed at the time, could be worth £20 million over the next five years. The deal was to supply distance-learning material from Scottish universities and colleges to Malaysia's largest academic institution, Institut Technologi Mara, and the national oil and gas company Petronas. Other reports indicate that in Malaysia it also signed deals with Universiti Malaya and the Malaysia Open University.

In February 2000, Scottish Knowledge signed a £3.5 million deal with News International, giving it 25 per cent of Scottish Knowledge. Worldwide Learning Limited, a subsidiary of TSL Education in the News International Group, will market and distribute the distance-learning courses and products.

References

1. Interesting Scottish response to Dearing at https://bei.leeds.ac.uk/Partners/NCIHE//sc66.htm

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