Alan Gilbert,vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne and founder of Universitas 21, says the global network of schools adds value to the strategies corporations are developing.
Murdoch says News International recently established Worldwide Learning, an offshoot dedicated to delivering distance-education programs online. "I think education is going to be a very big part of the Internet," Murdoch says. Four other corporations are said to be negotiating partnership agreements with Universitas 21.
While giving a talk at Oxford University England, last Wednesday Murdoch confided that the internet is synonymous with a bright technological future, hampered only by "natural disasters and meddling governments".
He also told Oxford University students that the Web was a revolutionary liberator of the individual that would sweep away rather than deepen social inequality and meet all our needs.
