§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what plans her Department has to explore the concept of virtual universities. [16384]
§ Mr. BoswellNone. The use of information technology in teaching, learning and research is primarily a matter for individual universities and colleges. The higher education funding councils will shortly be consulting higher education institutions on issues surrounding the exploitation of information systems with a view to considering a strategy for their use in higher education over the next decade.