The University of the Air, which allows students to receive university-level education programs via TV and radio at home, aims to stop using the current CS broadcasting system and shift to BS digital broadcasting in fiscal 2011, in a bid to increase opportunities for people seeking higher education, according to sources.
By switching over to BS digital broadcasting, which has grown to more than four times the level of the spread of CS services, the university intends to narrow regional disparities in education, as well as meet the various demands of people who seek lifelong learning and specific courses to obtain certifications, the sources said.
The Education, Science and Technology Ministry, which oversees the university, made a budgetary request of 50 million yen for the next fiscal year to conduct research on how to launch a system that will enable the university to use BS digital broadcasting and how to set up transmission facilities. The ministry plans to complete installing the system in fiscal 2011.
Currently, the university's students take courses through three channels: CS digital broadcasts by Sky Perfect TV, terrestrial TV and FM radio broadcasts, and cable television services. CS digital broadcasting allows students anywhere in the nation to receive the courses, while terrestrial TV and radio broadcasts are available only in limited areas of the Kanto region.
(Sep. 5, 2007)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070905TDY02010.htm
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