Brit Public Health, IPP Ally, Replies to dicusssion topic: Online Accredited Universities

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Dear Dick,

Thanks for this pithy info regarding your unique, indispensable volunteer-driven group to address Elijah's concern (( By the way,he has created a bran new Kenyan group " ecokenya," (http://groups.google.com/group/ecokenya),associated with IPP and its International Environmental Science Center - www.environmentalstewardship.org , which will create an e-medicine group)).

Have you thought of placing your organization on Facebook? If you wish,we will do it for you: your website first-- then you all can provide a description of www.peoples-uni.org.

Dan, Dick's group could possibly profit from your International Student Journalism & New Media taking to interviewing the MDs and profs in his Manchester, Eng. headquartered, global org, which does public health and medical curricula ?-- please see below.

In gratitude for this picture of your org!
Ron Krate
Founding Chief Executive Officer
International Professors Project
(www.internationalprofs.org)

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Subject: Re: Online accredited universities
From: "Richard Heller" <rfhe...@peoples-uni.org>
Date: Wed, December 10, 2008 5:28 am
To: "Elijah Kanyiri" <elijah....@gmail.com>
Cc: rkr...@internationalprofs.org, "Dr. Georgene Mortimer"
<environm...@gmail.com>, "sumit agrahari"
<ippenvironm...@gmail.com>, "Daniel Ogbaharya"
<worldpoliticsan...@gmail.com>, "Tanyi Christian"
<c...@lukmefcameroon.org>, "Edward Lee" <kold...@gmail.com>, "Elena
Tiffany" <socialp...@gmail.com>, "Nancy Nguyen"
<sparr...@gmail.com>, va...@netnam.vn, "Gareth Mitchell"
<g.mit...@imperial.ac.uk>, "Charles Wynn" <cw...@ll.mit.edu>,
"Elizabeth Smith" <smith.eliz...@gmail.com>,
ros...@alum.mit.edu, ecokenya <ecok...@googlegroups.com>,
jishnu...@gmail.com, "Jayashree Kannan" <gkjay...@yahoo.com>,
"Barry McCullagh" <barry.m...@gmail.com>, "CJ Morris"
<cjmor...@aol.com>, "Doctors Borders"
<dona...@doctorswithoutborders.org>

Dear Elijah,
I can only speak for the Peoples-uni (http://peoples-uni.org) which offers course modules, a certificate and a diploma in Public Health. This is fully online and each module costs US$50. The program is accredited by a professional organisation (UK Royal Society of Public Health) but not by another university at present. My suggestion of the way to see if similar courses are bogus is to look at the Quality Assurance mechanisms, the makeup of the Trustees and Advisory groups, and at the end of the day the competences obtained by students. If you want a cheap online course, you will be unlikely to find one offered by a university in the 'north', as they are almost universally fee paying with mark-up of fees for international students.
I would be happy to send more information about the Peoples-uni.
Your question is a very good and important one.
All best wishes
Dick

Dick Heller
rfhe...@peoples-uni.org
Emeritus Professor
Universities of Manchester, UK, and Newcastle, Australia
Coordinator Peoples-uni
http://peoples-uni.org
http://courses.peoples-uni.org/
+61 (0)2 99552251
+61 (0)450 449459

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Elijah Kanyiri <elijah....@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All

 

Thank you so much for your frequent mails and discussions that have been going on.

Kindly please find out which universities world wide offer online degree/masters/PhD (Distance learning) at cheap affordable rates and accredited world wide.

My worry is that some of the institutions offered online are unaccredited and bogus

 

Many Thanks

 

Elijah Kanyiri

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