There will be no physical campus. The government wants other institutions to follow the lead of the Open University, which offers a master's business degree online, and Birkbeck College, in London, which offers an online postgraduate degree in crystallography. The e-university will focus solely on teaching and will carry out no research. Instruction will rely on Web pages enhanced with hyperlinks, video, sound, and graphics. The consultants who are preparing the business plan were recruited by the government's Higher Education Funding Council.
Universities are autonomous institutions, and rightly so.