Educational opportunities for industry

This article discusses how the use of telecommunications systems can be beneficial, when used as an alternative to traditional higher education structures, in delivering distance education to industry. The author stresses the need for mechanisms that facilitate the delivery of information, in the form of professional education or access to current research findings, in order to make industry competitive in a global society. Through the use of alternative delivery systems the geographic location of the industry or university is no longer a boundary to accessing essential professional training.