Back to school

I have been accepted into the M.Sc. in Sustainable Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in their distance learning programme. The University of London was the first university to offer distance learning.

This interesting snippet is from the Wikipedia article on that program which was the first in the world: "Because the Geneva Convention (1929) stipulated that every prisoner of war, in addition to being entitled to adequate food and medical care, had the right to exchange correspondence and receive parcels, many British POWs took advantage of this opportunity and enrolled in the University of London External Programme. The soldiers were sent study materials via the mails, and at specified intervals sat for proctored exams in the prisoner camps. Almost 11,000 exams were taken at 88 camps between 1940 and 1945. Although the exam failure rate was high, a significant number of soldiers passed their exams while imprisoned."

My part-time course begins in February and I intend to finish in four years. I'll sit next year's exams at the British Council here in Kabul.