ABSTRACT
British Columbian students of all ages and types are served by distance education administered by a wide range of institutions. The Open Learning Institute, as well as offering university level courses, deals with Adult Basic Education, while the Knowledge Network of the West transmits educational television by satellite to learners of all ages and levels. These various distance education programmes represent a concerted effort by educators to make formal study opportunities available to all British Columbian residents, extending to and including university-level education. It is quite clear that the universities and the intellectual establishment intend to keep women's experiences as far as possible invisible and women's studies a barely subsidized, condescendingly tolerated ghetto. Programme, course content, and inclusive language, represent one aspect of the university-level institutions' responsibility towards their students. University distance education fills an urgent need for many people and will continue to do so at least for the foreseeable future.
