The Learning World Episodes Episode guide
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Child Reading
What's the best way to teach children to read English?
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Defining Quality
Creating a 'quality ethos' in British education
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The Two Year Degree
The British market in accelerated degrees
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Testing Times
The British government's decision to test 7-year-olds
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African Literacy Crisis
African education ministers meet in Harare, Zimbabwe
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Vocational Certificates Refused
The British government's refusal to accept Malaysian school-leaving certificates
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British School Leavers
New controversy over British higher education
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What Business Wants
The latest Economist Intelligence Unit report on training and business
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Training in a Recession
How business training is increasing during the global recession
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Central European University
The new university established by Hungarian-born American business magnate George Soros
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Polytechnics or Universities?
New government rules change the status of Britain's polytechnics
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Learning to Work
Big changes to vocational training in Britain for 16-year-olds
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French Primary School Tests
Assessment and 'le redoublement' (retaking a school year) in French primary schools
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Standard Attainment Tests
The controversial introduction in British schools of SAT tests for seven-year-olds
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Distance Education in India
Giving a second chance to school drop-outs and vocational training for India's workers
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Teachers - Shortages and Surpluses
Why do teacher trainers and education planners get their sums so wrong?
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Education Investment
New investment in higher education from the World Bank
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World Literacy Year
Coming to the end of World Literacy Year, what has been achieved?
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The Choirboys of Hereford Cathedral School
The educational and musical life of the choirboys of Hereford Cathedral School
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South Africa Education
How the changing political and social climate in South Africa is affecting its schools
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Student Quotas
The controversy around new British quotas for overseas medical students
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Popular Music Degree
The new bachelor's degree in popular music and recording at Salford University
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Distance Education
The success and failure of distance education around the world
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Austrian University Overcrowding
Overcrowding in Austrian universities, and expansions in global higher education
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Cheating and Examinations
Have examinations lost their credibility and are procedures for prosecuting cheats fair?
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British University Finance
With budgets under pressure, will British students be prepared to pay for their courses?
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Trouble at French Universities
The problem of overcrowding at French universities
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Education in Nigeria
New skills training and vocational education in Nigeria
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Training Managers
The announcement of two new British qualifications in management
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Academic Freedom in Fiji
Concerns about government pressure and threats to academic freedom in Fiji