Education and training across the globe
World Service,·262 episodes
The new bachelor's degree in popular music and recording at Salford University
The controversy around new British quotas for overseas medical students
How the changing political and social climate in South Africa is affecting its schools
The educational and musical life of the choirboys of Hereford Cathedral School
Coming to the end of World Literacy Year, what has been achieved?
New investment in higher education from the World Bank
Why do teacher trainers and education planners get their sums so wrong?
Giving a second chance to school drop-outs and vocational training for India's workers
The controversial introduction in British schools of SAT tests for seven-year-olds
Assessment and 'le redoublement' (retaking a school year) in French primary schools
Big changes to vocational training in Britain for 16-year-olds
New government rules change the status of Britain's polytechnics
The new university established by Hungarian-born American business magnate George Soros
How business training is increasing during the global recession
The latest Economist Intelligence Unit report on training and business
New controversy over British higher education
The British government's refusal to accept Malaysian school-leaving certificates
African education ministers meet in Harare, Zimbabwe
The British government's decision to test 7-year-olds
The British market in accelerated degrees
Creating a 'quality ethos' in British education
What's the best way to teach children to read English?
Proposed changes to the ten-subject British National Curriculum
Discussion on how best to protect children from abuse
The joys and woes of teaching English as a foreign language
Examining the link between learning, play and the environment
The challenge of rebuilding the education system in post-apartheid South Africa
Report from America on the re-emergence of racially segregated schools
Helping refugee students from the former Yugoslavia continue their academic lives
Handwriting help for left-handed pupils and rebuilding Cambodia's education system
