We Need to Talk (Online) One of the best reasons to study at the OU is the online community and the friends ...you make online will be friends for life. In this session, Rob and Fenella will tell you the tips and tricks of how to build a support network online.
Indian school: 1. The new boy This fast-paced documentary series follows a remarkable year in two contrasting sch...ools in Pune, one of the world's fastest growing cities. It's June and the start of a new school year at Kalmadi High School. For 14 year-old Ashutosh this is the eighth new school he has attended in almost as many years - following his father's engineering job as it has taken him around India and the world. We experience the familiar agonies of trying to fit in, make new friends and pick up the power politics of
Choice in education : vouchers? To create greater freedom of choice in education, it has been argued that parents s...hould be issued with a voucher which they could exchange at any school of their choice for their child's education. Such a system could result in bad schools closing down and good ones expanding. Parental involvement in education covild be much greater. In this programme a pressure sroup in favour of the voucher system illustrate the virtues of their idea and these are discussed critically by Leslie Wagner, Head