Education has been a significant preoccupation of the British Broadcasting Company's (BBC) Local Radio since its outset in 1967. Several features are noteworthy. First, there is an educator on every station's staff. Five hundred series a year, involving 4000 various programs, are offered, and audiences are large and educational efforts still…

A recent survey reveals frustration with our inability to institute social change. Public affairs education has not been effectively linked to the energies of those willing to study and take action, such as students. Barriers to such a linkage include institutional rigidities; autonomy and jealousy; limited financing; differing concepts of public…

Career education is the focus of this transcript of an electronic weekly magazine devoted to coverage of news, features, policy, and people in the field of education. This program transcript incorporates studio interviews with Sidney P. Marland, Jr. (who was U.S. Commissioner of Education in 1971, and coined the term "career education");…

This document is the transcript of a weekly radio "magazine" program devoted to coverage of news, features, policy, and people in the field of education. Discussion topics include: (1) reasons for becoming a teacher; (2) characteristics of a good teacher; (3) a listener's letter on a bad teacher; (4) rememberances of best and worst teachers; (5) a…

Describes the two and one-half year process of developing a genetics course for Britain's Open University. The final package of print, television, radio, home experiments, summer schools and a number of assignments and examinations is a product of the course team of Open University staff, British Broadcasting Corporation production staff, and…

A history of radio and television community college education in Florida is given, beginning with pioneering efforts by individual colleges, and concluding with the organization of a statewide consortium which divides the state into six regions, determined by the broadcast ranges of particular educational television stations. (NHM)

A discussion of specific ways of using these two media in language teaching. Particular attention is given to the use of foreign language programs on radio to develop listening comprehension. The use of educational television is illustrated by discussion of the program, "Les Gammas! Les Gammas!" (AMH)

Suggests a basic-education radio program as an alternative to traditional literacy education programs. One advantage of radio as an instructional medium is that it is available to most rural poor people. Stresses the need for creating innovative radio programs which are suited to radio's special characteristics. (Author/DB)

A pilot radio series is described which is designed to reach Italian adult newcomers in Ontario who cannot or do not seek the formal education of the English as a second language class. It is assumed that the listener knows some English but does not know how to use it. (SW)

Surveys of Florida agribusiness and natural resources education teachers were made to determine their evaluation for classroom use of five taped radio programs designed to inform the general public on recent agricultural developments. Results indicated that use of the tapes would be questionable, if not unsatisfactory, in their present form. (MF)

This study analyzes the cost effectiveness of the Radio Education Teacher Training Project in Nepal using the annualized total cost as a linear function of two independent variables, the number of teachers enrolled in the program, and the number of hours of radio lessons broadcast during the 1981-82 school year. (MBR)

This personal perspective on developments in educational radio broadcasting in some small island nations of the South Pacific discusses radio as a powerful teaching aid, curriculum development, educational communicators, printed support materials, costs, facilities duplication, and future trends. (MBR)

Describes a regional forum on "distance learning" (including telephone, radio or television, and downloading computer software from a central location) that was sponsored by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory. (TE)

The use of recording technology in teaching basic literacy is justified based on a cassette reading program designed for the Tausug language of Sulu, the Republic of the Philippines. (WL)