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From Finland's public schools to Harvard University, the BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones visits outstanding educational establishments to investigate the best ways to educate our children. |
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Finland has been judged to have the best educational system in the world. Here all schools get good results, teachers have extensive training -- and children don't start school until they are seven years old. It's education for all. And each child matters. The BBC’s Owen Bennett-Jones researches the lessons we can we learn from Finland’s schools. |
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In this documentary produced for the BBC World Service, Owen Bennett-Jones looks at whether education has become a commodity. He visits two of the world's leading educational establishments: Harvard University and the Westminster School in England. They’re both elite, expensive schools with an impressive track record – the Westminster School, for instance, has been operational without interruption since the 14th Century. |
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| THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world. |
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