The wrold’s great museums are the world’s great museums. But the online museum is a recent development. Here are Joseph Phelan’s picks as the most interesting online art museum presentations…
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Education For All! (Is It Really Such A Good Idea?)
“In the past 20 years, Britain has stumbled into a system of mass higher education. It is enrolling larger percentages of young people than most other comparable countries.” But is mass education compatible with quality education? And how do you possibly pay for it? Is elite education desirable in a mass system?
The Global Localization of TV (What The World’s Poor Watch)
There are about 2 billion people who have access to a television set. What are they watching? Not the global fare produced by Western networks. “The trend in many television markets is to localise the global, to take a western format, juggle with it, and produce a Hindi or a Mandarin version. There is, for instance, a Saudi version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire called Who Will Win the Million? which is one of Saudi Arabia’s most popular programmes.”