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The Learning Curve
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TuesdayÌý11 OctoberÌý2005
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Libby Purves
Libby Purves presents this week's edition of the Learning Curve

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH
Is research at universityÌýbecoming too profit-driven? Libby Purves talks to Professor Jeff Knight, Associate Pro-vice Chancellor for Research at De Montfort University, and Stuart Sim, Professor of Critical Theory, Sunderland UniversityÌý

HEAD TEACHERS
Katy Hickman visits Colston's Primary School in Bristol, to talk to the head teacher John Gavaghan about life in a busy school.

Libby Purves finds out why nearly a quarter of schools which advertised for a head teacher failed to find one. She's joined by Sue Kirkham, President of the Secondary Heads Association and head teacher at Walton High School, Stafford, and Elizabeth Robinson, deputy head of Charles Dickens Primary School and a graduate of the Government's Fast Track Leadership Scheme.Ìý
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