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World Service,09 Sep 1996,14 mins

Improving Indian Literacy

The Learning World

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25 million newspapers are read in India each week, and have been co-opted for the government literacy campaign, as a British journalist explains. Also on the programme: A look at foreign influences on the French language. Plus, why Mexicans are interested using the structure of our vocational qualification system, GNVQ.

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