Europe: Broadcasting for Continuing Education by the British Broadcasting Corporation

The Public Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has operated since 1927 under a Royal Charter. Its object is to provide a public service of broadcasting for general reception at home and overseas. The BBC is responsible for whole process of broadcasting, including the engineering operation, from planning and origination of programmes in television and radio to their ultimate transmission over the air. The BBC believes that its educational responsibility is largely met through a wide range of its programme services; through performances of music, drama and ballet; through documentary and current affairs programmes; through explorations into science; through talks and discussions. The BBC education departments are always eager to co-operate with research groups in universities and other foundations which offer to evaluate particular series of broadcast-based projects. To examine the use of the BBC educational budget a little further, it is clear that it is a main responsibility of each production department to work as effectively as possible within the departmental budget.