Radio For Algerian Schools

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 26, 8 January 1932, Page 26

Radio For Algerian Schools

phe town council of Algiers, following the example of Paris, Mjons, and Bordeaux, has just voted a @redit of 40,000 frances with the object \, of equipping twenty schools with broa~dcast receiving sets, for the purpose of the lessons (states a French contemporary). For instance, in the case of a lesson on some great musician, his principal works, played or Sung by an artist, will be broadcast from the Algiers station and listened to by the pupils through the school’s loudspeaker. Similarly, when the life ang works of a famous poet or dramatist are dealt with, readings from the poems or plays concerned will. be transmitted from the studio for the benefit of those following the lecture. The schools chosen for the initial experiment are those above the primary ones, and known as "ecoles primaires Superieure," but, if successful, the scheme will later be applied to Algiers schools in general, and eventually extended to schools throughout the main towns of Algeria, f