TV Pendidikan, anyone?

Do educational TV programmes have a chance against the pull of other channels? StarEducation checks out what students tune into. 

Educational television programmes areessential when it comes to learning scienceand history because there’s just too much todigest from books and it can become really dryand boring. An hour of an in-depth andentertaining history programme will surely dothe trick. – Shanker Kaliyana Sundaram, 17