The Quality of Education winner is Start "Mission for the week" programme by Harkirat Singh (India).

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Twice winner of the education journalist of the year award, Mike Baker had covered the upheavals in schools and universities for the BBC from 1989 to 2007 - from the days of Margaret Thatcher through to Tony Blair.

BBC: Mike Baker, 2001

The prize winner for Universal Primary Education applications was I-Learn by Swaroop John (Switzerland).

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The other winner is the Jordan Education Initiative (JEI), launched in 2003.

UNESCO: Education

In South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai read a passage about the link between water and education, followed by a seafront performance by musical group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

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Then there is Sugata Mitra, recent winner of the 2013 TED Prize, whose serious doubting of modern education drove him to provide computers to kids struggling in slums to let them teach themselves.

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