The role of consortia in educational broadcasting

The voices radiate from the antenna, perched atop the vertical campus of the NSW Institute of Technology in the heart of Sydney. From her home in the western suburbs a Business Studies student is on the phone, taking issue over a remark just made by the course lecturer, who in turn is speaking from a studio on the campus of the University of New England, in Armidale. Next on the talk-back console is a passing listener a cabbie who pulled up at a phone booth to have a say in the discussion of entrepreneurial skills. Then it's over to a question from a listener in the Hunter Valley, following the program through the relay broadcast over the University of Newcastle's radio station.