Education

Episode 1 | School

Documentary series following pupils, teachers, parents and school leaders across an academic year. Budget cuts and student anxiety are amongst the challen...

Education Reform Act 1944 | Middle Classes...Their Rise And Sprawl

1944 Education Act secondary education for all, selective tripartite system. Cultural capital. Cultural bi...

01: The Choice | The Big School Lottery

A look at the often fraught process of selecting a child's secondary school. The series follows Birmingham Education Authority as it ...

Inside The School Cuts Crisis | Panorama

As schools reopen their doors this week, Panorama asks if we have reached a crisis point in education funding.

02: The Decision | The Big School Lottery

A look at the often fraught process of selecting a child's secondary school. On national offer day, cameras capture the families' r...

03: The First Day | The Big School Lottery

A look at the often-fraught process of selecting a child's secondary school. This edition follows six of the children on the first...

The Academy Schools Scandal | Panorama

Panorama investigates the scandal surrounding Academy schools.

Profits Before Pupils? The Academies Scandal | Panorama

Reporter Bronagh Munro investigates a businessman whose companies have been paid millions from school budgets and ask...

Class | A Question Of Equality

Patrick Nuttgens introduces the first of five programmes which examines our educational system and asks whether it is fair.

Inside The School Cuts Crisis | Panorama

As schools reopen their doors this week, Panorama asks if we have reached a crisis point in education funding.

Episode 2 | Grammar Schools: Who Will Get In?

Following a student who finds it hard to focus and an extremely bright student who clashes with the school authorities.

The Schools Scandal: Playing The System | Panorama

Demand for places at high-achieving state schools across the UK far outstrips supply, turning the schools admissions proce...

School Safety | Y Byd ar Bedwar

We discuss the Ysgol Dyffryn Amman attack & the Welsh Government's role re: school safety.

Can I Sack Teacher? | Panorama

New research shows that the standard of teaching is the most important factor to a child's education. So why are so many bad teachers being al...

Class | A Question Of Equality

Patrick Nuttgens introduces the first of five programmes which examines our educational system and asks whether it is fair.

What's Wrong With Selection? | A Question Of Education

This week, Dr John Rae, headmaster of Westminster School, argues and defends his case for a return to academic selecti...

02: Education | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren McGarvey sets out to understand why the privately educated dominate Britain's top jobs and uncovers the amazing st...

Episode 1 | Grammar Schools: Who Will Get In?

Documentary series examining how the 11-plus selection test impacts on education. The first episode follows children from Uplan...

Episode 1 | No More Boys and Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free?

Dr Javid Abdelmoneim takes over a year 3 class to see if, after a term of gender-neutral treatment, he can e...

Education Reform Act 1944 | Middle Classes...Their Rise And Sprawl

1944 Education Act secondary education for all, selective tripartite system. Cultural capital. Cultural bi...

Unequal Opportunities With John Humphrys

John Humphrys examines the reasons behind the stark educational attainment gap between advantaged and disadvantaged pupils, which ha...

S01E02: Home Sweet Home | Darren McGarvey's Class Wars

Darren examines how social class and where we live impacts our lives in ways that few realise, from our addictions to ...

The Primary

The Primary captures a term in the life of Welford Primary School, a thriving school with pupils from 17 different ethnic backgrounds. The film follows headmaste...

Living with the Brainy Bunch

Two struggling GCSE students move in with two of the highest achievers in their year. Can this change in home environment and parental influence...

Episode 2 | No More Boys and Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free?

Will Dr Javid Abdelmoneim's gender-neutral mission produce a meaningful change by the end of term?

Episode 3 | Grammar Schools: Who Will Get In?

In the third and final part of this series, students at Erith School and Townley Grammar face their GCSE mocks.

Ethnicity, Diversity and Education | The Primary

This clip follows a term in one of the most diverse schools in Birmingham, with at least 17 different ethnic backgrounds.

Lessons In Class | Middle Classes...Their Rise And Sprawl

This program compares the country's oldest school, Winchester College, with a local comprehensive to illustrate the...

Episode 1 | Don't Exclude Me

With school exclusions at their highest in a decade, behavioural expert Marie Gentles visits Milton Hall Primary School in Southend to help the ...

Happy Families? | Are We Having Fun Yet?

Series looking at changing Britain examines how childhood and families have transformed over the last decade. But from the scramble ...

School Exclusion at Primary | Don't Exclude Me

This short clip shows the pressures on schools to manage challenging behaviour.

The Schools Scandal: Playing The System | Panorama

Demand for places at high-achieving state schools across the UK far outstrips supply, turning the schools admissions proce...

Episode 2 | Don't Exclude Me

Marie Gentles continues her work at Hilton Hall Primary School, helping six-year-old Oscar and nine-year-old Olivia deal with behavioural issues...

The Lessons Of Ray Honeyford

Aasmah Mir revisits the heated dispute surrounding Ray Honeyford, a Bradford head teacher whose outspoken criticisms of multiculturalism caused ...

The Hunt For Classroom Extremists

Documentary that examines the truth behind an alleged plot by 'hardline' Muslims to seize control of British schools. With interviews from ...

03: London | My New Best Friend

Four London kids make the transition from their familiar primary schools to an inner-city secondary school.

02: Education | Darren McGarvey: The State We're In

Darren McGarvey sets out to understand why the privately educated dominate Britain's top jobs and uncovers the amazing st...

Episode 1 | Back in Time for School

Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure to discover how much life at school has changed. The class start ...

Episode 5 | Back in Time for School

The class enters the experimental 1970s. They rewrite the rule book and learn weird and wonderful lessons as the free spirit of the era c...

Episode 1 | School

Documentary series following pupils, teachers, parents and school leaders across an academic year. Budget cuts and student anxiety are amongst the challen...

Episode 4 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. In the swinging 60s, the class experience bricklaying, typing, cooking and eve...

Episode 2 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the interwar years. They learn bizarre new languages, test th...

Episode 6 | Back in Time for School

The class embrace the new world of the 1980s. With robots, early computers and synths, the kids get to grips with Britain's new high-tech...

Episode 3 | Back in Time for School

Pupils and teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure. The class enters the 40s and 50s - deportment, debate and even dancing are on ...

04: Children | The British Family

Kirsty Young looks at how children have come to dominate family life in the last decade and reveals just how far we have come from the 'see...

Episode 7 | Back in Time for School

The pupils and teachers arrive in their final time-travelling decade, the 1990s, ready to embrace girl power, Brit pop, Oasis and Blur, M...

Episode 2 | The Grammar School: A Secret History

This part looks at the golden age of the grammar schools in the 1950s and 60s and their sudden demise. With contributions fr...

Episode 8 | Back in Time for School

Our class return for one final adventure. Reflecting on the past 100 years, they venture beyond, into a future filled with virtual classr...

04: 2000s | Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?

The cockney comedian completes his life story during the 2000s - settling down and building up his career.

02: 1980s | Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?

Micky Flanagan with stand up about his life in the 1980s - from Billingsgate fish porter to intellectual.

01: 1970s | Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?

The Londoner reveals how his rise to stand-up fame seemed to coincide with periods of social upheaval.

03: 1990s | Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?

The cockney comedian charts his life story during the 1990s, returning to education and becoming a teacher.

Episode 1 | The Grammar School: A Secret History

This part looks at the golden age of the grammar schools in the 1950s and 60s and their sudden demise. With contributions fr...

Episode 6 | Class Action

Class action investigates the current crisis in the classroom, from pre-school through to continuing education, and examines controversial claims th...

Episode 5 | Class Action

Class action investigates the current crisis in the classroom, from pre-school through to continuing education, and examines controversial claims th...

Episode 4 | Class Action

Class action investigates the current crisis in the classroom, from pre-school through to continuing education, and examines controversial claims th...