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Educating (2011)

Educating poster
Original title
Educating Essex
Genre
documentary television program
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 7 episodes
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series follows the daily lives of students and teachers in British secondary schools. The camera captures their ordinary interactions, struggles, and small victories.

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What happens

Educating... is a British documentary reality television programme airing on Channel 4 which first aired on 22 September 2011. It uses a fly-on-the-wall format to show the everyday lives of the staff and pupils of secondary schools all over the UK. In 2025, 12 years since the first installment, the series returns to Thornhill Community Academy in Thornhill, West Yorkshire and a second series of Educating Yorkshire was broadcast from August to October 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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