A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

What is a comprehensive school? And can it provide for the needs of children of all abilities? The Black Paper authors argue that quality is being sacrificed to equality, in the scramble to go comprehensive.
Man Alive, in the second of three programmes on secondary education, takes a look at a purpose-built comprehensive in Yorkshire, and an adapted London central school, now called comprehensive. Will your child be lost in these vast schools, or do they represent the solution to the problem of secondary education in England?

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