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20/12/2010

We Don't Need No Segregation

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Oldham tackles segregation by merging two diverse schools. Will pupils get on or rebel?

After the Oldham race riots in 2001, one of the proposals was to encourage greater community cohesion and integration. Have the changes started to break down racial barriers?

In a bold attempt to bridge the racial divide in the town of Oldham, Greater Manchester, two of its most segregated schools have been merged. Race riots in the town almost a decade ago revealed deep divisions between its white and Asian populations. The Home Office said it was a place of "deep-rooted" segregation, with communities leading "parallel lives". Almost ten years on, many feel little has changed, and so a school that is more than 90 per cent Asian has merged with another that was more than 90 per cent white.
BBC Asian Network reporter Catrin Nye has had exclusive access to the project for the last 6 months - speaking to pupils, parents and teachers before and after the merger. We hear the huge levels of apprehension before the schools merge, and then one term down, look at how things are progressing. 

Producer:Perminder Khatkar.

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