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  1. Hooligans or Rebels? (1984 Video)

    Director
    Bill Gannon
    Subject
    Education; History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Video cassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

    A group of London young people who play truant from school talk about their attitudes to teachers, rules and disciplines, and their truancy. Truants of an earlier generation are also interviewed.

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  2. Compleat Life of William Shakespeare, The (1994 Radio)

    Producer
    Laura Cumming

    Radio programme that attempts to trace what is really known about William Shakespeare’s life. With comments from "literary sleuths and historians, biographers and directors who trace the story of the Bard...

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  3. Rhodes Boyson on truancy (1975)

    Genre
    Interview

    Rhodes Boyson MP on the problem of truancy. The ILEA has reported an increase this (last?) year. Boyson attributes the disaffection of older students partly to the raising of the school leaving age; these...

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  4. League tables to be introduced (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Education Secretary Kenneth Clarke talks to Peter Russell about the government’s schools bill and says parents have a right to know how schools are performing in examinations, truancy rates and...

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  5. London truancy and exam results (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Vox pop; Interview

    Kevin Murphy reports on London schools being top of the list in league tables of truancy released by the Department for Education and also bottom of the list for exam results. Talks to pupils at Holland Park...

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  6. Norman Tebbit on ILEA political dogma (1986)

    Genre
    Interview

    Conservative Party Chairman Norman Tebbit complains that the Inner London Education Authority has been about politics rather than education - management have been forcing politics down the line, and many...

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  7. Boys in Trouble (1975 Film)

    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Explores the effects of a school for maladjusted children on the headmaster and his family. In doing so it illustrates selective aspects of such an institution. Boys at Deighton Close School in Lincolnshire...

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  8. School sin bin system (1979)

    Genre
    News report

    John Perkins reports on a dramatic increase in the number of educational special units since 1974. The so-called sanctuaries or sin bins are used to tackle disciplinary problems within schools and have been...

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  9. Troublemakers: Belinda (1983)

    Director
    Michael Houldey
    Subject
    Education; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

    Belinda Turner, 14, lives in Birmingham and attends a local comprehensive school - sometimes. When she does, her teachers are wary. For Belinda, they believe, is a troublemaker. This fictionalised...

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  10. Troublemakers: Newlands (1983)

    Director
    Michael Houldey
    Subject
    Education; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

    What happens to children who play truant and are labelled ‘disruptive’? Newlands Education Guidance Centre in Birmingham is one of many units around the country which try to help. This documentary...

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