Educating Essex
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
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| Original network | Channel 4 |
| Original release | 22 September – 3 November 2011 |
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Educating Essex is the first series of the British documentary television programme Educating produced by Twofour for Channel 4 that ran for seven episodes from September to November 2011. It uses a fly on the wall format to show the everyday lives of the staff and pupils of Passmores Academy, a secondary school in Harlow, Essex, interspersed with interviews of those involved and featuring narration from the director and interviewer, David Clews.
The series received mixed media coverage: it was largely praised for its insight into the lives and behaviour of teenagers and the education system, but was also criticised for its depiction of pupils and teachers using profanity, as well as bullying and teenage pregnancy. The show received numerous awards, including director David Clews's British Academy Television Craft Award for his work on the programme in 2012; in the same year, the show was nominated for a Grierson Award for "Best Documentary Series".
In 2013, Channel 4 and Twofour announced that the next series of the programme would be filmed in a different school, Thornhill Community Academy in Dewsbury, and that it would accordingly be titled Educating Yorkshire. In 2015, Dean who was a pupil at Passmores was featured in the Channel 5 series Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole, as of September 2015 Dean is currently Studying Food and Beverage Service at Harlow College. As of June 2016 Dean has left Harlow College and he has left with a Level 2 First Diploma Qualification in Food and Beverage Service.
Educating Essex was commissioned by Channel 4's commissioning editor for documentaries, Mark Raphael, after the channel pledged an extra £6.7 million to documentary programming in 2011. It is similar to other fly-on-the-wall series broadcast by Channel 4 such as One Born Every Minute, 24 Hours in A&E, The Hotel and The Family, the last of which both director David Clews and series producer Beejal-Maya Patel had previously worked on.
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