FACTUAL
4/4 Forty Years On
Thursday 22 September 2005 21:30-22:00 (Radio 4 FM)
In 1965, the British government began championing comprehensive education. But 40 years on, the comps have taken a lot of flak. So has the basic idea of teaching children together in large schools, without selecting by ability, thrived, survived or died? To find out, Evan Davis visits one of the schools created to replace the traditional comprehensive - the first City Technology College in the country, set up in the 1980s. Was it actually a comp by any other name?
[Rpt of today 9.00am] Then Weather.
