TV Show: The Big School Lottery
Aired on: 9:00 PM on September 8th, 2010 – Wednesday
Channel: BBC TWO Channel
Episode Details: Season 1 Episode 1
Episode Name: The Decision
Preview:
Series offering an insight into one of the most important and stressful decisions a family can make – which secondary school to send their child to.Following eight pupils and their parents through the process, the film also has unprecedented access to the work of Birmingham Education Authority, which is the largest in Europe, as it allocates its school places.
Having made their selection of schools, there is a six-month wait for all of the children before they can discover their fate. Julie Newbold, the Head of Admissions and Appeals at Birmingham Education Authority, is able to handle all the complex school preferences via a computer algorithm which creates the results in just a few minutes – 90,000 preferences from 15,000 children are entered and one school for each child is offered.On national offer day, cameras capture the families’ reactions as they hear the verdict.And for Julie Newbold and her team, the weeks that follow offer day are spent fielding thousands of calls from parents unhappy with their allocation, with over 800 appeals to be heard through the summer.
Having made their selection of schools, there is a six-month wait for all of the children before they can discover their fate. Julie Newbold, the Head of Admissions and Appeals at Birmingham Education Authority, is able to handle all the complex school preferences via a computer algorithm which creates the results in just a few minutes – 90,000 preferences from 15,000 children are entered and one school for each child is offered.On national offer day, cameras capture the families’ reactions as they hear the verdict.And for Julie Newbold and her team, the weeks that follow offer day are spent fielding thousands of calls from parents unhappy with their allocation, with over 800 appeals to be heard through the summer.
The Big School Lottery Season 1 Episode 1 The Decision
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