Education is where the future is made - and everyone has an opinion about what is, or what should be, happening in the UK's schools. But what is the true picture? On the day the 2004 secondary school league tables were released, cameras followed the people who know what it's really like - from students to ministers, head teachers to bus drivers. Meet the people the programme shadowed.
Making the programme
Hundreds of schools, thousands of stories - producer Steve Greenwood explains the process of making the programme.
Goodbye for good, Mr Chips
How has the job changed? And what does the future hold? Explore the changing face of the teaching profession.
Happy hours and happy days
Are school days returning to the rigidity of Victorian times? Jenny Houssart examines the evidence of change to school timetables.
Taking it further
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School standards: time for debate?
Getting the best for the nation's children is tricky, as Geoffrey Court and Peter Grimes explain: how do you set standards in education?
Out of school
Nobody's entirely sure how many exclusions happen each year. Jean Kane describes how Scotland approaches exclusion.