Educating Greater Manchester


Educating Greater Manchester is the 5th series of the BAFTA award-winning British documentary television programme Educating broadcast on Channel 4. The eight-episode fifth series began broadcast from 31 August 2017. The documentary follows previous installments in the Educating... series including the BAFTA Award-winning Educating Essex, Educating Yorkshire, Educating the East End and Educating Cardiff. The fifth series was filmed at Harrop Fold School in Little Hulton, Salford.
Channel 4 confirmed in January 2018 that the Educating programme was renewed for two further series. For the first time, the series would have returned to the same school for the sixth and seventh series, in Manchester. However, over the course of filming the sixth series, headmaster Drew Povey resigned as a result of allegations of off-rolling students, forcing Harrop Fold School to be placed in special measures by Ofsted. Channel 4 later confirmed that these episodes would not be aired as a result of the findings.

Episodes

Production

After the fourth series of the educating series ended it was announced that the series would be shelved till 2017 to give the show a break and a rest. It was announced on 22 December 2016 by Channel 4 that the Educating would be returning in 2017 with a fifth series after a 2-year break. The series will again be filmed using fly on the wall cameras and will film the lives of teachers and students. The fifth series will be filmed in Salford, Greater Manchester.
Filming for the fifth series began in September 2016 and finished in August 2017 at the end of the school year, the series premiered on Channel 4 from 31 August 2017.

Future episodes

It was announced on 24 January 2018 that there would be a series 2 and series 3 of Educating Greater Manchester. In the wake of the off-rolling scandal and the investigation into the conduct of Drew Povey and Ross Povey, it was later announced these episodes would not be aired.