''Tough Young Teachers'' is a British documentary television series that was first broadcast on BBC Three on 9 January 2014. The six graduate teachers featured in the series are Charles Wallendahl ( University of Oxford), Chloe Shaw (

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), Claudenia Williams ( University of Birmingham), Meryl Noronha (

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), Nicholas Church ( Imperial College London) and Oliver Beach ( University of Birmingham & Cornell University). The six graduates are assigned to challenging schools within London by the educational charity Teach First. The programme tracks the difficulties that they face and the progress that they make in their first year of teaching.

Episode list

Schools

* Archbishop Lanfranc School, Croydon *

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, Southeast London *

The Harefield Academy Harefield Academy is a secondary school and sixth form in Uxbridge, London. Located on the site of the former community school, John Penrose School, which closed on 31 August 2005, it reopened as an academy in 2005 and specialises in sports. ...

, Uxbridge

Reception

Ratings

According to overnight figures, the first two episodes had audience shares of 3.0% and 2.2% respectively. The fourth episode was watched by 683,000 (3.0%).

References

External links

* {{BBC programme
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