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Educating Essex

Educating Essex

2026Seasons : 1Episodes : 7
8.0

The warm and honest - and ground-breaking - series that follows a group of GCSE students, and the staff who teach them, as they face the most important year in their education.

GenreDocumentary
Languagesen
Production CompaniesTwofour
Production CcountriesUnited Kingdom

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