For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Joe ClayBack in Time for SchoolBBC Two, 8pmIn yet another twist on the Back in Time format, Sara Cox and the social historian Polly Russell fast-forward a group of 15 children and three teachers, recruited from schools around Birmingham and Coventry, through 100 years of history. The group travel through seven eras of education, from the moment compulsory schooling was introduced in the late-Victorian period up to the end of the 20th century, to find out how the subjects, and the way they are taught, have evolved. In later episodes we will watch 21st-century students getting to grips with the BBC Micro computer (“Where’s the mouse?”) and eating school dinners…

Source: The Times January 03, 2019 00:00 UTC