Topic: Personal Growth

Favourite Teachers

Vox pops on what makes a good teacher. The film asks whether young people agree with recent news articles on needing more male and black teachers to act as role models.

Favourite Teachers

Video length - 02.45

Published date - Oct 2008

Keystage(s) - 3 and 4

School Punishments

Vox pops from all over the world on experiences with punishment at school, from writing lines to being hit with a cane. How has the education system changed in recent years? Is corporal punishment a valid method of control?

School Punishments

Video length - 03.43

Published date - Oct 2008

Keystage(s) - 3 and 4

Lives Not Knives: Eliza’s Campaign

Eliza’s experience of knife crime in London led her to set up the Lives Not Knives campaign. Here, aged 15 she speaks about why.

Lives Not Knives: Eliza’s Campaign

Video length - 01.22

Published date - Sep 2008

Keystage(s) - 3 and 4

Fighting Suppression

Wai Hnin is an asylum seeker from Burma, who fled to England for the chance to study freely. Her father is a political prisoner in Burma, because of this she is constantly under threat in her homeland.

Fighting Suppression

Video length - 04.37

Published date - Aug 2008

Keystage(s) - 3 and 4

People on the street give their views on human rights: what are they, who has them, who enforces them, what do they mean for us and where does the media fit in?

Human Rights: What Do You Think?

Video length - 03.35

Published date - Aug 2008

Keystage(s) - 4

Perfect Human

Josephine Quintavalle and Abrey de Grey discuss the ethics of designing the human species.

Perfect Human

Video length - 04.09

Published date - Jul 2008

Keystage(s) - 4

Taking A Gap Year: Top 5 Tips

Ben from Latitude talks about how to get the most out of a gap year. He gives his top five tips on how to get it right.

Taking A Gap Year: Top 5 Tips

Video length - 04.59

Published date - Jul 2008

Keystage(s) - 4

Downloadable resources

The Oldest Trade in the Book

Belinda Brooks-Gordon on the history of prostitution, and how the trade has changed in accordance with social movements.

The Oldest Trade in the Book

Video length - 02.34

Published date - Jun 2008

Keystage(s) - 4

Downloadable resources

Robot Love

Dr David Levy thinks that human-robot relationships and even marriage are part of our future. But what do young people think? Vox pops on whether we can see ourselves dating robots.

Robot Love

Video length - 01.25

Published date - Jun 2008

Keystage(s) - 3 and 4

Downloadable resources

Making Waves

Whilst fundraising for the 2004 Asian tsunami victims, 17 year old Rhiannon Stuart travelled to Sri Lanka on behalf of CAFOD (Catholic Agency For Overseas Development) to see how the money is being spent, and how CAFOD is bringing joy to children’s lives in affected communities.