The BBC School Broadcasting Council and the Education System 1935–1971

This article seeks to establish connections between histories of education and media by examining long-term institutional structural factors. In order a role for broadcasting in schools, the BBC formed relationship with educational world through advisory machinery called Central Council School Broadcasting (CCSB), later reconstituted as (SBC). key period school broadcasting’s development, 1935 1971, CCSB/SBC was unable forge strong world. Internally, assumed control at expense CCSB/SBC. Developments early 1960s raised possibility fundamental reform. However this prevented factors including government policy on both curricula broadcasting, indifference part educationists. is largely based unpublished archive documents.