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Your invite into education’s busiest newsroom. Join Tes reporters and news editors as we discuss the big school stories of the week and what they mean for teachers. We give you the inside track on our latest exclusives and prepare you for what’s ahead. Relevant, irreverent and occasionally slightly shambolic. Essential listening for anyone interested in schools.

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Podagogy – Season 3, Episode 2 - Talk in the classroom with professor Neil Mercer

April 25, 2018 12:00 - 41 minutes - 94.3 MB

Professor Neil Mercer takes a moment to consider the question, and then launches into an answer that should please any teacher who has been told to talk more or less in the classroom. “The research does not tell you what the balance between teacher and student talk should be, in any clear way,” says the emeritus professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and director of Oracy Cambridge. “Crude proportions are not important or useful.” Mercer has dedicated his career to looking a...

Further - 24th April 2018 - Scott Hayden

April 24, 2018 16:10 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MB

In this week's Tes FE Podcast, columnist Sarah Simons is joined Basingstoke College of Technology's Scott Hayden, whose team won the Outstanding use of technology for improving teaching, learning and assessment category at this year's Tes FE Awards. In this episode Sarah and Scott, a teacher and digital innovation specialist, discuss criticism of the Institute for Apprenticeships, how T levels could be fast-tracked to credibility, and the importance of speaking the language of business.   ...

News - 20 April 2018 - Nick Gibb on school funding, hungry pupils and exclusions

April 20, 2018 12:44 - 21 minutes - 47.7 MB

Schools minister Nick Gibb joined the Tes podcast to talk about school funding, hungry pupils, and the DfE's review of exclusions. Join us as we unpick what his comments mean for schools that are suffering a funding squeeze, and for children whose hunger is affecting their behaviour and attainment.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Podagogy – Season 3, Episode 1 – AI in schools with professor Rose Luckin

April 18, 2018 10:54 - 35 minutes - 80.7 MB

Rose Luckin, professor of Learner Centred Design at the UCL Institute of Education, is worried about the machines. Or more specifically, artificially intelligent machines seeping into education and the lack of response, thus far, from teachers as to what that might mean for their jobs. “The computer can do the academic knowledge delivery in a very individualised way for each learner,” she explains on this week’s Tes Podagogy. “For academic knowledge, in well-designed subject areas, the evid...

Further - 18th April 2018 - Alison Scattergood

April 17, 2018 16:43 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MB

In this week's Tes FE Podcast, columnist Sarah Simons is joined by winner of the Teacher of the Year category at this year's Tes FE Awards, Alison Scattergood. Alison, who teaches barbering and hairdressing skills at East Durham College, is herself a renowned competitor at national level. She was the first woman to be named a British Master Barber and last year, she was accepted as a member of the Fellowship of British Hairdressers. In this episode Alison and Sarah discuss the ever-changing...

News - 13 April 2018 - Teacher workload, EAL pupils and the data deluge

April 13, 2018 16:27 - 20 minutes - 46.7 MB

We discuss how workload seems to be trumping pay as the biggest concern of many teachers, including those at the last ever ATL annual conference. We also ask what lies behind the success of pupils with English as an additional language - and whether the government's accountability system is unfair to schools serving white working class communities - and discuss some advice for teachers drowning in data. Tune in and enjoy.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

News - 6 April 2018 - Recruitment crisis, teachers' unions and play in the classroom

April 06, 2018 15:41 - 17 minutes - 39.6 MB

We discuss worrying projections about the number of additional secondary teachers we need to recruit by 2024.We also take the temperature at the two biggest teachers' union annual conferences, and discuss an academic who believes that play has no place in the classroom. Tune in and enjoy!   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

News - 29 March 2018 - Gender pay gap, union conferences and Toby Young

March 29, 2018 16:54 - 18 minutes - 40.7 MB

We discuss the gender pay gap in schools that sees women working in schools earn on average a lot less than their male colleagues. We also preview the teaching union conferences over Easter, and the fate of Toby Young. Tune in and enjoy.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Further - 28th March 2018 - Stephen Evans

March 28, 2018 08:30 - 19 minutes - 18 MB

In this week's episode of the the Tes FE Podcast Stephen Evans, CEO at Learning and Work Institute chats with TES columnist Sarah Simons about a better way to share students' exam arrangement information, how to get the best out of T levels and what an FE lecturer should be paid. All this week's FE news and views direct to your ears.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

News - 22 March 2018 - Smart drugs, primary science and the Global Teacher Prize

March 22, 2018 16:11 - 19 minutes - 45 MB

We discuss concerns about the rise of smart drugs in our schools, and what to make of Damian Hinds' first appearance before the Commons Education Select Committee. We also consider fears that science in primary schools is a "dying field". Tune in and enjoy.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Further - 21st March 2018 - Sarah Laszlo

March 21, 2018 15:13 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MB

In this week's TES FE Podcast Sarah Laszlo, Learner Voice programme coordinator at Derwen College joins TES columnist Sarah Simons to discuss this week's FE news and views. They look at how the UK apprenticeship model is being replicated around the world, explore the impact that Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP) are having on specialist colleges and ask whether building relationships with students has a greater role in academic achievement than the quality of teaching.    See acast.c...

Podagogy – Season 2, Episode 11 - Teaching assistants with professor Rob Webster

March 21, 2018 12:00 - 48 minutes - 109 MB

“If we said, ‘On Monday, when you go back to school, there will be no teaching assistants (TAs)’, I doubt very much schools would make it to the end of the week,” says Rob Webster, an academic at the UCL Institute of Education (IoE). “TAs are the mortar in the brickwork.” Webster heads up the Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants initiative for the UCL Centre for Inclusive Education and is one of the country’s leading researchers into the role of TAs. In this episode, he talks abou...

News - 16 March 2018 - Workload, accountability and the case for curiosity

March 16, 2018 16:51 - 14 minutes - 32.2 MB

We discuss Damian Hinds' big play on teacher workload at the ASCL conference - and whether it will make any difference - and how the system that holds our schools to account seems to be crumbling. We also ask whether curiosity in the classroom is being buried under the weight of teacher workload and accountability. Tune in and enjoy.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Further - 14th March 2018 - Ian Pretty

March 14, 2018 14:50 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MB

In this episode of the TES FE Podcast, Ian Pretty, chief executive of Collab Group joins TES Columnist, Sarah Simons to whip through the week's FE news and views. They discuss employer and FE partnerships in the delivery of apprenticships, question whether lowering the voting age to 16 is something the sector should be promoting, and chat about the age at which they felt like they became a grown-up.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Podagogy – Season 2, Episode 10 - Judging teaching with professor Daniel Muijs

March 14, 2018 12:00 - 32 minutes - 73.5 MB

“It is dangerous to say there is one particular method that will work in any classroom in any school,” warns professor Daniel Muijs, head of research at Ofsted. The former University of Southampton academic explains that education research is incredibly “complex” and judging teacher or school effectiveness is therefore also difficult. “The research suggests you need a holistic approach to assessing teacher effectiveness so you do not rely on any single measure,” he says. “You could never a...

News - 8 March 2018 - Union conferences, teacher stress and reading with pupils

March 08, 2018 17:37 - 16 minutes - 37.6 MB

We discuss research showing how stress that teachers experience can be passed on to pupils and can affect their education. We also ask what to expect as the 2018 union conference season gets under way, and learn why it is so important to read with pupils. Tune in and enjoy.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Podagogy – Season 2, Episode 9 - Gender in schools with professor Vanita Sundarum

March 07, 2018 12:00 - 34 minutes - 76.8 MB

“Very few schools consider themselves to be promoting gender norms or particular ideas about sexuality, but they do promote lessons about boys and girls and heterosexuality all the time,” says Vanita Sundaram, professor in the department of education at the University of York. Sundaram explains that this begins at the earliest ages of schooling. “We know from a very young age that gendered norms are learned and enacted in primary schools,” she says. “Boys are using objectifying language ab...

Podagogy – Season 2, Episode 8 - Literacy with professor Jessie Ricketts

February 28, 2018 12:00 - 40 minutes - 90.2 MB

“The message in secondary is that we don’t necessarily know what to recommend in terms of teaching reading as there is so little research in secondary when it comes to reading,” laments Dr Jessie Ricketts, head of the the Language and Reading Acquisition (LARA) research lab at Royal Holloway university.  The LARA lab researches all aspects of reading, writing and language acquisition, but problems with reading at secondary is a current focus.  In this week’s Tes Podagogy, Ricketts explains...

News - 23 February 2018 - Children in care, transgender pupils and the future of academies

February 23, 2018 15:35 - 19 minutes - 44.8 MB

We discuss an exclusive Tes investigation that highlights how lots of children in care are being failed by our school system. We also look at how schools can help transgender children to find their voice, and what a key report from the National Audit Office means for the future of the academies programme. Tune in and enjoy.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

News - 22nd Feb 2018 - Dr Simon Reddy

February 22, 2018 14:16 - 18 minutes - 41.5 MB

In this episode of the Tes FE Podcast, columnist Sarah Simons is joined by FE lecturer, adacemic and master plumber Dr Simon Reddy. They discuss the reality of UK skills shortages, new ways to embrace diversity in FE and how the increase in Levels 4 and 5 could change the professionalism of the sector. Sarah also has a rant about designated "think spaces".    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Podagogy – Season 2, Episode 7 – Genetics with Dr Kathryn Asbury

February 21, 2018 12:00 - 34 minutes - 77.9 MB

“I have some sympathy for people getting nervous when discussing genetics and education,” says Dr Kathryn Asbury, a senior lecturer in psychology in education at the University of York.  Unfortunately for her, though, she can’t avoid it: Dr Asbury is one of the country’s leading genetics researchers and is co-author of G is for Genes: The Impact of Genetics on Education and Achievement. In this week’s Tes Podagogy podcast, she talks at length about why the teaching profession needs to get ...

News - 16 February 2018 - Times tables, prison schools and Ofsted vs the DfE

February 16, 2018 16:10 - 17 minutes - 39.9 MB

We discuss the reaction to the DfE's pilot of the new times tables check, and a turf war between Ofsted and the DfE that saw schools get caught in the crossfire. We also look prison schools: how teachers show kids behind bars that they care, and whether something could have been done earlier in the system to stop them reaching this point. Tune in and enjoy.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Further - 13th Feb 2018 - Hilary Nunns

February 14, 2018 16:55 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MB

In this week's episode of The TES FE Podcast columnist Sarah Simons is joined by renowned teacher and behaviour management expert Hilary Nunns. They discuss the latest in the world of FE, including parity between T-Levels and A-Levels, the need for a new vision for adult learning, and the showbiz element of the Ofsted inspection.     See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

News - 9 February 2018 - Sex education, books for key stage 3 and private schools

February 09, 2018 16:56 - 20 minutes - 45.9 MB

Join the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest topics of the week. We discuss the state of the independent school sector, following this week's Tes Independent School Awards, and concerns about sex education days before a government consultation on the issue closes. We also ask which books English teachers should set their pupils in key stage 3 to read, now that so many of the usual choices are now covered in key stage 2. Tune in and enjoy.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy a...

Further - 7th February 2018 - Ian Pryce CBE

February 07, 2018 16:10 - 16 minutes - 15.6 MB

In this week's episode of the TES FE Podcast, columnist Sarah Simons chats with principal and chief executive of The Bedford College Group, Ian Pryce CBE. They discuss how the apprenticehsip levy works across the UK, and ask if improved information, advice and guidance in schools is the way to sort out national skills gaps. They also consider the value of seeing an argument from the opposing side as Sarah bumps into a person on Twitter who got her goat.     See acast.com/privacy for priva...

Podagogy – Season 2, Episode 6 – Setting with Becky Francis

February 07, 2018 12:00 - 46 minutes - 104 MB

“The international research is very clear that overall there is no positive impact of setting and streaming on young people’s attainment,” says Professor Becky Francis, director of the UCL Institute of Education. In this week’s Tes Podagogy podcast, she explains in detail why this might be and reveals just how damaging setting often is for the education prospects of disadvantaged children. “We find a disproportionate amount of kids from low social economic backgrounds in low sets and strea...

News - 2 February 2018 - School funding, teacher recruitment and developmental language disorder

February 02, 2018 15:08 - 15 minutes - 34.4 MB

Join the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest topics of the week. We discuss the paradox that despite real-terms per-pupil school funding increasing massively since 1997, schools are currently in deep financial difficulties. We also hear about developmental langauge disorder - a special education need more common than autism, but little known by teachers. Tune in and enjoy.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Podagogy – Season 2, Episode 5 - Special report from West Rise Junior School

January 31, 2018 14:19 - 26 minutes - 60.3 MB

“If you have a child that is more practical, that is not getting there academically, and you do not build their confidence, you do not equip them with life skills, then how have you prepared them for life?” Alex Richards is the farm manager at West Rise Junior School in Eastbourne. The school is famous for its risk-embracing pedagogy, with students engaged in multiple out-of-the-classroom lessons, predominantly on a large marshland rented from the council. Since winning the Tes Primary Sch...

Further - 30th Jan 2018 - Pay deals, Google apprenticeships and social mobility.

January 31, 2018 10:32 - 17 minutes - 16 MB

In this week's edition of the TES FE Podcast columnist Sarah Simons is joined by Nafisah Graham-Brown, Head of Life Skills and Community at ELATT. With the UCU launching strike ballots at 12 colleges, Sarah and Nafisah discuss the the problem of pay in FE, as well as mulling over how apprenticeships can boost social mobility.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

News - 26 January 2018 - League tables, governors and trouble in the SLT

January 26, 2018 13:50 - 13 minutes - 27.3 MB

Join the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest topics of the week. We discuss this week's secondary school league tables, and how the growth of multi-academy trusts has fundamentally changed school governors as we know them. We also hear some advice about how leaders can tackle troublemakers on their senior leadership team. Tune in and enjoy.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Podagogy – Season 2, Episode 4 - Training teachers with professor Sam Twiselton

January 24, 2018 12:00 - 36 minutes - 68.7 MB

“If you listed everything that all the experts we spoke to as part of the Carter review said was essential for the basic understanding a newteacher needed, it adds up to five years [of training],” states professor Samantha Twiselton, director of the Sheffield Institute of Education, on this week’s Tes Podagogy podcast. “There would be nothing on that list you would disagree with, but it is completely unrealistic [in the timeframe we have].” Initial Teacher Training is regularly criticised o...

News - 19 January 2018 - Teaching assistant pay and pupils' career hopes

January 19, 2018 11:51 - 13 minutes - 26.8 MB

Join the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest topics of the week. We discuss how pay rises of up to 16 per cent for school support staff - including teaching assistants - could result in more redundancies in schools. And we talk about a new survey which looks extensively at what primary school children would like to be when they grow up. Tune in and enjoy.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Podagogy – Season 2, Episode 2 – Race in education with professor Kalwant Bhopal

January 17, 2018 12:00 - 27 minutes - 51.6 MB

“If you are a white teacher in a classroom, you still have a responsibility to think about, teach about, and understand issues of racism,” states Kalwant Bhopal, professor of education and social Justice and deputy director of the Centre for Research in Race & Education (CRRE) at the University of Birmingham. In this episode, she explains that, too often, issues around diversity and racism are left to BAME teachers to call out. She adds that in everything from behaviour techniques and recru...

Further - 16th January 2018 - David Hughes

January 16, 2018 17:43 - 23 minutes - 27.4 MB

In the first Tes FE Podcast of 2018, David Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, discusses news and views with Tes columnist Sarah Simons.  The conversation focusses on the government reshuffle, FE in the international market, and post-16 alternative provision. Plus David gives some sound advice on making speedy progress with a can-do attitude: "If someone doesn't say you can't, it means you can!"   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

News -12 January 2018 - Reshuffle, CEO pay and wrestling

January 12, 2018 10:06 - 15 minutes - 29.8 MB

Join the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest topics of the week. We discuss this week's cabinet reshuffle and the demise of Justine Greening. We also explore what the appointment of Damian Hinds as education secretary could mean for the sector. We talk about our investigation into multi-academy trust CEOs and explore whether we have reached 'peak pay' for the leaders. And we discuss how wrestling can give you many strengths in the classroom. Tune in and enjoy.   See acast.com/priv...

Podagogy – Season 2, Episode 1 - Research myths with professor Christian Bokhove

January 10, 2018 12:00 - 37 minutes - 71 MB

“You can shout as often as you like that ‘x’ should work, but if it is not working while I am teaching, I will do other things that on paper might not be as efficient,” says Dr Christian Bokhove, a lecturer in mathematics education at the University of Southampton and a specialist in research methodologies. Speaking on this episode of Tes Podagogy, which focuses on spotting research myths and how teachers can be empowered by research, Bokhove explains that the relationship between teachers ...

Further - 29 December 2017 - New Year Special

December 29, 2017 16:54 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MB

In this New Year special edition of the Tes FE Podcast, columnist Tom Starkey (egged on by fellow columnist Sarah Simons), airs his audacious views on everything from edu-tourists to light-fingered students. No fences are sat on in the recording of this podcast.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

News - 22 December 2017 - The Tes person of the year

December 22, 2017 09:33 - 14 minutes - 27.6 MB

We discuss the Tes person of the year - former school leaders' union leader and the new boss of Teach First Russell Hobby - and our nine runners-up. The top 10 most influential figures in education this year range from Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman to Varndean School's resident pygmy goats. We talk about why these figures were selected and we also discuss some of the most significant education stories of the year. Tune in and enjoy.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-...

Further - 19th December 2017 - Joe Baldwin

December 20, 2017 11:46 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MB

In this week’s Tes Further Education podcast, Sarah Simons and Joe Baldwin, director of learning services at Bridgend College, discuss the £120m national colleges which are proving slow to spark into life. They also look at ways to avoid burnout, inspired by Education and Training Foundation chief executive David Russell. On the subject of Christmas relaxation, one of them will be training for the London Marathon; the other will be sitting completely still.    See acast.com/privacy for pr...

News - 15 December 2017 - Supply teachers, social mobility and Ofsted

December 15, 2017 12:14 - 16 minutes - 30.4 MB

Join the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest issues this week. We discuss the treatment of supply teachers who say their pay and conditions have never been worse - and we explore the ways in which schools have been dealing with spiralling agency costs. We also talk about the government's new social mobility action plan and what it could mean for schools. And we discuss Amanda Spielman's first annual report at Ofsted. Tune in and enjoy.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt...

Podagogy – Season 1, Episode 14 - Grammar with Mark Brenchley and Ian Cushing

December 13, 2017 09:42 - 46 minutes - 87.2 MB

“The curriculum is quite weird, the learning a certain feature at a certain point, I do not understand that at all,” says Mark Brenchley, associate research fellow at the Centre for Research in Writing at the University of Exeter.   He and Ian Cushing, a teaching fellow in English linguistics at University College London, believe that is not the only weird thing about grammar teaching in schools and how teachers perceive grammar. In the 8 December issue of Tes, they detail a number of these...

Podagogy – Season 1, Episode 13 - Research in education with Sir Kevan Collins

December 06, 2017 12:00 - 31 minutes - 58.6 MB

The last thing Sir Kevan Collins, chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), wants teachers to do is to log on to the organisations Teaching and Learning Toolkit and read it like a prescription: do this, then this, this number of times a day. “We are absolutely not looking to nail what works – there are no absolutes in this,” he explains. “It is always about trying to reduce your uncertainty, to get a bit more confidence about what you do.” For Sir Kevan, research is only...

Podagogy – Season 1, Episode 12 - Routines for learning with Doug Lemov

November 29, 2017 06:12 - 35 minutes - 67.5 MB

The education author and teacher explains how teachers need to set out and establish routines for learning behaviour so all children can thrive “Sometimes our most rigorous intentions in the classroom are undone by a lack of the attention to mundane details of how things should go right,” says Doug Lemov. He details some of the routines that he advocates in the podcast, including ‘cold calling’ and ‘tracking’. He also details the theory behind his work, and  discusses the role of knowledge...

News - 23 November 2017 - What does the budget really means for maths, and do public services work together for vulnerable children?

November 23, 2017 17:32 - 19 minutes - 36.8 MB

Join the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest issues of the week. We discuss the Budget, and what it did and did not have to say about education, from teachers' pay to new money for maths. We also talk about how vulnerable children are being put at risk by the failure of different public services to work more closely together, and explore some work that might help address the problem.  Tune in and enjoy.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Podagogy – Season 1, Episode 11 - Dyslexia with professor Maggie Snowling

November 22, 2017 12:00 - 32 minutes - 67.4 MB

“People used to think dyslexia was a clear cut syndrome with signs and syndromes like a medical disease, but it is actually much more like blood pressure – it can range from very low to very high,” explains professor Margaret Snowling, president of St John’s College Oxford and one of the world’s leading dyslexia researchers. Speaking on the Tes Podagogy podcast, she addresses numerous others myths around the condition, provides some tips and strategies to support dyslexic learners  and expl...

News - 17 November 2017 - Academy pay, early years and free schools

November 17, 2017 09:23 - 18 minutes - 35.2 MB

We discuss rampant pay increases for academy leaders - including principals of single schools who are paid more than the prime minister - and new research on free schools that gives ammunition to their critics and their supporters. We also talk about one academic's concerns that the government plans to formalise the assessment of children in early years are doomed to failure because policy makers do not understand the basics of brain development. Tune in and enjoy.    See acast.com/priv...

Podagogy – Season 1, Episode 10 - Bullying with Luke Roberts

November 15, 2017 12:00 - 28 minutes - 45.4 MB

“Schools can create a climate where bullying becomes more acceptable," says Cambridge University Phd researcher Luke Roberts. He has done extensive research into bullying and finds that what most schools are doing is not only ineffective, but in some cases schools can also make things worse. In this podcast, he talks about effective ways of tackling bullying, why we need to change our language and approaches, and why we may need to get rid of those anti-bullying display boards in schools.  ...

News - 12 November 2017 - Flipped learning and EAL families

November 10, 2017 13:02 - 20 minutes - 32.4 MB

Join the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest issues of the week. We discuss the first ever UK-based study into flipped learning in a school setting and we explore whether the increasingly popular teaching technique represents value for money. We also talk how the country is getting worse at helping EAL students' families speak English - and the devastating effects this failure can have on young people.      See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Podagogy – Season 1, Episode 9 - Effective practice with professor Anders Ericsson

November 08, 2017 12:00 - 25 minutes - 40.4 MB

Anders Ericsson, professor of Psychology at Florida State University and the academic behind deliberate practice theory, discusses his expertise research and how to ensure students work at their peak performance. NOTE: there is some slight clipping of the sound on this podcast due to a technical issue due to the international phone line, it should hopefully not spoil your enjoyment of the interview    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

News - 3 November 2017 - Exam marking, Institute for Teaching and neuroscience

November 03, 2017 17:31 - 13 minutes - 21.2 MB

Join the Tes team as we talk about some of the biggest issues of the week. We look at the concerns that remain in the profession around exam marking - and discuss why this year's English GCSE has been such a concern. We also talk about the new Institute for Teaching - which was launched in Manchester this week - and director's Matt Hood's comment piece in the magazine. And we discuss whether having a better understanding of neuroscience can make you a better leader.      See acast.com/pri...

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