Latest Uk education Podcast Episodes
Is it time to replace the apprenticeship levy with a 'Growth and Skills Levy'?
Inside Your Ed - April 05, 2023 05:00 - 41 minutesOn April 6th 2023, the apprenticeship levy celebrates its sixth birthday. The question now is whether the levy will get the chance to celebrate many more birthdays in future. The levy is essentially a payroll tax of 0.5 per cent for any UK employer with an annual wage bill of over £3 million, ...
Why did teachers go on strike, and are there more strikes to come?
Inside Your Ed - March 22, 2023 05:00 - 31 minutesDoctors, nurses, train drivers, ambulance drivers, postal workers, university academics – the list of professions that have gone on strike since the start of 2023 is as broad as it is deep. On that basis, the recent strike action by teachers has certainly not come as a surprise. Even before th...
Should we bring back work experience for school pupils?
Inside Your Ed - March 09, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutesThe decision in 2012 to remove the duty on schools to arrange a work experience placement for all 14 to 16-year-olds was perhaps not one of the most high-profile changes made by then Education Secretary Michael Gove. Even so, it generated plenty of grumbling at the time, with the British Chamb...
Should we bring back compulsory work experience for school pupils?
Inside Your Ed - March 09, 2023 05:00 - 39 minutesThe decision in 2012 to remove the duty on schools to arrange a work experience placement for all 14 to 16-year-olds was perhaps not one of the most high-profile changes made by then Education Secretary Michael Gove. Even so, it generated plenty of grumbling at the time, with the British Chamb...
Is 'compulsory maths to age 18' a sensible and achievable goal?
Inside Your Ed - February 23, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutesIn a cost of living crisis and with widespread strike action taking place across the education sector, it is always going to be difficult for the government to build momentum behind any new policy ideas. That said, there is one proposal that the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appears particularly ...
The Schools Bill is dead - what happened, and what now?
Inside Your Ed - February 09, 2023 06:00 - 38 minutesAlmost exactly a year ago, EDSK released an episode of this podcast about what the Department for Education should put into their upcoming Schools White Paper – which would set out the government’s plans to reform the state school system in England. The White Paper was then published in March ...
Has the 2021 FE White Paper made a difference to the FE sector?
Inside Your Ed - January 25, 2023 06:00 - 39 minutesDespite all the turmoil in our education system since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been occasional glimpses of long-term policymaking at the Department for Education. One of the best examples of this is the White Paper in January 2021 that set out a large package of reforms t...
Which think tank has the best plan to fix our childcare system?
Inside Your Ed - January 13, 2023 07:00 - 41 minutesAt the start of 2023, the cost of living crisis is still dominating the news. In recent months, the government has chosen to spend billions of pounds on reducing energy bills to ease the financial pressures on households. However, ministers have paid much less attention to another significant ...
Two think tanks try to fix our childcare system
Inside Your Ed - January 13, 2023 07:00 - 41 minutesAt the start of 2023, the cost of living crisis is still dominating the news. In recent months, the government has chosen to spend billions of pounds on reducing energy bills to ease the financial pressures on households. However, ministers have paid much less attention to another significant ...
Is the government still interested in reforming Higher Education?
Inside Your Ed - December 14, 2022 08:00 - 38 minutesThanks to a turbulent few months in British politics, it is easy to forget that earlier this year the government announced a sweeping set of reforms to the Higher Education system in England that could have a significant impact on both students and institutions. However, two Prime Ministers la...
How do we prevent so many apprentices from dropping out of their training?
Inside Your Ed - December 01, 2022 06:00 - 37 minutesOn the 27th of November 2012, the then Coalition Government published a major review of the apprenticeship system in England, which had been led by the entrepreneur Doug Richard – hence the title ‘the Richard Review’. The Review put forward a wide range of reforms to the design, delivery and f...
Why are so many apprentices dropping out of their training?
Inside Your Ed - December 01, 2022 06:00 - 37 minutesOn the 27th of November 2012, the then Coalition Government published a major review of the apprenticeship system in England, which had been led by the entrepreneur Doug Richard – hence the title ‘the Richard Review’. The Review put forward a wide range of reforms to the design, delivery and f...
What does the future hold for private schools in England?
Inside Your Ed - November 16, 2022 08:00 - 42 minutes“We shall withdraw charitable status from private schools and all their other public subsidies and tax privileges. We will also charge VAT on the fees paid to such schools” said the Labour Party manifesto. In 1983. Here we are 40 years and many changes of government later with the Labour Party...
Why are teachers and headteachers on the verge of strike action?
Inside Your Ed - November 03, 2022 08:00 - 40 minutesAs you have probably noticed, the Government has been going through Education Secretaries at quite a rate – with five people having held the post since July of this year. Given the chaotic political landscape in recent months, it is easy to forget that back in July, an important announcement wa...
Is enough progress being made with mental health support in schools?
Inside Your Ed - October 19, 2022 06:00 - 42 minutes“I want children and young people to have access to mental health support in schools.” said Liz Truss during her campaign for the Conservative Party leadership this summer. Unfortunately the Prime Minister is having to deal with a few other matters at the moment, but that does not detract from...
How many education policies emerged from this year's party conferences?
Inside Your Ed - October 07, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutesIn some years, the political party conference season from mid September to early October can pass largely without incident. This year, party conference season was a bit of a rollercoaster. To kick things off, the Liberal Democrat conference didn’t happen at all, as it would have clashed with t...
What is sitting in the new Education Secretary's in-tray?
Inside Your Ed - September 08, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutesThe “education prime minister” was how Liz Truss described herself during her leadership campaign this summer, and she offered plenty of proposals for how she would change things from primary schools up to universities. To help deliver her education reforms, Kit Malthouse has been appointed a...
What were the major headlines from the 2022 exam season?
Inside Your Ed - August 26, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutesTo say that the last two years of public examination results have been controversial would be an understatement. In 2020, many students’ final grades were set by an algorithm, only for the government to change its mind and hand out the grades that teachers had awarded their students in the fir...
Is the government's COVID recovery plan having the desired effect?
Inside Your Ed - August 05, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutes“After schools shut their gates on Friday afternoon they will remain closed until further notice. This will be for all children, except for those of key workers and for children who are the most vulnerable.” So said former Education Secretary Gavin Williamson on Wednesday 18th March 2020. M...
Should teaching be less art and more science?
Inside Your Ed - July 14, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutesPerhaps one of the most enduring debates in the world of teaching is the question of whether teaching is an art or science. In recent weeks, not one but two new books have made a strong case for placing a greater emphasis on the science of teaching. At the beginning of June, Ross McGill – th...
Is the government right to reform qualifications for 16 to 19-year-olds?
Inside Your Ed - June 29, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutesYou don’t often see teaching unions, schools, colleges, universities and education charities publicly join forces to resist a new government policy, but the debate over the future of qualifications for 16 to 19-year-olds in England has done just that. In 2016 when the government published thei...
Will the government's SEND proposals improve the lives of pupils and families?
Inside Your Ed - June 16, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutesAt the end of March, the government published two significant documents in the space of two days. First came the government’s plans for the future of the state school system in England, which grabbed plenty of media attention. Next came their new consultation on how to improve the support ava...
Do we need to overhaul careers education in schools and colleges?
Inside Your Ed - June 06, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutesA Greek philosopher once said that “change is the only constant in life.” I’m sure that rings true for anyone working in careers education in England over the past decade. In many respects, it seems obvious that we need to provide young people with careers information, advice and guidance beca...
How can we prevent young people from falling out of our education system?
Inside Your Ed - May 19, 2022 07:00 - 42 minutesAs the UK economy slowly emerges from the pandemic, the government has already begun withdrawing many of the schemes that it introduced to support young people over the last two years. This includes the demise of the Kickstart programme, which subsidised jobs for young people who were unemploy...
Will future students win or lose from the government's plans for Higher Education?
Inside Your Ed - May 05, 2022 21:00 - 41 minutesWho would have thought - you wait three years for a government response to an independent review of the Higher Education system, and then two responses come along at once. Unsurprisingly, when ministers recently published their plans for the Higher Education, or HE sector, the headlines were d...
Is the National Tutoring Programme delivering what pupils and schools need?
Inside Your Ed - April 20, 2022 21:00 - 42 minutes“Failing children and taxpayers”, “a bureaucratic nightmare”, a “spaghetti junction of funding”, “baking in deepening inequalities”, “pouring taxpayers’ money down the drain”..... Judging by these reviews, it is hard to conclude that the National Tutoring Programme in England has been a resound...
What have we learned after five years of the apprenticeship levy?
Inside Your Ed - April 06, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutesOne of the most common criticisms of politicians and policymakers is that they keep chopping and changing between different policies, making it hard for any idea or approach to build momentum and recognition among those it is trying to reach. On that basis, perhaps we should be glad that the a...
Did 'Kickstart' actually kickstart new jobs for young people?
Inside Your Ed - March 23, 2022 22:00 - 40 minutesAs the Chancellor Rishi Sunak set out his ‘Plan For Jobs’ in July 2020, he recognised that the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic were hitting young people particularly hard. In response, the Government wanted to generate new jobs and opportunities for them, and so the £2 billion ‘Kickstart...
What role do wealth and privilege play in university admissions?
Inside Your Ed - March 09, 2022 22:00 - 46 minutesThe ‘Varsity Blues’ cheating scandal in the United States, which began almost exactly two years ago to the day, is one of the most astonishing education stories in living memory. The rich and famous, including Hollywood actresses, hedge fund managers and a number of chief executives, paid vast...
How could you 'level up' our education system?
Inside Your Ed - February 24, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutesIn his foreword to the Government’s new ‘levelling up’ plans, the Prime Minister declared that “From day one, the defining mission of this government has been to level up this country” - which raises the question of why it has taken over two years to find out what ‘levelling up’ actually means....
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