Inside Your Ed

Apr 08 2025 81 ep. 38 mins 8

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This podcast takes a look inside the latest stories from across the education system in England including schools, colleges, universities and apprenticeships. Hosted by @Tom_Richmond.

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Is the Curriculum and Assessment Review on the right track?

Apr 08 2025 32 mins

The Curriculum and Assessment Review, which is being chaired by Professor Becky Francis, was commissioned by the Department for Education last summer and will not conclude its work until this autumn. Even so, the Review has attracted so much interest from schools, colleges, teachers, leaders and parents that the interim report from the Review, published at the end of March, was an

Are universities still worth it?

Mar 25 2025 42 mins

Those who work in and around the Higher Education, or HE sector, have been having a rough time if recent media headlines are anything to go by. Since the turn of the year, there has been what’s felt like a constant stream of stories about universities making redundancies, cutting costs and scaling back their operations in an attempt to make themselves more financially sustainable

How easy will it be to get free breakfast clubs into all primary schools?

Mar 11 2025 31 mins

Seeing as the government is clearly short of spare cash, you would have thought the Department for Education investing in a new national programme to improve pupils’ outcomes would be well received. The Government recently announced over £30 million for a pilot of free breakfast clubs in 750 primary schools starting in April 2025 in advance of an expected national rollout of bre

Do Ofsted's plans to reform inspections stand up to closer inspection?

Feb 25 2025 33 mins

Given the endless debates and disagreements about Ofsted, the school and college inspectorate in England, Ofsted’s proposed new framework for conducting inspections was never going to go unnoticed when it launched in early February to kick off a 12-week consultation. But far from splitting opinion, a poll by Teacher Tapp of more than 11,000 teachers found that 0% of respondents w

Is the Schools Bill going to leave state schools in a better state?

Feb 04 2025 34 mins

Shortly after the General Election in 2024, the newly elected Labour government announced a Children’s Wellbeing Bill – a new piece of legislation that set out a range of policies such as a register of children not in schools, restrictions on branded items in school uniforms and greater powers for Ofsted to tackle illegal schools. However, just before Christmas, the Children’

Will the debate over vocational and technical qualifications ever end?

Jan 21 2025 36 mins

Just before the end of 2024, the Government announced the outcome of their review of Level 3 vocational and technical qualifications, which are offered to 16 to 19-year-olds along with A-levels, apprenticeships and the new T-levels. The review confirmed that many vocational and technical qualifications that were going to have their funding removed will in fact continue to be funded

What does President-elect Trump have in store for US (and UK) education?

Jan 05 2025 46 mins

Happy New Year and welcome back to Inside Your Ed. Regular listeners will know that this podcast usually focuses on the latest education news in England, but for my first episode of 2025 we are taking a quick trip over the Atlantic because, as you may have noticed, Donald Trump will start his second term as President of the United States on January 20th. So what plans does Presiden

What exactly will the 'Youth Guarantee' guarantee for young people?

Dec 18 2024 28 mins

“Labour will establish a youth guarantee of access to training, an apprenticeship, or support to find work for all 18- to 21-year-olds, to bring down the number of young people who are not learning or earning.” So said the Labour Party election manifesto in June 2024. Fast forward to the end of 2024, and the Labour Government confirmed in its Get Britain Working report that a Y

Can a new education institute help politicians make better policies?

Dec 03 2024 28 mins

When it feels like every voter and politician has their own opinion on how to run the education system in England, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a credible, independent, evidence-led organisation that provided balanced information to politicians, government officials and the public on how to solve some of the biggest policy challenges. Well, as luck would have it, a new instit

Will the Lifelong Learning Entitlement ever become a reality?

Nov 19 2024 36 mins

Nuclear fusion offers the tantalising prospect of being a potentially limitless source of clean and self-sustaining energy, but, as the old joke goes, nuclear fusion is always 30 years away, and has been for decades. I’m starting to get the same feeling about the Lifelong Learning Entitlement, or LLE, which was first floated back in 2019 as a new way of funding Further and Higher