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3.8 (79)
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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.

08/12/2023

The ‘dire’ state of teacher recruitment

Join the Tes News team as they discuss another 'catastrophic' shortfall in the number of trainee teachers recruited this year

16 min
01/12/2023

New shadow schools minister speaks to Tes

Join the Tes News team as they discuss an exclusive interview focusing on what we can expect from Catherine McKinnell.

11 min
25/11/2023

Ofsted rates its final year under Spielman

Join the Tes News team as they discuss a week dominated by Ofsted as it releases it's final annual report before the change of guard and a new era for the watchdog

19 min
10/11/2023

Is it the end of the road for Ofsted grades?

Join the Tes News team as we discuss whether single-word Ofsted inspection judgements are on the way out and consider what inspection in the future might look like. Articles discussed in this week's episode below: Ofsted ‘scorecard’ for schools and MATs exploredOfsted reports ‘opaque’ without grades, warns Gibb And here are some other stories we think you might find interesting: Labour plans to replace Ofsted grades‘Dreaded’ Ofsted inspections ‘ineffective’DfE issues ‘absurd’ threats to trusts with improving schools

11 min
03/11/2023

Can the school buildings crisis be fixed?

Join the Tes News team as we discuss the state of the school estate across England and whether funds aimed at fixing it will be enough

10 min
13/10/2023

Labour conference special

Join the Tes News team as we discuss the major education policies announced at the Labour party conference this week, including boosting primary school nurseries and plans to "upskill" primary teachers in "real world" maths

15 min
06/10/2023

Education takes centre stage

Join Tes News deputy editor news John Roberts and news reporter Matilda Martin from the Confederation of Schools Trust (CST) conference as they reflect on the events of the Conservative party conference in Manchester, and look ahead to the Labour party conference in Liverpool next week. News from the Conservative Party conference:Barran: Each school should get a DfE attendance “deep dive”’Teaching becoming a “military-style tour of duty”, warns charity bossDfE looking at how AI can tackle inequality in educationKeegan mobile ban “unnecessary” and “desperate”, say unionsMaths to 18: Beware “unintended consequences”, warns ex-DfE adviserSunak: Advanced British Standard to replace A levelsSunak’s A-level plan drawn up on “back of an envelope” Here’s what else schools need to know this week:Schools face “rising tide of mistrust,” warns CST leaderConcern for 7,000 pupils on free school meals at RAAC-hit schoolsSchool budgets “stagnate” as increased costs use up fundingLabour’s education mission: all you need to know

18 min
29/09/2023

The school attendance problem

Join the Tes news team as we discuss the scale of the school attendance crisis and whether government efforts to tackle it will have an impact.

15 min

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3.8

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79 Ratings

Good content

22/08/2020

jrkrkrkba

The sound quality makes this unlistenable at times. It would be wonderful if you could sort this out. There were dogs barking over a recent episode and one person has a device with notifications pinging regularly!
Could definitely do better

06/09/2020

Mr Teeeeed

With constant break-ups, pings, cut-outs, volume changes, talking over one another etc this has the production values of a Year 9 RE cover lesson. I know we’re in difficult times, but from a tech point of view, this is the worst remote conversation podcast I’ve heard. Also as a first time listener - who are these people? Journalists? Teachers? Parents? Surely a basic introduction, beyond names, isn’t too much to ask for. A shame since the chat was fairly interesting.
Hmmm

28/06/2020

Chris Timothy

Some interesting topics but the views are too often conservative and traditional. Typical in British education unfortunately.
Needed this to be clearer given the area of conversation.

05/07/2020

jwilsy

A shame that Dave was underprepared again.

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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Tes
Years Active

2015 - 2023
Episodes

40
Rating

Clean
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Weekly series

Tes News

The ‘dire’ state of teacher recruitment

New shadow schools minister speaks to Tes

Ofsted rates its final year under Spielman

Is it the end of the road for Ofsted grades?

Can the school buildings crisis be fixed?

Labour conference special

Education takes centre stage

The school attendance problem

Good content

Could definitely do better

Hmmm

Needed this to be clearer given the area of conversation.

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The ‘dire’ state of teacher recruitment

New shadow schools minister speaks to Tes

Ofsted rates its final year under Spielman

Is it the end of the road for Ofsted grades?

Can the school buildings crisis be fixed?

Labour conference special

Education takes centre stage

The school attendance problem

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Good content

Could definitely do better

Hmmm

Needed this to be clearer given the area of conversation.

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