Inside Your Ed

Tom Richmond
Inside Your Ed

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.

  1. 15H AGO

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

    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 breakfast clubs in all primary schools next year. But far from generating positive headlines, the breakfast club pilot ...

    31 min

  2. FEB 26

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

    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 were ‘very positive’ about Ofsted’s plans, and a mere 6% were ‘somewhat positive’. Meanwhile, a survey by the Nation...

    33 min

  3. FEB 5

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

    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’s Wellbeing Bill suddenly morphed into the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill and included a whole host of measures ...

    34 min

  4. JAN 22

    Will the debate over vocational and technical qualifications ever end?

    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. Well, at least until 2026. Or maybe 2027. It depends. And lots of qualifications will be defunded in any case....

    37 min

  5. JAN 6

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

    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 President-elect Trump have for K-12 education, from Kindergarten at age 5 up to 12th grade at age 18? Should colleges a...

    46 min

  6. 12/19/2024

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

    “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 Youth Guarantee is now up and running. However, the same report admitted that at the moment, the Youth Guarantee is ...

    28 min

  7. 12/04/2024

    Can a new education institute help politicians make better policies?

    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 institute called the Centre for Education Systems, or CES, was officially launched in November. The CES has been ...

    29 min

  8. 11/20/2024

    Will the Lifelong Learning Entitlement ever become a reality?

    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 Education courses in England. But the LLE took years to develop and it wasn’t until 2022 that the Conservative g...

    37 min
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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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  • Creator
    Tom Richmond
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    79
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    © 2025 Inside Your Ed
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