Inside Your Ed

Tom Richmond

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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    Should we teach students how to 'fail better'?

    With exam season just around the corner, hundreds of thousands of students in schools, colleges and universities are making their final preparations as they aim for a successful outcome and possibly the very top grades. But, as we know, for many children, young people and adults, rather than experiencing success in the coming weeks and months, they will instead find themselves encountering failure. This failure can easily lead to a loss of motivation, lower expectations, lower self-esteem or even giving up altogether. So, instead of helping learners of different ages to study better or revise better, perhaps we should spend more time helping them to fail better? That’s the thinking behind a new book called ‘Fail Better’, which was released in March. It explores a whole range of concepts, ideas and strategies that try to turn something as seemingly negative as failure into something more positive.  So, what exactly do we mean by failure? Why are some students better able to cope with failure than others? And, most importantly, what advice and guidance could be given to students as well as their teachers and parents to help them grapple with failure as it arises? I’m delighted to be joined by Mark Roberts, the author of Fail Better and also the Director of Research and an English Teacher at Carrickfergus Grammar School. CLICK HERE TO BROWSE INSIDE YOUR ED'S BACK CATALOGUE FOLLOW INSIDE YOUR ED ON LINKEDIN OR TWITTER / X

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    If the student loan system is the problem, is a 'graduate tax' the solution?

    “We have concluded the disadvantages are such that we do not support a graduate tax” So said Lord Dearing in his landmark review of Higher Education, or HE funding in 1997, shortly before tuition fees were first introduced. Over a decade later, Lord Browne’s review of HE funding in 2010 also rejected calls for a graduate tax before going on to propose a significant uplift in tuition fees. Here we are, over a decade on from the Browne Review, and yet again a graduate tax is being proposed by some commentators as the solution to the financial woes facing the HE sector, particularly as opposition to the current student loan system grows by the day. A graduate tax would essentially mean that rather than a graduate paying back the cost of their HE course through student loan repayments when they are in work, graduates would instead pay an extra tax on top of their income tax and these extra payments would depend purely on their income level rather than the actual cost of their HE course. So what makes a graduate tax look appealing relative to a student loan system? Would students, universities and the government be better or worse off if a graduate tax was implemented? And, crucially, do the reasons that led to a graduate tax being rejected in the past still hold true today?  My guests are Professor John Blake, director of the Post-18 project, and Jonathan Simons, a Partner and Head of the Education Practice at Public First. CLICK HERE TO BROWSE INSIDE YOUR ED'S BACK CATALOGUE FOLLOW INSIDE YOUR ED ON LINKEDIN OR TWITTER / X

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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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