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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.
Tom Richmond hosts Inside Your Ed, a education show with 106 episodes published.
“Labour will end the VAT exemption for private schools to invest in our state schools.” So said the Labour Party election manifesto in 2024, and in the Budget later that year the addition of VAT to school fees was enacte
The Government’s consultation on their proposed reforms to the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, or SEND, system closed on May 18th. Yet among the 39 consultation questions spread over 136 pages, one issue was
It has been over 3.5 years since then opposition leader Keir Starmer announced that a Labour government would give businesses the flexibility they need to train their workforce by turning the Conservative Party’s apprent
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.
“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 introduc
SEND reforms to 'strip away' children's legal protections, charity says. That was according to a recent headline on the BBC website. Needless to say, the Department for Education, or DfE, disagrees, claiming that their p
Normally a Schools White Paper from the Department for Education, or DfE, would attract plenty of attention on its release as it sets out the direction of travel on schools policy for the foreseeable future. But when the
VAT on school fees, the end of their business rates relief, a big hike in employers’ National Insurance contributions, falling pupil rolls. It is no exaggeration to say that independent schools in England have had a very
On the 28th of October 2021, the first ever episode of Inside Your Ed was released. Almost four and a half years later, I’m delighted to say that this is episode number 100 of Inside Your Ed – quite a milestone for a pod
“It’s been a terrible year to graduate and find a job” said a recent headline in the Financial Times. Other newspapers have also chipped in with equally gloomy headlines such as “Where have all the graduate jobs gone”, “
Welcome back to Inside Your Ed – I hope you’ve all had a great start to 2026. Last year concluded with an action-packed autumn term of education policies, including the Curriculum and Assessment Review, a Post 16 White P
In January 2025, I recorded an episode of Inside Your Ed titled ‘Will the debate over vocational and technical qualifications ever end?’. It is therefore rather fitting that my final podcast of 2025 will prove beyond all
For the Higher Education, or HE sector, it may be starting to feel like one step forward is almost immediately followed by one step backward. Last year, the announcement of a rise in tuition fees in line with inflation w
“Today is a landmark moment in improving the lives of children with SEND and their families. For too long, families have found themselves battling against a complex and fragmented system.” Those words from then Children
The goal was evolution, not revolution, and when the final report from the Curriculum and Assessment Review, chaired by Professor Becky Francis, was published on November 5th, that is precisely what was delivered. Across
It is entirely normal for a Government to announce plans to reform either Higher Education (HE) or Further Education (FE). What is much less normal is a Government announcing a plan to reform HE and FE at the same time.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer generated plenty of headlines at the Labour Party conference in late September when he set a new target of two-thirds of young people completing some form of higher level learning beyond schoo
If you were looking for reasons to be optimistic about the future of Higher Education, or HE, in England, the last academic year was a rather disappointing spectacle. The inflation-linked rise in tuition fees towards the
When Ofsted, the school and college inspectorate in England, launched a consultation earlier this year on their new framework for conducting inspections, the response from teachers and leaders was pretty damning. That’s
Welcome back to Inside Your Ed – I hope you all had a great summer. For many people working in politics, the summer break offers a gentler pace of life while most MPs and government ministers are away from Westminster. H
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