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It’s Your Time You’re Wasting
Hosted by David Didau and Martin Robinson · education · EN
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It’s Your Time You’re Wasting
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Who hosts It’s Your Time You’re Wasting?
It’s Your Time You’re Wasting is hosted by David Didau and Martin Robinson. The show has published 53 episodes to date.
What has It’s Your Time You’re Wasting covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Hot Schools, Hot Heads, Send the Kids Home?" (26 June 2026, 35 minutes), "Milburn Review and its Effect on Schools" (6 June 2026, 48 minutes), and "Gemma Collins Visits the DfE. Teachers React Badly." (20 May 2026, 35 minutes).
How often does It’s Your Time You’re Wasting publish?
It’s Your Time You’re Wasting publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 59 minutes across 53 episodes.
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Booking probability for It’s Your Time You’re Wasting is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. It’s Your Time You’re Wasting requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. It’s Your Time You’re Wasting's contact route on record: public web form.
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The strongest fits for It’s Your Time You’re Wasting are Schools (K-12) and Educational Support Services. It’s Your Time You’re Wasting has an education audience.
About the host
David Didau and Martin Robinson hosts It’s Your Time You’re Wasting, an education podcast with 53 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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It’s Your Time You’re Wasting
Milburn Review and its Effect on Schools
Jun 6, 202648 minThe Interim Report is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/young-people-and-work-interim-report/young-people-and-work-interim-report Pic of Milburn used under permission...
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Gemma Collins Visits the DfE. Teachers React Badly.
May 20, 202635 minIs Gemma Collins visit to the Department for Education a sign of the decline in standards or a recognition that the long tail of underachievement in this country leaves far too many kids with a cynical view of school...
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Phones, AI and the case for Tech scepticism
May 7, 20261h 11mIn this episode, David and Martin discuss phones, AI and the need for educational scepticism. They ask why schools are increasingly banning phones while being encouraged to embrace AI, and whether this contradiction...
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The Cult of Critical Thinking
Apr 30, 202659 minWho needs critical thinking? We've got books to win in a competition! Listen in and find out how to win David's new book! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/104117215X/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_api_gl_i_2HSGGSTD9W7WTK75K5ES?linkCode=ml...
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Do We Still Care About Creativity?
Apr 23, 20261h 4mPISA has decided how well a country's schools teach creativity. They then go on to calculate what impact that will have on each country's economic performance. How well did the countries of the UK do? Have a butcher's...
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Diversity and Demand - What Books Should We Teach?
Apr 16, 202659 minShould English Departments ditch their 'most popular' texts in order to leave room for books written by female authors? Can we really teach the best that has been thought and said if managers keep foisting texts on...
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Panic in the Library. Should AI Ban School Books?
Apr 2, 202655 minChesterton's Fence - What do we lose when we use AI to make decisions for us?
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Tourette’s and the Limits of Inclusion
Mar 7, 20261h 1mThe recent Bafta controversy tests the limits of inclusion in public places. Just how tolerant are we? How does inclusion work in classrooms up and down the country? Some links mentioned...
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Belonging in Schools: How Do We Do It?
Nov 30, 20251h 4mBelonging is Ofsted’s latest preoccupation. In the 2025 framework it sits inside inclusion, now judged in its own right. Schools feel pressure to demonstrate how they notice and support pupils who meet friction in the...
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What Makes a Top School? Facts and Misinformation.
Nov 15, 20251h 6mIn this episode we look at a cluster of articles, tweets and policy announcements, each tugging in a slightly different direction. On their own they’re fragments. Taken together they paint a picture of how schools try...
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Curriculum Review: Ebacc to the Future
Nov 6, 20251h 5mCurriculum Wars, Again The 2025 Curriculum & Assessment Review – progress or regression? This week, we wade into the newly published Curriculum and Assessment Review — the biggest rethink of England’s education system...
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Bridget Phillipson and the Curriculum Question
Oct 10, 20251h 2mBreakfasts or Brains? Before we go into the notes, you can sponsor David and donate to cancer research here: https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/davids-giving-page-28674978 Bridget Phillipson’s Labour Conference...
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Should Kids Love Learning?
Sep 26, 20251h 9mShould Kids Love Learning? • Should kids love learning? Is love even important? What actually matters? • Is this about engagement, motivation, wellbeing, stupidogenesis or something else? The Education Divide • Peter...
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Should Students See Themselves in the Curriculum?
Sep 21, 202556 minBecky Francis chair of the Curriculum Review stated at Research Ed National Conference that ‘The review will not dumb down content, or infuse with issues or campaigns.’ Yet the review ‘will (her italics) ensure that...
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Charlie Kirk’s Murder: Lessons for Schools
Sep 13, 20251h 10mCan we teach students how to disagree agreeably? What is the state of our nation (UK) and how does this impact our schools and colleges? Is our national/international situation so fraught and anxiety inducing that young...
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Making Minds Not Just Filling Them
Sep 5, 202551 minWhat is the point of school? Is it changing? Should we focus on academic education or vocational? Are either right for the age of AI? Does creativity and play have a part to play or are we just in the business of...
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Schools, AI and Stupidity
Aug 29, 202559 minIs AI dumbing us down? Are schools in danger of making kids 'stupider'? Should we make schools gymnasia of the mind? Will an education for leisure replace an education for work? All this and more in this episode! Some...
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Schools and the Personality Crisis
Aug 21, 20251h 7mConscientiousness is crashing, neuroticism is soaring, young people are far less agreeable and far more introverted - what have we done to our kids? David and Martin discuss this and more - is our on-screen and social...
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Dead Poets Society: Lessons in Romanticism
Aug 9, 20251h 4mIs Dead Poets Society a great film? Does it have any lessons for contemporary teaching? Is Romanticism a bad influence on schooling? ALSO: Why not sponsor David on his half marathon for Cancer Research...
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Michael Young
Retired Chief Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force, doctoral researcher in school safety, City’s Business Solutions Center
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Toby Young
general secretary of the Free Speech Union, Guildhall School of Music & Drama
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Sam Freedman
Institute for Government senior fellow and former Department for Education advisor, Ark’s Education Partnerships Group
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Sarah Davies
Executive Director of BILT and Director of Education Innovation at the University of Bristol, International Franchise Association
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