Episode 8 and we are thrilled to welcome Tom Ravenscroft - Founder & CEO of Skills Builder Partnership. The Skills Builder Partnership brings together more than 550 schools and colleges, 130 employers and 100 other skills-building organisations around a common language and approach to building essential skills. Tom was the 2009 UK Entrepreneurship Teacher of the Year. He has served as a non-executive director of Teach First and has also been recognised as one of the UK’s leading social entrepreneurs by being elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2017. His first book, The Missing Piece was published in October 2017. Including: 🔑 Who his two key mentors are 👨🏻‍🏫 How he nearly lost his job in his first term of teaching 🇬🇧 What the U.K can learn from other countries regarding essential skills

Episode 7 of Heads & Tales and the big guests keep on coming with Olly Newton, Executive Director of the Edge Foundation. Edge is an independent, politically impartial foundation working to inspire the education system to give all young people across the UK the knowledge, skills and behaviours they need to flourish in their future life and work. Before running Edge, Olly spent 12 years in the Department of Education and has also acted as a specialist advisor to the House Lords Commission on Youth Unemployment. Including: • Why he went on a manhunt to an engineering start-up near Oxford station • Why the civil service wasn’t quite right for him • His perspective on the two big issues facing apprenticeships

Episode 6 of ‘Heads & Tales’ is one of our biggest yet, featuring Director of Secondaries at United Learning, Dame Sally Coates. Featuring: 🪟 What happened to every single window at the school where she was first headteacher. 💬 A career altering conversation with then Justice Secretary, Michael Gove. 🏫 How family challenges led her into an extraordinary career in education.

It’s Episode 5 and this one is special: an in-depth chat with Ed Fidoe, currently CEO at the LIS: The London Interdisciplinary School. Before LIS, Ed co-founded School 21, an innovative 4 – 18 school in Stratford, East London, designed for children from all starting points and backgrounds. Prior to founding School 21 Ed worked at McKinsey & Co and ran a theatre production company. Including: 🏀 Why a 26-year-old basketball player spurred him on to a life in education 🎬 His early life as a TV star 🚨 How his advertising efforts for School 21 led to a run in with the police

Headmaster of Stowe, Dr Anthony Wallersteiner. It was a rollicking and revealing conversation, including: 👎🏻 Why he was hopeless at prep school 🌍 What Richard Branson and the organiser of the Kindertransport have in common 🎧 Why Led Zeppelin caused him to fail his Maths O-Level.

Episdoe three is an in-depth interview with the CEO of ISEB, Julia Martin. Featuring: 🚀 How she got into the assessment industry 📚 How Exams will change in the future ✏️ Top tips on preparing for the Pre-tests

One of the most exciting young founders in education, Emilie Spire of Noala. Featuring: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 The family story that launched Noala 🏫 What she’d do as Education Secretary 🚀 Her top tips for growing a business.

Our first guest is Andrew Nott, Chairman of IAPS and Educational Consultant.