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HEP Talks episodes

October 28, 2023The Education Brief: 28 October 2023
The Education Brief: Saturday 28 October 2023 - Top stories include:
Former Ofsted Chief Sir Michael Wilshaw criticised the watchdog for moving away from using data in inspections.

Ofsted has temporarily suspended evaluations of MATs until the end of the current financial year.

The UK government’s £40 million-pound "hardship fund" will be split between academies and local authority-maintained schools.

The release of findings on the effectiveness of DfE behaviour hubs been delayed until 2024.
This week’s deep dive:
Leadership 55 with Sir Simon Wessely
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Leadership 55 - HEP Booking Hub
Music by Slo Pony
12 min
October 21, 2023The Education Brief: 21 October 2023
The Education Brief: Saturday 21 October 2023 - Top stories include:
The AQA has announced that GCSEs may potentially be moving online from 2026.

The DfE’s school funding error has prompted calls for Schools minister Nick Gibb’s resignation.

New pay scales for teachers and school leaders for 2023-2024 were confirmed last week.
This week’s deep dive:
The Education Policy Institute Annual Report 2023
We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!
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Music by Slo Pony
15 min
October 14, 2023The Education Brief: 14 October 2023
The Education Brief: Saturday 14 October 2023 - Top stories include:
Education unions demand £370 million in per-pupil funding after a mistake in calculations for the national funding formula.

The Commons Education Select Committee is set to investigate the value of single-word Ofsted judgements.

The results for last year’s key stage 1 tests have been published, showing slight improvement over the previous year, but remaining below pre-pandemic levels.

Martyn Oliver was officially confirmed by the Privy Council as the next Ofsted chief inspector.
This week’s deep dive:
The 2023 Labour and Conservative Party conferences and what they mean for education
We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!
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Music by Slo Pony
12 min
October 07, 2023 SuperKind with Keren Mitchell
In this episode of HEP Talks, Luke Kemper talks with Keren Mitchell, co-founder of the not-for-profit, social action-inspiring organisation SuperKind.
The conversation centres around what SuperKind can do for schools, and specifically how schools can use different parts of the website to facilitate the integration of social causes in curriculum. Keren discusses research that shows that introducing activism around social causes to children at a young age makes them more philanthropic in the future, and that teachers actually want to incorporate these topics into their teaching.
SuperKind offers resources for teachers, toolkits for children to take action, and examples of ‘Change-Makers’ from around the world. You can engage with SuperKind on its website, superkind.org, and if you’re interested in signing up for the Social Impact Schools Award, you can get 50% off by typing 'HEP' in the 'How did you hear about us?' question in the registration form.
38 min
September 30, 2023The Education Brief: 30 September 2023
The Education Brief: Saturday 30 September 2023 - Top stories include:
Ofsted’s national director of education Chris Russell will retire at the end of this year.

Ofqual’s chief regulator Dr Jo Saxton will take a new role as chief executive of UCAS.

The government and a youth charity will spend £5.8 million on four projects to examine whether contested trauma-informed practice helps keep children safe.

Eight education unions want the government to invest £4.4 billion annually in school buildings.
This week’s deep dive:
Persistent absence and support for disadvantaged pupils - report from the parliamentary education committee
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Music by Slo Pony
13 min
September 25, 2023The Education Brief: 25 September 2023
The Education Brief: Monday 25th September 2023 - Top stories include:
27 new schools have been added to the list of those containing RAAC.

One in five formal complaints to Ofsted in 2022-23 resulted in some change being made.

Indebted councils do have targets to “manage demand” for EHCPs.

Ofsted has released a music subject report with seven key findings.
This week’s deep dive:
Key Stage 1 History Curriculum
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Music by Slo Pony
13 min
September 18, 2023The Education Brief: 18 September 2023
The Education Brief: Monday 18th September 2023 - Top stories include:
Ofsted will not inspect schools with RAAC this term.

The disadvantage gap has finally stopped widening this year.

The DfE is reviewing its workforce approach with a focus on flexible working.

One third of teachers are now using artificial intelligence tools to help them with their work.
This week’s deep dive:
researchED National Conference 2023
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Music by Slo Pony
13 min
September 13, 2023 BBC Teach: trauma-informed approaches for care-experienced children with Andrew Tomlinson
BBC Teach has released new resources that deal with trauma-informed approaches for care-experienced children. In this episode of HEP Talks, Luke Kemper talks with Andrew Tomlinson, former Head of Content and Commissioning at Bitesize and BBC Teach, about what inspired the BBC Teach team to commission the resources and ways in which schools can use them.
The resources themselves include "three teacher training videos explore what it means to educate and support care-experienced young people through a trauma-informed approach." They also include real testimonies from care-experienced young people in the form of "three short animated films explore stories of care-experienced and adopted young people, told by the young people themselves." You can find them on the front page of BBC Teach or by following the link here.
29 min
September 11, 2023The Education Brief: 11 September 2023
The Education Brief: Monday 11th September 2023 - Top stories include:
Catherine McKinnell has been appointed as shadow schools minister.

Sir Martyn Oliver outlined his priorities for the role of Chief Ofsted Inspector.

The Teacher Development Trust and the International Society for Technology in Education have produced guidance on the role of artificial intelligence in education.
This week’s deep dive:
Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete
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We’ll also tell you what’s happening at HEP this week and what we’ve been watching, listening to, and reading!
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Music by Slo Pony
Download the HEP Professional Learning Programme brochure here
Purchase your Professional Learning Programme for 23/24 here
10 min
September 04, 2023The Education Brief: 4 September 2023
Monday 4th September 2023 - Top stories include:
GCSE grades have recovered, but the impact of Covid still lingers.

The DfE published its consultation response on proposed new rules affecting school attendance.

Study finds “no evidence” selective school systems have a positive effect on pupil outcomes.
This week’s deep dive:
Getting ready for the 2023/24 academic year
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Download the HEP Professional Learning Programme brochure here⁠
⁠Purchase your Professional Learning Programme for 23/24 here⁠
Music by Slo Pony
11 min

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