Rethink

Today's Rethink is looking at early years and primary education. With cuts in child services, are primary schools and early years providers becoming ersatz parents as well as educators? Providing everything from meals to setting boundaries in a space where children can be their very best?

Amol Rajan and guests discuss whether educators can really make up for what's missing in the home?

GUESTS

Dr. Mary Bousted, Joint General-Secretary, National Education Union

Naomi Eisenstadt, Chair, Northamptonshire Integrated Care System and Honorary Fellow at the University of Oxford Dept of Education

Zane Powles, MBE, Asst Deputy Headteacher, Western Primary School, Grimsby

Shaddai Tembo, Lecturer, Early Years, University of Highlands and Islands

Presenter: Amol Rajan

Rethinking Education. In a new five part Rethink series, Amol Rajan and guests discuss how we can re-think the Education system post pandemic.

GUESTS

Kikelomo Agunbiade, Head of Education, IPPR

Claire-Marie Cuthbert - Chief Executive, Evolve Trust

David Perks, Principal and Founder, East London Science School

Professor David Runciman, Professor of Politics and History, Cambridge University

Presenter: Amol Rajan

Professor Jude Browne looks at how we tackle the concept of responsibility post-pandemic

Author Graeber questions the purpose of our work.

Activist Sinxoto reminds us that millions of people live in constant danger.

Rt. Hon. Douglas Alexander, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, suggests a series of specific policies to address low pay.

Musician Tunstall shares that convenience for consumers comes at a huge cost for artists

Cookery writer Dimbleby reflects on how food is a marker of civilisation.

Writer Bastani investigates the change in demographics and how it will affect us.

Neurologist Ramachandran asks how the pandemic has changed how we think about ourselves.