The Edge Podcast- Rethinking Education

Edge was commissioned by the Scottish Apprenticeship Advisory Board (SAAB) to look at Graduate Apprenticeships in Scotland and how they might be supported to grow over the coming years. In this podcast, you’ll hear from:

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Edge revisits some of the innovative higher education institutions from the Rethinking Higher Education report: Case studies for the 21st Century. We find out what makes these forward-looking universities stand out and how they are preparing their students for life in a very different 21st Century, particularly in light of changing practices since the pandemic. Debbie McVitty, WonkHE hosts this episode, and we hear from:

Edge has been working with schools and colleges in the North East of England over recent years to pilot innovative approaches to bring the curriculum to life. This has formed the basis of our growing Edge Future Learning programme. In this episode you’ll hear from two fantastic early adopters:

Judith Quinn, Vice Principal, Curriculum and Achievement at Sunderland College

Laura McAllister, Head of English and Teaching and Learning Lead at UTC South Durham

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Edge is really interested in how accountability and inspection regimes impact on school behaviour. We are also always keen to compare the four nations of the UK to understand similarities, differences and lessons to learn. In this episode, we explore recent research commissioned by Edge from UCL Institute for Education comparing school inspection across the UK with:

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Edge is always looking for fantastic international examples that others can learn from. The team recently went on a ‘virtual’ study visit to South Africa and met a wide range of innovative partners and project. In this episode, you’ll meet organisations changing the face of employment and apprenticeships:

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Edge has inherited the Honourable Histories report from the Further Education Trust for Leadership to promote and update – it tells the story of the last 30 years of Further Education policy and in this podcast you will hear from its authors:

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6th International Conference on Employer Engagement: In conversation with with Prue Huddleston and Andrea Laczik 

This conference is hosted by Education and Employers in partnership with the Edge Foundation. It will focus on employer engagement in general education, technical and vocational education and training, and the extent to which such interventions adequately prepare young people for the rapidly changing world of work. In particular, attention will focus on the need to develop and capture the skill requirements within the changing labour market and how such interventions can support young people as part of the response to Covid-19. The conference also seeks to reflect on reforms and policy shifts in relation to education and training and employer engagement internationally.

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Edge is leading a programme of research called ‘learning from the past’ where each month one of our early career researchers puts together a summary of a key policy from the last 30 years of education, what worked, what didn’t and what the lessons are for future policy making. In this episode, you’ll hear about the first in the series which focuses on the Connexions Service with:

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Edge has worked closely with the amazing team who have transformed education in Nashville over the last fifteen years and US non-profit Ford Next Generation Learning to understand their work and build key elements of it into our Edge Future Learning programme first in the North East of England and now more widely. In this episode you will hear from:

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We believe that creativity is one of the key skills that young people should develop through the education system – not just for jobs in the creative industries themselves, but right across different industries. This episode focuses on research by colleagues at the University of Warwick looking at dance, but has much wider implications. In this episode you will hear from:

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