Podcasts and Videos

In our second episode of Tea and EDtalk, Jane talks to David Leat, Ulrike Thomas and Alison Whelan from Newcastle University.

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.

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.

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.

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. In this episode, you’ll hear about the first in the series which focuses on the Connexions Service.

Edge is proudly supporting the Rethinking Assessment movement which brings together a wide coalition of state and independent schools, Multi Academy Trusts, FE Colleges, academics and employers to push for change to our old-fashioned exam system.

Edge has been running the Island Education Network since 2018, bringing together education leaders from islands around the British Isles, the Channel Islands and British Overseas Territories to explore the opportunities and challenges of education in a small island context.

Rich employer engagement can help to bring education and the curriculum to life in all phases including in Higher Education, helping young people get more inspired and better prepared for the workplace.

We love to find inspirational international examples to share with others. Recorded during the Covid pandemic, we weren’t able to complete our planned study visit to Canada and instead went on a virtual visit.

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.

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 our very first episode of Tea and EDtalk, Jane talks to Andy Boer, Principal of the Edge Hotel School, a hotel school that was founded by the Edge Foundation.