Challenging Education

On this week’s show, Simon Camby and Beth Kerr speak with two educational leaders about race and diversity in the context of recent Black Lives Matter protests and action around the world. Guests Tushi Gorasia of Hendon Preparatory School and Siobhan McGrath of Southbank International School share what recent events mean for them and their schools.

On this week’s show we get first-hand perspectives from students in different countries and phases of return to school. They discuss their experiences of online learning, their feelings about going back to the physical classroom, and how lockdown and the pandemic overall has impacted their feelings about the future.

In this special episode of our podcast, we speak to clinician, journalist, author and broadcaster Professor Tanya Byron about children’s wellbeing. As schools globally start to reopen, we look at the impact of coronavirus, lockdown and a return to school on anxiety, and how children and parents can deal with it.This podcast is also available to view as a video at www.cognita.com.

On today’s show we focus on how schoolsadapt teaching and learningas they welcome back students and staff to the physical classroom.

This week we're joined by Sir Kevan Collins, one of global education’s leading lightsand the former CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation in the UK. We look at how education will look and feel after lockdown, andways in which the current pressures can lead to positive long-term change.

This week we're joined by the highly respected psychologist Dr Bill Mitchell to discuss teacher wellbeing during lockdown, focussing on some of the most difficult – and unexpected – aspects of teaching and learning during school closures.