BBC Radio Podcasts from The Educators

The Educators

The First Teachers

Sarah Montague looks at the role of parents in early years learning.

The World's Best Teachers

What can everyone learn from the world's most effective classroom tutors?

Turning Schools Around

How does a school recover from failure after being put into special measures?

What Finland Did Next

How one of the highest-ranking education systems in the world is being overhauled.

Character Lessons

Can character education really improve someone's chances in life?

Salman Khan

How Sal Khan plans to give the world a free first-class education.

Jo Boaler

Professor Jo Boaler believes there is a crisis in maths education.

Sugata Mitra

Professor Sugata Mitra explains why children need more freedom to teach one another.

Paul Howard-Jones

Do we become more effective learners when there's a chance of winning something?

Daisy Christodoulou

Teacher and writer Daisy Christodoulou thinks children are being taught the wrong things.

Tony Little

The headmaster of Eton College talks to Sarah Montague about his formula for success.

John Hattie

Sarah Montague asks what really makes a difference to a child's ability.

Sir Ken Robinson

Sarah Montague asks Sir Ken Robinson why he thinks schools are a barrier to creativity.