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Tune in on 22nd April to hear @thomasbreeze, @garethdjevans and Finola from @ImpactWales chewing over the education policy offerings from the six main political parties!

welsh education has long suffered from a lack of informed, sector-specific scrutiny and challenge. huge respect to the @TalkTeachingPod team for looking beyond the headlines and adding new depth to our analyses. no politician should fear criticality, it makes for better policy

Our Senedd Elections Special series, in collaboration with the @ImpactWales podcast, continues today with the @WelshLabour party, represented by Lynne Neagle. What do Labour have to offer the education profession if we vote for them in May? Tune in to find out!

The podcast is a Dr @garethdjevans-travaganza right now - not only is he our post-match pundit in the Senedd Elections specials, he also joins us for our regular Friday episode this week to look back over 25 years of devolved education in Wales!

@MrWiseCHS @thomasbreeze @garethdjevans When the podcast is famous, we'll limo him to the studio each time we want to record!

@TalkTeachingPod @thomasbreeze I thought it was @garethdjevans’ dodgy microphone

If you're a podcast early bird then you might have spotted some sound quality issues in the last 10 minutes of this morning's episode. All fixed now, so if yours is glitching, please re-download!

Next week we'll have interviews with the Conservatives, the Green party and Labour. Here on our podcast there's analysis after every interview with Dr @garethdjevans. Join us on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday for our first three episodes!

Join us and @ImpactWales next week for the start of our series of interviews with education representatives of the six main political parties contesting the Senedd elections in May. By the magic of alphabetical order, we start with the Conservative party's @natasghar on Monday.

Thanks to Pete and Adrian at @MetBroadcast for the use of their shiny new studio this week. Watch out on the @talkteachingpod feed or YouTube channel over the next few days for news of a special project we're doing with @ImpactWales as we approach the Senedd elections in May.

TOMORROW: We're joined by Dr Mary Woolley from Canterbury Christ Church University to discuss our research into teachers' curriculum conversations in the Curriculum for Wales. Who are teachers talking to, when, and what about?

Tune in tomorrow for our episode about the National Plans for Music Education in Wales and England. Yesterday's clip focused on Wales, so here's a bit about England to whet your appetite! Full article here: doi.org/10.1080/106329…

Doing some work on an interesting and topical podcast project this afternoon - can’t get to our excellent studio so a virtual replica will have to do! Watch this space for some extra episodes soon…

(You can find the full article here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…)

THIS FRIDAY: an extended discussion with @EHMacGregor and @VivJohn6 about the National Plans for Music in Wales and England. In Wales, we're not so pleased that the whole of 'music education' was conflated with 'learning to play an instrument'...

THIS FRIDAY on the podcast, we're looking at pupils whose education is in one language, while at home they speak another. @DrMirainRhys and Dr Katharine Young join us to talk about Welsh Medium education but the principles are similar for other languages!

In tomorrow's episode Suzy tells us about a study into what percentage of medical advice on TikTok is accurate. The answer (as the clickbait headlines love to say) may surprise you... @PWAcademy24

Check out the Peach Wellness Academy, built by Drs Chris and Suzy @PWAcademy24

Pupil health and wellbeing is high on all of our agendas, and this week we speak to Drs Chris & Suzy Peach, two Drs who have built an online platform to help schools and pupils. We asked Suzy what’s going on with pupil resilience. Are pupils just massive snowflakes? (Spoiler: no)

THIS FRIDAY: We hear from Nicola Lo Celso from @willowshigh about their whole-school literacy policy, what they're trying to achieve and why. Tune in!

We made it! Thanks to all our listeners over the past 7 and a half years who have helped us get to six figures of listens. For a fairly niche podcast, we're pretty pleased with that. We've got some interesting episodes planned for 2026, so stay tuned!