How many education secretaries?
The Rundown by PoliticsHome
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4.1 • 105 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Chair of the education select committee and Conservative MP Robin Walker, general secretary of teaching union the NASUWT Dr Patrick Roach and co-founder of teacher survey app Teacher Tapp Laura McInerney join PoliticsHome’s Alain Tolhurst to discuss the impact of a revolving door of education secretaries, and questions about performance of the Department for Education.
Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton for Podot, edited by Laura Silver
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm your host, Alan Tollust. |
| 0:12.2 | We'd be to take a closer look at the Education Department after a series of recent flashpoints. |
| 0:15.9 | He's Robin Walker, Conservative MP and former minister for school standards, |
| 0:19.2 | who now chairs the Commons Education Select Committee, |
| 0:21.8 | as well as Dr Patrick Roach, General Secretary of the Teaching Union, the NASUWT, |
| 0:26.2 | and Laura McAnonny, Education Journalist, Schools Expert and the co-founder of Teacher Tap, |
| 0:30.5 | which surveys 10,000 teachers every day on key issues. |
| 0:35.1 | So I'm going to start with a little quiz question. It's a teachable moment. |
| 0:38.5 | Let's start by asking, I'll start with you, Laura, actually, |
| 0:40.4 | because you've got a database ranking past education secretaries |
| 0:43.4 | and you've got a card game even that you can buy about them. |
| 0:46.4 | Let's start. |
| 0:46.7 | Can we name the five people who are education secretary in 2022? |
| 0:50.5 | Who was the first one? |
| 0:52.0 | Do you need all of them? |
| 0:52.9 | They're just the first one? Do you need all of them? They're just the first one. |
| 0:54.3 | I can think of Nadim Zahari. |
| 0:55.8 | Great. Robin, who was, who took over from |
| 0:57.8 | Nadim? I'll probably get this wrong now. |
| 1:00.5 | Kit Mortall House? That's one of them |
| 1:02.1 | but not, not that you've missed. |
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