Podcast appearances and mentions of nick gibb

In this episode, Michael talks to Nick Gibb, former UK Minister for Schools, about education reforms implemented in England over the past decade. The conversation covers various aspects of these reforms, including the introduction of systematic synthetic phonics for reading instruction, changes to the mathematics curriculum, teacher training improvements, and the challenges faced in implementing evidence-based approaches in education.

The Education Brief: Saturday 18 November 2023 - Top stories include: Ofsted says that schools tackling high absences will be viewed favourably during inspections. Former Education Secretary Damian Hinds replaces Nick Gibb as schools minister. Students will receive exam aids for one more year due to pandemic disruptions. Teacher wellbeing in England has hit a five-year low. This week's deep dive:  The Haringey Racial Equity Conference 2023 - Changing the Narrative We'll also tell you what's happening at HEP this week and what we've been watching, listening to, and reading! Watching Listening Reading  Music by Slo Pony

With long-standing Schools Minister Nick Gibb announcing that he will not be running for office again, join Adam and Amy as they rake over his policy record. Listen to the end for more concrete tips on difficult parental conversations, sparked by a question from a listener to last week's podcast.

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The Education Brief: Saturday 21 October 2023 - Top stories include: The AQA has announced that GCSEs may potentially be moving online from 2026. The DfE's school funding error has prompted calls for Schools minister Nick Gibb's resignation. New pay scales for teachers and school leaders for 2023-2024 were confirmed last week. This week's deep dive:  The Education Policy Institute Annual Report 2023 We'll also tell you what's happening at HEP this week and what we've been watching, listening to, and reading! Watching Listening Reading  Music by Slo Pony

The Schools Minister tells Nick Robinson how his single-minded curriculum reform has kept him in his job for 10 of the last 13 years, and how his sexuality might have limited his career prospects Producer: Daniel Kraemer

Our 'Ten Minutes On' podcast series delves into key topics surrounding simplifying sustainability in the built environment - in a short and snappy way. In the third episode, the topic of discussion is 'Stranded Assets'. Current and future sustainability requirements from the Government could cause some commercial buildings to become legally 'unlettable'. We'll explore what these requirements are and what action building owners need to take to avoid having a 'stranded asset' on their hands. This episode features our deputy MD (Midlands), Nick Gibb, and Robert van Zyl, partner at Cundall.

On Nick Ferrari at Breakfast, we discuss the junior doctors and consultants who are due to strike at the same time and the impact this will have on the public. Nick Gibb, the Minister of State for Schools joins Nick to talk about the RACC concrete which is causing 150 schools to close. All of this and more on today's episode of the Nick Ferrari Whole Show Podcast.

Alex Forsyth presents political discussion from St John's Church in Southend-on-Sea

Nick Gibb is one of Britain's longest-serving ministers, in office (almost) continuously since the Conservatives came to power in 2010. Matt quizzes him about subjects including strikes, Ofsted, mobile phones in classrooms and appearing in an episode of the Simpsons.Plus columnists Manveen Rana and Matthew Paris discuss whether Rishi Sunak has caved in to his backbenchers, what happens if the Poles return to Poland, and whether any of the MPs running the London marathon can beat Matthew's record. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Iain Dale on Cross Question this evening are former Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, Schools Minister Nick Gibb, Liberal Democrat Business Spokesperson Sarah Olney & former advisor to Boris Johnson Samuel Kasumu.

Iain Dale interviews Conservative MP and Schools Minister Nick Gibb. They discuss how he got into politics, whether he's afraid to have a row with headteachers and whether he'll achieve what he wants to achieve before the next election.

Hello and welcome back to the tes news podcast.On today's episode Joshua Morris is joined by, Matilda Martin, Rhodri Morgan and John Roberts to discuss the demise of the Schools Bill and how all appeals against unsuccessful accreditation bids by ITT providers have been rejected by the DfE. And Grainné Hallahan is back to go over all schools need to know on Strep A to keep their students safe, and takes a look at an exclusive tes interview with Nick Gibb.All articles discussed today are available on tes.com/magazineITT Market Review: ‘All appeals rejected by DfE'Schools Bill: What to expect next from the DfESchools Bill ‘will not progress', says KeeganSchools Bill: DfE wants to salvage safeguarding plansNick Gibb: ‘We had to blow up the concrete'Strep A: Why cases are rising and what schools can do

Hello and welcome back to the tes news podcast.There is plenty to discuss this week, with a new look (or not so new look) DfE team leading the headlines. Reporter John Roberts joins us to break down what we can expect from Gillian Keegan, Nick Gibb and Robert Halfon.And senior editor Dan Worth is back to cover practically everything else in a whistle-stop tour of our features stories this week!Everything mentioned in this week's episode is available to read in full on our website:Gillian Keegan appointed as new education secretary‘We can't face another round of cuts,' new DfE ministers toldGibb and Halfon appointed as DfE ministersKeegan, Gibb and Halfon: what education can expectWhy does the DfE think we need fewer maths teachers?Labour's Skills Report: The good, the bad and the confusingSats: How to fix Year 6 writing moderationSchool funding crisis: ‘The mood among leaders is desolate'More money not a fix for ‘drastically overworked' teachersWhy wellbeing inspections are stressing out private schools

Rishi Sunak has completed ministerial appointments to the Department for Education. Now led by Gillian Keegan, who left school at 16 to become an apprentice, and with old hands such as Robert Halfon and Nick Gibb returning, how ambitious will he be on education reform? Katy Balls and James Forsyth discuss on this episode. Produced by Cindy Yu.

Listen as the Tes newsteam react to this week's major reshuffle and look ahead to what a government without Gavin Williamson or Nick Gibb will mean for schools.

Nick Gibb, Deputy Managing Director of Willmott Dixon in the Midlands spoke with us about their successes over the past decade and how it has led to business growth in the region and a reported annual turnover of over £200 million.We also take a look at the ambitious targets the contractor has set out in their recently launched “Now or Never” sustainability strategy. Focusing on the net zero milestones they have set out for 2030-2040 and discussing how they can be achieved with the digital advances taking place across the business and the recent launch of their integrated built environment platform – Collida.Find out more about Building Brum Construction Partners Willmott Dixon: Building Brum podcasts are sponsored and supported by ScanTech Digital & Solus 

0153 – Multi-Syllable SentencesThe Schools Minister Nick Gibb says allowing students in England to use their mock exam results is an extra safety net for a small group of pupils. This follows a decision by the Scottish government to reinstate grades estimated by teachers because of the complaints that a calibration method had unfairly impacted on disadvantaged students. Nick Gibb said the changes to the system in England would help address this. ==Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start a podcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode!And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are not random topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE.Look out for more details of the book during 2021.Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life and has trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop music stations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical music station BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He's trained news presenters on regional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC's Panorama. Other trainees have been music presenters, breakfast show hosts, travel news presenters and voice-over artists.He has written a number of books on audio and video presentation and production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of “Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and has written on voice and presentation skills in the BBC's in-house newspaper “Ariel”.Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heard him on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regional radio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows, ‘special' programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts and commentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedication programmes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly 2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspects of voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts and YouTube, voiceovers and videocalls.The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change their speaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or be pressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well aware that how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfully communicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially being acted upon) by your target audience?This podcast is London-based and examples are spoken in the RP (Received Pronunciation) / standard-English / BBC English pronunciation, although invariably applicable to other languages, accents and dialects. Music credits:"Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demo License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envision License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70 License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tide License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tom Service is joined by the pianist Stephen Hough, and over a cup of coffee they discuss living in the moment during music during performance and how Stephen has spent much of the past year working as a composer. Double-bassist and artist Kirsty Matheson talks about the challenge she set herself to create 100 paintings about 100 pieces of music in 100 days. Responding to works by Arnold Schoenberg and Steve Reich, she describes how their works shaped the images she created as well as restored her love for music during a time when live performance wasn’t possible. Tom speaks to Schools Minister, Nick Gibb, about his ambitions for music in schools as the government announces a new Model Music Curriculum to support music education for 5 to 14 year-olds. Carolyn Baxendale, Head of Bolton Music Service, and James Dickinson, Head of Kingston-Upon-Hull Music Service, discuss how live music participation is returning for children across the country. And, ahead of the release of his memoirs, Lowering the Tone and Raising the Roof, Raymond Gubbay shares a lifetime of stories about his time as a modern day music impresario!

Julia speaks to Minister of Schools Standards, Nick Gibb, about a staggered rollout of coronavirus testing for secondary schools and colleges. Leader of Buckinghamshire Council, Cllr Martin Lett, explains the implications of tier 3 restrictions being extended across east and south east England. Former Head of the WHO Cancer Programme, Karol SIkora takes a look back at 2020. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mark Featherstone-Witty OBE is an educator and entrepreneur. He is the Founding Principal and Chief Executive of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts which he founded, with Paul McCartney, in the mid-1990s, after establishing the British Record Industry Trust BRIT School in Croydon with Richard Branson What an honour to interview him for this podcast series and how timely, with the tragic recent passing of one of Liverpool's founding fathers, Sir Ken Robinson. Hear what Mark says the English School's Minister, Nick Gibb said when he first met Sir Ken and also which Rocket Man he says is possibly going to be part of a tribute of some sort to his legacy. This podcast inspired our #TALKSWALKERS20 series, a series of chats with people who knew, worked with and were inspired by Sir Ken.

Some passengers seen not wearing masks on a TUI flight that has 7 people test positive for Covid-19, and schools minister Nick Gibb on students returning this week.

Nick Gibb, Minister for School Standards joins Julia to discuss children returning to school full-time for new autumn term. Toby Perkins, Shadow Education Minister and Labour MP on his thoughts for keeping schools safely open to all must be a national priority. Julia is also joined by Inaya Folarin Iman,Columnist at Spiked Online and Founder of the Equiano Project on Adele being embroiled in cultural appropriation row. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Children in England and Wales are returning to school this week. Schools minister Nick Gibb told Mishal Husain, “We will take swift action in any school where there are positive tests,” adding that "whenever a pupil or a member of staff shows symptoms they will be asked to return home and then to take a test and they will be given priority in the testing regime”. He ruled out introducing mass testing of asymptomatic pupils and staff, saying: “The advice is that these tests are effective in people that are showing symptoms and if the school is concerned that parents are unable to get to a testing centre then schools have been given a small number of home testing kits”. With Sammy Wright, vice principal of Southmoor Academy in Sunderland and Social Mobility Commission lead for Schools. Credit: Press Association

Julia speaks with Labour MP and Member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, Steve McCabe, about 6 million furloughed workers breaking rules and working part time from home during lockdown. Minister for School Standards, Nick Gibb, tells Julia why missing school is worse than the virus for children. Douglas Murray discusses the release of the new paperback edition of his book, 'The Madness of Crowds,' with its update to include recent events. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nearly half a million of UK pupils face a fresh round of results after the exam board Pearson pulled its BTEC results on the eve of releasing them. Nick is joined by the Minister for School Standards, Nick Gibb.

Chris Mason presents political debate from Broadcasting House in London.

Dan tells us he will not be shamed for going on holiday during the pandemic. As A Level results are published amongst much confusion due to the government's 'triple lock' plan to compensate for having to cancel exams, Schools Minister Nick Gibb responds and Spectator columnist Douglas Murray gives his reaction to Dawn Butler's claim of racial profiling after being stopped by police. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nick Gibb, Schools Minister on the news that Students will be given a ‘triple lock' on their A- level and GCSE grades. Tobias Ellwood, Chair of the Defence Select Committee & Conservative MP discusses Growing numbers of migrants are trying to cross the Channel. Julia is also joined by Dan Tomlinson, Economist at The Resolution Foundation who reviews the latest GDP figures. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Julia speaks with Former Director General of the CBI, Lord Digby Jones about the latest figures on public finance and the Bank of England's plan to put £100bn into economy. Minister for School Standards and Conservative MP, Nick Gibb explains the government's billion pound Covid catch-up plan to tackle the impact of lost teaching time. Former English rugby player, Martin Offiah, discuss the RFU's decision to review the use of 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot'. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Education minister Nick Gibb sets out plans for students to catch up with missed work, and the tracing App u-turn.

The Education Minister, Nick Gibb, told Mishal Husain that headteachers will have discretion to use funding to help the most disadvantaged pupils. This could include additional time in school over the summer. Mr Gibb was speaking ahead of the Education Secretary announcing a billion pound fund to help children across England catch up with the teaching they have missed because of the lockdown. The money will be made available from September and can be used to provide tutors for the most disadvantaged pupils. However funding will not be available for early years providers and those involved in education for 16 to 19-year-olds. Credit: Press Association

Join the Tes team as we discuss GCSE English being "unfit fit for purpose" and the OECD's annual Education at a Glance report.We also talks about Ofsted's plans to inspect how well teacher training providers prepare new teachers for managing behaviour, and education minister Nick Gibb taking over the early years remit at the DfE. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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This week BBC Radio 4’s All in the Mind programme announced the results of The Loneliness Experiment. It was a large survey conducted by the programme in collaboration with the Wellcome Collection. The largest survey into the issue of loneliness to date, said All in the Mind, while the accompanying BBC press release reported that “The survey results indicate that 16-24 year olds experience loneliness more often and more intensely than any other age group. 40% of respondents aged 16-24 reported feeling lonely often or very often, while only 29% of people aged 65-74 and 27% of people aged over 75 said the same.” In the editors' notes, the press release cautions that “This was a self-selecting sample, so people experiencing loneliness might have been more attracted to take part, inflating reported levels of loneliness.” But much of the reporting by other BBC outlets and the wider media was not so restrained. Tim Harford speaks to Deirdre Toher from the University of the West of England about why the survey's results need careful interpretation. Listeners have been asking us to explain the schools funding row. When headteachers marched in protest at school spending last week, the Minister for School Standards, Nick Gibb, went on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to say "We are spending record amounts on our school funding. We are the third highest spender on education in the OECD”. BBC Education correspondent Sean Coughlan explains how he discovered that the OECD figure includes university tuition fees paid by students. Is it true that "Polish Pilots Shot down 60% of German Aircraft on Battle of Britain Day"? Lizzie McNeill fact-checks this claim found on the side of a van. New figures reveal that same-sex divorce rates are higher among women than among men. Tim Harford discusses why this may be with Marina Ashdade, economist at the Vancouver School of Economics and author of “Dirty Money”, a book about the economics of sex and love. Plus, what makes a listener loyal? A nine-year debate rages on. Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Ruth Alexander Image: A single fan sits in the stands before a college football game Credit: Photo by Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

Schools minister Nick Gibb joined the Tes podcast to talk about school funding, hungry pupils, and the DfE's review of exclusions.Join us as we unpick what his comments mean for schools that are suffering a funding squeeze, and for children whose hunger is affecting their behaviour and attainment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

England's schools have undergone substantial changes in the last decade, including: introducing systematic phonics teaching and the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check; implementation of the Shanghai model of maths education in thousands of schools; and the expansion of free schools and academies. These reforms and others were driven by evidence of how children learn and policies that maximise opportunities for children to attend high quality schools. What does an evidence-based education look like and why is it so important? What can England and Australia learn from each other? ____________________ The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) promotes free choice and individual liberty, and defends cultural freedom and the open exchange of ideas. CIS encourages debate among leading academics, politicians, media and the public. We aim to make sure good policy ideas are heard and seriously considered so that Australia can continue to prosper into the future. Check out the CIS at - https://www.cis.org.au/ Subscribe to CIS mailing list- https://www.cis.org.au/subscribe/ Support us with a tax-deductible donation at - https://www.cis.org.au/support/ Join the CIS as a member at - https://www.cis.org.au/join-cis/ Follow CIS on Socials Twitter - https://twitter.com/CISOZ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CentreIndependentStudies/ Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-centre-for-independent-studies/?viewAsMember=true

As Alison Steadman wins the Richard Harris Award for Outstanding Contribution to Film at the British Independent Film Awards, and the BFI announces a season dedicated to her TV work in the New Year, we speak to the actress about her career.What links baroque bad-boy painter Caravaggio and a present-day retired docker from Merseyside? Compassion, according to Anders Lustgarten's new play The Seven Acts of Mercy. Kirsty talks to the playwright and political activist about his latest work for the Royal Shakespeare Company.After news in October that AQA, the last exam board in England offering History of Art A-level, was dropping the subject from 2018, the schools standards minister, Nick Gibb, has announced that a new A-level in art history is being developed by the Pearson exam board for teaching from September 2017. Artist Cornelia Parker and Griselda Pollock, Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History at Leeds University, give their reaction. The Top 40 Singles chart this week includes The Weeknd's Starboy (featuring Daft Punk), Sia's The Greatest (featuring Kendrick Lamar) and Jonas Blue's By Your Side (featuring Raye). Music writer Ben Wardle has spent decades glued to the radio, and he's got a bit of an issue with this increasing use of the F-Word - 'Featuring'.Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Ella-mai Robey.

Join the TES team as we discuss the week's biggest education news and views, including a look at what governors make of the state of the school system. We discuss maths mastery and the possibility that Nick Gibb is right. And we talk FE and the little known world of colleges that accept students at 14. Plus there's a whole lot more. Well, a little bit more. Tune in and enjoy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

#stevedouble talking to #nickgibb at #parliament this morning regarding the recent #highcourt judgement earlier in the week. #IsleofWightCouncil took #JonPlatt to court as he refused to pay a fine he was issued for taking his daughter out of school during term time. It is now being discussed to try and clarify the legislation surrounding school fines.

Join the TES team as they discuss the week’s biggest education news and views, including Natasha Devon’s “dumping” by the Department for Education as its mental health tsar. We talk about school minister Nick Gibb’s clanger on the radio when he got a grammar question wrong live on air. We hear how teachers would rather small class sizes to pay rises. And we talk porky-pies and the minefield that is the employer’s reference. Tune in and enjoy.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Do e-cigarettes make quitting smoking more difficult? Research last month claimed to show that e-cigarettes harm your chances of quitting smoking. The paper got coverage world-wide but it also came in for unusually fierce criticism from academics who spend their lives trying to help people quit. It's been described as 'grossly misleading' and 'not scientific'. We look at what is wrong with the paper and ask if it should have been published in the first place. A campaign of dodgy statistics Are American presidential hopefuls getting away with statistical murder? We speak to Angie Drobnic, Editor of the US fact-checking website Politifact, about the numbers politicians are using - which are not just misleading, but wrong. Will missing a week of school affect your GCSE results? Recently education minister Nick Gibb said that missing a week of school could affect a pupil's GCSE grades by a quarter. We examine the evidence and explore one of the first rules of More or Less – 'correlation is not causation'. We interview Stephen Gorard, Professor of Education at Durham University. What are the chances that a father and two of his children share the same birthday? A loyal listener got in touch to find out how rare an occurrence this is. Professor David Spiegelhalter from the University of Cambridge explains the probabilities involved.Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Charlotte McDonald

E.D. Hirsch is a little-known American professor whose radical ideas about what should be taught in schools are set to have a profound effect on English schools. A favoured intellectual of the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, Hirsch advocates a curriculum strongly grounded in facts and knowledge. He also believes that there are certain specific ideas, works of literature and scientific concepts which everyone should know so that they can be active participants in society. Presenter Fran Abrams interviews Hirsch about his ideas. She considers their likely impact on English schools and speaks to the former English schools minister, Nick Gibb MP, who championed Hirsch's ideas when he was in government. He explains the reasons for bringing Hirsch's ideas across the Atlantic and how they could counteract what he describes as a prevailing left-wing ideology among teachers. Fran also visits London's Pimlico Academy which is pioneering a "Hirsch-style" curriculum in its new primary school. She talks to the young women leading this experiment: Anneliese Briggs and Daisy Christodoulou. Daisy was once dubbed "Britain's brightest student" after captaining the successful Warwick University team on "University Challenge". She discusses why she finds Hirsch's ideas so compelling. She also explains why, in her view, he stands in a proud left-wing tradition that champions knowledge as power, a view that contrasts with Nick Gibb's more right-of-centre take on Hirsch's ideas. Fran also talks to Professor Sir Michael Barber, chief education adviser to Pearson and former policy implementation director to Tony Blair in Downing Street, and to a former leading member of the Government's expert panel on the curriculum, Professor Andrew Pollard. Producer Simon Coates.