Podcast appearances and mentions of Stephen Ball

In this final episode of the season, recorded at the HIRE Cumbria event in the Lake District, Vicky and Ray sit down with Stephen Ball of Cumbria Upholstery who' s incredible story proves that resilience knows no limits. After serving a horrific life-threatening climbing accident, Stephen rebuilt his future, turning determination, ingenuity and pure grit into a successful upholstery business in the North of England. Listen along with us in front of this live audience to his inspiring journey. Cumbria Upholsteryhttps://sites.google.com/view/hire-cumbria/homeOur heartfelt thanks go out to our sponsors for this episodehttps://www.bea-group.com/en/https://martinsupholstery.co.uk

Death comes for the ghouls in this Final Destination movie retrospective. Joined by everyones fav guest Stephen Ball, They rank the films, the deaths and wildly speculate what the future holds for the series. 

The ghouls are back with their biggest episode yet and they brought back a familiar guest. Friend of the pod Stephen Ball and the ghouls discuss, debate and examine all things Saw. The traps, the twists, the rankings and where the series can go from here. Spoilers for all 10 Saw films.

Education privatisation continues to be a big topic across countries. But do you really know how it's happening, how privatization as an educational policy is moving around the world? And what effect is it having on governments? Today we re-play an episode from 2017. My guest, Stephen Ball, has written a series of books looking at educational privatization. In his latest book, Edu.net, co-written with Caroline Junemann and Diego Santori, he explores through network ethnography the evolution of the global education policy community that is advancing privatization. Stephen Ball was a Distinguished Service Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London. Citation: Ball, Stephen, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 78, podcast audio, June 19, 2017. https://www.freshedpodcast.com/stephenball/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

Elaine Robinson is sleeping in her car after her home in Bettystown was flooded last weekend. Shane Healy told the emotional story of reconnecting with his family after fifty years. Stephen Ball reflected on the sporting heroes of Bohermeen and District who'll be recalled in a photographic exhibition this coming weekend and Gerry really likes Polly Doyle's socks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thank you for joining us today as we continue our sermon series "Stewardship".Major Stephen Ball shares his sermon "Managing My Giving - The Tithe".

I read today that Harvard University hired its first black Dean of Students. While some are accustomed to celebrating such achievements, I must confess that I am not always one of them. I am very happy for Stephen Ball, believe me. I am sure he worked extremely hard for his position. But there's something about black people celebrating our acknowledgements from racist institutions that really concerns me. Let me ask you a question: Do white people celebrate when they are the first to be accepted into an HBCU? Why do we celebrate when they accept us, but they fully expect us to accept them. The reality, I hate to say this, is that we spend so much time trying to be accepted into other spaces that we don't spend much time building spaces of our own. This is a significant issue in The Black Community. That's my topic on today's podcast, but I want to do it in a way that I show full respect to Stephen and his accomplishments. His new opportunity says more about Harvard than it says about him.

Panel discussion organised by the Academy of Ideas Education Forum on 21 February 2022. INTRODUCTION As the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) approaches its 30th birthday, many are increasingly concerned that Ofsted is becoming overly political and moralistic and insufficiently educational in its approach. The anniversary of Ofsted's creation seems a good moment to take stock. Ofsted employs more than a thousand people and has an annual budget of close to £130 million. For this, it takes responsibility for regularly inspecting all publicly funded schools and colleges in England. In addition to setting the agenda of her inspection teams, Ofsted's head, Amanda Spielman, writes a widely read annual report on the state of state education. Spielman herself has strong educational, political and moral opinions, and intervenes regularly in public debates. Last year, for example, she rejected calls to decolonise the school curriculum. Ofsted was established in 1992 in the final phase of the Thatcherite reform of English state education. The creation of a national inspectorate that reported in public followed the introduction of the National Curriculum in 1989, as well as a new national examination system that included the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Results from these national exams were from this point onwards reported in national league tables, in which the performance of all state schools was ranked. At the time, many teachers opposed this power grab from central government, and these criticisms have continued to be voiced. For many, Ofsted represents an unwarranted extension of central state control over education, as well as a mechanism by which the autonomy and the professionalism of teachers has been undermined. It is certainly true that teachers in England experience extraordinary levels of central state control and that Ofsted is one of the mechanisms by which this control is exercised. However, sociologist Stephen Ball perhaps overstates the case when he describes the accountability pressures experienced by English state-school teachers as giving rise to the ‘terror of performativity'. It was under the government of John Major that Ofsted was first introduced. As we might expect, his account of its purpose differs from that of its critics. Writing in his autobiography, he observes that when he came into office, producers – rather than consumers – controlled public services and that health and education in particular was ‘run carelessly, wastefully, arrogantly … more for the convenience of the providers than the users, whether they were parents, pupils or patients'. More recently, however, Ofsted has faced criticism from conservatives. They argue that Ofsted has been captured by progressivist educators, who are using the inspection system to impose woke values on education. Ofsted, the conservatives allege, has become a cuckoo institution, a mechanism by which a progressivist elite lodged within the state are imposing their values on young people. This charge could not be more serious, as Ofsted ought to remain impartial on matters that divide the nation morally and politically. It is, after all, Her Majesty's Inspectorate. Is Ofsted now exceeding its official remit? Do we even need a national inspectorate when we have a national examination system? Can state-employed teachers be trusted to do the job for which they are paid and trained? Is it time that we inspected the inspectors? SPEAKERS Neil Davenport writer and teacher Rowenna Davis teacher; former journalist and Labour Party parliamentary candidate; new mum and community organiser Alex Kenny secondary school teacher and NEU Executive member Joseph Robertson director, Orthodox Conservatives think tank; education research fellow, The Bow Group CHAIR Toby Marshall teacher and member of the AoI Education Forum

Thank you for joining us today as we close out our sermon series Jonah. Major Stephen Ball shares his sermon from Jonah 4.

This week I had the pleasure of speaking to Stephen Ball, CEO at Boost Legal. Stephen is a General Counsel by trade, with 25 years 'hands-on' in-house experience for companies across US, EU, Middle East, Russia and Africa. He has a strong track record of international leadership, designing, managing and coaching high performing legal, risk & compliance and corporate development functions.He has a passion for leading initiatives to transform and modernize legal functions to realize more value, improve strategic integration and develop legal as a competitive differentiator.He combines what he learned at Motorola, Six Sigma principles, with an aptitude for creative thinking, white boarding concepts with high performance professionals in the fields of sports and military special forces. Tune in to hear what he's got to say.

We are happy to announce "Deal With It!" is back! Welcome to our podcast series' new season.In the first episode, we join the regular talk to experts session hosted by Squire Patton Boggs. We discuss our perspectives for 2021. Thanks to Stephen Ball, Matthew Kirk, Tony Reed for the invitation.Series presenters: Ina Kjaer and Maggie Brereton, co-founders of EOS Deal Advisory.http://www.eos-dealadvisory.co.uk

“Sociology of education has devoted itself to saving, reforming, improving, perfecting the school … I now believe that it is a doomed enterprise. The school is an irredeemable institution”. Prof. Stephen Ball (IOE London) is one of the world’s most eminent education researchers – a leading voice in the sociology of education, and a founding name in the area of policy sociology. We talk about everything from Foucault to the state of pandemic education. We also discus Stephen’s recent provocative writing on the need for education researchers to ‘break their addiction’ to trying to improve schools and schooling.

National advertising spend last year fell for the first time in seven years. Disruption from consultants, reducing budgets and thinning margins are squeezing agencies right now. But is it too early to talk of their demise, and what model would replace it?During this podcast, you'll discover:How we got here and why it's important What is happening at the coal face in the industry todayWhat marketers need to know to get the best from their agency relationshipsHow to prepare for the futurePanellists include:Stephen Ball, Head Of Marketing, Pacific, AVEVAEmily Forrest, Head of Business Development, Reload MediaPanel Facilitator: Liam Fitzpatrick, Founder & Head of Communications, CommsworkFurther resource links:Networx blog+++Networx Brisbane events are organised by conference and events company, Iceberg Events. These events are proudly supported by Reload Media, Select Audio Visual, Vision6 and DPMA.Produced by Networx Brisbane, Australia. For upcoming live events, visit https://brisbane.networxevents.com.au/eventsFollow Networx Brisbane on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I discuss how research can inform teaching with Professor Chris Brown from Durham University's School of Education. Professor Brown discusses his work with teachers in professional learning networks, how teachers can apply research in their schools, and the barriers to doing so. Among the topics discussed are the following: How frequently do teachers consult research to solve problems of teaching? The need to draw first on teachers’ knowledge and experience How does research add to, challenge or deepen teachers’ knowledge? The importance of teachers collaboratively engaging with and looking at research Having an “evidence champion” in a school and partnerships with higher education institutions The quality of research available to teachers (original, significant, robust methods) Different kinds of research (Stokes’s quadrant) Carol Weiss and instrumental research use, conceptual research use and symbolic research use (9’22” – 10’08") Drawing on research to develop theories of action Teachers’ access to published research Networks of teachers and effective change management (17’36). The focus of the four whole-day workshops each year is: Vision and engagement with research Trialling Change Management Impact Leadership and degree centrality (24’53”) Evaluating “best practice” (27’58”) Areas of research that have been particularly helpful in informing teachers’ practice (30’26”) Factors that influence what and how research influences policy (31’49”) Professional Learning Networks (34’45”) The role played by encouragement, trust, social influence, and innovation in promoting research-informed practice (35’59”) Avoiding edu-myths or other dead-ends in research (39’39”) What are schools for (40’51”) A teacher who had a significant impact on him (42’17”) What inspires him (43’17”) Among the people named by Chris Brown in the course of the interview are Stephen Ball, Jean Baudrillard, Alan Daly, Jim Spillane and Carol Weiss, some of whom have appeared on previous episodes of Inside Education: Ball, Spillane. The paper that I reported on in the research section is Fan, H., Xu, J., Cai, Z., He, J & Fan, X. (2017). Homework and students' achievement in math and science: A 30-year meta-analysis, 1986-2015.  

In this episode Matt sits down with Stephen Ball a 19 year old real estate investor. That's right, 19 years old! Stephen talks about how he purchased his first deal, all on his on, at the age of 18. Listen to his inspiring story! Website: https://allininvestors.com

We hear about educational privatization a lot these days. My Twitter feed is filled with countless stories about how Betsy DeVos is going to privatize education in America or how Bridge International has privatized education in some African countries. Even the first three episodes of FreshEd way back in 2015 looked at how privatization has gone global. But do you really know how it’s happening, how privatization as an educational policy is moving around the world? And what effect is it having on governments? The process of national and local governments enacting policies that advance private interests in education is rather complex and often opaque to the general public. My guest today, Stephen Ball, has written a series of books looking at educational privatization. In his latest book, Edu.net, co-written with Caroline Junemann and Diego Santori, he explores through network ethnography the evolution of the global education policy community that is advancing privatization. Stephen Ball is a Distinguished Service Professor at the Institute of Education, University College London.

Today we talk with Stephen Ball about his work at Embarcadero, and Smart Grids! Audio version Video version

Acts 11:19-27

Acts 11:19-27

In Podcast 3 we examine the complexities of managing a portfolio of projects. Stephen Ball has extensive experience in the planning and delivery of portfolios. In this Podcast Stephen shares his knowledge about the importance of managing portfolios of work to organisations. http://fixprojectchaos.podbean.com/mf/web/mk3i25/Podcast3April2014.mp3

In Podcast 3 we examine the complexities of managing a portfolio of projects. Stephen Ball has extensive experience in the planning and delivery of portfolios. In this Podcast Stephen shares his knowledge about the importance of managing portfolios of work to organisations. http://fixprojectchaos.podbean.com/mf/web/mk3i25/Podcast3April2014.mp3

Acts 10:9-23

Acts 10:9-23

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme, Professor Stephen Ball from the Institute of Education at the University of London talks about how he uses the discipline of sociology, and in particular the work of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu to study education policy. He was in Ireland as a guest of the Vere Foster Trust and the Institution of Educational Research in Ireland and you can listen to his address here.

In this episode, Stephen Ball, Jon Druse, Eileen Carpenter,  and Shaun Ambrose of PhishMe, talk about company growth, team gelling, and working flexibly. Show Notes: Stephen Ball (twitter github blog) Jon Druse...

Thinking biblically about - Ministry. A message by Rev. Stephen Ball