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🏢 First episode from the new office
Dylan and Hayden have moved. It looks almost identical to the old set-up, there is a metal works over the road, and the sound is a work in progress. Feedback welcome. Blinds are on the way.
🚂 The sleeper train to Edinburgh
Dylan went to see The Rest Is Football live, then hopped on the sleeper train to Scotland with a six foot three friend. Bunk beds, a corridor you edge down sideways, and a bathroom arrangement nobody should have to describe. Plus a retro bar with a game that turned out to unite an entire generation. Hayden, meanwhile, was holding the fort during the busiest week of the tutoring year.
💷 That Scottish teacher pay post
Dylan recently compared what teachers earn in Scotland with England, and some people took it the wrong way. He sets the record straight on tax, house prices, student loans and the actual point he was making: pay is a political choice, not a fixed fact. Hayden offers his own solution to the gap.
📊 The PISA results
England is top ten worldwide and well ahead of the other home nations, with Wales below the OECD average. Dylan and Hayden dig into what the numbers do and do not measure, why a flat line through a decade of cuts is worth celebrating, what happens to creativity and the arts when only three subjects count, and the alarming link between heavy AI use and falling scores. Hayden has a strong view on why the default should be regulation first. There is also a stat about Denmark's ranking that will make you distrust every league table you see.
📸 Should schools stop publishing pupil photos?
A listener asks whether AI image manipulation means the school Facebook page needs to go. Both hosts land in a similar place, but the harder question is what you say to a whole class of parents who actively want their children posted.
❤️ The subject you loved teaching more than you expected
Hayden picks a subject that never makes the league tables but changed how his class treated each other. Dylan admits the subject he once saw as a chore, and how it became the thing he now daydreams about, before both confess to marking writing without reading a word of the story.
Honest, funny, slightly echoey, and back in the room.
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