Episodes 32
Avg. Duration 37m
Activity Highly Active
Since Feb 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
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100%
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About This Podcast

Vikas Pota speaks to the world’s leading lights in education and inspirational figures whose stories deserve to be told. Top school principals, CEOs, journalists, authors, academics and government ministers reveal the greatest lessons they’ve learned from their fascinating lives as Vikas asks the most important question when it comes to transforming education: how do we drive high performance?

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S1E32 How a WhatsApp AI tool is reaching 200,000+ teachers

Jun 04, 2026 36m

Brazil has 1.7 million public school teachers. Most of them start their careers underprepared, walk into classrooms of students with multiple learning profiles, and are left to figure it out alone.In…

S1E31 The Swiss secret to high-performing boarding schools

May 21, 2026 38m

Building a school culture that outlasts generations is a decision made every single day. Institut Le Rosey has been making it for 146 years, and the alumni it produces have taken that culture into…

S1E30 Why India's education system is both admired and misunderstood

May 07, 2026 41m

India has over 1.4 billion people, a quarter of a billion children in school, a record number of teachers, and a system that, by its own admission, has not cracked what actually happens inside the…

S1E29 What running 100+ schools taught me about culture

Apr 23, 2026 40m

He was once told his entire class ranked in the bottom 10th percentile of their age group. He calls it one of the strangest things a school ever did to a child. He now runs 100+ schools. And that…

S1E28 What the IB gets right that most schools get wrong

Apr 09, 2026 46m

Efficiency is often the enemy of real education. In an age of instant answers and AI shortcuts, we are tempted to prioritise the "output" over the "process." But intellectual growth requires…

S1E27 Why your best students switch off

Mar 26, 2026 31m

What if the design of your school is the very thing holding it back?Most schools are not running a bad design. They are running an inherited one, built for factories and mass production, not for…

S1E26 The high performance cheat code

Mar 12, 2026 36m

In Mexico, only one in ten children who start school will ever make it to university. At this school network, it is eight out of ten. So what are they doing differently? In this episode of the…

S1E25 Disrupting the elite school standard

Feb 26, 2026 35m

What does it really mean to build a high-performing school in a nation transforming at speed?In this episode of the #EdVance Podcast, Dr Steffen Sommer, Director General of Misk Schools in Saudi…

S1E24 How to outperform the world’s elite schools

Feb 12, 2026 32m

What does it take for schools to achieve elite outcomes while serving disadvantaged communities?In this episode of the #EdVance Podcast, Alex Crossman, Executive Head Teacher, London Academy of…

S1E23 The culture behind outstanding schools

Jan 29, 2026 29m

What does it take to build high-performance schools in one of the world’s most competitive education systems, and why does culture matter so much?In this episode of the EdVance Podcast, Simon…

S1E22 Bridging the gap in learning outcomes

Jan 15, 2026 34m

What will it take to address Africa’s learning crisis, and why does progress depend on getting the basics right?In this episode of the EdVance Podcast, Rapelang Rabana, Co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide,…

S1E21 Designing reforms that improve learning

Dec 10, 2025 32m

What does it take to design education reforms that actually work, especially at the scale of millions? And how do leaders stay focused when the system is crowded with competing priorities and…

S1E20 Leadership lessons from Ukraine's classrooms

Nov 26, 2025 31m

What does it take to keep education going when a country faces conflict? How do school leaders stay steady, support their teams and protect learning when nothing feels certain?In this episode, Zoya…

S1E19 What high performing systems get right

Oct 29, 2025 42m

What helps some education systems improve while others fall behind? In this new EdVance episode, Professor Fernando M. Reimers from the Harvard Graduate School of Education explains how high…

S1E18 What strong leaders don't say

Oct 15, 2025 33m

How do schools close persistent learning gaps and raise student outcomes year after year?In this episode of the EdVance Podcast, Chancey Anderson Tauer, Co-Founder and CEO of Prodeo Academy in…

S1E17 What happens to higher education when the world is changing faster than universities can keep up?

Oct 01, 2025 39m

In this episode, Lil Bremermann Richard, Group CEO of Oxford International Education Group, shares about how universities can stay useful in a time shaped by technology and new expectations from…

S1E16 What schools everywhere must learn

Sep 18, 2025 36m

When Leticia Lyle opened Camino School in São Paulo, she was not just starting a school. She was building a path - one where relationships, values and learning all held equal weight. In this episode…

S1E15 What lasting impact looks like

Sep 04, 2025 40m

What does it take to build a movement that opens the school gates for millions of girls?In this episode, we are joined by Lucy Lake, Director of Global Engagement, Yidan Prize Foundation. For more…

S1E14 Unleashing the power of neurodiversity

Aug 20, 2025 38m

What does real inclusion look like in schools, beyond slogans and surface changes?In this episode of the EdVance Podcast, we are honoured to host Vijita Patel, Executive Director for Special…

S1E13 The spark that grew a school network

Aug 07, 2025 31m

What does it take to build schools that work for every child, not just a few? In this episode, Vikas speaks with Stacey Brewer, the founder and chair of SPARK Schools in South Africa. She started…

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EdVance has published 32 episodes since February 2025, covering topics in Education, How To.

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EdVance is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 37m.

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