<![CDATA[The Education Commute]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/the-education-commute The Education Commute turns the research UK teachers and school leaders don't have time to read into a 20-minute drive to work.

Each episode takes one piece of evidence - an EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit strand, a DfE or Ofsted policy change, a piece of international research - and asks what it actually means for Monday morning: what it looks like in a primary classroom, a secondary classroom, and a specialist setting.

Two hosts - one a serving practitioner, one a synthesised voice, disclosed every episode - argue it out rather than reading it out, caveats included. Every figure is sourced to a public body: gov.uk, Ofsted, DfE, the EEF, legislation.gov.uk, Parliament. This is the trailer, not the film - every episode links back to the source.

New episodes weekly.

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Sources:

EEF guidance report - Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning, 2nd edition, 13 Nov 2025

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evidence/guidance-reports/metacognition

EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit - Metacognition and self-regulation strand

https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-evidence/teaching-learning-toolkit/metacognition-and-self-regulation

The second voice on this show is synthesised (NotebookLM, Google) - the research, reading and editorial judgement are done by a serving practitioner.

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