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Vikas Pota

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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42 episodes

  1. Building future-ready schools in the AI era 38:04
  2. Fix the food, fix the learning 41:10
  3. How running universities like businesses saves them 31:33
  4. Why more technology won’t fix education 35:21
  5. Why corporate playbooks fail in classrooms 33:52
  6. Why most large-scale education reforms fail 33:44
  7. How schools unknowingly crush student genius 32:33
  8. How India is scaling personalised learning 34:40
  9. Why edtech offers the highest risks and most radical rewards 40:02
  10. How China balances high academic pressure and student wellbeing 49:57
  11. How a WhatsApp AI tool is reaching 200,000+ teachers 36:06
  12. The Swiss secret to high-performing boarding schools 38:02
  13. Why India's education system is both admired and misunderstood 41:32
  14. What running 100+ schools taught me about culture 40:09
  15. What the IB gets right that most schools get wrong 46:18
  16. Why your best students switch off 31:42
  17. The high performance cheat code 36:44
  18. Disrupting the elite school standard 35:35
  19. How to outperform the world’s elite schools 32:18
  20. The culture behind outstanding schools 29:01
  21. Bridging the gap in learning outcomes 34:04
  22. Designing reforms that improve learning 32:07
  23. Leadership lessons from Ukraine's classrooms 31:09
  24. What high performing systems get right 42:50
  25. What strong leaders don't say 33:04
  26. What happens to higher education when the world is changing faster than universities can keep up? 39:12
  27. What schools everywhere must learn 36:43
  28. What lasting impact looks like 40:29
  29. Unleashing the power of neurodiversity 38:03
  30. The spark that grew a school network 31:58
  31. The power of knowing why 38:51
  32. Burning bright without burning out 34:20
  33. Scaling what works 58:35
  34. Building trust through transparent leadership 36:11
  35. Leading with purpose and precision 29:46
  36. Rethinking organisational success 41:50
  37. Storytelling strategies for leaders 52:15
  38. Leading the learning revolution 41:03
  39. True success is built on people, not just strategy 43:10
  40. High performance in schools starts with great culture 47:08
  41. Empowering every child to say “I can” 31:36
  42. Strategy, agility and culture: Keys to high performance in education 34:00