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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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Episode 29
What running 100+ schools taught me about culture
- Ng Yi Xian
He was once told his entire class ranked in the bottom 10 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 experience sits behind every decision he has made about what education should and should not do to a young person.
In this episode of the #EdVancePodcast, Ng Yi Xian, Group CEO of EtonHouse International Education Group, gets direct about what the sector consistently gets wrong on culture, AI and affordable education. The discussion unpacks why financial buyers keep failing in education when operators succeed, why most ed tech has spent years building solutions for problems schools do not actually have, and why the schools winning in Asia right now are the ones that chose curiosity over efficiency when it was still an unpopular position to take.
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Education leaders worldwide are redefining what it takes to create high-performance schools. In this episode, we explore fresh perspectives, innovative approaches, and practical strategies making it happen.
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ABOUT
Vikas Pota
Vikas Pota is the Founder and CEO of T4 Education, Executive Chair of the Education Leaders Forum, and Founder of Inicio Partners.
Vikas founded the World’s Best School Prizes - the world’s most prestigious education awards - to surface the expertise and share the best practices of schools that are changing lives in their classrooms and far beyond their walls. He also established the Best School to Work programme to help schools transform their working environment and culture. Every year he hosts the World Schools Summit in the UAE - bringing together the leaders who will forge a new vision for education to meet the challenges of a world changing beyond recognition.
Vikas was previously CEO of a philanthropic foundation, has been recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and as one of London’s 1,000 most influential persons by the Evening Standard. Vikas was named European regional honouree for the 2022 YPO Global Impact Award.
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Why your best students switch off
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The high performance cheat code
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Episode 23:
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The culture behind outstanding schools
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Bridging the gap in learning outcomes
Episode 21:
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Designing reforms that improve learning
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