Celebrating One Whole Entire Year of The Exam Man! How to create a podcast... and what we've learned.

The Exam Man podcast- despite originally being planned as a scrappy six- week event for the summer exam season- somehow reaches its first anniversary this week! Over the past year, thousands of colleagues around the world have tuned in every week to listen, learn, and connect. From episodes on every exam technicality and helping students prepare, to how exams run in the US and what on earth is 'special consideration', we've also heard from parents, students, teachers, policy makers, Headteachers, and very many exams officers, sharing their stories and wise words. The Exam Man has become a platform for deepening our shared knowledge of exams and assessment and appreciation for the people who run them, whilst having a whole lot of fun in the process. We've explored a large range of topics and now have a huge bank of free audio content to support anyone involved or interested in the business of exams- you can listen to all episodes and read our blogs at theexamman.com.

In this special anniversary episode- which also brings Season 3 to a close- John and Sophie Gaston focus on what they've learned about creating a podcast over the past 12 months, with lessons for others embarking on a similar endeavor.

A huge thank you to all our awesome guests and supporters, it has been a joy. Here's to the second year!

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This week on The Exam Man podcast we swing from talking about South Korea's all-in attitude to exams to transforming the exam system- should we? Could we, even if we wanted to? Lisa Greenslade joins us to talk about her experience of transforming at scale in higher education exams.

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Exams and employability- do exams prepare young people for the many decades following school?This week we are joined by Oli de Botton, the CEO of The Careers & Enterprise Company – the national body for careers education- to talk everything exams and employability. We had a great chat all about the purpose of exams, and what employers want and need from an assessment system. Oli draws on his vast experience in education in our thought- provoking conversation, including his time as the founding Headteacher of Welcome to School 21 and as a government education adviser. (As an aside, find out why Oli and Sophie Gaston admit to being irritating in their younger days- and why John Gaston agrees!)

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