Ideas. Evidence. Impact | Global conversations on how education works
Around Education is a podcast by the Institute of Education at HSE University. We bring together leading researchers, policymakers, and practitioners worldwide to discuss the questions that matter most in education today.
Each episode explores how education systems evolve across countries and contexts—and how these changes shape the lives of learners, educators, and societies. We cover artificial intelligence in education, well-being in schools and universities, instructional design, comparative education policy, educational management, and the changing relationship between education and the labour market.
Grounded in research and practice, the podcast connects ideas, data, and lived experience to understand what makes education work, and how it can be made better.
Join us to rethink education together!
All Episodes of the Podcast
Trailer — About Around Education
In this preview, our host Anna Gorbunova, a Research Fellow at the Institute, introduces the podcast and shares what you can expect from upcoming conversations with leading education researchers, policymakers and practitioners from around the world.
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Ep. 1 — Skills, Status, and the Future of Work: The Changing Value of Education
Education has always been connected to the world of work. But what happens when jobs, skills and career pathways change faster than education systems can adapt?
Technological change and shifting economies are transforming labour markets, prompting employers, graduates and young people to reconsider what education should provide. The relationship between learning and employment is becoming increasingly complex.
In the first episode of Around Education, Vera Maltseva, Director of the Centre for Vocational Education and Skills Development at the HSE Institute of Education, and Santosh Mehrotra, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Bath, explore how education systems respond to a changing world of work. They discuss whether education can solve employment challenges on its own, why some educational pathways gain more recognition than others, and what the future of learning may look like.
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Ep. 2 — AI in Higher Education: One Technology, Many Educational Futures
Generative AI is entering higher education around the world. But does the same technology lead universities towards a shared future — or can it produce very different educational futures?
In the second episode of Around Education, Na Li, Senior Associate Professor and Acting Head of the Department of Educational Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and Diana Koroleva, Scientific Director of the Laboratory for Educational Innovation Research at HSE University, discuss these questions through the lens of their new book, GenAIED: Cultural and Pedagogical Catalysts in Higher Education. They explore why generative AI takes different forms in different educational contexts, what this means for teaching and learning, and how universities can approach the governance of technological change.
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