Today Rupert talks to education powerhouse, Ed Fidoe, about what is possible when you treat education as a blank piece of paper. 

Having set up a production company and spent time at Mckinsey, Ed helped cofound School 21, a new type of school for 4-18 years olds designed to rebalance the role of student, teacher and community to allow students to provide real value to the world today. Having successfully set up School 21, Ed has ratcheted up the ambition is decided to set up the London Interdisciplinary School (LIS), a new University designed around teaching an interdisciplinary curricula, taking the very best of each to help solve some of the worlds fundamental problems including malaria, childhood obesity, palm oil supply chains and knife crime.

There is other stuff of course – he has advised leaders at Cambridge University, the London School of Economics and worked with organisations specialised in working directly with disadvantaged students such as ARK Schools and Teach First.

He has also set up Voice 21 which is a speaking curriculum design to influence 21% of the teachers in this country to create speaking skills schools and make sure that speaking has the same status as reading and writing in schools.