Steph McGovern

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4,765 appearances 55 recordings 6 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2d ago

Steph McGovern’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 55 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 9.

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The Rest Is Money · 303. Why making schools truly comprehensive is vital for our economy · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

We're going to talk to her in a minute. voice-verified

But Richard, tell me about what your kind of skills challenge has been here, because this is a successful business, isn't it? voice-verified

And what was that like? voice-verified

Because, you know, we talk to a lot of different business leaders and people have different experiences of actually getting apprentices through the door because there's so many parts to this, aren't there? voice-verified

It's finding the people who want to do it. voice-verified

And then it's the funding, the training, everything else. voice-verified

What's it been like for you? voice-verified

And it's obviously worked in terms of where you're at now and letting them run the place on a Friday. voice-verified

How did that come about then? voice-verified

There is a real issue. voice-verified

We've heard Andy Burnham talk about valuing the hard hat as much as the graduation cap and everything else. voice-verified

What do you need from the government to help you? voice-verified

Has the apprenticeship levy been part of your planning and has that helped in any way? voice-verified

I want to come back to some of that with Nikki, but first of all, I want to bring in an actual apprentice at this point, who's Olivia, Olivia Lane, who is in Coventry, works for Amazon. voice-verified

Olivia, tell us a bit about what you're doing your apprenticeship in. voice-verified

And I can see the joy in your face as you're talking, Olivia. voice-verified

So tell me, for people who don't know then, what that means in terms of how it connects to their Amazon delivery, which bit are you doing? voice-verified

Are you in one of these logistics centres, one of the big warehouses making sure all the parcels are moving around and everything else? voice-verified

But Olivia, tell me about your background and your story of getting an apprenticeship, because it wasn't easy, was it, in terms of how you were perceived, particularly by your teachers at school? voice-verified

Yeah so this is fascinating so you got that insight you saw the real world application of engineering in a way that excited you so then you decided to do an apprenticeship at Amazon and then tell us what happened when you then saw your old teachers back at school? voice-verified

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