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

but no actual proper funding for FE colleges. voice-verified

And that whole point about the education system is not geared towards encouraging people into vocational training. voice-verified

But Nikki, you've done some research on the perception of it as well in society about people who do the pure academic versus the vocational. voice-verified

What have you found? voice-verified

What's really interesting being here in Cornwall is how they are trying to solve the needs problem. voice-verified

I should add, by the way, if you're listening to this, wondering what the noises are in the background, we are in a live factory. voice-verified

So this is people making stuff, which they're selling all over the world. voice-verified

So it's key stuff going on here. voice-verified

And Richard's smiling at me now because he's the manufacturing director here. voice-verified

There is this kind of issue, isn't there, around people being competitive about skills and companies in competition with each other trying to get the best people. voice-verified

And often that means supply chain are left behind because they're not the big brand businesses. voice-verified

And what's interesting about Cornwall is the way that they've been trying to solve it with this kind of competition. voice-verified

collaborative approach to skills and Richard I'd love you to tell me more about this because the number of needs in the region has been reducing because of this is there you know there's this focus on actually let's get more young people into the jobs that are needed in this area and partnership with each other yeah yeah um so Teagles we're part of the CMG Cornwall Manufacturing Group um it's been fantastic voice-verified

Yeah, because it's like opening the boxes that probably these kids, I'm sure there's people have driven past this business voice-verified

hundreds of times and not really knowing what's going on. voice-verified

And it's about opening the doors, isn't it? voice-verified

And I just want to ask as well, Nicky, about, you know, the skills is so fragmented. voice-verified

We've now got Skills England. voice-verified

We've got Alan Milburn, who's just done this big report about NEETs. voice-verified

We have Andy Burnham saying we need to push more people into vocational training. voice-verified

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