Steph McGovern

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4,765 appearances 55 recordings 6 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 3d 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

It feels like that's the right age to do it if you're going to do it. voice-verified

Start it at... voice-verified

Why 14? voice-verified

It feels like that's just been plucked out of the air, 14. voice-verified

And it's actually, why not start it when everyone, more often than not, is changing schools anyway? voice-verified

Well, I mean, OK, I'm not going to claim to know absolutely everything on this, but what I can tell you is, voice-verified

and we talk about this all the time, is the key things that kids need to leave school with are transferable skills. voice-verified

And there is no, kind of currently, no way of assessing the skills that are the most important in the workplace. voice-verified

So if I take Cornwall as the example, given I've just come back from there, what they've done really interestingly is they were, like the rest of the country, skills for them was really fragmented voice-verified

employers were competing against each other. voice-verified

So like Tegel were fighting to get welders against lots of other companies as well. voice-verified

So what they did in Cornwall, again, trying to challenge that needs problem, is they collaborated and said, right, we all need these skills. voice-verified

What are the most important things? voice-verified

And what are the, you know, and let's get these young people in who are kind of being lost in the system. voice-verified

And we all work together to get them all work ready in a way. voice-verified

And then like we'll divvy them out because actually, you know, the skills you need in jobs are pretty transferable. voice-verified

And so there was a real and I think that's what we need. voice-verified

The skills is so fragmented. voice-verified

And yet, you know, we talk about we need more people in clean energy. voice-verified

We need more people, I don't know, in AI. voice-verified

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