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

And that is because I was given that really interesting start at 11, 12, 13, where going into businesses and, you know, learning about what the local economy needed. voice-verified

taught me so much more about the wider world as well. voice-verified

So I know what you're saying. voice-verified

It's like people will then go... And this is about making sure there is enough investment across the country to make sure that there are enough jobs in these different places because Middlesbrough is really struggling. voice-verified

I get upset when I go back through the town centre at the moment. voice-verified

If the university wasn't there... voice-verified

I do not know what that town would look like because it is it's just crumbling, like literally crumbling. voice-verified

I'm watching buildings that I used to go into just falling apart. voice-verified

And there's not the money there. voice-verified

But if you give kids, if you open those boxes around them, the businesses that are there and let them in to see what they might do. voice-verified

It'll inspire them into other areas as well, because we've got the football club in Middlesbrough. voice-verified

That is a business that has got a ton of different departments that they use AI. voice-verified

They use loads of different things. voice-verified

So you've got this way more. voice-verified

And I just think we're so binary when we think about, right, well, if you go into an engineering firm, you'll only get an engineering job. voice-verified

No, you won't, but you'll learn about work. voice-verified

And that's why I like the idea of local businesses being involved in helping shape the education of young people because it will teach them about what real life is like rather than sitting with a textbook and just learning about, you know, everything from what's being written down and not what they actually experience about the workplace dynamics. voice-verified

Because what I know from, like, these apprentices... voice-verified

Again, every time I meet apprentices, they are so much more confident than lots of other young people. voice-verified

They're always because they've had to be. voice-verified

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