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

There's lots of businesses who want to open their doors. voice-verified

There's also lots of schools and teachers who, off their own back, really want to show kids what's out there. voice-verified

The biggest challenge voice-verified

issue outside of I would say outside of London where the transport system is the best getting kids to places I am trying to organise for a load of girls that I work with in Middlesbrough you know young kids who are you know living in really tough areas trying to get them to visit the treasury and visit the university and voice-verified

It costs a grand for a coach to take these kids anywhere. voice-verified

And you could say, well, can't you just take them on the public transport? voice-verified

It isn't there. voice-verified

It doesn't exist from their school to, you know, there isn't, we don't have a tube service and things like that. voice-verified

Like a grand for kids to go and visit a business. voice-verified

There's things like that, which are the real barriers. voice-verified

I could get all of these Middlesbrough kids to visit into loads of different places. voice-verified

And I'm always up against barriers. voice-verified

The cost of a coach, like how nuts is that in this era that it's the cost of a coach that's stopping these things happening? voice-verified

So it's like it's little things like that, that if you if you connect businesses in local areas, they might be able to part fund it or that, you know, maybe there could be local tax incentives. voice-verified

If you help organise things with kids or a local coach company is given it. voice-verified

some type of I don't know incentive to help that isn't just or do it's the right thing to do but like actually because a lot of these are businesses that need to make money like I just think that's what we could get from more devolution is just that more local thinking about what are the issues here and how can we solve them locally between us again obviously I totally agree that voice-verified

And just to add to that, again, from like visiting the UTC colleges and also like the further education colleges, which have been woefully underfunded for a long time now, it is way more expensive to, you know, to put on a practical course versus an academic course. voice-verified

And what they've done, the ones that do well are the ones who, again, have partnered with local businesses to like borrow kit or kit is sponsored. voice-verified

And, you know, there's teachers, there's, voice-verified

people who are involved in training people in companies who will be incentivized to their company to go in and do some teaching in the FE college. voice-verified

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