TV presenter Steph McGovern on why she’s annoyed for millions of young people
Not about something that’s happened to her, but something that doesn’t happen to millions of young people every year. “And yet these are the people who make up so many important jobs and trades, the people we need, the people that the pandemic proved we absolutely cannot live without, but we don’t give them the same credibility, the parity of esteem, that we do with academics. View this post on Instagram “We think academic education is superior to vocational education, if you look at how it’s portrayed in the media and how lots of people talk about it.
- ▪Not about something that’s happened to her, but something that doesn’t happen to millions of young people every year.
- ▪“And yet these are the people who make up so many important jobs and trades, the people we need, the people that the pandemic proved we absolutely cannot live without, but we don’t give them the same credibility, the parity of esteem, that
- ▪View this post on Instagram “We think academic education is superior to vocational education, if you look at how it’s portrayed in the media and how lots of people talk about it.
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Steph McGovern is annoyed. Not about something that’s happened to her, but something that doesn’t happen to millions of young people every year. The TV presenter, who hosted Steph’s Packed Lunch on Channel 4 for three years and was a business presenter for BBC Breakfast, is cross because despite their skills keeping the nation functioning day-in day-out, youngsters who get vocational qualifications rarely get any recognition for their hard work and success, unlike university graduates, or even young people who do well in their GCSEs and A-levels.Advertisement “I guess I’ve been annoyed that we celebrate academic qualifications, so we all see the photos on the front of the newspapers of people getting their GCSE or A-level results, but you never see that for vocational qualifications,”…
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