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Politics Unpacked

Alan Johnson’s Lessons

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On A-level results day, former Labour Education Secretary Alan Johnson speaks to Matt Chorley about not going to university, the government's handling of education throughout the Covid-19 crisis and scrapping GCSEs.

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0:11.0

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0:16.4

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0:22.0

This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, a leading clean energy champion,

0:29.2

accelerating the transition to net zero. SSE is investing over 9 million pounds a day in

0:36.7

cleaner, more secure homegrown energy. That includes transforming networks

0:41.8

across the country to connect renewable energy,

0:44.6

households and businesses to a greener grid.

0:48.0

Pioneering low-carbon flexible technologies such as carbon capture and storage and building the world's largest

0:54.9

offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank off the coast of Yorkshire. When complete

0:59.6

Dogger Bank will be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy,

1:06.5

a major step towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions.

1:12.1

And all this is creating thousands of sustainable green jobs in communities

1:17.0

right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com slash change.

1:25.0

Hello, I'm Matt Chorley. This is the Red Box podcast featuring the best of my Times

1:28.9

Radio show Monday to Thursday 10 till 1. Obviously all the talk today was about the exam results,

1:35.0

those who done well and those who perhaps had an

1:38.0

and was it all fair.

1:39.0

I've been talking to Alan Johnson,

1:41.0

former Labor Education Secretary, didn't go to university, left school at 15

1:45.2

with no qualifications about how he progressed through his career and his advice to young people

1:51.6

today and his suggestion that GCSEs should be scrapped altogether because we're just

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