Results day: Education secretary determined to turn around university ‘north south divide’

Education secretary determined to turn around 'north south divide' at universitiesGood Morning Britain

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00:00It's really been recognised that there's a north-south divide when it comes to who gets

00:06into university, education etc etc. How are you going to tackle that?

00:15Yeah good morning, absolutely there is a gap and that gap is widening and that's the record

00:20that this government inherited from the last but I'm determined to turn it around because I don't

00:24think where you're from should go on to determine what you're able to achieve. So some of the action

00:29that we'll be taking will be about what goes on in our schools but then also the wider pressures

00:33that families are under at the moment because we know that far too many children are growing up in

00:38poverty and that blights their life chances and that's why I'm leading the work together with Liz

00:42Kendall the Work and Pension Secretary across government to drive down on those numbers around

00:47child poverty. But in terms of what happens in our schools I'm determined that we deliver high

00:51and rising standards for all of our young people and that means more brilliant teachers in our

00:55classrooms because the single biggest way we can drive improvements in teaching and learning

01:00is by having fantastic teachers and that's what I'm determined to deliver.