- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
Business leaders regularly complain that young people don't leave school with the right skills. Encouraging young people to be entrepreneurs makes the connection between school and the world of work, teaching them about practical thinking, team-work, communication and financial literacy.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first attempt at a business was a jumble sale which I ran at the end of my next door neighbour's drive. I used to rummage through her garage, looking for anything that I thought people might buy. I'd then set up a table and try to sell what I could to the people walking by.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
We concentrate too much on ethnic diversity and not enough on class. It's dead important to represent loads of different cultures. But what the BBC doesn't do enough of is thinking about getting people from more working-class backgrounds.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of women who do a similar job to me who are paid a hell of a lot more... who are a lot posher than me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most rewarding, insightful and challenging year of my life was my 'Year in Industry' working as a trainee engineer at Black & Decker, which involved studying part time at college.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a common problem: if a kid is not good at exams, they often think they are not skilled. Yet many of them do have the skills employers are looking for - but often we don't show them that, or teach them how to develop them, or celebrate them.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone chooses a vocational route, why do they not get the same respect in society as someone who just does a pure academic route?
- Nov 07, 2020
From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite being a business journalist at the BBC for ten years, working behind the scenes on our high-profile news programmes, I was viewed by some in the organisation to be 'too common for telly.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says 'less' when they should have said 'fewer.' But my 'poor' sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my 'grass' rhymes with mass, not farce. What's wrong with that?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's inevitable that not everyone will like me, and that some will find me annoying. That's fine. All presenters deal with that. What's scary is the ignorance about what having a regional accent means, or indeed doesn't mean. It certainly doesn't equal ignorance.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always on the go, which means my health has often been the thing that suffers.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to be the most amazing writer, you don't have to get top marks in your English GCSE, you just have to be someone who can tell a good story, and tell it right, and tell it well.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given how dangerous it is for someone to consume something they are allergic to, you would think that companies would just make sure they print labels which have the allergy information on.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I meet so many business women who shy away from the limelight or hesitate to put themselves forward for promotion, despite the fact they are brilliant at their jobs.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Teesside and it is really important to keep your regional accent because it is a big part of who you are.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I come to schools like Norton Primary Academy and meet children who have their lives and careers before them, I hope in some small way that I can inspire them to do better by sharing my own story with them and telling them never to give up on their dreams.
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of our best-known entrepreneurs started their business ventures when they were kids.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young people have so many great ideas so I can't wait to hear what children from around the country have come up with. 'Pocket Money Pitch' will encourage them to believe in themselves and 'have a go.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people tend to underestimate you when you have a Northern accent, for instance if you have to talk to the CEO of an international company. But then when I'm talking to someone in a factory, it's just like being with my mum's mates.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went on air and people heard my accent, they all said it was really nice to have a northern voice.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even my own auntie asked me once if I was pregnant after seeing me on the telly - that's just life on camera.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a young woman, with a regional accent, from a working class family, who has had a pretty standard education. So far, so ordinary. But in the places I've worked, one or more of these things would put me in the minority.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a journalist's dream case study; a gobby girl with an accent who was good at engineering.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember once at the end of a BBC job interview the manager said to me: 'I didn't realise people like you were clever.' I don't think he was being intentionally nasty. At that time in the BBC he was surrounded by clones of himself, give or take some facial hair and glasses.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem in business isn't that women are overlooked because they are women, it's that most people subconsciously look to employ a mini-me. It's not a gender issue, it's about diversification full stop. It's hard to change that mindset and it hits women particularly hard because men historically have always been the recruiters.
- Felt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt I had to prove my intelligence.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's a healthy day, I'll head to the gym, then have a steak salad at the cafe next door.
- Eggs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get up at 3:30 A. M. We're on air from 6 A. M., so if I'm in the studio, I'll have eggs at around 7 A. M. from the canteen - scrambled or poached, occasionally with a slice of brown toast.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not with child - I am with pot belly.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like to think of everyone as a happy family but in football that just doesn't exist.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020