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was nicknamed st disgusting before it was shut down a couple of years after she left. like most kids at her school, gillian left at the age of 16 and went to be an apprentice at a car factory. now, that was a springboard, as we'll hear, for a very successful business career. she went on to become the commercial director at mastercard, chief marketing officer at a big travel firm called travelport. her boss, now, rishi sunak, says a good education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet when it comes to making people's lives better. gillian keegan, welcome to political thinkin...

and also donald trump all take their campaigning to pennsylvania. and thousands gather in seoul to remember the halloween crush victims — many are demanding the president resign. you are watching bbc news. now, politicalthinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what shapes theirs. in a new cabinet dominated by public schoolboys and oxbridge graduates, the new education secretary stands out. gillian keegan�*s old school, a comprehensive in knowsley called...

Hi there, everyone. Its now 4 00 in new york. We have major developments both here in the u. S. And abroad. In just a few hours, President Joe Biden will deliver an address to the nation from the oval office about the hamas Terror Attacks in israel that killed more than 1,400 people as well as the ongoing war in ukraine. It is his second address from the oval office since becoming president , and it is part of his push for a 100 billion aid package. Well have much more on that later in the broadcast, but we begin with the dam breaking and perhaps the most criminal prosecution of the expresiden...

Apprenticeship changed lives. so, you know, people love them. but we've got to focus on the 90 odd percent who don't get to go to them. so given all that you've said, you knew in the job, money's short. the amount of time you've got before the next election is short, what is the key thing you'll want to look back on and say, even if i only ended up with a year and a half in thisjob, and you hope for longer, but it's that, i've done this? it's the reform of our technical education and making sure everybody has access to high quality apprenticeships. we have 1.3 million high quality jobs in this...

4 billion for schools and we've got a big increase in skills as well. that will disappear because of inflation. well, but that showed at the time that there was a real recognition that we you know, we really did need to invest in education. and the school standards have gone up massively since 2010. so you say about the money going down, but the standards have gone up massively. so it's not all about money. money is important, but it is about the teaching. and our teachers are fantastic and they just want to get better and better. just a few quick ones which you may not be able to say. you may...