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The new Education Secretary has vowed to turn around the "massive inequality" in
schools left behind by the Tories.

Bridget Phillipson accused the Conservatives of leaving behind a deep
North-South divide in attainment and a gulf in top grades between state and
private school pupils. Her comments come as tens of thousands of teenagers in
England, Wales and Northern Ireland anxiously await their A-Level results on
Thursday.




Last summer, there was an 8.3 percentage point gap between those getting A* and
A grades in the South East of England (30.3%) and the North East (22.0%). The
gulf widened after the pandemic, with experts blaming lack of catch-up cash and
cost of living problems for worsening outcomes for youngsters outside of London
and the South East.

Recent Ucas figures showed that only 33.4% of 18-year-olds in the North East had
applied to university by June 30, compared with 59.2% of 18-year-olds in London.

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Ms Phillipson, who grew up in a council house in Washington, Sunderland, and
went to state school, has made it her mission to ensure kids from all
backgrounds get a chance to excel. She told PA: "I want to make sure that all
young people, whatever their background, have the chance to get on in life and
that's the mission of the Labour Government.

"But my concern, as we approach the first of the results days, is that after 14
years the Conservatives have baked in massive inequality into the education
system, including regional disparities and differences between outcomes for
children at state and private schools, and I'm determined to turn that around."



Driving down child poverty levels will be critical to helping kids succeed but
it's "an enormous task", she said. Ms Phillipson said: "It's about the quality
of teaching, about making sure schools have got what they need, but it's also
what goes on beyond the school gates and that's where we've also seen big
failures over the last 14 years.


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"And it will take us time to get that right, but I am determined that we bring
down the numbers of children living in poverty. That's right. It's a moral
cause, but it's also a big driver of some of these disparities that we see and
it's why we need to take action to support schools." She added: "This is an
enormous task and I don't shy away from that in one second."



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The Government will work with universities to widen access as "lots of people
still don't think it's for them and that has to change," she said. Ms Phillipson
previously told the Mirror that getting free school meals and the Education
Maintenance Allowance, which was axed by the Tories in 2010, helped her to stay
on to do her A-Levels.

Asked if the Government would bring back maintenance grants for university, she
said she was determined to "reform the system". She said: "I'm acutely aware of
the pressures that many students are under at the moment and it concerns me that
when I visit universities and meet with students I hear that they're working 30
hours a week in retail jobs in order to meet the cost of housing and other
costs.

"I am determined that we reform the system. You'll appreciate, a month in, we're
looking at how we can make that change happen. But I don't want young people to
be put off applying to university on the basis of financial imperative and sadly
I think increasingly we're seeing young people making decisions based on their
finances and that's a really big challenge."

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