How To Break the Link Between Background and Opportunity
Regional inequality is holding people back so Joe Seddon has built of tech platform to do something about it.
Joe Seddon, founder of Zero Gravity, thinks 鈥済eography is destiny in the UK鈥� which is why he has built a tech platform to do something about it.
In this week鈥檚 episode, Amol and Joe dig into the barriers facing young people across the country, from stalled social mobility to uneven access to opportunity.
Growing up in a single鈥憄arent household in Morley, West Yorkshire, he went on to study at the University of Oxford, but he thinks those opportunities are still too rare for people from a similar background. That鈥檚 why his platform connects people from low-opportunity areas with top universities and employers.
But Joe argues that there needs to be 鈥渞adical transparency鈥� in how university degrees are advertised so people know the value of the course they鈥檙e applying to.
And in a blunt message to ambitious people from disadvantaged backgrounds, he admits that the economic reality means that 鈥測ou should think seriously about leaving your hometown.鈥�
Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today podcast for 麻豆社 Radio 4. Episode are released every Thursday and you can also listen to them on 麻豆社 Sounds: /sounds/brand/p0gg4k6r
