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Success Against the Odds

Brett Wigdortz

This is the story of how a tiny independent charity has succeeded against all odds. Having met nothing but resistance in its early years Teach First is today Britain's largest employer of graduates. It receives over 7000 applications for 1000 teaching positions annually in the most challenging schools in the country.>

  • Classification : Reference
  • Pub Date : SEP 6, 2012
  • Imprint : Short Books
  • Page Extent : 400
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781780721309
  • Price : INR 650
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Brett Wigdortz

Brett Wigdortz has led Teach First as its CEO since its launch in July 2002. Before coming to London he worked for McKinsey in Indonesia Singapore and Manila - focusing on retail banking organisational effectiveness and Asian microfinance. He has also worked as a journalist in Asia and as a researcher at the East-West Center in Honolulu. He was recently named the 2007 UK Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year and the 2010 CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) European Leadership Award. Brett is married with two small children.

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