Success Against the Odds: Five Lessons in How to Achieve the Impossible: the Story of Teach First

by Brett Wigdortz

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780721316
Publisher:	Octopus
Publication date:	09/06/2012
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
File size:	513 KB

About the Author

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.