Helen currently teaches in a further education college in Tower Hamlets, having qualified in 2012. Prior to training as a teacher, she spent some 20 years in and around tertiary education, having trained in TEFL and in basic skills adult literacy, and having worked with colleges and universities via London First’s Learning London initiative. Helen comes from a family of educators, her mother having taught English, maths and art in mainstream and special schools (then called) for over forty years, and her father having been a headmaster in Nigeria. Helen’s own educational path took her to a grammar school, further education colleges, a polytechnic, and to Oxford. She passionately believes in education as a route in to things, out of things and for its own sake – for everyone. Helen is particularly keen that young people recognise and realise the opportunities afforded to them through a good education and through their own natural curiosity.
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